Yesterday’s Mother Goose and Grimm with an outrageous pun:
From Wikipedia:
The proverb the enemy of my enemy is my friend suggests that two parties can or should work together against a common enemy. Although it is often described as an Arabic proverb, there is no evidence of such an origin. The earliest known expression of this concept is found in a Sanskrit treatise on statecraft dating to around the 4th century BC, while the first recorded use of the current English version came in 1884.
February 21, 2014 at 5:39 am |
The inevitable comment, from Jerry Morgan on Facebook:
February 21, 2014 at 7:09 am |
Stephan Pastis got there first several years ago in one of his running gags about Pig’s “sea anemone enemy”. The punch line of this particular strip was: “Yes, a nun and me, Annette O’Meade, and Ann, a maid, who are not your sea anemone enemies, had enemas with Eminem, an eminent M.T.V. emissary…”
February 21, 2014 at 8:17 am |
Fabulous.