"It's alive!"

[Wilson Gray]

On one  of today's local versions of the Jerry Springer Show, a member
of the audience used the exprssion,

"You got to bring ass to get ass!"

This is the first time that I've heard this "in the wild" [love that
phrase! congrats to whoever thought it up!] since I was in the Army in
1960.

If the meaning is not obvious, it means to say that you can't get
something for nothing. The National Lampoon once put it this way:
"Ass, grass, or gas. Nobody rides for free!"

-Wilson Gray

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