This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

[Barbara Need]

You mean apart from my mother saying this when I was kid?

Barbara

Barbara Need
Chicago

On 18 May 2009, at 2:15 PM, Baker, John wrote:

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>        How old is this meme?  The earliest I see is from the Hartford
> Courant, 2/10/1999, quoting Colin Quinn on Saturday Night Live the
> previous week:  "American warplanes attacked newly installed Iraqi
> anti-ship missile launchers along the Persian Gulf. An enraged Saddam
> Hussein scolded his troops saying, 'You see, this is why we can't have
> nice things!'"
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>        Anything earlier?
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> John Baker
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