Folklore:proverbs and platitudes

Subject: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: nativeson99
Date: 11 Jul 99 - 11:13 PM

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Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From:
Date: 11 Jul 99 - 11:59 PM

The MUD has been

SPAMMED

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 03:41 AM

Ooh Aarr!

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: The Shambles
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 04:18 AM

""Better the Devil you know-""

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: The Shambles
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 04:21 AM

""""Beware of Greeks bearing gifts""

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: The Shambles
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 04:22 AM

""Out of the frying pan and into the fire""

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: The Shambles
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 04:23 AM

""One man's meat, is another man's Spam""

(I made that up)

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Folkbloke
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 04:54 AM

A bird in the hand makes it hard to do your trousers up.

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Banjer
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 06:36 AM

"He who laughs last is probably the slowest one in the group"

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: alison
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 07:50 AM

"you can't pluck a frog"

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: alison
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 07:51 AM

"If at first you don't succeed, sky-diving's not for you."

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 08:25 AM

If the tool you're using doesn't work, try a BIGGER hammer.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but three do.

catspaw

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 11:29 AM

Two or three wrongs make an ancient rite.

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 11:36 AM

Is this another possum thread?

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 12:25 PM

Gee Joe, I read it more as a Spaw thread...although we might come up (and it probably would) with a Spam variant made with possum---Posspam. 'Course the yellow colr would run off a lot of consumers whereas the increased fat content could be an asset in the right market...like Iraq. But back to the folklore.............

A stitch in time saves nine. [This may be true, but I ain't never got a damn needle through a friggin' clock yet!!!]

catspaw

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 12:40 PM

That should read SPAM not SPAW----I take no credit whatsoever for this sucker!!! And since there's a difference between our spellings, I vote for my typo--colr--as the new way to spell color/colour......and howzabout we do fayvrit for favourite/favorite.

catspaw

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Jack (who is called Jack)
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 01:09 PM

The sound engineers from the music store that handles sound at most of the local singer songwriter and folk concerts in my area all wear T-shirts that carry one of the most inspirational and enduring proverbs in folk music-- a skull and crossbones with the words TUNE IT OR DIE!

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: CarlZen
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 03:07 PM

"Pick 'er solid (insert name of musician) - You been playin' that hing for 25 years!"

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Banjer
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 04:28 PM

"Strike while the iron is hot!" Sorta dumb when ya stop to think about it, ifn' you're gonna strike with an iron, it don't matter hot or not, it's gonna hurt!

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: The Shambles
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 04:53 PM

Is 'Strike while the iron is hot' a golfing tip?

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 05:41 PM

No Sham, I don't think so 'cause most people hit irons when they're cold........unless you're a Lee Trevino kinda' guy who was struck by lightning. Woods are considered harder to hit unless they are located within 150 yards of the fairway, in which case your Titleist will home in on them.........This is known as hitting "Good Woods." Generally speaking, the best balls I hit on any round are by accidently stepping on a sand rake.

catspaw

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: LEJ
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 07:23 PM

LOL at Spaw! Well, Brother, I think you're back on all cylinders.

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: The Shambles
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 07:30 PM

Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't put on his pants.

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Banjer
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 07:33 PM

Obversely, "Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't remove his pants"

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: The Shambles
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 07:48 PM

Which one poses the biggest threat, I wonder?

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 08:13 PM

Show me a man with both feet in the air and I'll show you a man who knows how to light a fart.

catspaw

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Banjer
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 08:14 PM

I don't know, interesting question though! I think, given my choice, I would rather have someone by my side who couldn't get out of his britches as opposed to one who couldn't figure out how to get into them in the first place!

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 08:59 PM

"What some people lack in intelligence, they more than make up for in stupidity"

"It's too bad ignorance does not itch"

"A bird in the hand denotes mutual trust"

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Margo
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 10:58 PM

We say, "beware of geeks bearing gifts" and "If at first you do not fricasee, fry, fry a hen."

Hehe

Margarita

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Jul 99 - 11:13 PM

Somebody call Art.

catspaw

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: The Shambles
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 03:18 AM

Art is important, artists are just a necessary evil.

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Llanfair
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 04:24 AM

Eeeeeee, there's nowt so queer as folk. Bron.

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: SeanM
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 06:05 AM

"I like humanity, except for the morons... On second thought, I don't really like humanity then..."-Anon,

"Much as Discretion is the better part of Valour, Cowardice is the better part of Discretion..."-Douglas Adams

M

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 10:40 AM

It isn't the cough that carries you off, it's the coffin they carry you offin. (Ogden Nash?)

If at first you don't succeed, the hell with it.

And then there were the four brothers in Peking (Now Beijing, of course, but this was way back in 1902) who tried to be the first to successfully fly a heavier-than air machine. The oldest (for wisdom) and the youngest (for weight) were at the controls; the other two brothers ran alongside, keeping the wings level until the craft was airborne--which it never was. It flipped, badly bruising the two would-be flyers. The moral, of course, is two Wongs don't make a Wright. --seed

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: The Shambles
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 12:25 PM

There is a chap that is very good with Australian proverbs, His name is Duck Bill Platitudes.

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Legal Eagle
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 03:29 PM

Sham, the point about the saying "timeo Danaos, et dona ferentes" is that "et" is a power qualifier in this context, so you can start a nice argument about whether the point is to beware of Greeks "even" when they are bearing gifts, or to beware of Greeks "particularly" when they are bearing gifts. The latter gives more dramatic irony, and almost calls to mind the young lady who went out with Oscar Wilde and did not know which way to turn.

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: annamill
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 03:37 PM

Hey SeanM, Who is this Anon guy? I sure see a lot of quotes by him!!

annap ;-)

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: The Shambles
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 03:49 PM

It's all Greek to me.

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: bob schwarer
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 03:56 PM

Leave no tern unstoned

Bob S.

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: bob schwarer
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 04:10 PM

Only two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the former.

Attributed to an A. Einstein

Bob S.

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 04:25 PM

"It is better to keep mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt"

"You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd" ...Roger Miller

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Tony Burns
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 04:26 PM

Beware of geeks bearing .gifs

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: The Shambles
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 05:49 PM

"We didn't use metaphors in out day. We didn't beat around the bush". Fred Trueman.

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 06:10 PM

"Brevity is the soul of lingerie." ... Dorothy Parker

catspaw

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 06:12 PM

"I never metaphor I didn't like"

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Cara
Date: 14 Jul 99 - 05:28 PM

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose.

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Pelrad
Date: 14 Jul 99 - 07:10 PM

In my family we used to say, "You can drag your dead horse to the water, but you can't use him to pick your friend's nose."

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Dan-o
Date: 14 Jul 99 - 07:22 PM

Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: bbc
Date: 14 Jul 99 - 10:43 PM

It wouldn't be noticed on a galloping horse. Upgraded by my son--It wouldn't be noticed on a *flying* horse.

bbc

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: The Shambles
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 02:54 AM

Horses for courses.

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Walrus
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 09:02 AM

"Common Sense" isn't as common as most people like to believe.

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: The Shambles
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 09:05 AM

Speaking as a PHD in Common Sense, at the University of Hard Knocks, I cannot agree more.

The following song is almost entirely (and intentionally) composed of proverbs, platitudes and clichés.

Old Wives Tales

You've gone and spoilt it for yourself
Look a gift horse in the mouth
You put your big foot in it
When you open your north and south
You know the value of nothing
The price of everything
Know when it's going for a song
But not what makes you sing

Well where there's a will
Well, there's a way
Tomorrow is another day
But, if tomorrow never comes
It won't matter much anyway
You're only young once you know
You reap what you sow
The devil makes work for idle hands
Easy come and easy go

When wise words fail, try old wives tales
Try old wives tales, when wise words fail

Well, look at how you've grown
Soon have children of your own
Staying out until late at night
Talking on your telephone
The things you hear yourself say
"It wasn't like it in my day"
Just use those words and proverbs
What's wrong with an old cliché?

If you repeat it one more time
Maybe the ball will cross the line?
You win the game, set and match
Everything will turn out fine
This life is full of surprises
You won't win many prizes
There's plenty of sunsets
But the sun it also rises

When wise words fail, try old wives tales
Try old wives tales, when wise words fail

Roger Gall

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Dave Swan
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 08:12 PM

" F**k 'em all but six...you need pallbearers." W.E. Swan

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Art Thieme
Date: 15 Jul 99 - 09:46 PM

"We need the squares; they run the subways."-----Lenny Bruce

Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes
From: Penny S.
Date: 16 Jul 99 - 11:27 AM

If you go in
You're sure to win--
Yours will be the charming maidie:
Be your law
The ancient saw,
"Faint heart never won fair lady!"

Never, never, never,
Faint heart never won fair lady!
Every journey has an end--
When at the worst affairs will mend--
Dark the dawn when day is nigh--
Hustle your horse and don't say die!

. He who shies
At such a prize
Is not worth a maravedi,
Be so kind
To bear in mind--
Faint heart never won fair lady!

Never, never, never,
Faint heart never won fair lady!
While the sun shines make your hay--
Where a will is, there's a way--
Beard the lion in his lair--
None but the brave deserve the fair!

I'll take heart
And make a start--
Though I fear the prospect's shady--
Much I'd spend
To gain my end--
Faint heart never won fair lady!

Never, never, never,
Faint heart never won fair lady!
Nothing venture, nothing win--
Blood is thick, but water's thin--
In for a penny, in for a pound--
It's Love that makes the world go round!

Thought of this, Penny