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== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* As noted in the main text, [[Buddy Hackett]] had a 1952-vintage [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf1tCQErbzE stand-up routine about a Chinese waiter taking an order from a table full of (non-Chinese) patrons] through which the phrase entered popular usage, even though the phrase in the routine is actually "two from column A, one from column B".
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Right here on [[This Very Wiki]], in a passage inherited from [[TV Tropes]] (and still there as of this writing) on the page [[Combo-Platter Powers/Playing With]]:
{{quote|'''Parodied:''' Alice is seen before she becomes Amazing Girl, literally picking her powers from a menu. "I'll have one from Column A, two from Column B, ooh, prehensile hair sounds good, and that comes with complimentary [[Most Common Superpower]], right?"}}
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