OT: "Stop digging."

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/10/2010 05:28 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>The files of the Yale Book of Modern Proverbs have the following
>earliest version:
>
>1981  Washington Post 16 Nov.  "At Rochester and in junior hockey
>(at Saskatoon), we had some tough times.  But when you're in a hole,
>don't dig it deeper."

Unless you're ice-fishing on the hockey rink.  A comment provoked by
a menu cover from the Deluxe Town Diner in Watertown, Mass., which
has become so popular that no-one goes there any more, which shows an
ice-fisher alone in the Rockefeller Center rink.

Joel

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