Heard on VH1

Sarah Lang slang at UCHICAGO.EDU
Tue Jul 3 22:06:48 UTC 2007


There's always the classic "bite the pillow."

S.

On Jul 3, 2007, at 3:22 PM, Scot LaFaive wrote:

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>> "When life gets ahold of you, it uses no Vaseline."
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> For a friend of mine, it was "no spit, no lube" whenever he said
> something
> similar about getting metaphorically screwed over.
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> Scot LaFaive
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>> 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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>> 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."
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>> -Wilson
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>> 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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