“I was so poor growing up…if I wasn't a boy…I'd have nothing to play with. ”
Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian
“We were poor. If I wasn't a boy, I wouldn't have had nothing to play with.”
As quoted in More Sex Talk : A New Collection of Ribald, Raunchy, and Provocative Quotations (2002) by James Wolfe, p. 114; similar lines were also used in the comedic routines of Rodney Dangerfield.
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