[Ads-l] teach a pig to play a flute

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

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> But, as everyone knows, you can't teach a pig to play the flute unless you first put lipstick on the pig.
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And the lipstick is taken, I suppose, from a silk purse made from a sow's ear?

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