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Jun 2021
8:36am, 2 Jun 2021
1,881 posts
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bja61
“The early bird catches the worm.”
Not if the field isn’t ploughed until the afternoon, and as someone who isn’t an early starter, just anyway!
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Jun 2021
9:09am, 2 Jun 2021
49,573 posts
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McGoohan
Silent runner - I think there was a variation on that from Woody on Cheers but I can't find a quote. It was something like, 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Well, that's what Uncle Phil used to say before he went through the combine harvester'
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Jun 2021
9:15am, 2 Jun 2021
2,591 posts
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Snoot
"a stitch in time saves nine" who goes round stitching stuff up before it needs it, and what's with the 9:1 ratio?
We used to 'adapt' some of these proverbs to make them more realistic - "too many cooks, make too much broth", "many hands, make it difficult to get at the work"
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Jun 2021
1:28pm, 2 Jun 2021
25,637 posts
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EvilPixie
an army marches on it's stomach
well yes food does help but also feet - you need to use your feet to march
if you are on your stomach you are crawling and going very slowly
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Jun 2021
1:29pm, 2 Jun 2021
1,900 posts
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bja61
EP - that sounds like something out of a Zombie movie, or just an average storyline in ZombiesRun!
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Jun 2021
1:31pm, 2 Jun 2021
25,638 posts
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EvilPixie
LOL
Christmas comes but once a year - unless that year is 2020 and covid/boris cancel it in which case it doesn't happen and happens twice in 2021
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Jun 2021
1:33pm, 2 Jun 2021
25,639 posts
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EvilPixie
Good things come in small packages
cyanide tends to be small and that's not good
or any virus as we have been made rudely aware!
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Jun 2021
1:36pm, 2 Jun 2021
25,640 posts
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EvilPixie
never judge a book by it's cover
Vs
First impressions last
So if you form your first impression of a book but looking at the cover then surely you are judging it?!
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Jun 2021
2:38pm, 2 Jun 2021
796 posts
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Albert O Balsam
One from Viz Letterbocks
"They say you can't have your cake and eat it. Yet, yesterday I saw a small boy buy a cake and proceed to wolf it down"
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Jun 2021
3:15pm, 2 Jun 2021
120 posts
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Stevce
Worse things have happened at sea.............
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Malapropism!
Jun 2024