““Get off my phone line!””
So is that where MARK LAA-vin got his “Get Off my Phone, you big dope” shtick?
NY Times bob Grant obituary article (died at age 84)
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Part of Mr. Grant’s appeal was a Dirty Harry persona, expressed in outbursts of impatience with callers. He dispatched them profligately — sometimes for disagreeing with him, sometimes for agreeing too obsequiously, and sometimes, it seemed, just because he could. “Get off my phone, you creep!” was his signature shout.
Off the air Mr. Grant was courtly and polite; on the air, he articulated the frustrations of “the working stiff — the guy who pays $4 a day in bridge tolls just to go to and from work,” the WABC program director Mark Mason said in 1988.