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

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

_Los Angeles Times_ 28 Jan 1984 sec iii p 11 col 1
"Example:  Gary Anderson, a Presbyterian minister, wins a gold medal in free rifle in the 1968 Games and tells reporters he intends to keep up his activity in shooting 'because I think it's important for a minister to be actively involved in what the people are doing.'  You can't make this stuff up."

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> I've been hearing this on nearly a daily basis for months. Obviously.
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> Humorist Bill Barry used it regularly in his columns ca2000.
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> GB finds a 1996 ex., not from Dave Barry.  Maybe Barry Popik has something earlier.
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> JL
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