BS: Folk wisdom 2022

Subject: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Dec 21 - 05:20 PM

The guilty dog barks the loudest.

Even a dog knows if was kicked by accident or not.

A devil's bargain always favors the devil.
example: For the Cubs to win the World Series the devil wanted Trump for president and a global pandemic.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Neil D
Date: 23 Dec 21 - 08:21 PM

Damn Donuel, what the heck is it going to take for the Indians to win one? Nuclear holocaust?

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Dec 21 - 08:44 PM

When the Indians go 64 years without a pennant it should be their turn.
Go Indians!

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Dec 21 - 06:33 AM

"My concern has always been for the people who are victimized, unable to speak for themselves and who need outside help."
Joan Baez

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Dec 21 - 06:38 AM

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
Joan again

I've never had a humble opinion, if you have an opinion why be humble about it?
JB

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: G-Force
Date: 24 Dec 21 - 10:37 AM

If you drop your flatpick halfway through a song it will invariably fall into your guitar.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mr Red
Date: 26 Dec 21 - 03:54 AM

When the going gets tough, the tough get hubris.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Thompson
Date: 26 Dec 21 - 05:26 AM

When the beef gets tough the tough get tenderiser.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Dec 21 - 08:57 AM

Where we go one we go all.

Sounds like a way to destroy restrooms

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: robomatic
Date: 26 Dec 21 - 01:18 PM

"If you drink, don't drive. If you siphon, don't swallow."

"Never eat at a place called Mom's or play cards with a guy they call Doc."

As for humility, Don'l, you have a lot to be humble about.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Malcolm Storey
Date: 26 Dec 21 - 06:05 PM

"Beware of Donuels bearing wisdom"

and

As Grannie used to say
"It always sometimes never happens what's least expected most"

"Lawyers are far more effective at squeezing the life out of you than pythons"

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Dec 21 - 05:47 AM

Forget to take a spare D harp to the gig and your 7-blow will go flat after two tunes, sure as eggs is eggs.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Dec 21 - 07:33 AM

Its not the heat its the humility.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Dec 21 - 08:44 AM

Robomatic, Never swallow. Ewww.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: gillymor
Date: 27 Dec 21 - 09:12 AM

Keep your eye on the doughnut, not the hole and if you're a Buddhist do the opposite.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Dec 21 - 12:12 PM

...and if you still desire the donut you will suffer.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: The Sandman
Date: 27 Dec 21 - 12:50 PM

patriotism is the barking of village dogs

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Malcolm Storey
Date: 27 Dec 21 - 07:55 PM

Like that one Dick - Woof!

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Thompson
Date: 28 Dec 21 - 03:16 AM

Oh, love that! Though sometimes patriotism is the resistance of the oppressed.
Went out yesterday to buy a second-last Christmas present: Shashi Tharoor's new book, Inglorious Empire, about Britain's centuries-long asset-stripping of India, and was annoyed yet pleased to find that it had sold out.
(Fact from the book: at the beginning of the 17th century, India had 27% of world trade; by the time the British left, it had 3%… resistance was necessary to remove this imperial leech.)

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Malcolm Storey
Date: 28 Dec 21 - 06:41 AM

Statistics is a dangerous tool.
In 1600 America North and South was mostly colonised by European Imperialism, Australasia did not exist as far as the then civilised world knew. Africa was being pillaged for profit both of material and human assets.
I am not defending colonialism in any shape or form - it still exists but in a different guise and continues to penalise the poor.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 28 Dec 21 - 09:01 AM

73.6% of all statistics are made up.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Dec 21 - 09:18 AM

DON'T LOOK UP !

A final denial.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: gillymor
Date: 28 Dec 21 - 09:25 AM

Another definition of patriotism, from Lin Yutang-

What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood?

From Townes Van Zandt-

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: The Sandman
Date: 28 Dec 21 - 03:59 PM

a woman a dog and a walnut tree the more you whip them the better they be.
true of branches of walnut trees anyway

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Dec 21 - 04:24 PM

The plural of "anecdote" is not "data.

It's always darkest just before you step on the cat.

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one
told them to.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Dec 21 - 04:28 PM

Love the anecdote one, BillD!

Bumper sticker: Think. It's not illegal yet.

Other bumper sticker: stop pretending your racism is patriotism.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Dec 21 - 11:49 PM

Sent by a friend, annotated by me:

Points of enlightenment.


“The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.” – Al McGuire



“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” – Albert Einstein



“War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.” – Ambrose Bierce

(Sigh)

“It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads.” – Andy Borowitz



“At every party there are two kinds of people – those who want to go home and those who don’t. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.” – Ann Landers



“My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I’m right.” – Ashleigh Brilliant

(Ahem)

“Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born?” – Benny Hill



“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.” – Bill Watterson



“As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.” – Buddy Hackett



“My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine.” – Caroline Rhea



“All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.” – Casey Stengel



“Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.” – Dave Barry



“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” – Edward Abbey

(Ayup)

“How many people here have telekinetic powers? Raise my hand.” – Emo Philips



“If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.” – George Burns



“Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.” – Benjamin Franklin

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: gillymor
Date: 29 Dec 21 - 06:07 AM

Another pearl from George Burns-
“Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mr Red
Date: 29 Dec 21 - 08:31 AM

Malcolm Storey

Statistics is a dangerous tool.

So is a car. Show me the person who shuns the car & I will show you 500 that don't. (make that 1000).

All statistics need is context. And idiots** to understand that.

** eg politicians

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Dec 21 - 12:54 PM

What I learned in 2021 is that no one learned anything in 2020.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mrrzy
Date: 31 Dec 21 - 04:01 PM

Ayup (hope no firewall)

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 Dec 21 - 04:23 PM

"What I learned in 2021 is that no one learned anything in 2020."

Speak for yourself. .

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Jan 22 - 10:04 AM

Oh, that latter pretty much confirms the former [grin]!

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Malcolm Storey
Date: 02 Jan 22 - 01:15 PM

Mr Red
There was a resent report that policing the Insulate Britain demonstrations cost the Met £4 Million.
Meaningless - was that the actual cost of those officers carrying out policing duties or was it the extra cost?
If the former then the vast majority of that cost would have been incurred no matter what.
Statistics as you point out need context.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mr Red
Date: 02 Jan 22 - 04:55 PM

Golden rule of statistical politics

Don't give context, it only confuses the plebs who vote for them.

A valid point though, context is complexity, and Bar-room jocularity just ain't funny with a "yeabut butting-in". And the lowest common denominator is the bar-room. (Outside of politicians).

It all depends if you are buying or selling...................

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jan 22 - 09:35 AM

Yes Minister.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Jan 22 - 01:13 PM

Ok... why did I never realize that omega and omicron mean big O and little O?

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jan 22 - 03:11 PM

The golden rule of problem solving;
The KISS method of problem solving has been 'keep it simple stupid'.
The fatal flaw in that method is assuming going from point a to point b is a preferred straight line.
If that goal is incorrect from the git go you crash.
Maybe you needed to go from point b to point q in a curved route.

Boeing made the best example of this fundamental mistake by trying to fit the new larger fuel efficient engines onto their old 1960's 737 airframe. If they tried that the engines would scrape on the ground. If they tried to elongate the landing gear so the engines would not hit the ground there would no room to retract the landing gear. So they tried putting the engines way forward. But that caused the whole plane to pitch upward. They did that anyway and added an MCAS system to compensate and automaticaly push the plane downward and called the plane 737 Max. Each problem created a new problem down the line when they should have started with an all new airframe to start with. In the real world the plane would automaticly push the plane down into the ground or ocean.
folk wisdom-
Don't build a modern car on a model T frame.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jan 22 - 06:21 PM

Apparently no one at Boeing ever read The Cat in the Hat.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Jan 22 - 07:00 PM

A bouncing ball! (Boing, boing!)
And a little wee stone.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jan 22 - 07:25 PM

that was Severnesque.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mr Red
Date: 06 Jan 22 - 04:05 AM

The fatal flaw in that method is assuming going from point a to point b is a preferred straight line.
If that goal is incorrect from the git go you crash.
Maybe you needed to go from point b to point q in a curved route.

<YEABUT> always assuming the commutative law applies </YEABUT>

A to B (or Q) is not automatically the same as (Q or) B to A - it might be downhill (or up!)
Which puts a different slant...........................
on it.

When trying to find the best coefficients for a non-canonical digital filter (as you do) with a computer program (in FORTRAN since you ask) I could never decide if the best fit was just a blind dip with better ones lurking - and over which hump? After 30+ years it still bugs me.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jan 22 - 11:05 AM

Problem solving algorithms are beyond me.
Folk wisdom problem solving is...
Geter done.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Jan 22 - 11:30 AM

Don't eat yellow snow

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 22 - 11:35 AM

Never trust a fart

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: gillymor
Date: 09 Jan 22 - 11:44 AM

Be careful not to speak clearer than you think.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 22 - 11:59 AM

Never waste an erection.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: gillymor
Date: 09 Jan 22 - 12:16 PM

Just because you’re paranoid it doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 22 - 12:20 PM

Even if your willie is twelve inches long you shouldn't use it as a rule.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 22 - 12:23 PM

Illegitimes non carborundum

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: gillymor
Date: 09 Jan 22 - 12:36 PM

Some men have a thousand journeys and some men have one journey a thousand times.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: gillymor
Date: 09 Jan 22 - 12:46 PM

Don’t let your mouth write a check your ass can’t cash.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 22 - 01:12 PM

beware of insufficient fun

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: BobL
Date: 10 Jan 22 - 03:53 AM

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence (Hanlon's Razor).

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice (Grey's Law).

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Jan 22 - 06:23 AM

Buy low sell high


Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. ADR stock will take 2 years to get back to supplying 80% of the world's chips. Its wicked low now.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: gillymor
Date: 10 Jan 22 - 06:40 AM

You guys must know some pretty sophisticated hillbillies.

Someone who's crawled across the Sahara naked doesn't spend much time in a tanning booth.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Jan 22 - 07:44 AM

Give a man a bucket of coal and you'll keep him warm for the night. Set a man on fire and you'll keep him warm for the rest of his life.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Jan 22 - 08:02 AM

poor Severn

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mrrzy
Date: 10 Jan 22 - 11:38 AM

There is a Klingon thing about teaching someone to fly... Push'm outa the plane and they'll fly for the rest of their life...

Don't test the water with both feet.

If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Jan 22 - 11:41 AM

The real genius was the man who invented the second telephone.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Jan 22 - 12:15 PM

find the folk saying...

a. The pig that knows his truffles will eat well.

b. The derivitive expert knows how to make them up out of thin air.

c. Manufacturing a cheap deady virus makes for an expensive cure.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Jan 22 - 07:31 PM

There are three kinds of people on this planet: those who are good at arithmetic and those who aren't.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 10 Jan 22 - 07:45 PM

There are 10 kinds of people on this planet: those who understand binary numbers and those who don't.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Jan 22 - 07:57 PM

The fact that your head is still attached at the neck doesn't mean that no-one's sharpening a knife.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Joe_F
Date: 11 Jan 22 - 05:59 PM

It is prudent to put control over precaution in the hands of the person at greater risk.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Sending me to my room won't keep me out of mischief.

Not all are free who mock their chains.

Imagine being a human and calling something else pointless!ff

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Jan 22 - 06:37 AM

Never put all your eggs in one basket before you leap.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jan 22 - 06:37 AM

You won't know your ignorance until you learn something new.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Jan 22 - 07:35 AM

I'll believe in the miracles of Lourdes when I see a one-legged man coming back with two legs.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jan 22 - 09:49 AM

If you're addicted to placebos it won't matter if you quit.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: fat B****rd
Date: 12 Jan 22 - 10:54 AM

And don't forget to slop your dripper.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: gillymor
Date: 12 Jan 22 - 11:02 AM

More than two shakes and you're playing with it.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom poetry
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jan 22 - 01:08 PM

No matter how much you shake and squeeze there's stiil a drop for your BVDs

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jan 22 - 01:22 PM

"Never before have so many stadiums been built for so few to attend."
quote: China Olympic Chairman Doan Sitheer.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Jan 22 - 03:35 PM

"More than two shakes and you're playing with it.

We're a bit more direct this end: "More than two shakes and it's a w*ank..."

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mrrzy
Date: 12 Jan 22 - 04:57 PM

I thought wank was spelled wank? What is the starred letter?

Taking water from the same well doesn't make all the cooks' sauces taste the same.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Jan 22 - 08:23 PM

Wa*nk

Fu*ck

B*ast*ard

B*ollo*cks

Tw*at

Ar*seh*ole

That's the way to do it. It's actually a rebellion against the rather twee habit of replacing letters in rude words with asterisks. Maybe I shouldn't have expected you to understand my brand of humour, maybe because you'd rather not?

By the way, I got my inspiration for this from a legend on the Session website who's no longer there (kudos, Michael Gill! Howya!). The Guardian style guide (q.v.) doesn't allow asterisks in swear words at all. Either use the word fully and boldly or find an alternative word.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Jan 22 - 08:37 PM

I've taken the liberty to copy here the Guardian's style guide entry on swearwords:

swearwords

We are more liberal than any other newspapers, using language that most of our competitors would not. The statistics tell their own story: the word “fuck” (and its variants) appeared 705 times in the Guardian in the 12 months to April 2010, with a further 269 mentions in the Observer. (The figures for other national newspapers were as follows: Independent 279, Independent on Sunday 74, Times 3, Sunday Times 2, all other papers 0.) The figures for the C-word, still regarded by many people as taboo, were: Guardian 49, Observer 20, Independent 8, Independent on Sunday 5, everyone else 0.

Even some readers who agree with Lenny Bruce that “take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government” might feel that we sometimes use such words unnecessarily, although comments in response to Guardian Style’s blogpost on the subject were overwhelmingly in support of our policy.

The editor’s guidelines are as follows:

First, remember the reader, and respect demands that we should not casually use words that are likely to offend.

Second, use such words only when absolutely necessary to the facts of a piece, or to portray a character in an article; there is almost never a case in which we need to use a swearword outside direct quotes. The use of swearwords in furniture, especially headlines, should also be avoided unless an editor deems it absolutely necessary.

Third, the stronger the swearword, the harder we ought to think about using it.

Finally, never use asterisks, or such silliness as b------, which are just a cop-out, as Charlotte Brontë recognised: “The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent people are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does – what feeling it spares – what horror it conceals”

Grand!

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jan 22 - 08:43 AM

A skatological orgy and curse collection is not wisdom but is typical of a passive aggresive obcession. It is however highly folk.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Jan 22 - 10:17 AM

Billy Connolly swears beautifully.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Jan 22 - 12:48 PM

I just thought I might have been wrong, Steve. But apparently, I was mistaken!

Yeah, I never heard of adding asterisks but not omitting letters. Interesting.

But back to folk wisdom:
If your friend is honey, do not lick them thoroughly. From Tunisia. Similar to Give'm an inch, they'll take a mile.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jan 22 - 02:12 PM

Billy swears brilliantly.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Jan 22 - 11:09 AM

How do you know the stage is level? The bass player drools out of both sides of his mouth.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Neil D
Date: 16 Jan 22 - 02:21 PM

The question isn't whether I'm paranoid, but whether I'm paranoid enough.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mr Red
Date: 17 Jan 22 - 03:10 AM

Never trust a fart - ah an old one from the days of Spaw (he is certainly missed)

But more pertinently and consequentially:

Don't sit on a loose stool.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jan 22 - 09:47 AM

You can never be paranoid enough until you achieve total omnicience.

Choose your words for the audience carefully.

(I used to get a lot of blowback from the word prophet.
I meant it in the MLK way but people identify 'prophet' as a fortune teller con man spiritualist joker.)

Happy MLK day today

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jan 22 - 11:59 AM

For 50 years the NIH has conducted the 'Mongering the Future project.
It takes 30,000 kids and measures hundreds of parameters.
This year was the lowest in 50 years in regards to substance abuse.
No doubt about it, access and supply chains are at play.

No school and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Jan 22 - 02:14 PM

"Never trust a fart - ah an old one from the days of Spaw (he is certainly missed)"

Well actually I heard Billy Connolly saying this long before Mudcat was a twinkle in Max's eye.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 17 Jan 22 - 03:04 PM

"Never trust a fart - ah an old one from the days of Spaw (he is certainly missed)"

Well actually I heard Billy Connolly saying this long before Mudcat was a twinkle in Max's eye.


This was part of Billy Connolly's advice on turning 60. Unless he had been reycling some of his old material, this would set it as some time in or after 2002. Mudcat had been going for a good few years by then.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jan 22 - 04:14 PM

Brilliant/
He was also brilliant in the movie Quartet.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jan 22 - 04:21 PM

Dying, is easy, everyone is doing it. But staying alive, difficult and for the few.
quote Billy Connolly

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Jan 22 - 05:07 PM

I have a feeling that you're right and I'm wrong, Doug :-(

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: sian, west wales
Date: 20 Jan 22 - 03:24 PM

Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience (Dutch):

She ain't got the sense God gave a head o' lettuce.

He's one kiwi fruit short of a good compost.

He wouldn't know beans if the bad was open.

A winter's fog will kill a dog. (That was my Aunt Joyce's and, no, I have no idea.)

Well, if you don't know where you're going, any road will do. (Overheard; 2 old codgers on a street corner, Perth, Ontario, just before an election.)

You never can tell
From where you sit
Where the man in the balconey's
Gonna spit.
(My mother)

Cylch yn agos, glaw ymhell; cylch ymhell, glaw yn agos. trans: Circle (i.e. halo, around the moon) is close, rain is far (away); circle is far (i.e. large), rain is close. (My aunt Bessie)

He wouldn't know (whatever) from two loads o' hay.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

And two from GK Chesteron:

On hobbies: "If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly."
"My country right or wrong would be like saying, My mother, drunk or sober."

s,ww

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Jan 22 - 03:41 PM

He's a few condoms short of an orgy

I looked into his eyes but there was nobody driving

He couldn't find his arse with both hands

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Jan 22 - 03:44 PM

I can't shake him off. He sticks to me like shit to a blanket.


Look at him with the bandy legs. He couldn't stop a pig in an entry.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Jan 22 - 11:01 AM

Just. because people don't understand you, it doesn't mean you're an artist.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: BobL
Date: 22 Jan 22 - 03:26 AM

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Just because you've never heard of it doesn't mean it doesn't happen

Just because you don't know the answer doesn't mean that someone else does.

Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid.

Just because you're necessary doesn't mean you're important.

Just because you've got one doesn't mean you have to be one.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 22 Jan 22 - 03:38 AM

Just because you're necessary doesn't mean you're important.

Can't agree with that. If you are necessary then you are important.

but

No matter how necessary and important you are, you are not irreplaceable.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jan 22 - 05:10 AM

To be is to do - Socrates

To do is to be - Sartre

Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jan 22 - 01:20 PM

You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a part-used stick of lipstick.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Jan 22 - 02:49 PM

Everyone, read --or reread-- Fables for Our Times:

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

Don't count your boobies before they are hatched.

It isn't as easy to fool little girls nowadays.

And while on that last topic: Dun stopper torque wet strainers.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 22 Jan 22 - 02:55 PM

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving's not for you.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jan 22 - 05:01 PM

Have you been watching Death In Paradise, Doug? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jan 22 - 07:55 PM

One man's fish is another man's poisson.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jan 22 - 08:08 PM

Things that were never said:

Beam me up, Scotty

Money is the root of all evil

Play it again, Sam

It's life, Jim, but not as we know it

Houston, we have a problem

One small step for man...

The ends justify the means

The lion shall lay down with the lamb

Mirror, mirror on the wall...

Me Tarzan, you Jane...

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Jan 22 - 11:15 PM

Love Death in Paradise. Great music.

Also, the original saying was The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb, which meant pretty much the opposite of today's blood is thicker than water.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 23 Jan 22 - 04:09 AM

Things that were never said:

Maybe not in the context we expect but, in each case, somebody said it and it was passed on to others. Otherwise, we wouldn't have it today.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Jan 22 - 05:07 AM

Is Nigel your middle name, Doug? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 22 - 08:30 AM

This year's winner of the Trump Miss Universe Pagent is Miss Information.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Jan 22 - 08:57 AM

Then wear that medal with pride. You've certainly earned it.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Jan 22 - 06:11 PM

Money is the root of all evil *was* said, but it was preceded by The love of.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Jan 22 - 07:29 PM

Quite so, but to say it with the prefixing words amounts to a misquote.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Jan 22 - 07:50 PM

Gosh, "without" is what I meant.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Jan 22 - 08:57 PM

“I'm never getting married again. I'm just going to find a woman I don't like and buy her a house.” [Stan Laurel]

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Joe_F
Date: 23 Jan 22 - 10:00 PM

"Misbelieve" has no first-person present tense.

Beyond a certain size, there is only one shape.

We have a great deal to forgive ourselves for.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 06:27 PM

A movement capable of making you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocites.


Alternate; facts, electors and law interpretation can only support alternate reality.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Jan 22 - 07:47 AM

I'm not superstitious but I am a little stitious.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Jan 22 - 08:08 AM

Gruntled, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Jan 22 - 08:23 AM

And before I go out I always make sure that I'm hevelled.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 27 Jan 22 - 08:31 AM

But gruntled is in my dictionary (Chambers 13th Edition) and probably is in others. It is a back formation but I think it is accepted as a real word now.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Jan 22 - 09:40 AM

I went to my local gym, to find twenty beautiful young women in bikinis bouncing around on space hoppers. I thought to myself, "It's gym life, but not as we know it..."

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Jan 22 - 10:03 AM

"Applaud, friends, the comedy is over!" (the alleged last words of Beethoven)

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Jan 22 - 10:06 AM

Bwahaha, Steve!

Avoid clichés like the plague.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Jan 22 - 10:07 AM

And always avoid leaving words of sentences.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Jan 22 - 10:15 AM

Irony is when somebody writes "Your useless at grammar."

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Jan 22 - 10:16 AM

Single-word sentences? Avoid!

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jan 22 - 07:59 PM

When the going gets tough the wierd go pro.

Its amazing what you can do when you don't know any better.

Stare into the void and you will learn nothing.

Thank God for Europe, without it alot of people wouldn't know where they came from.

Somewhere the universe is big enough have the heaviest element forged by the most super massive black hole collision where it staged a daring escape making its way to a civilzation where it was made into glowing jewelry that killed thousands of the rich.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Jan 22 - 06:05 AM

When writing English, don't use no double negatives and always ensure that your'e using apostrophe's correctly.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Jan 22 - 06:10 AM

Exaggeration is ten billion times worse than understatement.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jan 22 - 06:31 AM

In physics 10 to the 32nd power is not an exaggeration
but Jeri's fish story is.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Jan 22 - 06:50 AM

Foreign words and phrases, contrary to popular belief, are not a sine qua non in good writing. Au contraire, they are generally not apropos and should be avoided as if they were persona non grata. Far too risqué. As for Jeri and the fish, one man's fish is another man's poisson.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Jan 22 - 03:51 PM

Faux pas is pronounced just like Faut pas, which kinda means Oughtn't, so that is good.

On the other hand, New Direction and Nude Erection can also be pronounced the same...

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jan 22 - 06:48 PM

touche'

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Jan 22 - 07:46 PM

Not with a 10-foot pole, Donuel!

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: HuwG
Date: 29 Jan 22 - 03:30 AM

Who do you think you are? The Duchess of Blaengwynfi?

From my mother, who was from Port Talbot, South Wales, in response to any reluctance to perform some chore or errand. Blaengwnfi was a mining town a century ago or more, but nowadays "One-horse town" would be a compliment. My mother died eight years ago, so I cannot seek an explanation.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Jan 22 - 09:14 AM

Prounounced?

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: HuwG
Date: 29 Jan 22 - 09:28 AM

bline-gwin-vee.

Its Wikipedia entry is not even a stub.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jan 22 - 11:21 AM

In a snow storm it is wise to have a fifth of Beethoven and sleep perchance to dream

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Jan 22 - 02:20 PM

Somewhere is a map of New England labeled, not with inches of snow, but with how many bottles of booze you need...

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Jan 22 - 05:59 PM

Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Jan 22 - 06:02 PM

Wine is bottled poetry [Robert Louis Stevenson]

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Jan 22 - 09:11 AM

Alcohol: because sometimes, the truth needs a laxative.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Joe_F
Date: 30 Jan 22 - 05:47 PM

A solvent for the superego.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Feb 22 - 06:11 AM

1. “Sometimes when I close my eyes, I watch cartoons on my eyelids.”

- Anonymous pot smoker.

2. “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”

- Albert Einstein.

3. “If Cinderella’s shoe fit perfectly, then why did it fall off?”

- Anonymous.

4. “To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”

- Gustave Flaubert.

5. “Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you’ll be a mile from them, and you’ll have their shoes.”

- Jack Handey.

6. “I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”

- Edith Sitwell.

7. “It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it.”

- Anonymous.

8. “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

9. “I fear one day I’ll meet God; he’ll sneeze and I won’t know what to say.”

- Anonymous.

10. “We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.”

- Stephen Hawking.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Feb 22 - 11:06 AM

Another Einstein: If you can't explain it simply, you do not understand it well enough.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk wisdom 2022
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Feb 22 - 11:36 AM

If you can't say it in one minute you have nothing to say!

Adolf Hitler.