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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' has a variant instance, which [http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002289.html at least one linguistics blogger] suspects may be the trigger for modern (over-)usage of the phrase:
{{quote|"Look, sorry, are we talking about the little white furry things with the cheese fixation and women standing on tables screaming in early sixties sitcoms?"
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{{quote|"My little man, where do you come from? What is this 'where I live,' of which you speak?"}}
▲== Live Action Television ==
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'', the infamous episode "Spock's Brain":
{{quote|'''Kara:''' "Brain" and "brain"! What is "brain"?}}
== [[New Media]] ==▼
▲== New Media ==
* The earliest known Internet example of the phrase can be found in a [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/net.misc/msg/da67fe94b296df17 post] to [[UseNet|net.misc]] on August 24, 1983:
{{quote|There has been a lot of net discussion about "toilet paper" recently. Just what is this "toilet paper" of which you speak? Where can I find it?}}
:It is less the [[Snowclone]], though, than an echo of the older usage.
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
▲== Web Comics ==
* [[Samurai]] Miko Miyazaki in ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' lampshades the [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]] from which she comes by asking another character,
{{quote|"What is this 'Japan' you speak of? I have never heard of it before."}}
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