The Fickle Finger of Fate

[Wilson Gray]

Just prior to being dingled by the dangling dong of destiny, I've often
been fucked by that.


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Oops, YDN archive does not present results in true date order.
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> The Yale Daily News no. 7
> October 5 1936:
> THE WINDMILL
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> "The foul finesse of the fickle finger of Fate has long been a subject of
> hard comment."
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> DanG
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> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > In your time period:
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> > The Yale Daily News no. 53
> >  November 27 1937: Harvard's Benchley Soaks Eli's Woolley
> >
> > "But for some inscrutable reason the fickle finger of Fate pointed out to
> > him that he should raise a beard."
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> > Makes me wonder if it came from vaudeville or Hollywood...
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> >
> > DanG
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> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Jonathan Lighter <
> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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> >> Some of us may associate this phrase with Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
> (where
> >> it figured in the weekly "Flying Fickle Finger of Fate Award."
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> >> Others, more knowledgeable, believe it arose during World War II.
> >>
> >> Both wrong:
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> >> 1934 _Arcadia [Calif.] Tribune_ (July 7) 7: But the fickle finger of
> >> fate...decreed otherwise.
> >>
> >> 1936 _Ruston [La.] Daily Ledger_   (May 2) 4: Anyway, we hope the little
> >> pup has better luck than his predecessors, whose lives were cut short by
> >> the fickle finger of fate.
> >>
> >> 1937 _Times-Picayune_ (N.O.) (Aug. 8) IV 2: Kissinger is the
> correspondent
> >> responsible for the vivid "fickle finger of fate" account of McLaney's
> >> injury.
> >>
> >> The fickle finger strikes, and, having struck, moves on....
> >>
> >> JL
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> >> --
> >> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> >> truth."
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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