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• The opera ain't over until the fat lady sings. -- Daniel John Cook (1926- ) American sports editor Television newscast, San Antonio, TX [Apr.
  1978] and In Washington Post [Jun. 3, 1978]...
• The opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings. -- Dick Motta
• The backup ain't over until the FAT table sings.
• Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
  -- John Archibald Wheeler (1911- ) -- American J. of Physics, 1978, 46, 323...
• Church ain't over till the fat lady sings.
  -- Fabia Rue Smith and Charles Rayford, Southern Words and sayings [1976]...
• It's not over until Milli Vanilli sings!
• Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. -- Pope John XXIII, 1978
• THE WORST ANIMAL RESCUE During the firemen's strike of 1978
  he British Army had taken over emergency firefighting and on 14 January they were called out by an elderly lady in South London to retrieve her cat which had become trapped up a tree....