Heard on the tube

[Jonathan Lighter]

But more desirable.

I think.

JL


On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

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> On Aug 24, 2014, at 5:30 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > In an ad, approximately:
> >=20
> > ?"strong enough to? _eat lightning and crap thunder_"
> >=20
> > Very reminiscent of the old - ca. 1955-65 - BE catchphrase:
> >=20
> > "bad enough to _handcuff lightning and put thunder in jail_"
> >=20
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> Three g-hits for "If you eat lightning you'll crap thunder", sort of the =
> celestial version of lying down with dogs and waking up with fleas.
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> LH
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