[Dragaera] Unquoted Brust

[Steve Rapaport]

Oh, is that the "unquoted Brust"?  As Mark says, it's pretty old.   Here
it's attributed to Kurt Cobain, though I suspect it was around before he was
born:
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/like/just_because_you-re_paranoid_doesn-t_mean_they/168726/

I like Alan Moore's better:  "Paranoid?  Is that what they're saying about
me now?"

>From Watchmen, 1987.  Said by the very paranoid Rorschach.



On 07/04/07, Mark A. Mandel <thnidu at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> J C wrote:
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> >Unquoted Brust can be found on this page:
> >http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/items/tinfoilhat.xml
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> Howard Brazee remarked:
> > I believe that expression is old.
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> It is, very. I knew it long before SKZB had anything in print.
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> I checked the American Dialect Society (www.americandialect.org) mailing
> list archives and found the following citation from 1974:
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> _Human  relations beat_
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> http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=1&did=727995892&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=10VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=1140053502&clientId=65882
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> CONNIE SEALS. Chicago Defender (Big Weekend Edition) (1973-1975). Chicago,
> Ill.: Dec 21, 1974. p. 24 (1 page) :
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> As I toured some office the other day, I observed a poster over the desk
> of
> one employee which said, "Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean
> they
> aren't out to get you." I think we can all identify with that.
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> There are somewhat earlier cites of similar expressions.
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> If To Reign In Hell was SKZB's first publication, and if it appeared in
> 1984 -- both are according to his Bibliography page as Writer GOH at LosCon
> 32 -- that's a ten-year antedate. Steve is brilliant, witty, and original,
> but not all his wit is original.
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> -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological
> Busybody
>    a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel
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\Steve