Who said (about elevators)

Jonathan Liu

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Nov 5, 1994, 5:05:55 PM11/5/94

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Does anyone know the origin of this:
"Sometimes you get the elevator, sometimes you get the shaft."

(I think I saw it in _The Cuckoo's Egg_ by Cliff Stoll (great book, BTW),
but I was wondering if it originated somewhere else... Anybody know?

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Mark Perew

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Nov 7, 1994, 12:59:28 PM11/7/94

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On 6 Nov 1994 12:56:24 -0600 Roger L Smith (rl...@Ra.MsState.Edu) wrote:

> jh...@course1.harvard.edu (Jonathan Liu) writes:
> >Does anyone know the origin of this:
> >"Sometimes you get the elevator, sometimes you get the shaft."

> >(I think I saw it in _The Cuckoo's Egg_ by Cliff Stoll (great book, BTW),
> >but I was wondering if it originated somewhere else... Anybody know?

> Jerry Reed had a song years ago (late '70's?) about divorce that had the
> following lines:

> "She got the goldmine
> I got the shaft.

Dick Van Dyke starred in a 1967 movie called "Divorce American Style".
There is a scene where they are splitting the property and he gets upset and
says something to the effect of:

"Oh, great. You get the house, I get the mortgage. You get the kids, I get
the child support paymetns." You get the car, I get the bill. You get the
uranium in the uranium mine and I get the shaft."

Roger L Smith

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Nov 6, 1994, 1:56:24 PM11/6/94

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jh...@course1.harvard.edu (Jonathan Liu) writes:

>Does anyone know the origin of this:
>"Sometimes you get the elevator, sometimes you get the shaft."

>(I think I saw it in _The Cuckoo's Egg_ by Cliff Stoll (great book, BTW),
>but I was wondering if it originated somewhere else... Anybody know?

Jerry Reed had a song years ago (late '70's?) about divorce that had the
following lines:

"She got the goldmine
I got the shaft.

We split it right down the middle,
and she got the better half."

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Peter D. Hampe

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Nov 9, 1994, 2:52:59 AM11/9/94

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Adding to the 'elevator' theme:

Johnny Cash has an oldie "I've been flushed from the bathroom of your
heart" with the line:
"In the elevator of your life,
I've been shafted."
"I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart"

(sorta tripped of the aorta and stopped that sucker flat.)

chus
pyotr

pe...@kaiwan.com (Mark Perew) writes:

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py...@halcyon.com Pyotr Filipivich, sometimes Owl.
== The Committee to Reelect Mayor Daley (Just 'cos he's dead
doesn't mean his vote don't count) reminds you to vote early
and vote often. If you can't make it, we'll have someone go for you.

Barry Fetter

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Nov 9, 1994, 5:43:27 AM11/9/94

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> A recent study shows only 25% of American men kiss their wives
> goodby when leaving the house. However, it found that 99% of them
> kissed their houses goodby when leaving their wives!

432 I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I
keep his house.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

385 Alimony: bounty after the mutiny.

Max Kauffmann
Quoted in: The Penguin Dictionary of Humorous Quotations

386 Alimony - Disinterest, compounded annually.

Walter McDonald
Quoted in: Dictionary of Quotable Definitions