Loser's Guide to Life
I was wondering about the origin of this phrase. Everyone uses it all the time now and therefore it no longer means anything, aside perhaps from "don't blame me for this mess". It is also the title of a book by Henry Ford (the US auto tycoon rather than the English illustrator), published in 1930. The subject is machinery in the workplace. In that work he says, "Substituting the engineer for the politician is a very natural step forward." He said a lot of things, apparently under the impression that he understood something other than how to churn out automobiles.