"Location, location, location": a proverb? (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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As they also say, "The worst I ever had was wonderful!"


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> You got that right, Charlie. As they say, "When it's good,
> it's great and, when it's bad, it's *still* good!"
>
> -Wilson
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> On 5/29/07, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> > Poster:       Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
> > Subject:      Re: "Location, location, location": a proverb?
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> > As they say, "There's no such thing as a good war or a bad piece"!
> >
> > --Charlie
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> > >Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 10:30:55 -0700
> > >From: "Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>
> > >Subject: Re: "Location, location, location": a proverb?
> > >
> > >the repetitions in question are:
> > >
> > >   All you need is love, love, love.
> > >
> > >   All we are saying is give piece a chance.
> > >   All we are saying is give piece a chance.
> > >
> > >(three times in the first, twice in the second)
> > >
> > >i see these as merely emphatic repetitions, found all over
> the place in songs of many different kinds ("Money, money,
> money"; "Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling
> Clementine"; etc.).
> > >
> > >arnold
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