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Old 01-10-2009, 03:23 PM   #23 (permalink)
mkl
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Originally Posted by witty View Post
Maybe some of you southern folks may have heard this one... "more *blank* than carter has liver pills..."

My grandmother says it. Makes no sense.
There was a brand of very popular pills 1940s,1950s or so called "Carter's little liver pills". Since Carter sold so many of the pills, he must have had a lot of them. So it would be like saying "more *blank* than Borders has books" or something.
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