(np) sold American

[Michael Bailey]

I was puzzled when watching the Three Stooges Feature, "Disorder in the
Court", when Larry peals out the phrase, "Sold, American!"

i wondered, "is that a thing? (a known phrase?)"



After savoring the mystery of it for several years, i finally looked it
up.  It is!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sold_American

it's all interwoven with Glenn Miller, and Lucky Strike (whose green never
came back from wwii), and Chesterfield...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmiCq-OWN8Y



-- 
“It is difficult/to get the news from poems/yet men die miserably every
day/for lack/of what is found there” - William Carlos Williams
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