New old saying: "90% of the work...."

[Jonathan Lighter]

Today at [
http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=126218&messages=230&page=1&desc=yes]:

"I spent 33 years as a sound engineer at the BBC. I know just how long it
takes to do the simplest of things.
"We had a saying.
"90% of the work takes 90% of the time.
"The other 10% takes the other 90% of the time."

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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