[Ads-l] I'm rubber....

[Jonathan Lighter]

Great work, G.

JL

On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 4:16 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for sharing your work on this entertaining topic, JL. The
> following 1934 match appeared in a Polish language newspaper. The
> contraction “you’re” is misspelled as "your".
>
> Date: March 8, 1934
> Newspaper: Dziennik Dla Wszystkich (Journal For Everyone)
> Newspaper Location: Buffalo, New York
> Article: DZIAL OPIEKI
> Quote Page 3, Column 5
> Database: Newspapers.com
>
>
> https://www.newspapers.com/article/dziennik-dla-wszystkich-rubber-glue/153739945/
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> Dawne przyslowie mowi: "I'm rubber, your glue, what you shoot at me
> bounces back and sticks to you.".
> [End excerpt]
>
> According to Google Translate the prefatory phrase means: "The old
> proverb says".
>
> Garson
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 3:03 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I first heard this now well-known phrase in 1962. It was popularized
> > further on "Pee Wee's Play House."
> >
> > 1937 _Hopewell [Va.] News_ (Mar. 12) 7 [Newspapers.com]:  When I was
> > small...[o]ne of us would get angry and say something; the other would
> say,
> > "I'm rubber, you're glue: whatever you say goes back and sticks to you."
> >
> > 1950 _St. Louis Globe-Democrat_ (May 26) 5 [Ibid.]:  The Governor, using
> > the "I'm rubber and you're glue, and everything you say bounces back on
> > you" technique, blames the Mayor.
> >
> > 1950 _Lebanon [Ill.] Advertiser_ (Nov. 24) 1 [Ibid.]: I'm rubber - you're
> > glue; / Everything you say to me/ Bounces back and sticks on you.
> >
> > 1959 _Knoxville [Tenn.] Journal_ (July 29) 8: "I'm rubber,/ You're glue.
> /
> > What is thrown at me bounces off and sticks on you."
> >
> > 1961 _Jackson County Floridan [sic]_ (Marianna, Fla.) 5 [Ibid.]: I'm
> rubber
> > and you're glue - Everything bounces off me and sticks to you.
> >
> > 1961 _Arizona Republic_ (Phoenix, Ariz.) 18 [Ibid.]: I'm rubber and
> you're
> > glue./ It bounces off me and sticks on you.
> >
> > 1969 _Tri-City Herald_ (Pasco, Wash.) 13 [Ibid.]:  I'm rubber And [sic]
> > you're glue, and everything you say bounces back and sticks to you.
> >
> > Etc., etc.
> >
> > In pseudo-Shakesperean:
> >
> > MONTAGUE. I am of pliant, supple whalebone made,
> > And you are glue.; the insults that you hurl
> > Bounce off my bouyant frame and stick to you!
> >
> > -- William Shakespeare*, "Romeo and Juliet, Part 1 (cont.)," V, iii,
> >  ll. 420-23, in H. Beard, C. Cerf, et al., *The Book of Sequels *(New
> York:
> > Random House, 1990), p. 78.
> >
> > JL
> > --
> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
> >
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