Don't underestimate a nun with a yardstick or a priest with a protractor
― CaptainBurlapSax, Thursday, 1 December 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
The toad in his hole sees more than the mole in broad day.
― Aimless, Thursday, 1 December 2011 01:36 (twelve years ago) link
Micturation is the answer.
― Aimless, Thursday, 1 December 2011 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
By candle light a goat looks like a goat.
― Pollbix, Thursday, 1 December 2011 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
we learn from mosesbut absorb from osmosis
― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Thursday, 1 December 2011 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
there are no cheat codes in the game of life
― CaptainBurlapSax, Thursday, 1 December 2011 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
CaptainBurlapSax, Get Real.
― wolves lacan sandbox ed, Thursday, 1 December 2011 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
wolves lacan where foxes fear to see
― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Thursday, 1 December 2011 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
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― CaptainBurlapSax, Thursday, 1 December 2011 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
a fever is a gift for a baker
― by (mennen), Thursday, 1 December 2011 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
you can only change if you want to jazzercise
― j crunchwrap supreme, Thursday, 1 December 2011 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
it takes two to tangle, but knot with a partner
― Chris S, Thursday, 1 December 2011 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
A bottle of brine is the handsome man's despair
― stet, Thursday, 1 December 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, you walk into yours
― Chris S, Thursday, 1 December 2011 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
Drummers come and go but saxophonists go with the flow
― CaptainBurlapSax, Thursday, 1 December 2011 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
Confucius say: Man with banana in pocket will win the ball game
― Pollbix, Thursday, 1 December 2011 03:51 (twelve years ago) link
One dog goes one way and the other goes the other way. And this guy's saying, "Whaddya want from me?"
― Chris S, Thursday, 1 December 2011 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
On the internet, nobody knows you're an adage.
― silby, Thursday, 1 December 2011 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
you can't break a dime if you can hardly target a garden
― Z S, Thursday, 1 December 2011 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
evergreens only fall when autumn golems swallow
newspapers tell stories, but storytellers rely on instinct
― Z S, Thursday, 1 December 2011 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
i'm really trying to play up the inscrutable angle, sorry
― Z S, Thursday, 1 December 2011 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
co-ed naked volleyball
apostrophes are the devil's tears
― not uplifting (Abbott), Thursday, 1 December 2011 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
― Z S, Thursday, December 1, 2011 4:01 AM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink
― Pollbix, Thursday, 1 December 2011 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
it is always 4:43 when the time runs out
― Chris S, Thursday, 1 December 2011 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
You know what guys I feel like Tuomas's thread of Finnish idioms did this better than I could ever hope for.
― not uplifting (Abbott), Thursday, 1 December 2011 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
what Tuomas doesn't know won't hurt you
― silby, Thursday, 1 December 2011 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
Elvis was never fat. Elvis, was never fat.
― Chris S, Thursday, 1 December 2011 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
Sweet to the tired is bitter to the rested.
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 1 December 2011 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
that's far too scrutable, forksy-come-lately
― silby, Thursday, 1 December 2011 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno how it could be; i don't know what it means!
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 1 December 2011 04:51 (twelve years ago) link
Come to think of it, that might indicate that I am tired.
― silby, Thursday, 1 December 2011 04:52 (twelve years ago) link
how about:The river seeks its own water.Four out of five nickles are only pennies.A broken twig never gave away an innocent man.There's a place in heaven for everyone, but hell is open to all.
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 1 December 2011 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
Unfortunately, some of my adages are more scrutable than not. It can be fun writing adages that aren't entirely random. It can be fun writing a scrutable adage with faulty pearls of stupidity because people will doubt their own interpretation for a more favorable, inscrutable interpretation - something with the possibility of having pearls of wisdom
― CaptainBurlapSax, Thursday, 1 December 2011 07:31 (twelve years ago) link
faulty
― CaptainBurlapSax, Thursday, 1 December 2011 08:15 (twelve years ago) link
only a churl explicates his own muddied struggle for wisdom
― Julie Lagger, Thursday, 1 December 2011 08:20 (twelve years ago) link
There is no such thing as a mistake in ceramics class
― CaptainBurlapSax, Thursday, 1 December 2011 08:57 (twelve years ago) link
Only a baby will shake a leg for the fog man prophesies
― CaptainBurlapSax, Thursday, 1 December 2011 09:11 (twelve years ago) link
it's a rare scratch can't be fair itched by a blair witch
― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Thursday, 1 December 2011 09:33 (twelve years ago) link
every cowboy was a cowman once
― Julie Lagger, Thursday, 1 December 2011 09:39 (twelve years ago) link
The meticulous man is the tabbouleh on the meze table of life.
― ledge, Thursday, 1 December 2011 09:40 (twelve years ago) link
winner winner sheen dinner
― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Thursday, 1 December 2011 09:43 (twelve years ago) link
Don't discriminate, inseminate
― CaptainBurlapSax, Thursday, 1 December 2011 09:50 (twelve years ago) link
Hanging your soul from a telephone pole
― CaptainBurlapSax, Thursday, 1 December 2011 09:59 (twelve years ago) link
the worst you can expect is often the best someone else plans on offering you so fuck 'em― silby, Thursday, 1 December 2011 01:12 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
― silby, Thursday, 1 December 2011 01:12 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
I resisted, but: That's the winner.
― Ou est la showaddywaddy (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Thursday, 1 December 2011 10:03 (twelve years ago) link
Holding out for a better looking, one-legged stripper
― CaptainBurlapSax, Thursday, 1 December 2011 10:15 (twelve years ago) link
Staying young while working for a union is like paying for dental work under the table
― CaptainBurlapSax, Thursday, 1 December 2011 10:20 (twelve years ago) link
the head of a chicken often hid the heart of a biologist
― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems), Thursday, 1 December 2011 10:20 (twelve years ago) link
Any time is plenty time.
― rusty flathead screwdriver, Thursday, 1 December 2011 12:00 (twelve years ago) link