# Origin of someone yelling, "Don't look at me!"

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 4, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-someone-yelling-dont-look-at-me/512570 "2009-10-04T18:48:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-someone-yelling-dont-look-at-me/512570/21 "2009-10-07T09:09:25Z")

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It sounds like the sort of thing Charles Laughton would say in the 1939 version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame’,judging by peoples impersonations.  
But I’m only guessing.

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