[Ads-l] Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jan 12 18:57:41 UTC 2021
Earlier:
2015 _Ft. Collins Coloradan_ (July 26) A3: "Play stupid games, win stupid
prizes." Tracy Zwetzig, via Facebook.
JL
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 1:45 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> This is becoming something of a hot saying. It means, "Do something
> stupid, pay the consequences."
>
> I'm mainly seeing it in GOP contexts involving armed people shot by police
> for ignoring police commands.
>
> Earliest online date: 2018.
>
> JL
>
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>
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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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