can't win

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"Homer: All right, all right. Who took the funny pages?
Smithers: [reading to Burns] So Ziggy goes to the repair shop, there's a sign on the doorbell reading `out of order'.
Burns: Heh heh. Ah, Ziggy. Will you ever win?
-- ``Brush with Greatness'' "