[Ads-l] antedating of "Go figure!"

[Jonathan Lighter]

1960: OED

1953 _I Married Joan_  (Episode "Little Girl," March 18):  "Kids today. Go
figure!" "You can say that again!" "Go figure!"... "Go figure!" "Go figure!"

"Duh!" (i.e., 'er,' 'um') is also heard.

In my limited experience, "Go figure!" didn't become common until the early
'80s. (The second OED ex. is from 1980.)

JL
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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