[Ads-l] Modern Proverb: If you are not at the table, you may be on the menu.

[Jonathan Lighter]

Garrett Graff on CNN:

"There's an old saying among Federal prosecutors that "If you're not at the
table, you're ON the table."

(Jeffrey Toobin, legal analyst and former assistant U.S. Attorney, replied
that he'd never heard the saying before, but he would start using it
immediately.)

Google finds this version from at least 2009.




JL


On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 3:28 PM Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> We've gone through all the variations back on the "sometimes you eat/get
> the bear" thread
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>      VS-)
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> On 10/12/2014 8:15 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > \Some days you're the windshield, some days you're the bug.
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> > JL
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