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I've been searching the net for the source of this famous quote and I can't find it. Does anyone know where it originally came from?
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bljones, thank you for the answer. I wasn't aware of that variant, which I guess is the original... so it didn't turn up in my googling. Smack, does it also appear in Fight Club, or is that a joke? I haven't seen that in long enough that I forget.
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One of my all time favorite bumper stickers (seen on the transom of a sailboat)

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You would have been flogged with a "Cat'O'Nine Tails". But do to government cut backs it is now a "Cat'O'Three Tails."
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