[Ads-l] rent-free in your head

[Jonathan Lighter]

For several months (or a year) I've been hearing the phrase "[Politician
beloved by millions] is living rent-free in my head [and I don't like it]."

1993 _Lima [O.] News_ (Jan. 1) 1: He has been living rent-free in my head
for all these years and I finally got the chance to give him his eviction
notice.

2001 _San Francisco Chronicle_ (Feb. 1) E-12: It's people living rent-free
in your head. They are not worthy of being there.

2008 _Kitsap Sun_ (Bremerton, Wash.) (March 15) A2: He's been living
rent-free in my head.

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

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