Murphy's Law (1957); Hotter than a stolen tamale (?)

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MURPHY'S LAW
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Take a look at this Newspaperarchive article (too long to  transcribe here):
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     _Monroe County News, The_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=P9SpTvomPU+KID/6NLMW2vcQe0YpNtNOR8NQ5UYMfet+C/D8AbE0ug==)  _Monday, June
10,  1957_ (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="MURPHY)
_Albia,_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="MURPHY'S+LAW"+AND+cityid:257+AND+stateid:39+AND+range:1936-1958)  _Iowa_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="MURPHY'S+LAW"+AND+stateid:39+AND+range:1936-1958)
is  MURPHY'S me especially Al- W patt ia aaai 90 it len's secohd  LAW uT yottr
ran afoul of MURPHY'S LAW." of the  Graduating Clas :iu- alumni of this
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HOTTER THAN A STOLEN TAMALE
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Anybody have this?
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<a  href="http://www.texasmonthly.com/ranch/sayings/weather.1.php">Texas
Monthly</a>

Texas has four seasons: drought, flood, blizzard, and twister. That old
saying isn't far from wrong. Because of its sheer size, Texas experiences all
kinds of weather -- sometimes all at once. Out in West Texas, the weather can be
drier than the heart of a haystack and windier than a fifty-pound bag of
whistling lips. A duststorm is dubbed "Panhandle rain." Thunderclouds might
bring some real rain -- say, a real gully-washer toad-strangler. And, all over
the state, it's hot -- darned hot. How hot, you ask? Hotter than a stolen
tamale. Hotter than a honeymoon hotel. Hotter than a fur coat in Marfa.
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<A href="http://www.beer-bytch.com/texastalk2.htm">More Texas  Talkin'</a>
Need a Texas-ism to describe the heat?  No  sweat.  There are dozens of
steamy similes for summer suffering (not  surprisingly, there are far fewer for
winter weather). How hot is it?  It's  hot as the hinges of hell; hot as a
two-dollar pistol; hot as a stolen  tamale.  It's hotter than whoopee in woolens,
hotter than a preacher's  knee, hotter than a fur coat in Marfa.  See?  It's
easy to get hot  talk down cold.  It's so hot the hens are laying hard-boiled
eggs, It's hot  as a summer revival, hotter than honeymoon hotel, hotter than a
burning  stump,  hot as a pot of neck  bones.

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