Fun with phrases: "Ripped from today's headlines"

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> But before 1936, it looks like *nothing* was ever ripped from any headlines.

Hm. *Now* I "see what you're driving at," to coin a phrase. Nobody
ever explained it to me that way, before. ;-)

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-Wilson
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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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