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Posted: 01 Aug 2020

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Carl Sagan - Johnny Carson

Carl Sagan - Johnny Carson
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 Dinesh
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Johnny Carson -- on whose ‘Tonight Show’ I’d appeared almost thirty times over the years -- and said it. He’d dress up in a corduroy jacket, a turtleneck sweater, and something like a mop for a wig. He had created a rough imitation of me, a kind of Doppelganger, that went around saying “nillions and billions” on late-night television. It used to bother me a little to have some simulacrum of my persona wandering off on its own, saying things that friends and colleagues would report to me the next morning. ….

Astonishingly, “billions and billions” stuck. People liked the sound of it. Even today, I’m stopped on the street or on an airplane or at a party and asked, a little shyly, if I wouldn’t -- just for them -- say “billions and billions”

“You know, I didn’t actually say it,” I tell them

“It’s okay,” they reply. “Say it anyway”

I’m told that Sherlock Holmes never said, “Elementary, my dear Watson” (at least in the Arthur Conon Doyle books), Jimmy Cagney never said, “you dirty rat”; and Humphrey Bogart never said, “Play it again, Sam.” But they might as well have, because these apocrypha have firmly insinuated themselves into popular culture. ~ Page 4
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 Dinesh
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BILLIONS & BILLIONS
4 years ago.

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