Friends don't let friends

[Garson O'Toole]

The queue of the Snowclones Database has the phrase listed, but there
are dozens of uninvestigated items above it:

http://snowclones.org/the-queue/

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Friends don’t let friends X
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The remarkably productive Barry Popik has a variant on his website:

Friends don’t let friends eat imported shrimp
Entry from July 23, 2008

http://bit.ly/OI4nK9
http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/friends_dont_let_friends_eat_imported_shrimp/

Garson

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> I wonder if friends let friends look at that website.....
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> On Aug 28, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Dave Wilton wrote:
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>> -
>> This one has been making the rounds of the internets over the last month:
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>> http://weknowmemes.com/2012/07/friends-dont-let-friends-skip-leg-day/
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>> The earliest I see on Google Books of "Friends don't let friends drive
>> drunk" is 1976: "ALCHOL/SAFETY PUBLIC INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS: SEMINAR NO.8."
>> (http://ow.ly/diElG)
>>
>> This snowclone is fairly widespread now.
>>
>> One of the more common ones I've seen is: Friends don't let friends go to
>> Starbucks
>>
>> Today, I saw "Friends don't let friends drink burnt coffee" on the signboard
>> outside a coffee shop, though the "burnt" form made me wonder where the
>> writer is from.
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