Ye may take a boy out of the country

[Sherwood, Harrison]

>From: 	Peter Giordano

>It does not appear in any of a half dozen books on English
>Proverbs I checked so my guess is that it is American

[from Chris]:

>>>     250.27 - 250.28  "Ye may take a boy out of the Country...but never the
>>>     Country out of the Boy."  Can this proverb be attributed to anyone?
>>>     (I've looked, but can't  find a source.)

>As one of the 600 billion children who gawped goggle-eyed at the television
>from 1960 to 1977 (when I forsook it to take up amassing and trading
>recreational-drug catastrophes as a hobby) and, zombielike, internalized
>every single word that came out of it, I can proudly say that my smoke of
>choice--a choice tragically curtailed because of a medically dicky heart and
>a smoker's hack that clocked in at around 5 or 6 on the Richter scale--is
>Salems.

>And aaaaaall because of that Yingle: "You can take Salem out of the country,
>but... [protracted fermata, as the reverb on the Chick Singer's voice dies
away and a rattletrap pickup truck raises backlit dust on a washboard
road somewhere in bucolic Norman Rockwell America] ...you can't take the
country out of Salem!"

I mean, how can you argue with _that_?

Oh, crud; now I've got that Sergio-Mendes-oid cool jazz theme for Benson
& Hedges going through my head ("la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la"..._you_
remember it), and the nostalgia is simply overwhelming. I'm ducking out
for America's Favorite Smoke Break.

Harrison "The Golden Age of Advertising" Sherwood

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