Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 09:17:47 -0700 From: David Harnick-Shapiro Subject: Re: [p*tut] On Thu, 20 Apr 1995 08:41, Katherine Catmull writes: > There was an airline ad campaign from the '70s called "Take Me Along," in > which singing, dancing wives begged their husbands to take them along on > business trips. "I love ya, sweet patootie, but my office is my duty!" the The song is actually from a musical of the late '50s, also called "Take Me Along" (based, if memory serves, on the stage play "Ah, Wilderness"). I don't remember whether the line cited above is in the musical or not, so it may have been introduced by the ad writers, but it is certainly in the spirit of the original. The musical is set rather earlier in the century ('20s? 'teens?), so words like "patootie" might have been adopted to suggest the era of bee's knees and cat's pajamas. The point of all this being that although the ad ran in the '70s, I think "patootie" was kind of a fossil by then. -------- David Harnick-Shapiro Internet: david[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ics.uci.edu Information and Computer Science UUCP: ...!{ucbvax,zardoz}!ucivax!david University of California, Irvine