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No sh*t, Sherlock

Posted by Gary Martin on April 23, 2009 at 16:53

In Reply to: No sh*t, Sherlock posted by Victoria S Dennis on April 23, 2009 at 16:51:

: "No sh*t, Sherlock" - who coined that?
: Five years ago I am pretty sure I had never heard it; now I sometimes find myself saying it, and I have no idea where or when I first encountered it.

I recall an American friend (from Queens, New York) using it in the early 1970s.

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