"Location, location, location": a proverb?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Jun 7 00:36:38 UTC 2007


At 9:21 AM -0400 5/29/07, Doug Harris wrote:
>And the Beatles made two significant contributions
>to the X3 genre, with "All you need is love" and "Give peace a
>chance." While these may not be called 'proverbs', they most
>certainly have served as slogans or mottos.
>--
>When encouraging small children (or others) to experiment with
>small round vegetables, I often urge them to "give peas a chance."
>(the other) doug
>
Then there's that overdone bumper sticker beseeching one and all to
"Visualized Whirled Peas", which I strenuously try to avoid doing.

LH

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