[Ads-l] Who ya gonna call?

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Dec 7 21:08:34 UTC 2022


A quick Google suggests you're right, with at least one ex. from 2015.

JL

On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 4:03 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Maybe  but I didn't hear the expected pause between putative "Lottie" and
> "Dottie."
>
> JL
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 12:31 PM Margaret Lee <
> 0000006730deb3bf-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
>
>>  Could Warnock have meant, "call Lottie, Dottie" and everybody?
>>     On Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at 11:39:23 AM EST, Dan Goncharoff <
>> thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  You mean, like the song?
>>
>> https://youtu.be/icBflcYZhpo
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2022, 8:16 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Raphael Warnock on getting out the vote:
>> >
>> > "Call your father and your mother, your sister and your brother. Call
>> > Lah-Di-Dah-Di and everybody."
>> >
>> > JL
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>> truth."
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