[Dr. Franklin]

My favorite of the Old Dear Abby columns was when a woman wrote that there were two women living in the apartment across the hall from her who never had any male visitors. The woman asked, “Do you think they are Lebanese?”

[Verginius Rufus]

Art Linkletter in his book Kids Say the Darndest Things (largely based on things kids said on his "House Party" program) quotes a kid talking about his mother growing "Algerians" (should have been "geraniums"). This was probably when the French war in Algeria was in the news.

[OldWarBaby]

Dear Abbey would be out of bizness if it weren’t for the Lebanese, trannies, undecideds, same-o-same o’s and the rest of the really confuzed,