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Re: ...and you takes your chances?Posted by Brian from Shawnee on November 24, 2004 In Reply to: Re: You pays your money ... posted by ESC on November 23, 2004 : : : I used this phrase today, and someone asked me where it came from. Help! : : Googling found this: Punch, a English humorous weekly periodical, 1841-1992. Quotations: : : Another source is in agreement with the above -- it is Cockney speech recorded in Punch in 1846. From "A Dictionary of Catch Phrases: American and British from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day" by Eric Partridge, updated and edited by Paul Beal, Scarborough House, Lanham, Md., 1992) : And another reference, just for good measure: : YOU PAYS YOUR MONEY AND YOU TAKES YOUR CHOICE -- Punch, Vol. X, No. 16, 1846. From "Fundamentals of Risk and Insurance," eighth edition, by Emmett J. Vaughan and Therese M. Vaughan, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1999. I've always said "...and you takes your chances". A Google search shows mine's the rarer version, with 860 for "chances" and 3460 for "choices".
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