08-15-2006, 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted by IHateMrPotatohead Do unto others.... |
...before they do unto you (1 Epee 4:12-13)
Proverb:
Great minds....
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08-15-2006, 09:24 AM
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Originally Posted by campb1pr Great minds.... | ....make you go blind
(Only did it 'cos it rhymed)
Too many cooks....
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08-15-2006, 09:32 AM
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| Ufta! You people!
It's not "Invent a funny new proverb", it's "Finish the proverb". Start off an existing proverb, and finish it with another existing proverb. Like making a mythological creature---a griffin is half lion, half eagle, not half lion and half snoogle! The halves are both of real beasts, not invented ones.
Lazy barstids. 
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08-15-2006, 09:36 AM
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| Here's a proverb for you, Inq. Threads, like life, are what you make of them.
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08-15-2006, 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata It's not "Invent a funny new proverb", it's "Finish the proverb". Start off an existing proverb, and finish it with another existing proverb. Like making a mythological creature---a griffin is half lion, half eagle, not half lion and half snoogle! The halves are both of real beasts, not invented ones. | While my reply might not be from a proverb per se, it is from a well-known saying.
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08-15-2006, 09:46 AM
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| No, that's NOT a proverb, D'Art. 
Here's how it's done:
Too many cooks...
...care not a bit for toil, if the fowl be plump and fat.
OK, that's not particulary humorous. But still!
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08-15-2006, 09:48 AM
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| *Goes to look for a "mooning" smiley.* 
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08-15-2006, 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by gtmac Here's a proverb for you, Inq. Threads, like life, are what you make of them. | It STILL isn't "Invent a new proverb".
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08-15-2006, 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Here's how it's done:
Too many cooks...
...care not a bit for toil, if the fowl be plump and fat.
OK, that's not particulary humorous. But still! | With your contribution today to the Caption thread you have little justification in complaining of thread perversion. 
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08-15-2006, 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata It's not "Invent a funny new proverb", it's "Finish the proverb". Start off an existing proverb, and finish it with another existing proverb. Like making a mythological creature---a griffin is half lion, half eagle, not half lion and half snoogle! The halves are both of real beasts, not invented ones. |
then show me what existing proverb ends with: "and he'll stink after three days" since that is the example that OIUYT used in starting this thread. Your quote, I believe? If it is the ending of a proverb, I will gladly proclaim my apologies from the heights of the water cooler! If not, just give us credit for following what we thought the instructions were!  :
Or just let B decide, since even his posting seemed to be inventing a new funny...
eh, what do I, a newbie around here, know anyways... 
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08-15-2006, 09:55 AM
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| "Fish and guests stink after three days."
HA! 
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08-15-2006, 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata guests stink after three days." | Well, that will happen if you hide the soap.
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08-15-2006, 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata "Fish and guests stink after three days."
HA! |
Gotta hand it to you - I didn't think of mixing the original proverb and the ending of another...
I APOLOGIZE TO INQ. FOR DOUBTING HIS ORIGINAL QUOTE USED BY OIUYT AS BEING PART OF A PROVERB/CLICHE/ETC. I WAS WRONG, but still think that the original intent of the thread was to invent new funny proverbs.
so, with that said...
proverb:
he who hesitates...
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08-15-2006, 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by campb1pr Gotta hand it to you - I didn't think of mixing the original proverb and the ending of another...
I APOLOGIZE TO INQ. FOR DOUBTING HIS ORIGINAL QUOTE USED BY OIUYT AS BEING PART OF A PROVERB/CLICHE/ETC. I WAS WRONG, but still think that the original intent of the thread was to invent new funny proverbs.
so, with that said...
proverb:
he who hesitates... | edits his post for being late.
Yeah it's not a proverb, but it is more fun to watch Inq blow a gasket! 
"What a tangled web we weave..."
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08-15-2006, 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by latenight "What a tangled web we weave..." | When we buy a pig in a poke...
"Though you're living with trouble and strife...."
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Originally Posted by sabreur "Though you're living with trouble and strife...." | ...let a smile be your umbrella.
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| ...funny, hence why we should make up new endings to old parables.
A day late and...
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Originally Posted by purpzeyFCLI A day late and... | ...none the richer.
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Ufta! You people!
It's not "Invent a funny new proverb", it's "Finish the proverb". | I don't see a rule specifying that the proverb must be completed with the tale end of some other proverb. You finish as you feel it should be finished.
Spoilsport.
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