Ancient eggcorn?

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:28 PM +0000 12/29/08, Michael Quinion wrote:
>My son gave me a big collection of old SF magazines for Christmas. On the
>back cover of issue No 5 of Nebula Science Fiction for Autumn 1953 is an
>advert: "A Full-proof Insurance Policy".
>

Or maybe they were offering special rates to heavy drinkers...

LH

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