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.

20 responses total.

I'll take another turn at that: Thurber's "Early to rise & early to bed makes
a male healthy, wealthy, and dead."

The response to this item is deafening.  Anyway, here's another:
Opium is the religion of the masses.

<laugh>

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.

wroong frame of mind at the moment - - I'll be back ......

He who thinks that he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging
a pit.

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!

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

No [ice fisherman] is an icicle unto himself, but each a piece of the
whole cube.

A stitch in time is a penny earned.

(at least for a tailor, I expect)

You have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a magic prince!

Or is that "a lot of magic frogs to find a prince?"  I get so confused!

There's no arguing with Gus.

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.

"man was put on this earth to eat meat."

         archie bunker

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?

reread from #0.  #15 was irrelevant, ok?

POwer corrupts.  POwer surges erase absolutely.

(Actually, I'm taking a class on "Chomsky's minimalist program" this term.
And yeah, I'm baffled.)

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