Father Haskell wrote:
On Jul 18, 6:29 pm, David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 7/18/2008 2:36 PM Oren spake thus:

On 18 Jul 2008 21:00:17 GMT, Stephen King wrote:
for hammering stuff.
I'm guessing your lobotomy worked?!
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

(from Tom Waits a long long time ago ...)

Fernwood Tonight, the episode featuring Baby Irene.
It predates that- I saw it on bathroom stall walls at college in the
early 70s. Sometimes (in the med school building) as 'I'd rather have a
free bottle in front of me, than a prefrontal lobotomy'. I was given the
impression by others that it was an old saying even then.

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Hmm, not much help there. Along with Waits, it credits several others,
going back at least as far as Dorothy Parker. Likely a traditional
college graffiti, ever since the procedure was popular in early 1900s.

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