cynical folk wisdom
Dan Goodman
dsgood at IPHOUSE.COM
Sat Jul 14 04:58:27 UTC 2012
On 07/13/2012 10:04 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> Subject: Re: cynical folk wisdom
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> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Make it idiot-proof and someone will invent a better idiot."
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> A variant from the Jesus-v.-Moses subset:
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> "Jesus Saves. Moses Invests."
"But the Mongol hoards."
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