[Ads-l] modified proverb

[Mark Mandel]

Thanks. I remembered the horseshoes part, but I've rarely heard/read the
hand grenades part.
Mark

Mark Mandel

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 12:00 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On Apr 24, 2018, at 10:37 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > 1. "*Cannot GET
> > /daily/intelligencer/2018/04/republicans-favored-in-az-
> special-election-but-no-by-much.html*
> > "
> >
> > 2. What proverb originally? What modification?
>
> “Close (or Almost) only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades”
>
> LH
> >
> > (Question) Mark
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 9:24 AM James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/republicans-favored-in-az-
> special-election-but-no-by-much.html
> >>
> >> undated article on the New York Magazine web site
> >>
> >> Headline: "For Democrats, Close Counts in Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, and
> >> Arizona’s 8th District"
> >>
> >> The article is discussing today's special election for Congress in
> >> Arizona's 8th District.  The point the article is making is "If
> [Republican
> >> candidate] Debbie Lesko wins by double digits in Arizona’s Eighth,
> >> Republicans will have reason to feel pretty good about it. Anything less
> >> than that could be another bad sign for the midterms."
> >>
> >> - Jim Landau
> >>
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