[Ads-l] Fun with Phrases: "You can't make this stuff up."

[Jonathan Lighter]

I've been hearing this on nearly a daily basis for months. Obviously.

Humorist Bill Barry used it regularly in his columns ca2000.

GB finds a 1996 ex., not from Dave Barry.  Maybe Barry Popik has something
earlier.

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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