A Diller, A Dollar (1955) (continued)
Mark A. Mandel
mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Fri Mar 25 20:50:34 UTC 2005
[somebody:]
>>> If at first you don't succeed, slide for second.
[Bill Mullins:]
>>If at first you don't succeed, suck suck suck til you do succeed.
[Larry Horn:]
>I recall "If at first you don't succeed, quit."
What's the source of this one?:
If at first you don't succeed
Slash your wrists and watch them bleed.
When concerned and in great doubt
Wave your arms and run about.
-- Mark, thinking of Mad Magazine, Edward Gorey, Gelett Burgess, Tom Lehrer,
and similar sources, of whom only Lehrer seems plausible for this one
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]
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