Timeline for How did the term "X's finest" come to mean the police force of a city X?
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| Dec 21, 2014 at 23:31 | comment | added | Oldbag | @HotLicks- Thanx for covering for me, I was @ work. As for the politicians, there are expletives, but no superlatives. | |
| Dec 21, 2014 at 16:57 | comment | added | Hot Licks | It's an old cliche. Say you have a committee of 10 people. You have a chair and vice chair and secretary and treasurer, then the other 6 people feel left out and want jobs as well. | |
| Dec 21, 2014 at 16:54 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Oldbag -- So what is the superlative for NY politicians? | |
| Dec 21, 2014 at 16:54 | comment | added | muru | @HotLicks possibly, but I didn't get how Oldbag is linking the quote with with the first sentence. Googling showed some mentions of a TV show. | |
| Dec 21, 2014 at 16:53 | comment | added | Hot Licks | @muru - I'm sure "Everybody wants to get into the act" predates TV -- probably refers to vaudeville. | |
| Dec 21, 2014 at 15:57 | comment | added | James McLeod | @muru - no, it's a quotation attributed to Durante. | |
| Dec 21, 2014 at 15:34 | comment | added | muru | Hugo's link also mentions these terms. Everybody wants to get into the act is a TV show, I presume? | |
| Dec 21, 2014 at 14:32 | history | answered | Oldbag | CC BY-SA 3.0 |