10-05-2008, 01:09 AM
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#1301 | | Question Game Queen
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| once in a blue moon.
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10-06-2008, 07:11 PM
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#1302 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Go? Fencing? He who laughs last... | ...breeds contempt.
Failing to prepare is...
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10-07-2008, 11:12 AM
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#1303 | | Perpetual Ephemerist
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Originally Posted by remistress .
Failing to prepare is... | "...to look into happiness through another man's eyes!"
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and ...."
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When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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10-07-2008, 07:46 PM
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#1304 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by magic_moose "Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and ...." | ...the powers that be.
Useful as a screen door...
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10-10-2008, 05:51 PM
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#1305 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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Originally Posted by remistress
Useful as a screen door... | ...after the horses have gone.
God created whisky to keep the Irish...
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Use the Shift key, people! Keyboard manufacturers everywhere are ineffably saddened when you ignore what they made just for you!
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10-10-2008, 06:32 PM
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#1306 | | Just Joined
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| from wasting the Germans' beer.
Barking dogs seldom...
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10-10-2008, 06:46 PM
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#1307 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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Originally Posted by Drew from wasting the Germans' beer.
| Is that really from an existing saying?
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10-10-2008, 08:19 PM
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#1308 | | Senior Member
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| Hi Drew, welcome to the forums.  Even though the thread title is a little misleading (after all it doesn't say finish the saying, maxim etc. with another saying) the original post gives the idea of finishing one saying with the ending of a different saying. Thought I'd let you know before Inq. gives you a harder time. :P
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Originally Posted by Drew Barking dogs seldom... | ...let sleeping dogs lie.
The cream of...
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10-14-2008, 09:45 PM
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#1309 | | Perpetual Ephemerist
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| ... can come of nothing.
All that glisters ....
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When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
-- Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species" ¯\(°_o)/¯ |
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10-14-2008, 10:05 PM
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#1310 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by magic_moose ... can come of nothing.
All that glisters .... | ...has a silver lining.
All that and a...
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10-14-2008, 10:10 PM
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#1311 | | Perpetual Ephemerist
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Originally Posted by remistress All that and a... | .... horse! my kingdom for a horse!
We are such stuff as dreams are made on ....
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When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
-- Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species" ¯\(°_o)/¯ |
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10-15-2008, 09:39 PM
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#1312 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by magic_moose We are such stuff as dreams are made on .... | ...molasses in January.
Like a bump...
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10-16-2008, 03:03 AM
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#1313 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by remistress ...molasses in January.
Like a bump... |
on a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea.
Why can't a woman be more like a ...
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10-16-2008, 10:12 PM
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#1314 | | Perpetual Ephemerist
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Originally Posted by Meteoric Iron Why can't a woman be more like a ... | ......stepping o'er the bounds of modesty.
But love is blind, and....
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When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
-- Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species" ¯\(°_o)/¯ |
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10-16-2008, 10:55 PM
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#1315 | | Senior Member
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| ...in for a pound.
Victory is fleeting...
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If your hearts not in it, why bother? -Yours truly
Woman was created for our destruction, and it is from her we inherit all our miseries. - Aramis, from The Three Musketeers
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10-17-2008, 09:21 PM
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#1316 | | Question Game Queen
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| on her own two feet.
That which God has created... |
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10-17-2008, 09:41 PM
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#1317 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Go? Fencing? That which God has created... | ...was swept under the carpet.
A pain in the....
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10-17-2008, 09:45 PM
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#1318 | | Question Game Queen
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| head of a pin.
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10-17-2008, 09:56 PM
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#1319 | | Senior Member
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| ...like a rock. I wonder if anyone else remembers those commercials.
What goes up...
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If your hearts not in it, why bother? -Yours truly
Woman was created for our destruction, and it is from her we inherit all our miseries. - Aramis, from The Three Musketeers
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