Friday, June 12, 2009

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A quick laugh for your Friday morning, via the Twitter community. The subject is: "First Drafts of Adages", which is, of course, based on the hilarious premise that whoever coined these cliches got it wrong the first time. Ha ha ha! Phew! Ok, here's a short list (the full list can be found here).

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Follow User: Birds of a feather should take some sort of symbolic loyalty oath for the sake of their own unity.

Follow User: He who laughs longest will, by definition, be the last one laughing.

Follow User: A penny saved is almost as though you got a job working for a penny a week, and today's payday.

Follow User: You can't make an omelette. No, seriously, you're a very bad cook.

Follow User: Where there's smoke there's either fire or, on rare occasions, a smoke machine.

Follow User: "Laughter is the the best medicine (Not verified by the FDA. Laughter may cause dizziness, insomnia, diarrhea or death)"

Follow User: Giving all the fish you catch to lazy people sucks. Teach them how and then tell them to get off your lawn

Follow User: When an apple falls out of a tree it usually ends up pretty close to the tree because things fall straight down.

Follow User: He who hesitates runs the risk of getting seriously distracted, perhaps for quite a long time.

Follow User: similar excrement: alternative 24hr period.

Follow User: A stitch in time saves nine, and I am referring here to stitches.

Follow User: Who is the bell tolling for, you ask? You! Yes you! Bet you're wishing you hadn't asked now.

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