It sounds recent (last thirty years) to me. You may recall when there was a fad of making up jokes osmething like this called Swifties or Tom Swifites, because a few of the early ones were about Tom Swift, heroic Boy Inventor. The gimmick will be obvious from two examples:

"Oh, damn, I dropped my toothpaste," he said, crestfallen.

"Something there is that does not like a wall," he demurred frostily.

THis one has that same quirky kind of loop in it, although less explicit.

I doubt there is much more to it than that as far as significant origins, But I was wrong once, too!


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