[Ads-l] Is my memory truly the only source of this saying?!

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> long ago


I heard "my" version from my first-year English teacher in high school,
back in 1950. <sigh!>.

"The brand-new '50 Ford! The brand-new '50 Ford!"

A. You're late!
B. You've heard of Hudson, "the car that that you step _down_ into"? Well,
I _drove_ down into one.
- The Joan Davis Show

Those were the good old days.


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-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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