[Ads-l] New proverb

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

In 1984 a version of this quip was included in commentary by
restaurant industry analyst Michael Culp who was critiquing the
performance of Donald N. Smith, President of Diversifoods.

Date: November 26, 1984
Publication: Chicago Tribune
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Article: Corporate profile: Diversifoods struggles to come up with
winning recipe
Author: Herb Greenberg
Section 3, Page 3
Database: Newspapers.com

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"Don's stubbed his toe badly," Michael Culp added. "The sentiment used
to be that Don walked on water. Now, the sentiment is he doesn't know
how to swim. It's something in between."
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 9:14 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com> wrote:
> Having failed to stop the Civil War and World War II, President Obama, I believe, is responsible for this unfortunate proverb. BB
>
>> On 12 Feb 2018, at 18:11, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>
>> https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/letters/2018/01/24/letter-come-senators-congressmen-show-me-your-fortitude/comments/
>>
>>
>> "He did NOT say NORWEGANS, Some people hate Trump so much if he walked on
>> water, they would say he didn't know how to swim".
>>
>>
>> Female voter on CNN, just now, asked to react to Trump's lack of expressed
>> sympathy for abused women:
>>
>> "If the President walked on water, the press would say he didn't know how
>> to swim!"
>>
>> JL
>>
>> --
>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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