[Ads-l] on days ending in the letter Y

[Jonathan Lighter]

I had the same notion.

JL

On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 8:26 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Is there a tacit allusion in all of these to the edict that one should
> only eat oysters in months containing the letter “R”?  Presumably that one
> was around a lot longer than the jocular version with days ending in “Y”.
> I learned it from my parents in the early 1950s and no doubt it had a
> longer shelf life (unlike the oysters, one hopes) than that.
>
> LH
>
> > On Dec 11, 2023, at 7:39 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
> adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Great work, Steven. Following your lead I found the citation below
> > which indicates that the joke was circulating amongst some golfers by
> > 1971.
> >
> > Date: February 8, 1971
> > Newspaper: Pacific Daily News
> > Newspaper Location: Agana Heights, Guam
> > Article: Pipe Dreams
> > Author: Joe Murphy
> > Quote Page 10, Column 1
> > Database: Newspapers.com <http://newspapers.com/>
> >
> >
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> >
> > [Begin excerpt]
> > Speaking of days of the week, a fellow I know says that he likes to
> > play golf just on those days ending with "y".
> > [End excerpt]
> >
> > Garson
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 5:12 PM Steven Losie <stevenlosie at gmail.com
> <mailto:stevenlosie at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Variations on this quote by former NBA basketball star Jerry West were
> >> printed in various newspapers at the end of 1974. It appears to have
> >> originated in the 31 October 1974 edition of the L.A. Times, as quoted
> >> below:
> >>
> >> [begin quote]
> >> Jerry West, asked how many days a week he plays golf since retiring from
> >> basketball: "Only on days ending in 'y'."
> >> [end quote]
> >> Source: Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct 1974, p.E2, col.2 (ProQuest Historical
> >> Newspapers)
> >> Article title: Morning Briefing: Ali's Prediction of Upset Win Turned
> Out
> >> Letter Perfect
> >>
> >> [begin quote]
> >> Former basketball star Jerry West told an interviewer that since his
> >> retirement, he's been playing golf: "But only on days ending in 'y'."
> >> [end quote]
> >> Source: Hartford Courant, 29 Nov 1974, p.105, cols.3-4 (ProQuest
> Historical
> >> Newspapers)
> >> Article title: Berle 'Roasted' by Friars Club
> >> Author: Earl Wilson
> >>
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