Shit * say to * (snowclone)

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Jan 11 21:13:18 UTC 2012


The snowclone would presumably be "Shit X say(s)", as in the earlier "I love me some X" or "mother of all Xs".

LH

On Jan 11, 2012, at 1:23 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Randy Alexander
> <strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This snowclone
>
> I'm confused. In what sense is this a snowclone? It could be the case
> that I simply don't understand the concept of _snowclone_.
>
> Youneverknow.
>
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> -Wilson
> -----
> 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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