FYA(musement)

[Mark A Mandel]

A friend passed this on as "found on the web". It takes a bit of
knowledge, since a couple of the rebus-expansions are not (current?)
American English and the context and terms are not familiar to a lot of
us city folk. I have no idea of its authenticity.

-- Mark A. Mandel
   Linguist at Large

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Sign over the fireplace in an old
coutry Inn located in New Hampshire:

   If the BMT put more :
   If the B . putting :
   Never put more : over a - der
   You'd be an * it