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- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: twinkle, twinkle
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.231017.17690@actrix.gen.nz>
- From: robinson@actrix.gen.nz (Tom Robinson)
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:10:17 GMT
- References: <21270@ksr.com>
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Lines: 164
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- In article <21270@ksr.com> johnk@ksr.com (John Kavazanjian) writes:
- > Two years ago, someone faxed me a two-page list of
- > common folk sayings translated into sesquipedelian (sp?)
- > terminology, to whit:
- >
- > Scintillate, Scintillate Asteroid Minific
- > (Twinkle Twinkle Little Star)
- >
- > You get the idea.
- >
- > Anyone have a copy?
-
- Yup:
-
- CELEBRATED ORACULAR UTTERANCES
-
- A buffoon and his accumulation of legal tender are expeditiously
- disunited
- A fool and his money are easlily parted
-
- A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques
- vitiate the potable concoction produced by steeping certain
- comestibles
-
- A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of a
- miniscule, verdant bryophyte
-
- A superannuated canine is immune to indoctrination in innovative
- maneuvers
- You can't teach an old dog new tricks
-
- Abstain from calculating juvenile poultry until the proper period of
- incubation has been materalized
- Don't count your chickens before they hatch
-
- Abstention from any aleatory undertakings precludes a potential
- escalation of a lucrative nature
- Nothing ventured, nothing gained
-
- Abstention from speculatory undertaking precludes attainment
- No risk, no profit
-
- All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not aurum
-
- All that coruscates with resplendence will not assay auriferous
- All that glitters (glisters) is not gold
-
- Avian species of identical plumage congregate
- Birds of a feather flock together
-
- Desist from enumerating your fowl prior to their emergence from the
- prenatal ovoid structure
- Don't count your chickens before they hatch
-
- Disposition to inquiry deprived the feline of its vital state
- Curiosity killed the cat
-
- Eleemosynary deeds have their incipience intramurally
-
- Elementary sartorial techniques initially applied preclude repetitive
- similar actions to square of three
-
- Ergonomia exclusive of diversion renders John a hebetudinous progeny
- All work and no play, etc. etc. etc
-
- Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion
-
- Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of
- hedonistic diversion renders Jack a habitudinous fellow
-
- Exigency is the matriarch of ingenious contrivance
- Neccessity is the mother of invention
-
- Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude
-
- Freedom from incrustations of noxious substances is contiguous with
- conformity to divine prescription
- Cleanliness is next to godliness
-
- He who cachinnates ultimately, cachinnates optimally
- He who laughs last, laughs best
-
- Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be advised
- to refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles
-
- Inhabitants of vitreous edifices ill-advisedly catapult petrous
- projectiles
- People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
-
- It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with
- innovative maneuvers
-
- It is fruitless to wax lactymose concerning precipitately departed
- lacteal fluid
-
- It is practicible to entice an Equus Caballus to a reservoir of liquid
- hydrogen oxide, but coercing him to imbibe is insuperable
- You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink
-
- Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony
-
- Male cadavers are unyielding of testimony
- Dead men don't tell tales
-
- Members of an avian species of an identical plumage congregate
- Birds of a feather flock together
-
- Mendicants are interdicted from elective recipiency
- Beggars can't be choosers
-
- Missiles of ligneous and of nonmetallic mineral consistency have the
- potential to fracture my osseous structure, but malicious appellations
- are eternally innocuous
- Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me
-
- Missiles of ligneous or petreous consistency have the potential of
- fracturing my osseous structure, but appeliations will eternally
- remain innocuous
- Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
-
- Neophyte's serendipity
-
- Persons of imbecilic mentality deviate in parameters which cherubic
- entities approach with trepidation
-
- Probity gratifies reflexively
- Honesty is its own reward
-
- Promiscuity, controlled substances, and annepestic tempo
- Sex, drugs, and roll 'n' roll
-
- Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity
- Beauty is only skin deep
-
- Scintillate, Scintillate, asteroid minific
- Twinkle, twinkle, little star
-
- Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted
-
- Surveillance should precede salutation
-
- The existence of visible vapors from ignited carbonaceous materials
- confirms conflagration
- Where there's smoke, there's fire
-
- The person presenting the ultimate cachination possesses thereby the
- optimal cachination
-
- The styles is more potent than the claymore
-
- The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled
- saucepan does not reach 212 degrees Fahrenheit
- A watched pot doesn't boil
-
- Ululate not over precipitated lactal secretion
- Don't cry over spilt milk
-
- Upon the non-presence of the Felis Catus the Mus Musculi proceed to
- engage in sportive capers
- When the cats away the mice will play
-
- Where there are visible vapors having their prevalence in ignited
- carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration
-
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