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- From: bwalsh@math.rutgers.edu (Bertram Walsh)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: Dorothy Parker
- Message-ID: <Dec.30.21.27.05.1992.23169@math.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 02:27:05 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.212451.3094@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- >One of my favourites, supposedly attributable to the late great Ms.
- >Parker, is:
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- >"If they laid all the coeds from Yale end to end...I wouldn't be
- >surprised."
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- The girls who were to be laid end-to-end were the feminine attendees
- of the Yale Prom. (The quote [as well as D.P.] antedates coeducation
- on the East Coast by considerable.) I think the attribution is via
- another member of the Algonquin Round Table.
-
- ObPCStatement: references to "girls," and the "r" in the courtesy
- title, follow Mrs. Parker's usage.
-
- Bertram Walsh | Men don't make passes
- Dep't of Mathematics | At girls who wear glasses.
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- New Brunswick NJ 08903-2101 USA | -- D.P.
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