"When the going gets tough,."

[Jonathan Lighter]

When you're right, you're right.

Fred has it in YBQ.

Oddly - and disconcertingly - GB doesn't turn it up till at least ten years
later.

JL


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Dave Hause <dwhause at cablemo.net> wrote:

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> I think I had that one from Hunter Thompson, probably one of the "Fear and
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> Dave Hause, dwhause at cablemo.net
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> From: "Jonathan Lighter" <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> My friend likes to quote Robert Stone: "When the going gets weird, the
> weird turn pro."
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> JL
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> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
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> > "the tough get going". This proverb figures in a posting on a Zippy
> > cartoon, here:
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> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/body-language-and-lithuanians/
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> > in that posting, i quote Wikipedia speculations about the source.  i
> can't
> > at the moment locate my copy of the Dictionary of Modern Proverbs, so i
> > don't know if it's in there.  anyone have the skinny on the proverb?
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> > arnold
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