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Bill Stickers is innocentBill Stickers is innocent : PhrasesMeaning: Play on words, based on 'Bill Stickers...' notices. Origin: In the UK in the 1960s an attempt was made to reduce fly posting (the illegal pasting up of posters). Warning notices were put up with the legend 'Bill Stickers Will Be Prosecuted'. Waggish fly posters responded with 'Bill Stickers is Innocent' notices. The joke wasn't new in the 1960s though. In a New York newspaper The Olean Herald, 1884, there's a piece reprinted from the London Graphic:
This tale, which is just a joke of course and not a verbatim report, appeared in various forms in newspapers in the 1880s. Phrases Index |
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