• Stern@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It was a sad day in the Stern house when I found out trickle down was once called horse and sparrow (“If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.”), but got hit with the ol’ bowdlerization beam to be more palettable to the masses.