[Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Quote: Politicians, like diapers, should be changed regularly (UNCLASSIFIED)

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)]

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As usual, I should have read Barry's entry.

Barry's style wasn't  always a good fit for this list, but sometimes I miss his participation.

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> Thanks for your response. Bill. Barry states that an instance of the socks/women saying occurred in the 1943 John Wayne film "A Lady Takes
> a Chance". (I have not seen the movie.) That is probably the source of the citation you present.
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> [Begin excerpt from Barry Popik's entry] “Socks” is an early form of the saying and is sometimes used instead of “diapers.” “Women is like
> socks...you gotta change ‘em regular”
> from the movie A Lady Takes a Chance (1943) perhaps influenced this version.
> [End excerpt]
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> I listed the 1943 book "Thesaurus of Epigrams" by Edmund Fuller. The chronology is uncertain (to me) because the precise publication date
> of the book is not listed. It is possible that Fuller grabbed the saying from the film. Alternatively, the saying was already in circulation. Books
> and films both have long gestations.
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> Garson
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> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 3:08 PM MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA) <0000099bab68be9a-dmarc-
> request at listserv.uga.edu>
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> > _Columbus [OH] Dispatch_ 23 Oct 1943 p 6 col 2
> >
> > "[John] Wayne plays a cowboy whose theory is that women, like socks, should be changed often."
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> > >
> > > Historian Ron Chernow addressed the White House Correspondents
> > > Association dinner back on Saturday April 29, 2019, and he referred to the saying in the subject line.
> > >
> > > Barry Popik and I have entries about this quip on our websites (and
> > > I started a mailing-list thread on the topic back in 2018). The words are often incorrectly ascribed to Mark Twain.
> > >
> > > Now the website entries have been updated with newly discovered illuminating citations.
> > >
> > > Politicians Are Like Diapers. They Should Be Changed Regularly
> > > Caution-https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/10/17/diaper/
> > >
> > > “Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason”
> > > Caution-http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/poli
> > > ticians_and_diapers_should_both_be_changed_regularly_and_for_the_sa
> > > me_r
> > >
> > > An interesting precursor in 1952 used "socks" instead of "diapers".
> > >
> > > [ref]1952 September 10, Boston Traveler, (Letter to the editor from
> > > John Q. of Roslindale), Letter title: No Re-Elections, Quote Page
> > > 26, Column 5, Boston, Massachusetts. (GenealogyBank) [/ref]
> > >
> > > [Begin excerpt]
> > > If a politician needs to hold office but six years to get a pension
> > > let's all go to the polls and see that he doesn’t hold office that long. Office holders, like socks, should be changed often and for very
> much the same reason.
> > > [End excerpt]
> > >
> > > Garson
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> > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 8:38 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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