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Subject: 
one last fag, then bop, bop, bop
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Date: 
Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:12:57 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Parsons wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks wrote:

   they both belong up against the wall when the revolution comes. ;-)

Where the heck did that phrase (or paraphrase) originate? The first place I remember hearing it is in a Sugarcubes song, but I’m sure it predates that tune.

‘first against the wall when the revolution comes’ is fairly self explanatory - I doubt it would be possible to nail it to a specific source.

That said, Douglas Adams used it in 1978 in his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (in reference to the market analysts at Sirius Cybernetics Corporation) which did much to popularise it...

Richard
Still baldly going...

It was used a lot in a 70’s UK sit-com called “Citizen Smith”.

Scott A



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  Re: 40 Reasons to support Gun Control.
 
(...) 'first against the wall when the revolution comes' is fairly self explanatory - I doubt it would be possible to nail it to a specific source. That said, Douglas Adams used it in 1978 in his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (in reference to the (...) (20 years ago, 13-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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