Horeshoes & Handgrenades ("almost" doesn't count, except for...)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> HORSESHOES AND HAND GRENADES
>
> 1973, DOVE, gospel songs by Bill Landers including "Hand grenades and
> horseshoes."  Published at Waco, Texas.
>
> 1975, CLOSE DOESN'T COUNT, a novel by John Craig.

This is excellent early evidence.  Another early citation of interest is
an article by John A. Ferejohn and Morris P. Fiorina in the American
Political Science Review, September 1975, entitled "Closeness Counts Only
in Horseshoes and Dancing."


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