fly in the ointment (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Bill Palmer]

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That's the way the mop flops"

Bill
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> Jules Pfeifer had a similar list in a November, 1959, number of the
> NYT BR, based on
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> That's the way the ball bounces:
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> That's the way the genes lean
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> That's the way the spearmint chews
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> and possibly others that I can't recall.
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> -Wilson
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> 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
>> movie?
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