"Fold, Spindle..."

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Feb 28 15:14:02 UTC 2002


At 9:06 AM -0500 2/28/02, Fred Shapiro wrote:
>Can anyone supply any early documentation of usage of the punch-card
>phrase "Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate"?  I would also be interested in
>early documentation of usage of the later slogan, "I am a human being: do
>not fold, spindle, or mutilate."
>
The latter one strikes me as having originated as a bumper sticker.
Do you have a separate category for bumper stickers in the YDOQ?

larry



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