QOTY? Maybe not.

[Dave Hause]

A totally nonfamous friend is fond of the expression, "It could be true. so
it's not like it's a big lie."
Dave Hause
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Fallon adds, "It was kind of true."

JL


On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Kevin Fallon, Daily Beast:
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> "'The writer of the Lonely Planet travel guide to Iceland ... says
> he=E2=80=
> =99s
> spent countless hours trying to explain the aurora borealis. 'It=E2=80=99s
> indescribable,' he says. It would be hard to argue with that, were it not
> for the group of British students gazing at the lights a few feet away,
> one
> of whom has his own summation: 'It looks like god farted.'"
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> Note l.c. "god," now common but pretty dumb when you consider that it
> functions like a proper name regardless.
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> JL
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> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
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