[Ads-l] Quip: Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy

[Pete Morris]

I've found a couple of cites that appear to be mid 40s to early 50s

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"Whoever named it necking was ignorant of anatomy" - Downtown Witchita.

Presumably the work of an unidentified graffitist ?

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Kansas_Labor_and_Industrial_Bulletin/bMQPAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=anatomy&dq=anatomy&printsec=frontcover

  other dates in the document suggest it is circa 1946.

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"Whoever named it necking was strongly ignorant of anatomy"

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Engineering_and_Contract_Record/_bgkAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=necking+poor+anatomy&dq=necking+poor+anatomy&printsec=frontcover

Other dates in the document suggest it is circa 1951.



------ Original Message ------
>From "ADSGarson O'Toole" <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM>
To ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Date 06/08/2022 16:12:41
Subject Re: Quip: Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy

>Bill Mullins wrote:
>>Similarly inspired:
>>Asbury Park [NJ] Evening Press 07 June 1935: p. 8.
>>
>>"The burglar who stuck his revolver in the pit of his victim's stomach and
>>told him to hold up his hands or he would blow out his brains is a poor
>>student of anatomy. – GRAND ISLAND (Neb.) INDEPENDENT."
>
>Thanks for the excellent citation you posted on July 29, Bill. You
>found a precursor joke in 1935. Following your lead, I located an
>earlier instance in 1931.
>
>[ref] 1931 May 2, The Grand Island Daily Independent, Today’s
>Quotation, Quote Page 6, Column 1, Grand Island, Nebraska.
>(Newspapers_com) [/ref]
>
>[Begin excerpt]
>The highwayman who stuck a revolver in the pit of a man’s stomach and
>said: “Hold up your hands or I’ll blow out your brains,” was a poor
>student of anatomy.
>[End excerpt]
>
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>
>Garson
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