"It isn't nice to fool Mother Nature!"

[Charles Doyle]

And for the phrase "to fool Mother Nature" 28,000 hits--suggesting an abundance of allusions and adaptations.

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:30:38 -0700
>From: "Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>
>Subject: Re: "It isn't nice to fool Mother Nature!"
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>On Sep 28, 2006, at 7:23 AM, Jon Lighter wrote:
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>> Today's fogies will instantly recognize this line from a memorable margarine commercial of about 1970.  It seems to have become a semihumorous proverb with
>>   several dozen raw Googlits and about a half dozen exx. in Google Books.

>
>i think that was "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature".  12,700 raw google webhits for that version, only 24 for "It isn't nice..."
>
>arnold
>

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