"can't say crap w/mouthful"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Wilson, your version began appearing in print in the sixties.

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>From an e-mail to the editor of ZDNet Announcements, 08/23/06.

Though I've known a version of this -

"wouldn't say 'shit,' if he had a mouthful"

- for about half a century, this is the first time that I've seen it
in the wild.

-Wilson
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There's only one thing that money can't buy and that's poverty.

--Jack Benny

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