lxchilton
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Weird as hell, though the fact that it shows up almost exclusively in the post WWII and pre-Vietnam era suggests that Cooper absolutely had to have picked it up overseas during WWII. Which is the opposite of a shocker since I would be completely floored if he hadn't served at that time. I think there would have been a good sized chunk of the male population who would have read the 1958 baseball article and immediately recognized the phrase for what it was and not been puzzled by it; in that way it's "regular."
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I made that post a while back on Reddit...my take on the "negotiable American currency" thing is that Cooper at some point was stationed overseas during WWII. The vast majority of the available mentions of it on Newspapers.com are in the 15ish years from near the end of the war up until 1960ish; it's more likely to me that he said it and served in WWII or that the person who put those words in his mouth served in WWII. I bristle at the suggestion that it definitely points to a point of origin in the States for Cooper or that it means he was somehow not American as it's something that people were saying in sort of banal (in reference to the cost of a baseball game in the 1950s, etc.) way in specifically American sources somewhat regularly.
