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

[Wilson Gray]

FWIW, I agree with arnold's memory. But was it as late as 1970 that it
began? Just asking. I don't have any memory of when this ad campaign
began, just a vague feeling that it may have started earlier. And this
feeling may be only a reflection of the ad's erstwhile ubiquity.

-Wilson

On 9/28/06, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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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.
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> 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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