When You're Hot, You're Hot

[David Bergdahl]

I thought the second line was "And when you're shot, you're not"
-db

On 11/1/06, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> The NY Times, 9 Sept. 1949, quotes Joe DiMaggio saying, "When I'm hot, I'm
> hot."
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> --Charlie
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> >Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:08:21 -0500
> >From: "Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at NB.NET>
> >Subject: Re: When You're Hot, You're Hot
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> >>The Yale Book of Quotations cites newspaper reports from 1972 and 1971
> for "When you're hot, you're hot" and "When you're hot, you're hot, and when
> you're not, you're not," both described as "Modern Proverbs."  I expect that
> they both derive from the popular 1971 song by Jerry Reed (aka Jerry Reed
> Hubbard), titled the former and including the latter in its lyrics.  I don't
> know if he also wrote the lyrics or not.
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> >This was one of Flip Wilson's (Geraldine's?) sayings around the same time
> wasn't it? Did this precede the song? Either way I suppose the saying wa
> used by gamblers earlier.
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> >-- Doug Wilson
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