[Ads-l] Sad *on* you.

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> When I was a lad (ca1960)  the usual white-kid equivalent was "Tough on
> you!"
>
> A. Man, if you don't lend me a pencil, I'm gonna be in trouble with the
> teacher!
>
> B. [Snorts.]  Tough on you!
>
> Or,
>
> A. My parents just died in an inconceivable freak accident ! Now I'm an
> orphan!
>
> B. Tough on you!
>
> It  was often said by those who loved that it was tough on you and not on
> them.
>

Convergent evolution!

WRT "often said": Exactly!
-- 
-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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