"Don=?windows-1252?Q?=92t_?=let the door hit you in the butt on the way out"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Barry Popik's remarkably capacious Tardis-like database has a relevant
entry that starts with an excellent citation in 1963:

DLTDHYOTWO (Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out)
Entry from January 07, 2011

http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/dltdhyotwo_dont_let_the_door_hit_you_on_the_way_out/

http://bit.ly/TshD6N

Barry also pointed out an earlier discussion on the ADS list in 2007.
Here is a link into the archives:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ADS-L;M8rsPw;200711011429520400A

http://bit.ly/XbMHMW

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 10:25 AM,  <sclements at neo.rr.com> wrote:
>> When the screen door closes, therefore, you would be in danger of being hit in the butt only if you were > walking into the building, not leaving.
>
> Whoa! Nobody ever explained it to me that way, before. Well, you got
> me there. That a folk-saying doesn't correspond to observed reality is
> passing strange, I admit. :-)
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