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12 Mar 02 - 08:33 PM (#667982) Subject: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: khandu "Too many cooks, stay out of the kitchen!" |
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13 Mar 02 - 08:30 AM (#668246) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: kendall If you can't stand the heat, it spoils the broth. |
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13 Mar 02 - 08:38 AM (#668253) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Nigel Parsons Cliches never agree, it's either "Too many cooks spoil the broth" or "Many hands make light work" Similarly, "Look before you leap" but "He who hesitates is lost" |
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13 Mar 02 - 08:44 AM (#668259) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: gnu Too much broth spoils the cook. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man wonder who won the game. |
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13 Mar 02 - 08:49 AM (#668263) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Midchuck Early to rise and early to bed Makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead. (James Thurber, IIRC) Peter. |
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13 Mar 02 - 09:04 AM (#668270) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Hollowfox Early to bed and early to rise Never goes out with the regular guys. George Ade |
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13 Mar 02 - 09:12 AM (#668271) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: CarolC Now this is a thread I can really get behind. Great idea, khandu! "The early bird gets worms" |
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13 Mar 02 - 09:13 AM (#668272) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: CarolC Oh yeah, Better late than sorry! |
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13 Mar 02 - 09:18 AM (#668279) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Watson The early bird may get the worm, but think what the early worm gets... |
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13 Mar 02 - 09:40 AM (#668292) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: catspaw49 Too many cooks never make a decent meal. Early to bed and early to rise...Dull, isn't it? Do more than is expected of you and soon, more will be expected of you. Spaw |
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13 Mar 02 - 09:42 AM (#668294) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: CarolC If you can't take a joke, take a bus. |
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13 Mar 02 - 09:56 AM (#668307) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: catspaw49 Better to be pissed off than pissed on. And better to be pissed on than pissed through because that would make you a prick. Spaw |
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13 Mar 02 - 10:09 AM (#668313) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Steve Parkes The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. |
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13 Mar 02 - 11:42 AM (#668357) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: MMario Too many cooks makes a crowded kitchen. The early bird is too sleepy to see the worm. Let sleeping dogs (and Mad Englishman)lie.
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13 Mar 02 - 12:02 PM (#668368) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: JenEllen It is better to live an hour as a tiger than a lifetime as a worm. Sure, but who ever heard of a worm-skin rug? |
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13 Mar 02 - 12:05 PM (#668370) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Bill D "It's six dozen of the other." Virgil Plute |
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13 Mar 02 - 12:09 PM (#668373) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: JenEllen It is better to share a bed with a drunken cannibal than a sober Christian H. Melville |
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13 Mar 02 - 12:13 PM (#668375) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Trevor Change is inevitable, except out of the vending machine in our canteen. |
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13 Mar 02 - 12:22 PM (#668379) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Dharmabum Right of way is considered a function of mass times velocity. In the final analysis,the size of one's funeral is always determined by the weather. Never blame a man for being human unless he makes a habit of it. Gamble Rogers DB. |
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13 Mar 02 - 12:24 PM (#668382) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Kim C I think that's too much sauce spoils the cook....... Like Mister always says, a fast hog's a happy hog. Dave Barry once said something to the effect of "strike the bull or get off the pot." :-) |
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13 Mar 02 - 12:25 PM (#668385) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: GUEST,pete Anyone watching British TV lately? Too many cooks Thats it! |
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13 Mar 02 - 12:26 PM (#668387) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: GUEST,pete Anyone watching British TV lately? Too many cooks! |
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13 Mar 02 - 12:30 PM (#668389) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: GUEST,Nancy King at work Nothing is foolproof for a sufficiently talented fool. |
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13 Mar 02 - 12:33 PM (#668391) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Bill D "Some would sooner die than think. In fact, they often do." -- B. Russell |
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13 Mar 02 - 12:33 PM (#668392) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Jeri It's an ill wind that gathers no moss. |
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13 Mar 02 - 12:44 PM (#668398) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: MMario Idiot-proof is an oxymoron. |
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13 Mar 02 - 01:15 PM (#668413) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: kendall A bird in the hand is worth a kick in the bush. |
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13 Mar 02 - 01:17 PM (#668415) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: MMario It's the squeeky wheel that gets greased |
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13 Mar 02 - 01:19 PM (#668418) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Bill D the squeaky wheel often gets 'replaced' |
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13 Mar 02 - 01:23 PM (#668424) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Steve-o The whole world is a tuxedo, and I'm just a pair of brown shoes. -George Gobel
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13 Mar 02 - 01:58 PM (#668447) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Micca When all else fails ... RTFM |
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13 Mar 02 - 01:59 PM (#668448) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Micca OH sorry, that one actually IS useful!!!!! |
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13 Mar 02 - 02:07 PM (#668452) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: MMario But OFTEN ignored! (and only useful if the writer of TFM can communicate - which occurs even less often then the occurences of people RTFM!) |
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13 Mar 02 - 02:34 PM (#668469) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Kenny B (inactive) If at firts you dnot suckseed..... - use a spellchecker Nothing succeeds like a budgerigar |
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13 Mar 02 - 09:02 PM (#668687) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: khandu If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking til you do. (i refuse to sign this!)
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13 Mar 02 - 09:23 PM (#668701) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: kendall W.O.B.H. |
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13 Mar 02 - 10:04 PM (#668722) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: CarolC Pie cheese and crust all maggoty, cod ham sum of ill bridge! |
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13 Mar 02 - 10:25 PM (#668735) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Metchosin It is better to have been loved and lost than never to have been lost at all. |
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13 Mar 02 - 10:33 PM (#668737) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Bill D "Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches are insoluble in gasoline" ...from the wall of the men's room at the Methodist Student Union at the Univ. of Kansas- 1969 |
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13 Mar 02 - 10:34 PM (#668739) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: khandu Kendall, (Dare I ask?) What is W.O.B.H.? khandu |
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13 Mar 02 - 10:39 PM (#668742) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Jeri Whale oil beef hooked. (Just thought I'd say it before Kendall says it for the 78th time.) |
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13 Mar 02 - 11:22 PM (#668771) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: dick greenhaus and the Early Christian Gets the Lion.. |
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13 Mar 02 - 11:49 PM (#668789) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: katlaughing A bird(UK) in the hand is better than your own member!**BG** |
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14 Mar 02 - 03:30 AM (#668864) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Steve Parkes I don't know who my Member is now I've moved south! It's better to have loved and lost a short girl than never to have loved a tall. Dharmabum, right of way is observed as mass x velocity for those who get out of your way, but those who aren't quick enough observe that R=1/2 mv Steve (reatively speaking) |
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14 Mar 02 - 03:34 AM (#668866) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Steve Parkes Oops! That should have been "R=1/2 mv2" |
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14 Mar 02 - 04:06 AM (#668871) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Trevor Never criticise a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. 'Cos then you'll be a mile away. And you'll have his shoes. |
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14 Mar 02 - 04:43 AM (#668882) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Nigel Parsons If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then give up, it's no use making a fool of yourself |
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14 Mar 02 - 05:50 AM (#668896) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: gnu I was re-reading a favourite author last evening, Ray Guy, a Newf of renown. Now, these may not be twists on oldies, but a couple describing elation stuck in my head.... Like the torn tit that just found a two foot maggott. Happy and contented as the Parson who got the gear replacement loan to string marker buoys on the Ten Commandments. |
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14 Mar 02 - 09:29 AM (#668997) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Trevor If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer. (Yep, I'm from near Birmingham!) |
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14 Mar 02 - 09:41 AM (#669007) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Micca Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards for it makes them soggy and heard to light Do not throw cigarette butts in the urinal, for they are subtle and quick to anger |
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15 Mar 02 - 01:58 AM (#669605) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Jon Bartlett my favourite: It's a short leg that doesn't reach the ground. |
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15 Mar 02 - 04:01 AM (#669638) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Nigel Parsons One that confused my daughter (a keen horse rider) "A small horse is quickly curried!" |
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15 Mar 02 - 10:08 AM (#669783) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Uncle_DaveO I march to the beat of a different kettle of fish! Dave Oesterreich |
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15 Mar 02 - 10:31 AM (#669796) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Micca Some march to the beat of a different drum, some Polka! |
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15 Mar 02 - 10:35 AM (#669798) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Sorcha A small hole will empty a very large bucket. |
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15 Mar 02 - 10:47 AM (#669805) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: DMcG General question. How long (if ever!) did it take you to realise 'burning a candle at both ends' refers to lighting a candle in the morning and in the evening, rather than doing something weird with one candle? I knew the meaning, of course, but I didn't actually work out where it came from for a very embarrassing number of years.
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16 Mar 02 - 01:33 AM (#670046) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: GUEST Possum and Taters Ingredients:
1 young, fat possum
8 sweet potatoes
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon sugar
Directions: First, catch a possum. This in itself is excellent entertainment on a moonlight night. Skin the possum and remove the head and feet. Be sure to wash it thoroughly. Freeze overnight either outside or in a refrigerator.
When ready to cook, peel the potatoes and boil them tender in lightly salted water along with the butter and sugar. At the same time, stew the possum tender in a tightly covered pan with a little water. Arrange the taters around the possum, strip with bacon, sprinkle with thyme or marjoram, or pepper, and brown in the oven. Baste often with the drippings.
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16 Mar 02 - 03:26 AM (#670081) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: DaveJ "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the Ark; professionals built the Titanic."
Somebody sent the above to me in an email. Sorry, I don't know the original author. DaveJ |
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16 Mar 02 - 03:44 AM (#670085) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: DaveJ "Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long." Ogden Nash
And here is one from when I was in the service.
"The Marine Corps has been around for more than two hundred years unhamperred by progress." DaveJ |
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16 Mar 02 - 04:31 AM (#670093) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: The Walrus When makes something idiot-proof, Nature evolves a better idiot. W |
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16 Mar 02 - 09:50 AM (#670154) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Amos Never put off until tomorrow what you should have done the day before yesterday. A |
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16 Mar 02 - 09:56 AM (#670159) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: DMcG From "Silvie and Bruno" by Lewis Carroll, (or at least whats left of it after a few decades in my memory)
Teacher: "For careless waste makes woeful want Bruno: Always watch where you throw things
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16 Mar 02 - 10:06 AM (#670161) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Nigel Parsons Never put of 'til tomorrow what you can do today, if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow! |
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16 Mar 02 - 04:52 PM (#670365) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: McGrath of Harlow Three good 'uns for folkies:
Nothing succeeds like excess.
If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing badly.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise
(1.Possibly Oscar Wilde; 2. G.K.Chesterton; 3. William Blake) |
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16 Mar 02 - 04:56 PM (#670367) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Ebbie A small horse is quickly curried! but shrimp is faster. |
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16 Mar 02 - 05:26 PM (#670374) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: catspaw49 And the brush stays a lot cleaner too Ebbie........ Spaw |
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16 Mar 02 - 05:48 PM (#670378) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: The Walrus Spaw, It took me a moment to catch on to that one....OUCH! W |
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16 Mar 02 - 05:57 PM (#670383) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: catspaw49 A rolling duck gathers no stitches in time while a chicken who hesitates is early to bed. Spaw |
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16 Mar 02 - 06:14 PM (#670386) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: gnu Pass that over here.... |
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16 Mar 02 - 06:14 PM (#670387) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Helen I'd rather have bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. Percussive maintenance (fixing things with a hammer, especially electronic things) Helen |
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16 Mar 02 - 06:17 PM (#670389) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Helen This one is from an autosignature on an e-mail. Don't know who actually owns copyright on it: Objects in your reality construct may be more asinine than they appear. |
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16 Mar 02 - 06:50 PM (#670407) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: catspaw49 Fish and visitors stink after three days whereas carp and your Great Aunt Clara's farts are real nasty right from the gitgo. Spaw |
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16 Mar 02 - 07:30 PM (#670434) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Little Hawk Folk music critics draw conclusions on Bob Dylan the way an urchin scribbles on a stone wall. The early worm doesn't get eaten! Worms are nocturnal. He goes to bed before the early bird has even gotten up. It's the late worm who gets eaten by the early bird. Same lesson applies in both cases, bird and worm, early is best. :-) "My country right...or farther right!!! (The territorial cry of the pie-eyed American patriot bird.) - LH |
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17 Mar 02 - 03:27 AM (#670607) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: DMcG There's many a click Twixt nerd and hip |
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17 Mar 02 - 04:07 AM (#670617) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Metchosin A day without sunshine is like night. |
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17 Mar 02 - 05:22 AM (#670642) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Nigel Parsons I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy
It is better to question, and appear foolish for a minute, than to remain in ignorance! |
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17 Mar 02 - 05:33 AM (#670645) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: DMcG Home working hot, Hot desking cold, Management buzzword soon forgot It's nine days old |
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17 Mar 02 - 05:47 PM (#670947) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Liz the Squeak Rolling Stones should have retired years ago. He who hesitates doesn't always know the way. LTS |
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17 Mar 02 - 08:33 PM (#671023) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: McGrath of Harlow A bicycle needs a woman like a man needs a fish. |
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18 Mar 02 - 11:53 AM (#671330) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Steve Parkes I'd sooner watch a woman on a bicycle than a fish. That's not an adage, just a statement. Steve |
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18 Mar 02 - 01:21 PM (#671377) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: McGrath of Harlow "Thirty days has September. All the rest I can't remember."
The Kipper Family. |
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19 Mar 02 - 12:34 AM (#671688) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: GUEST to stew or not to |
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19 Mar 02 - 03:13 AM (#671728) Subject: RE: BS: Useless Adage for Today 3-12-02 From: Steve Parkes Thirsty days hath September, April June and November; All the rest are thirsty too, Excepting February when you get wet through ... So said my grandad, anyway. Steve |