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Grex > Language > #39: Tis better to have loved and lost than to be early to bed and early to rise. | |
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davel
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Tis better to have loved and lost than to be early to bed and early to rise.
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Nov 10 04:49 UTC 1992 |
And here's the place for madeup & mutated proverbs. Possibly Burma Shave.
Make 'em up yourself. (There's a Pat McManus story called "Never Sniff a
Gift Fish", in the book of the same name.) There are many strange and
wondrous ones out there, too.
One of my true loves in literature is Ernest Bramah's Kai Lung books,
set in a China that's really England in greasepaint. This is a very
fertile source of both original and mutated ones. I'll limit myself to
just one for now: A toad has to undergo a very severe examination before
he can become a dragon.
Your turn.
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davel
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response 1 of 20:
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Nov 10 04:51 UTC 1992 |
I'll take another turn at that: Thurber's "Early to rise & early to bed makes
a male healthy, wealthy, and dead."
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davel
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response 2 of 20:
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Nov 13 22:41 UTC 1992 |
The response to this item is deafening. Anyway, here's another:
Opium is the religion of the masses.
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griz
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response 3 of 20:
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Nov 16 18:43 UTC 1992 |
<laugh>
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davel
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response 4 of 20:
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Nov 24 01:22 UTC 1992 |
In three moments a labourer will remove an obstructing rock, but three moons
will pass without two wise men agreeing on the meaning of a vowel.
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tsty
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response 5 of 20:
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Nov 26 21:07 UTC 1992 |
wroong frame of mind at the moment - - I'll be back ......
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davel
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response 6 of 20:
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Nov 26 21:19 UTC 1992 |
He who thinks that he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging
a pit.
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rcurl
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response 7 of 20:
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Nov 27 01:25 UTC 1992 |
As only a slight drift - I have been looking for the source/author of the
a "mutated" poem that begins:
The boy stood on the burning deck
His fleece was white as snow
He stuck a feather in his hat
John Anderson, my Jo!
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davel
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response 8 of 20:
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Dec 2 01:56 UTC 1992 |
One learns to itch where one can scratch.
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davel
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response 9 of 20:
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Dec 2 12:51 UTC 1992 |
No [ice fisherman] is an icicle unto himself, but each a piece of the
whole cube.
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remmers
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response 10 of 20:
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Dec 2 21:22 UTC 1992 |
A stitch in time is a penny earned.
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davel
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response 11 of 20:
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Dec 3 01:31 UTC 1992 |
(at least for a tailor, I expect)
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suzie
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response 12 of 20:
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Dec 6 21:38 UTC 1992 |
You have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a magic prince!
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suzie
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response 13 of 20:
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Dec 6 21:39 UTC 1992 |
Or is that "a lot of magic frogs to find a prince?" I get so confused!
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davel
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response 14 of 20:
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Dec 10 11:15 UTC 1992 |
There's no arguing with Gus.
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hadou
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response 15 of 20:
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Jan 29 21:57 UTC 2001 |
what to you folks think about chomksy's minimalist program and its variants?
I am trying to hash through it and my god thething is encrypted.
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happyboy
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response 16 of 20:
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Jan 30 00:09 UTC 2001 |
"man was put on this earth to eat meat."
archie bunker
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keesan
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response 17 of 20:
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Jan 30 22:54 UTC 2001 |
Happyby likes to make irrelevant commnts (or I missed the relevance). I doubt
that anyone here can answer your question. Want to explain what the program
appears to mean?
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happyboy
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response 18 of 20:
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Jan 31 12:49 UTC 2001 |
reread from #0. #15 was irrelevant, ok?
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kami
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response 19 of 20:
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Feb 1 02:39 UTC 2001 |
POwer corrupts. POwer surges erase absolutely.
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orinoco
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response 20 of 20:
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Feb 9 19:24 UTC 2001 |
(Actually, I'm taking a class on "Chomsky's minimalist program" this term.
And yeah, I'm baffled.)
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