new (?) proverb

[Jonathan Lighter]

Naah.

FWIW, those shirts were big ca1976.

JL

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:08 AM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Could there be some influence from the cluster of "do it" jokes of the
> type,
> "Programmers do it with UNIX"?
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> VS-)
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> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
> >wrote:
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> > Twice in the past six months I've heard the following.  The precise
> wording
> > is what I heard on CNN this morning:
> >
> > "There's a saying that amateurs do it till they get it right,
> professionals
> > do it till they can't get it wrong,"
> >
> > The first time I heard it, it referred to musicians (am pretty sure the
> > verb there was "practice").  This morning it referred to the commando
> raid
> > on Bin Laden's place.
> >
> > The speaker was a former Navy SEAL, probably in his mid to late '60s.
> >
> > JL
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