Heard on VH1

[Scot LaFaive]

>"When life gets ahold of you, it uses no Vaseline."

For a friend of mine, it was "no spit, no lube" whenever he said something
similar about getting metaphorically screwed over.

Scot LaFaive


>From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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>Subject: Heard on VH1
>Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 17:01:23 -0400
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>Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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>Spoken by Mo'nique on the show, _Charm School:
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>"When life gets ahold of you, it uses no Vaseline. It simply bends you
>over and sticks it to you."
>
>-Wilson
>--
>All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
>come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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>                                               -Sam'l Clemens
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