"Network to get work"

[Charles C Doyle]

Although the compilers of _The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs_ (2012) overlooked it, the saying "You have to network to get work" can be traced back at least as far as 1997.

--Charlie

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Last night:

"Shall I fire up the shit-eater?" (Paper-shredder.)

"He's busting my fucking lady-balls."

"You gotta network to get work."

"I let the whale hang loose." (Penis.)

I listened to the following exchange five times, and all I can hear is
"under the moon," which makes no sense to me:

SELINA: I thought you were going to give me shit about filibuster reform.

JONAH: Oh, well, the White House is very much under the moon about that.

Quotable quip [Selina's being warned not to make a deal with a xenophobe
senator]: "When you go down that dark country road, the lights go out and
the scarecrows come alive."

JL

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