"How many bathroom-window curtains must die…

Some people in sports—especially golfers—are known to be terrible dressers. “How many more bathroom-window curtains must die needlessly to clothe golfers?” was credited to Mike Lough in 1996. “How many shower curtains had to die for that suit?” was said about someone in professional wrestling in 2002. “Jesus, how many shower curtains had to die for Danny Shelton’s shirt” was said in 2015 about American football player Danny Shelton.

26 March 1996, The Brazosport Facts (Clute, TX), “Celebrity Cipher” by Luis Campos, pg. 3B, col. 6:
PREVIOUS SOLUTION: “How many more bathroom-window curtains must die needlessly to clothe golfers?”—Mike Lough.

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I never heard of a trial separation that didn’t work.
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8/20/96
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318. How many bathroom-window curtains must die needlessly to clothe golfers?
- Mike Lough

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10/27/02
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Next up was Tommy Dreamer vs. Rico. “How many shower curtains had to die for that suit?”

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The 2,548 Wittiest Things Anybody Ever Said
By Robert Byrne
New York, NY: Touchstone
2012
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How many more bathroom-window curtains must die to clothe golfers?
—Mike Lough

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Jesus, how many shower curtains had to die for Danny Shelton’s shirt
8:28 PM - 30 Apr 2015

“How many bathroom-window curtains must die needlessly to clothe golfers?”