[PW] FW: Cigar Sayings

[Edward Franchuk]

 Just entering "close, but no cigar" (with the quotation marks) into the Google search engine returns several pages of hits, many of which discuss the origin of the phrase.

 
I may have the exact wording worong, and do not claim any accuracy in presenting line divisions, but Norman Mailer published a volume of very short poems (which he dubbed "short hairs") called _Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters)_, which contained a nice rejoinder to the Freud quotation to which I assume you were referring ("Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar"): as I recall it, the poem goes

When Dr. Freud
Smoked a cigar
It got longer
Instead of shorter.

There must be a copy of this book out there somewhere.

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