[Ads-l] antedating "dogface"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Another very early exx.:

1919 _Malvern [Ark.] Times-Journal_ (June 5) 1 [GenealogyBank]: Ulrich,
Germany, Apr. 29....Every little thing in Germany is all O.K...[W]hen some
dogface soldier puts all this fancy stuff about France to you, you know
what to tell him.

JL

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 11:32 AM Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Normally I like puns, but yours deserve *condom*nation.
>
> ;-) I'll just go get my hat...
>
> Mark Mandel
>
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018, 2:23 AM W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So, we had to wear dog tags, sleep in pup tents, and put condoms on our
> > muzzles, arf-arf.
> >
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