"Location, location, location": a proverb?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Use  a different "w" word and it becomes even more controversial.

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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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

On 5/29/07, Charles Doyle wrote:
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> As they say, "There's no such thing as a good war or a bad piece"!
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> --Charlie
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> >Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 10:30:55 -0700
> >From: "Arnold M. Zwicky"
> >Subject: Re: "Location, location, location": a proverb?
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> >the repetitions in question are:
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> > 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)
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> >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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