“It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”

—  Marilyn Monroe

As quoted in TIME magazine when "asked if she really had nothing on in the photograph [for a 1949 calendar]" ("Something for the Boys." Time 60, no. 6 (August 11, 1952): 90)
Variant: I had the radio on.

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