# Who was the first to make an ass out of u and me?

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**Created:** [July 30, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-to-make-an-ass-out-of-u-and-me/458244 "2008-07-30T16:25:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-to-make-an-ass-out-of-u-and-me/458244/64 "2014-05-08T23:36:54Z")

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> [@Lex122](#):
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> I must be the oldest person on the Internet because no one else has posted that this was a bit that was done by Abbott and Costello back in the fifties, and they may have used it in their vaudeville routine prior to that. Lou Costello even used the blackboard to show Bud Abbott ass + u + me = assume. The writers from the odd couple stole that bit.

I don’t disbelieve you. Just wish we could have a cite to prove it. You’re probable right.

I just took it back to a Google book cite from 1959. Business school journal.

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