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Old 08-14-2006, 04:41 PM   #41
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One man's meat....

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Is another man's horse...

Proverb:

Let sleeping dogs....
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...get crunched up in the bag before you get to eat them.


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Out of the mouths.....
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Out of the mouths.....

... of spokesmodels

(http://www.gotbeer.com/index.php?page_id=313)


Proverb:

Never put off till tomorrow...
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... of polititions, words rarely risk colliding with the truth.

Spare the rod ...
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Spare the rod ...
use the OROD!

Life is like a box of chocolates, ...

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.....Sometimes the center is caramel, but sometimes, it's coconut.


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...to raise an idiot.

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....than to be a virgin at 30.

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...fly in V formation.

There's many a slip twixt the cup. . .
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There's many a slip twixt the cup. . .
...so make sure you put on your jockstrap securely...


The early bird...
(Sorry, I know it's been used but I don't know how many of these proverbs go in english...)
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occular cavity. Yup, that's the way the intelligent designer meant for it to be. I mean if Darwin was right we might have evolved to have two eyes in one socket. Isn't that obvious?

One good turn deserves...
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A stitch in time...
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A stitch in time...
Mends a rip in the space time continuem.

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...three blind mice.

Hey, have we devolved from proverbs to songs?

Anyway:

A tree may be told...
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...to stay put.

Absence makes the heart grow...
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Absence makes the heart grow...

Larger, since it has more room to expand.


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