[Ads-l] No = 'yes; truly'

[Jonathan Lighter]

JOHN BERMAN, CNN:  So what do you think, Doc/

DR. PAUL OFFIT:  No. I think it's right on.

JL

On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 7:47 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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>
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 2:17 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is he saying "aeroplane" and not "airplane," in 1959?!
>>
>> Did anybody else catch the reference to the Clyde Beatty Circus? That also
>> surprised me. That was the circus that came to town in Marshall, Texas -
>> where _aeroplane_ was pronounced "arra-plan" - when I was but a tad. The
>> circus train passed within a half-block of the family manse and its
>> passage
>> was a major cultural event in the colored part of town.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 8:17 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
>> >
>> wrote:
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>> > Am starting to feel from the depths of memory that this use of "No!" has
>> > long been common among standup comedians, though I can't prove it with
>> exx.
>> > and don't know why it should be so.
>> >
>> > Well, here's one example:
>> >
>> > INSULT COMIC:  I'd love to beat Oprah. I know her *weakness.*
>> >
>> > AUDIENCE:  [Cheers].
>> >
>> > COMIC:  No, no. I know her weakness.
>> >
>> > JL
>> >
>> > JL
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> > > And Taylor.
>> > >
>> > > Jim Parish
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On 3/5/2018 1:03 PM, W Brewer wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> Seems like FDR turned out to be president-for-life. Oh, yeah,
>> Lincoln,
>> > >> too;
>> > >> Garfield, McKinley, JFK; Harrison & Harding.
>> > >>
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>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>> -Mark Twain
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