new (?) proverb

[Jonathan Lighter]

Also, I thought eunuchs couldn't do it.

JL

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Naah.
>
> FWIW, those shirts were big ca1976.
>
> JL
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>   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"?
>>
>> 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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