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11 Jul 99 - 11:13 PM (#94252) Subject: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: nativeson99 Care to join a moderated email group. A site offered for the collection, and discussion of Folk"sayings"--sound bytes of oral history, from times before the modern mediums of communication. "Before they are lost and never heard again". *Collection- submit folk sayings to the list. *Discussion-of the facts or fallacies represented. *As part of the group you'll receive, for the sake of promoting discussion, at least one 'folk saying' a week, from the egroups central file. To subscribe send your favorite "folk-quote", the more obscure the better, along with a brief description of your area of folk interest to: KAWyotee-subscribe@egroups.com , |
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11 Jul 99 - 11:59 PM (#94267) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: The MUD has been SPAMMED |
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12 Jul 99 - 03:41 AM (#94306) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Steve Parkes Ooh Aarr! |
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12 Jul 99 - 04:18 AM (#94313) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: The Shambles ""Better the Devil you know-"" |
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12 Jul 99 - 04:21 AM (#94314) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: The Shambles """"Beware of Greeks bearing gifts"" |
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12 Jul 99 - 04:22 AM (#94315) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: The Shambles ""Out of the frying pan and into the fire"" |
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12 Jul 99 - 04:23 AM (#94316) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: The Shambles ""One man's meat, is another man's Spam"" (I made that up) |
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12 Jul 99 - 04:54 AM (#94322) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Folkbloke A bird in the hand makes it hard to do your trousers up. |
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12 Jul 99 - 06:36 AM (#94335) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Banjer "He who laughs last is probably the slowest one in the group" |
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12 Jul 99 - 07:50 AM (#94346) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: alison "you can't pluck a frog" |
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12 Jul 99 - 07:51 AM (#94347) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: alison "If at first you don't succeed, sky-diving's not for you." |
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12 Jul 99 - 08:25 AM (#94355) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: catspaw49 If the tool you're using doesn't work, try a BIGGER hammer. Two wrongs don't make a right, but three do. catspaw |
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12 Jul 99 - 11:29 AM (#94408) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Steve Parkes Two or three wrongs make an ancient rite. |
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12 Jul 99 - 11:36 AM (#94409) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Joe Offer Is this another possum thread? |
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12 Jul 99 - 12:25 PM (#94417) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: catspaw49 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 |
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12 Jul 99 - 12:40 PM (#94421) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: catspaw49 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 |
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12 Jul 99 - 01:09 PM (#94431) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Jack (who is called Jack) 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!
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12 Jul 99 - 03:07 PM (#94464) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: CarlZen "Pick 'er solid (insert name of musician) - You been playin' that hing for 25 years!" |
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12 Jul 99 - 04:28 PM (#94485) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Banjer "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! |
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12 Jul 99 - 04:53 PM (#94493) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: The Shambles Is 'Strike while the iron is hot' a golfing tip? |
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12 Jul 99 - 05:41 PM (#94501) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: catspaw49 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 |
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12 Jul 99 - 07:23 PM (#94543) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: LEJ LOL at Spaw! Well, Brother, I think you're back on all cylinders. |
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12 Jul 99 - 07:30 PM (#94549) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: The Shambles Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't put on his pants. |
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12 Jul 99 - 07:33 PM (#94553) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Banjer Obversely, "Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't remove his pants" |
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12 Jul 99 - 07:48 PM (#94561) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: The Shambles Which one poses the biggest threat, I wonder? |
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12 Jul 99 - 08:13 PM (#94566) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: catspaw49 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 |
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12 Jul 99 - 08:14 PM (#94567) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Banjer 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! |
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12 Jul 99 - 08:59 PM (#94580) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Bill D "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" |
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12 Jul 99 - 10:58 PM (#94616) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Margo We say, "beware of geeks bearing gifts" and "If at first you do not fricasee, fry, fry a hen." Hehe Margarita |
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12 Jul 99 - 11:13 PM (#94626) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: catspaw49 Somebody call Art. catspaw |
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13 Jul 99 - 03:18 AM (#94672) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: The Shambles Art is important, artists are just a necessary evil. |
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13 Jul 99 - 04:24 AM (#94678) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Llanfair Eeeeeee, there's nowt so queer as folk. Bron. |
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13 Jul 99 - 06:05 AM (#94682) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: SeanM "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 |
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13 Jul 99 - 10:40 AM (#94736) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: bseed(charleskratz) 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 |
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13 Jul 99 - 12:25 PM (#94753) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: The Shambles There is a chap that is very good with Australian proverbs, His name is Duck Bill Platitudes. |
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13 Jul 99 - 03:29 PM (#94812) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Legal Eagle 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. |
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13 Jul 99 - 03:37 PM (#94817) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: annamill Hey SeanM, Who is this Anon guy? I sure see a lot of quotes by him!! annap ;-) |
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13 Jul 99 - 03:49 PM (#94821) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: The Shambles It's all Greek to me. |
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13 Jul 99 - 03:56 PM (#94822) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: bob schwarer Leave no tern unstoned Bob S. |
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13 Jul 99 - 04:10 PM (#94828) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: bob schwarer 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. |
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13 Jul 99 - 04:25 PM (#94833) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Bill D "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 |
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13 Jul 99 - 04:26 PM (#94834) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Tony Burns Beware of geeks bearing .gifs |
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13 Jul 99 - 05:49 PM (#94863) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: The Shambles "We didn't use metaphors in out day. We didn't beat around the bush". Fred Trueman. |
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13 Jul 99 - 06:10 PM (#94873) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: catspaw49 "Brevity is the soul of lingerie." ... Dorothy Parker catspaw |
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13 Jul 99 - 06:12 PM (#94874) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Bill D "I never metaphor I didn't like" |
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14 Jul 99 - 05:28 PM (#95191) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Cara You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose. |
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14 Jul 99 - 07:10 PM (#95224) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Pelrad 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."
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14 Jul 99 - 07:22 PM (#95228) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Dan-o Never miss an opportunity to shut up. |
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14 Jul 99 - 10:43 PM (#95276) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: bbc It wouldn't be noticed on a galloping horse. Upgraded by my son--It wouldn't be noticed on a *flying* horse. bbc |
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15 Jul 99 - 02:54 AM (#95372) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: The Shambles Horses for courses. |
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15 Jul 99 - 09:02 AM (#95424) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Walrus "Common Sense" isn't as common as most people like to believe.
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15 Jul 99 - 09:05 AM (#95427) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: The Shambles 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
Well where there's a will
When wise words fail, try old wives tales
Well, look at how you've grown
If you repeat it one more time
When wise words fail, try old wives tales Roger Gall |
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15 Jul 99 - 08:12 PM (#95617) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Dave Swan " F**k 'em all but six...you need pallbearers." W.E. Swan |
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15 Jul 99 - 09:46 PM (#95641) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Art Thieme "We need the squares; they run the subways."-----Lenny Bruce |
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16 Jul 99 - 11:27 AM (#95879) Subject: RE: Folklore:proverbs and platitudes From: Penny S. 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,
. He who shies
Never, never, never,
I'll take heart
Never, never, never, Thought of this, Penny |