BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Gurney
Date: 16 Mar 09 - 12:47 AM

Well done Amos. I forgot to put the speach-marks in.

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Amos
Date: 15 Mar 09 - 08:26 PM

2B, or not to be!! That is the question.

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 15 Mar 09 - 07:28 PM

Infamy, infamy... it's the Ides of March and they've all got it...

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Gurney
Date: 15 Mar 09 - 01:08 AM

A soft pencil, or, alternatively, not! A taxing dilemma!

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Gurney
Date: 15 Mar 09 - 12:37 AM

I know all of Guest Ingrid's, but of course I'm too well bred to repeat the first two.

Go and take a long walk off a short pier.
It's no use flogging a dead horse.

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Amos
Date: 14 Mar 09 - 11:53 PM

I was going to guess that, but I missed the homophones.


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Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Mar 09 - 10:49 PM

Did you devour both of those humming bird tongues, my Roman collegue?

Et tu, Brutus?


(I'll get my toga..)

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Amos
Date: 14 Mar 09 - 10:02 PM

Making a molehill out of a mountain.

The hummingbirds tongue lost me.


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Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 14 Mar 09 - 01:15 PM

lost me Frogprince

A dish fit for the gods? Shakespeare's Julius Ceasar


This one should be easy
The Scalopinae moved to the Alps

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: frogprince
Date: 13 Mar 09 - 07:37 PM

Was my last one that difficult, or was it just so damned stupid that it killed the thread?

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: GUEST,Ingrid Frances Stark
Date: 12 Mar 09 - 01:02 AM

I notice the absence of a couple old standbys:

Inviting one to perform an aerial fornication within the confines of a rotating pastry.

Lacking the ability to discern the difference between one's posterior orifice and an excavation.

Inviting one to engage in a lengthy perambulation upon a miniscule docking platform.

Cease flailing upon a deceased equine.

I'm sure I'll think up some others, once I stop guffawing at all the other posts.

Ingrid

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 04:42 PM

Where there's muck there's brass

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 05:39 AM

Yes - traceartes or oesophagus... wind pipe or food pipe.


The location of ordure denotes the proximity of a quantity of copper and zinc alloy.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: frogprince
Date: 10 Mar 09 - 03:04 PM

Did you devour both of those humming bird tongues, my Roman collegue?

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Amos
Date: 10 Mar 09 - 10:23 AM

Gurney nailed that one.


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Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Gurney
Date: 10 Mar 09 - 03:10 AM

Many a mickle mak's a muckle?

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Neil D
Date: 10 Mar 09 - 02:35 AM

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts?

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Amos
Date: 10 Mar 09 - 01:29 AM

A plurality of diminutive units aggregate over time or confluence, forming a significantly high volume.


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Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Gurney
Date: 10 Mar 09 - 12:42 AM

Especially when the outcome hings on it.

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: John Hardly
Date: 09 Mar 09 - 08:38 AM

I hate it when piscean pennies fart.

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Gurney
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 11:13 PM

That's about as likely as a fish on a bicycle!

As FP says, if you don't know the adage, it's hard to get the wording right, Liz. Traceartes? Like in trachea?

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 05:58 AM

Probable as a piscean penny farthing?

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 03:51 AM

Don't tell granny how to suck eggs....

Gurney - that's what I meant but the old brain is on vacation right now (see 'how do you cope with the day job' thread.. it's a great analogy!). Besides, there was nothing to indicate that you were actually osbstucting the traceartes with said butter-fat.

And I meant 'more haste, less speed'. Don't blame me, blame Microsofts' theasaurus....























That's a dinosaur that reads a lot.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Amos
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 03:35 AM

In the enthusiasm of new learning regarding the application of low-pressure regional extraction of protein content from within calciferous spheroids, do not be misled into didactic presentations to your maternal forebears.

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Gurney
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 12:09 AM

Well done, FP. It is an admonition against the extravagant use of equipment, or other over-enthusiastic action, much like the cat/cream one. The cat-cream-hammer-egg are incidental to the extravagance.
as the proclaimer's expression shows.
Usually something like; "It's like using a steam-(Trip)hammer to crack an egg!" English engineering saying.

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: frogprince
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 11:06 PM

Somewhere out there there must be a cliche something like "you don't need a steam drill to crack an egg", but I've never heard of that one...good night, all.

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Gurney
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 10:40 PM

Liz, the adage I had in mind was;
'There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream!
Your shortened version lost something, I felt.

And in the same vein;
'When initiating the opening of avian ovum, the use of external-combustion-generated high-pressure steam, operating heavy forging equipment, is generally contra-indicated.'

John, you have nothing to fear but fear itself, I think.

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: John Hardly
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 10:09 PM

"I hereby postulate the total absence of any justifiable reason for a distressing emotion aroused by the anticipation of danger, evil, or pain, with the possible exception of the defacto presence of that very emotion."

I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date! --the rabbit

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Amos
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 09:26 PM

We have nothing to hide but hide itself, as Dr. Jekyll once observed.



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Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: frogprince
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 08:56 PM

I hereby postulate the total absence of any justifiable reason for a distressing emotion aroused by the anticipation of danger, evil, or pain, with the possible exception of the defacto presence of that very emotion.

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 01:22 PM

I'm glad you guys like my game. Play on. You are much better at it that ever I was.

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Amos
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 11:53 AM

FP is really on the ole ball! LOL, John!!


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Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: John Hardly
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 11:28 AM

"The operator's ocular device is placed upon diminuitive musical avians; extrapolations indicate a high degree of confidence in an assumption of comparably-scaled attention on risk-mitigation for the individual."

We don't have to care. We're the phone company. -- Ernestine

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: frogprince
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 10:33 AM

Amos is covering a lot of territory : )
"His eye is on the sparrooooww...... and I knoooow... He watches me" (take it away, Mahelia...)

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Amos
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 10:26 AM

Haste makes waste.


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Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Amos
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 09:01 AM

The operator's ocular device is placed upon diminuitive musical avians; extrapolations indicate a high degree of confidence in an assumption of comparably-scaled attention on risk-mitigation for the individual.

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: John Hardly
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 06:24 AM

"Velocity is impeded by greater bustle."

Baby got back?

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Mar 09 - 04:13 AM

Velocity is impeded by greater bustle.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: John Hardly
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 06:01 PM

"If you wish to survey the current population of the domesticated surviving descendents of dinosaurs, delay the procedure until they have escaped the confinement of their calcium repositiories."

Early to bed in time saves water under the dam.

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 05:35 PM

Don't sweat the small stuff; it's all small stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Neil D
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 05:18 PM

Avoid perspiring in re minutiae. The entirety is minutiae.

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 05:11 PM

I ddn't think I could do it myself for a minute there, but:

It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Amos
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 03:31 PM

Place not all thine eggs in a single basket.

Egress and ingress being relative, the velocity-to-effort ratio of ingress is proportionately higher for water-retentive labor-force quadrupeds transitioning the bodkin's orifice than the same ratio for a biped retaining title to may such quadrupeds to transition from the solidity of reality plane_t1 to the notional dimensions of plane _t2, independent of extreme metaphysical incentives.

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Amos
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 03:24 PM

Damn!! I shoulda thought of that!! I got hornswoggled by the wrong kind of calcium repositories....



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Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 03:02 PM

Easy, Liz: Don't use a fertility clinic that tries to store all your ovum in a basket. : )

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 02:48 PM

Keep tryin', Amos; you're part-way there. : }

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 02:47 PM

Don't count your chickens until they have hatched.

Similarly...

Refrain from placing your maximum allowance of ovum in a singular container fabricated from woven reed or Salix Alba.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Amos
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 02:46 PM

"Don't ask a live chicken any questions...". Really useful wisdom. Must be a Brit thing, FP?


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Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 02:15 PM

If you wish to survey the current population of the domesticated surviving descendents of dinosaurs, delay the procedure until they have escaped the confinement of their calcium repositiories.

Subject: RE: BS: Resuscitate the Dead Cliche
From: Amos
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 02:01 PM

Up Shit Creek w/o a paddle....


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