Proverbial Parachutes (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Dance with the girl what brung you.

> >
> >Sorry, spoke too soon. Rumsfeld himself was snowcloning, since there
> >are earlier examples of the template, going back to the poker
> >expression "You play the hand you're dealt, not the one you wish you
> >had." Google Books has an example from a 1992 congressional hearing
> >("But we have a saying in poker that you have got to play the hand
> >that is dealt you, not the one that you wish you had") with some
> >earlier variations on the "play the hand you're dealt" theme.
> >
> Not as resonant to my ear as the versions with repetition.  Here are
> 3 that I just googled up, all from military/political/ideological
> contexts rather than actual references to poker:
>
> you have to make do with the hand you're dealt, not the hand you wish
> you were dealt.
>
> You take the hand you're dealt, not the hand you wish you were dealt.
>
> But I do know you have to play cards with the hand you are dealt, not
> with the hand you wish you were dealt.
>
> LH
>
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