Heard on the tube

[Wilson Gray]

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

> 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.
>

Therefore, in fact, not at *all* reminiscent of the old BE catchphrase.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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