on the bug

[Mark A. Mandel]

paul johnson <paulzjoh at MTNHOME.COM> writes:
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I clearly remember "on the bug" as a carny term for a rigged lottery wheel.
The "bug" was the device that controlled what number would come up when:

 'The wheel goes round and round and no one knows where it will stop'

This was in the late '40's
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I remember that expression as a rhyme, from my '50s childhood:

        Round and round and round she goes
        And where she stops nobody knows

-- Mark
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