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March 14, 2018 at 8:57 pm #452954
opainter
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Do you ever feel like you have something silly to say that you would like to proffer as wisdom?

Then you have come to the right place!

It can be in the form of a silly saying, a silly poem, or anything else that is silly and short.

I will start with a Haiku poem:

Never suggest that
Skinny flirts in miniskirts
Mustn’t fail math!

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March 15, 2018 at 5:40 pm #584675
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‘You have to risk it to get the biscuit.’

I believe it’s a skater expression. I did hear a winter Olympics commentator apply it to snow boarding.

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March 15, 2018 at 6:39 pm #584745
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’You have to risk it to get the biscuit.’

I believe it’s a skater expression. I did hear a winter Olympics commentator apply it to snow boarding.

This saying actually originates from a 70’s TV advert in the UK for a muesli bar, which had the catchphrase “I’ll risk it for a Swisskit” (Swisskit pronounced like ‘Biscuit’ but with a ‘Sw’ at the start).
A while later, British people just started saying “risk it for a biscuit”.

A ‘biscuit’, in the UK, is the same thing that Americans call cookies.

I like finding pearls of wisdom in song lyrics. One of my favorites is from a song by ‘The Eels’ called “P.S. You Rock My World” (from the ‘Electro-Shock Blues’album, much of which is about the songwriter Mark Everett dealing with his sister’s suicide and his mother’s terminal lung cancer.) which contains the phrase “a careful man tries to dodge the bullets while a happy man takes a walk.” meaning that we can sometimes be too involved in being careful to enjoy simply living.
The final line of the entire album is “And maybe it’s time to live.”

No matter how much pain you are in, and how much you want it to all be over, at some point you have to decide to live… not just exist.
March 16, 2018 at 12:30 am #584681
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Get eight hours of sleep, Nine if you’re ugly.

Photography is the art of observation. It has little to to with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. Elliott Erwitt
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March 16, 2018 at 7:40 am #584676
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This saying actually originates from a 70’s TV advert in the UK for a muesli bar, which had the catchphrase “I’ll risk it for a Swisskit” (Swisskit pronounced like ‘Biscuit’ but with a ‘Sw’ at the start).
A while later, British people just started saying “risk it for a biscuit”.

A ‘biscuit’, in the UK, is the same thing that Americans call cookies.

Thanks for the etymology lesson, I can now use the expression with confidence. I half suspected ‘biscuit’ carried a risque double entendre.

Christophervasil.com
March 17, 2018 at 12:42 pm #584670
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a bird in hand can make a hell of a mess.

if i remember right, this was an Archie Bunker pearl of wisdom.

Mike
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Said Hamlet to Ophelia, ”I'll draw a sketch of thee;
What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B?” Spike Milligan
March 17, 2018 at 1:14 pm #584748
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three lefts make a right

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March 18, 2018 at 2:31 pm #584671
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Even a broken watch shows the time correctly twice a day.

Mike
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Said Hamlet to Ophelia, ”I'll draw a sketch of thee;
What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B?” Spike Milligan
March 22, 2018 at 12:53 am #584696
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Let us eat lettuce.
It’s a lettuce eat lettuce world out there.
March 22, 2018 at 8:15 pm #584685
opainter
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I scream, you scream, we all scream “ice cream,” if you lettuce.

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March 23, 2018 at 1:23 am #584697
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Whenever someone says “too too” or “to two” or any such combo, always correct them. “No. Bishop Tutu.”
March 23, 2018 at 3:12 am #584672
mbeckett
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you’re a marvel… you should have been a sausage

my grandmother used to say that when she thought we were being braggarts. i have no idea where the saying came from. anyone know?

Mike
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Said Hamlet to Ophelia, ”I'll draw a sketch of thee;
What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B?” Spike Milligan
March 23, 2018 at 8:53 am #584698
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Sounds like a derivative of an advertizing campaign.

Pin a rose on your nose and call yourself a rosy nosy.
March 25, 2018 at 8:33 pm #584673
mbeckett
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[that’s what i thought. if i can only find some marvel sausage]

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. — Steve Martin

Mike
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Said Hamlet to Ophelia, ”I'll draw a sketch of thee;
What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B?” Spike Milligan
March 26, 2018 at 12:10 am #584699
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“Surely you can’t be serious?”
“I am serious, and stop calling me Shirley.”
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