[Ads-l] Does "The buck stops here'' stop here?

[Jonathan Lighter]

The cerebral hard drive must be slipping.

JL

On Sat, Jun 8, 2024 at 6:07 AM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks JL and Fred. Congratulations to Barry Popik on his excellent
> discovery.
>
> Barry clipped the citation on September 16, 2019.
>
> https://www.newspapers.com/article/lincoln-journal-star-the-buck-stops-her/36017495/
>
> As mentioned by Fred, the citation appears in "The New Yale Book of
> Quotations" (2021).
>
> In addition, JL mentioned the citation previously on January 16, 2023.
> https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2023-January/163089.html
>
> The Quote Investigator article has been updated, at last. Changes
> should be visible within  24 hours. Barry Popik, Jonathan Lighter, and
> Fred Shapiro are acknowledged.
> https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/02/07/buck-stops/
>
> Garson
>
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 1:56 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > The 1929 citation is included in the New Yale Book of Quotations, which
> credits Barry Popik for discovering it.
> >
> > Fred Shapiro
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of
> Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> > Sent: Friday, June 7, 2024 1:43 PM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Subject: Does "The buck stops here'' stop here?
> >
> > Twenty years ago on another thread I wrote:
> >
> > "I'm sticking to my story that I saw a reference to 'The Buck Stops Here'
> > on a little desk plaque in a story published during the '30s in _Our
> Army_
> > magazine."
> >
> > While not quite vindication, the following makes my statement nugatory:
> >
> > 1929  _Lincoln [Neb.] Evening Journal_  (Oct. 2)  13 (Newspapers.com):
> It's
> > about the second lieutenant in the war department whose desk was back in
> > the corner among the boxes and the barrels....Above this desk the second
> > looey had placed a card which read: "The buck stops here"...and he didn't
> > mean buck private.
> >
> > JL
> > --
> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
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