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Old 07-14-2012, 02:44 PM
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"Folded like a cheap camera" and "you sound like a broken record". The under 30 crowd doesn't even know what a record is.

"You sound like a broken MP3 player (or iPod)" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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Old 07-14-2012, 03:30 PM
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If you wanna dance, you gotta pay the fiddler.
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Remember "He who pays the piper, calls the tune"? Was a long time before I could not only understand the comment, but also pay the piper. Fortunately over time I learned that I was the piper and the tune caller and life really got fun!


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"You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
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"A stich in time saves nine"
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You can't spit at the heavens without them spitting back"
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"That dog won't hunt."
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"it depends on whose ox is being gorged."
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There are starving children in Africa
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Old 07-14-2012, 04:15 PM
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I remember an old expression that is gratefully dead and gone:

"Children should be seen and not heard."

Thankfully, my parents never said that-- or saw it that way!
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Reap what you sow.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by birdawg View Post
Happy wife Happy life
Your wife made you post that one....didn't she?
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Old 07-14-2012, 04:19 PM
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What goes around comes around.

Or is that expression still around?
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Old 07-14-2012, 04:24 PM
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Farmer Grandma: "You'll eat a bushel of dirt before you die."
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Old 07-14-2012, 04:27 PM
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It is not how much money you make, it is how much money you keep.

Penny earned, is a penny saved.
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