When asked about a popular restaurant, Yogi Berra supposedly replied: “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” Actually, though, that saying has been around since before Berra was born. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of ““Nobody Goes There Anymore, It’s Too Crowded” Predates Yogi Berra by Decades”
Here’s another yogi ism that I really love. He was talking about a restaurant one time and he said,
“Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.”
Yeah, and did he actually say that one? He actually said it, but it was around much longer than that. Like back in the 1880s, people were making that, you know.
It reminds me of Twitter where there are these accounts where people, all that they do is steal jokes and one-liners from other people who are less famous.
Yeah.
And so this Twitter account will have 21 million followers and they’re stealing stuff from people with just a few thousand followers.
It reminds me very much of that.
And they do it without credit.
Oh.
But Yogi didn’t do it with any intent.
No, no, no.
And he was actually—
It was in the ether and sometimes you don’t even know that you weren’t the first, right?
Exactly.
Yeah, you’re right.
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