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....Whooooooops!!! .....heh.....must've clicked on this thread by mistake....I'll just be going now....heh..... :oops:
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emmline wrote:What emmline said - you didn't REALLY want to read all that again.
OK, reader of smart stuff, explain my grannie's favorite -

"You can't have your cake and eat it too."

As a kid, that one drove me to distraction.
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:lol: :lol:

Me own old Granny was fond of saying..." Ye can wish in one hand and piss in the other..and see which one will be full first...",

She's been dead now for years....but there are some things that never really leave ye....,

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Ridseard wrote:It's total sh*t. Exceptions disprove rules.
That reminds me of a conversation I once heard between two Englishmen who tried to list as quickly as possible all the old sayings that have exact opposites that are also old sayings. Such as ...

"Look before you leap."
"He who hesitates is lost."

"Penny wise and pound foolish."
"Look after the pennies and the pounds take care of themselves.

There were many others they came up with in rapidfire succession, but it was years ago and I don't remember. Any others you can think of?

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"What's good for the goose is good for the gander."

"One man's treasure is another's trash."
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I think "Can't have your cake and eat it, too" means that if you eat the cake, it will be gone. (Used to refer to situations where someone wants both of a pair of contradictory outcomes.)

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"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

"Monkey see, monkey do."
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You tryin' to tell me monkeys are insincere?

Very confusing. The way I heard it,

The monkeys stand for honesty, giraffes are insincere.
And the elephants are kindly but they're dumb.

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Chuck_Clark wrote:
emmline wrote:What emmline said - you didn't REALLY want to read all that again.
OK, reader of smart stuff, explain my grannie's favorite -

"You can't have your cake and eat it too."
Jerry Freeman wrote:I think "Can't have your cake and eat it, too" means that if you eat the cake, it will be gone. (Used to refer to situations where someone wants both of a pair of contradictory outcomes.)

Best wishes,
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Whoa. Thanks Jerry. You saved my sorry hide.
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Ridseard wrote:It's total sh*t. Exceptions disprove rules.
Your first sentence is sh*t and your second is valuable cow dung.
Bad rules will be disproved by exceptions whereas a good rule will be more comprehensive.
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"Prove" in this sense means "tests", not "confirms".

From the Shorter OED

1. To make trial of, to try the genuineness or qualities of, to test.

This is given as "arch. (ie, archaic) but that's what the term meant when the expression was coined.
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')

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s1m0n wrote: This is given as "arch. (ie, archaic) but that's what the term meant when the expression was coined.

Apart from that....?

Get to the point...

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Nanohedron wrote:"What's good for the goose is good for the gander."
The version I always heard was "Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander." That way, I think it makes sense. Either way the bird loses.
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How do you put your feet in socks with no holes in them? and.....

Why is there only one Monopolies Commission?

I like this thread! If only I were less thick....

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Chuck_Clark wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:"What's good for the goose is good for the gander."
The version I always heard was "Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander." That way, I think it makes sense. Either way the bird loses.
Right you are, Mr. _Clark. I was offering up the more decayed -and less meaningful- version that one hears now and again.

"Don't hide your light under a bushel."

"The protruding nail gets pounded down."
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