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10-28-2005, 10:46 AM
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Blatantly Homosapien
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happy as a lark...are larks really that happy?
open up a can of worms...and then what happens? quiet as a mouse...I hear them all the time.
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10-28-2005, 10:54 AM
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go ahead, abbrev. it
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10-28-2005, 11:19 AM
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Pump my ride!
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open up a can of worms - and that will attract a lot of larks who once they have consumed the worms will be as.... happy as a lark - but all this feeding activity will likely attract other predatorial birds like hawks, kestrels and falcons who are particularly fond of those small furry creatures known as mice, so if the mice want to have a chance to survive they will need to be.... quiet as a mouse - which as you say isn't that quiet, hence a lot of them still get eaten... Natures way of balancing the species, I suppose (BTW, wife says I'm wrong.....)
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Always sufficient hills - never sufficient gears |
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10-28-2005, 12:08 PM
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Pump my ride!
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Sick as a parrot ( pre-dates avian flu so what caused the saying in the first place?)
Cuts the mustard - meaning: comes up to scratch (which could be another one except I think it has connections with golf and being a scratch/zero handicap player, but it may pre-date this)
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Always sufficient hills - never sufficient gears Last edited by Cyclefrance; 10-28-2005 at 12:17 PM. |
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10-28-2005, 12:36 PM
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dar512 is now Pete Zicato
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It is carrot and stick. The phrase implies reward for doing well and punishment for doing poorly.
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all hollowed out
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11-02-2007, 12:49 PM
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Pump my ride!
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'Time to climb the wooden hill' - from my father-in-law to my wife as a child, when time to go upstairs to bed....
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10-28-2005, 02:29 PM
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You know ... this might make an interesting party game. I thought maybe someone already had done this, but the objective of Wise and Otherwise is to complete a maxim, not explain it.
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