[Ads-l] Quip Origin: There Are More Horses' Asses Than Horses

[Bill Mullins]

>   No publication date or copyright date is specified in the front matter. Unfortunately, the metadata in the Internet Archive is
>   sometimes inaccurate. The book mentions “1928 flappers” and contains a form in which the year begins with “192”. Hence,
>   the date is plausible. I will probably state “circa 1928” when I can update the website after Thanksgiving.

I was not able to positively confirm the date, or find a strong reason that it is thought to be from 1928.  However, I saw a number
of scholarly citations to it that used that date, including Green's Dictionary of Slang, so I went with it.

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