"It isn't nice to fool Mother Nature!"

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 28, 2006, at 7:23 AM, Jon Lighter wrote:

> Today's fogies will instantly recognize this line from a memorable
> margarine commercial of about 1970.  It seems to have become a
> semihumorous proverb with
>   several dozen raw Googlits and about a half dozen exx. in Google
> Books.

i think that was "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature".  12,700 raw
google webhits for that version, only 24 for "It isn't nice..."

arnold

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