Friends don't let friends

[Benjamin Barrett]

Thank you for the earlier cite (the list is huge) and the two Webpages!

On Aug 28, 2012, at 6:08 PM, Garson O'Toole wrote:

> The queue of the Snowclones Database has the phrase listed, but there
> are dozens of uninvestigated items above it:
>
> http://snowclones.org/the-queue/
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> Friends don‚t let friends X
> [End excerpt]
>
> 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.....
>>
>> On Aug 28, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Dave Wilton wrote:
>>
>>> -
>>> This one has been making the rounds of the internets over the last month:
>>>
>>> http://weknowmemes.com/2012/07/friends-dont-let-friends-skip-leg-day/
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Benjamin Barrett
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>>> Subject: Friends don't let friends
>>>
>>> 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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