BS: Folk wisdom 2022

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.

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 - 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: Joe_F
Date: 30 Jan 22 - 05:47 PM

A solvent for the superego.

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: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Jan 22 - 06:02 PM

Wine is bottled poetry [Robert Louis Stevenson]

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: 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: 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: 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: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Jan 22 - 09:14 AM

Prounounced?

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: 28 Jan 22 - 07:46 PM

Not with a 10-foot pole, Donuel!

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 - 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: 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: 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 - 06:10 AM

Exaggeration is ten billion times worse than understatement.

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: 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: 27 Jan 22 - 10:16 AM

Single-word sentences? Avoid!

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 - 10:07 AM

And always avoid leaving words of sentences.

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 - 10:03 AM

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

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: 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 - 08:23 AM

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

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 - 07:47 AM

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

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: 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: 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: 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 - 07:29 PM

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

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 - 08:57 AM

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

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 - 05:07 AM

Is Nigel your middle name, Doug? ;-)

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: 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: 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: 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 - 05:01 PM

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.