Overheard --- ("It's not rocket surgery")

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

Here's another slightly belated reply: Jonathan Lighter's quoted sentence below is clearly a blend:
"It's not rocket science" + "It's not brain surgery."
 
Gerald Cohen

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Original message from Jonathan Lighter, Wed 8/18/2004 1:45 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Overheard

"It's not rocket surgery !" is the punchline in a TV commercial that I first noticed a month or two ago.

JL

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