Timeline for Meaning - 'It's Cliff's Notes without Cliff's Notes.'

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Jun 2, 2016 at 3:25	history	edited	ColleenV	CC BY-SA 3.0	punctuation, formatting, trimmed the chatty stuff, incorporated JR's comment
Jun 2, 2016 at 3:19	history	edited	ColleenV	CC BY-SA 3.0	punctuation, formatting, trimmed the chatty stuff
Feb 11, 2015 at 21:15	vote	accept	CommunityBot
Jan 16, 2015 at 23:50	history	edited	ColleenV	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 426 characters in body
Jan 16, 2015 at 23:41	comment	added	ColleenV		@J.R. I think you're right. The lack of "the" in front of "Cliff's Notes" is a pretty big clue. I don't think it would work without the possessive.
Jan 16, 2015 at 9:28	comment	added	J.R.♦		I think the example might be a pun, because we don't usually think of "Cliff" as a person when we say "Cliff's Notes." It sounds like something Groucho might say.
Jan 16, 2015 at 2:44	comment	added	ColleenV		@J.R. I was hoping to think of a more exact parallel "It's like an Izod without the Izod." All of the examples I can think of are "It's like X without the Y." which makes me think that there is something special about the example in the question that I'm missing.
Jan 15, 2015 at 23:05	comment	added	J.R.♦		"It's like an izod shirt without the alligator" – maybe something like that?
Jan 15, 2015 at 18:51	history	answered	ColleenV	CC BY-SA 3.0