fly in the ointment (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

Jules Pfeifer had a similar list in a November, 1959, number of the
NYT BR, based on

That's the way the ball bounces:

That's the way the genes lean

That's the way the spearmint chews

and possibly others that I can't recall.

-Wilson

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
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> An odd variant:
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> Middletown NY Times Herald, 8/5/1933 p 9 col 4
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> "Booking difficulties with the Pennsylvania outfit was the katydid in
> the Vaseline."
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> Didn't Bruce Willis give a list of similar phrases in the first Die Hard
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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