[Ads-l] see-you-next-Tuesday, n. (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

The bard liked to say, "See you when tea's ready."

It cracked him up. People rarely caught on.

JL

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 4:24 PM MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY
FUTURES COMMAND (USA) <0000099bab68be9a-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu>
wrote:

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> >
> > FOX News's Tucker Carlson was caught on audio using the c-word to
> characterize women.
> >
> > On MSNBC, Nicolle Wallace paraphrased Carlson's remark by saying he
> thinks "women are see-you-next-Tuesday [sic]."
> >
> > I was surprised to find there's even a Wikipedia article on it.
> >
> > JL
>
> In 1972, Jethro Tull's bassist, Glenn Cornick, was in a group called Wild
> Turkey.  Their second album, Turkey, had an instrumental track entitled
> "See You Next Tuesday."
>
> A play entitled "See You Next Tuesday" ran in the UK in Jul 1983 -- I
> can't tell from descriptions if the title is a reference to the c-word.
>
>
> _The Guardian_ 2 Nov 1989 p 17 col 1
> "'He's a real See-You-Next-Tuesday.'
> 'Pardon?'
> 'A See-You-Next-Tuesday.  You know, a c-u-n-t. . . '"
>
>
> Hackensack, NJ _Record_ 14 May 2000 p. YT-6 col. 6 [syndicated Roger Ebert
> Movie Answer Man column]
> [in response to a question about Tom Hanks peeing in many films]
> "There is still time for Hanks to work with John Landis, who includes the
> dialogue "See you next Tuesday" in every one of his films, after first
> hearing it in Kubrick's "2001."  One can imagine the line being used, for
> example, just before the long-suffering Hanks disappears in the bathroom."
>
> This is weird, because the line from "2001" is "See you next Wednesday",
> and that is what Landis quotes in his films.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_You_Next_Wednesday
> Was Ebert making a Freudian slip, and misremembering the line?  Was he
> consciously slipping in the C-acroynm?
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