"Sorry about your luck!"

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyway, during the Vietnam War a corresponding phrase was "Sorry about
> *that*!" Â It generally meant, "If you think I'm sorry, you really
> *are* a jerk," or words to that effect

Yes.

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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.
-Mark Twain

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