I specifically know the librarian I heard it from, but I'm not sure they'd want to be named publicly, and it was 25+ years ago, so I can't remember if they mentioned a source at the time.
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Copy that. Just wondering for personal nerd purposes. The bouncer mentor I mentioned elsewhere in the thread got T-boned on his Harley by a drunk driver a few years ago. If I found the source of that line, I would be on the phone to his widow so fast 💔
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I think that I saw it in WHAT'S BRED IN THE BONE by Robertson Davies (or another of his Cornish Trilogy)—published mid-eighties—may not be the source but establishes use at an earlier date
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My friends and I used it all the time when I was a teen in the '90s.
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