"What goes around, comes around" (1962 by Paul Crump)

[Wilson Gray]

Much to my continuing annoyance. I though that the phrase sucked the
very first time that I heard it, nearly 45 years ago.

-Wilson

On 7/29/07, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I too first encountered it in Crump's novel.  Saw it a few times in writing in the late '70s.  Over the past few years, TV journalists have been using it a lot.
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>   JL
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> Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> FWIW, 1962 is the year that I first heard this phrase spoken. Barry's
> quotes are the first time that I can recall seeing it written. I may
> have seen it in print elsewhere, but I find it so annoying that I
> would have made a point of forgetting it.
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> -Wilson
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> [P.S. for dInIs: 1962 is the year that I was released from active duty
> in the military. Shortly thereafter, I entered into a close personal
> relationship with a woman whose most annoying feature was her
> *constant* use of "What goes around comes around" as a catch phrase.
> I'd never heard it before and nobody else that I've ever known, down
> to the present day, has used it since. That's one example of the way
> in which my magical memory works. -W.]
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> On 7/26/07, Fred Shapiro wrote:
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> > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
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> > > The Yale Book of Quotations has this on pg. 527, Modern Proverbs #37, "What
> > > goes around, comes around," by Malcolm Braly, _On the Yard_ (1967).
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> > Very nice antedating, Barry! Even with all its faults, Google Books seems
> > worth checking, although for "whole nine yards" it seems only to lead to
> > silliness.
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