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soldierant

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13. That's a very old joke.

Reply to Zackzzzz (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 12, 2025, 09:07 PM

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I've used it myself since I heard it in the late sixties when I was in the Marine Corps. After I separated, I studied music and started using "Close enough for jazz" instead. I never intended for either to be belittling of anyone or anything except maybe obsessive perfectionists. Nor, I'm confident, did anyone around me. It was from the jazz people that I got the second version.

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