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Quite truthfully, I had never heard that phrase, or what ever you choose to
call it, used before seeing it in this group.
I guess we just travel in a better educated group. >g<
"Ogden Johnson III" <oj3usmc@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Jack Suttles" <jsuttles@nomail.com> wrote:
>
>>"Tom Scales" <tomtoo@softhome.net> wrote:
>
>>> So, don't you owe him an apology for your lack of cultural knowledge?
>
>>So you are making the inference that I am lacking cultural knowledge
>>because
>>I'm not familiar with some TV show?
>>Wow Tom, you are intelligent! You should consider going into education.
>
> While I might not have gone as far as Tom did, I, too, was
> surprised - if one takes the assumption that you live/work in the
> US. No matter how adamantly a non-TV watcher a person may have
> been in the Seinfeld show's heydays, there was no way that in
> normal conversations with friends and coworkers someone wouldn't
> have picked up the catch phrases it originated - such as the
> aforesaid "yada, yada, yada".
>
> Like Seinfeld, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In in the '60s was an
> exceptional source of catch phrases that started making the
> office-cooler rounds.
>
> Even in the early '50s, when fewer than a third of homes even had
> a TV, Milton Berle's latest shticks spread like wildfire to those
> that were TV-less.
> --
> OJ III
> [Email to Yahoo address may be burned before reading.
> Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast.]
Quite truthfully, I had never heard that phrase, or what ever you choose to
call it, used before seeing it in this group.
I guess we just travel in a better educated group. >g<
"Ogden Johnson III" <oj3usmc@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:2qlh71dfarfunv3qb7r98o3hmpmeon8ggp@4ax.com...
> "Jack Suttles" <jsuttles@nomail.com> wrote:
>
>>"Tom Scales" <tomtoo@softhome.net> wrote:
>
>>> So, don't you owe him an apology for your lack of cultural knowledge?
>
>>So you are making the inference that I am lacking cultural knowledge
>>because
>>I'm not familiar with some TV show?
>>Wow Tom, you are intelligent! You should consider going into education.
>
> While I might not have gone as far as Tom did, I, too, was
> surprised - if one takes the assumption that you live/work in the
> US. No matter how adamantly a non-TV watcher a person may have
> been in the Seinfeld show's heydays, there was no way that in
> normal conversations with friends and coworkers someone wouldn't
> have picked up the catch phrases it originated - such as the
> aforesaid "yada, yada, yada".
>
> Like Seinfeld, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In in the '60s was an
> exceptional source of catch phrases that started making the
> office-cooler rounds.
>
> Even in the early '50s, when fewer than a third of homes even had
> a TV, Milton Berle's latest shticks spread like wildfire to those
> that were TV-less.
> --
> OJ III
> [Email to Yahoo address may be burned before reading.
> Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast.]