second-rate, b-list, rejected and poorly translated sayings and aphorisms
Thursday, November 03, 2011
The best way to eat is noisily, with lots of num-num noises. --St. Augustus the Chubby, MCCIV
Monday, October 31, 2011
Remember the good things about your friends, try to forget the bad things (unless those things are about money). --from the Portuguese ("Lembre-se das coisas boas sobre seus amigos, tentar esquecer as coisas ruins (a menos que essas coisas são sobre o dinheiro).")
Friday, October 28, 2011
The last weasel is the least weasel.
Monday, March 07, 2011
Humility is a first cousin to humidity. --from the Portuguese
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Someone else will always said it best, eventually. --not me
Monday, May 24, 2010
Turn often from your path in life to sample the local cheeseburgers.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Curling iron in the tub, Ned won't make it to the pub. -- [from the Old English]
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Cake should not be shared with anyone you are not required, morally or karmic-wise, to share cake with.
The stranger the hat, the better the attitude.
(from the crazy Dutch, "De vreemdeling de hoed, hoe beter de houding.")
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Ghosts are just dead people who missed the bus. [from the Swedish, "Spöken är bara döda människor som missade bussen."]
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Need is what Want wishes it was.
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Feed the dogs before the cats and cat pee shows up in your hats. [from the German, "Füttern Sie die Hunde vor den Katzen und Katzen pinkeln zeigt sich in Ihrem Hüte."]
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Do, or do not--just don't wake Jeff. [from the Maltese: "Do, jew ma - biss ma tranja Jeff."]
Monday, November 30, 2009
Very few men know the true meaning of blavery.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Just and fair, the noble vole--it bites at anything you stick in its hole. [from the French]
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Jello in your socks at morn will coax away the hardest corn. [from "Shamans of Sheboygin: A Cheese-State Compendium of Folk Remedies", Ethel's House Press, 1972]
Monday, November 23, 2009
Time is a river of cheese fondue and we are the croutons. [from the sayings of the 5th-century Roman poet, Ovoid]
Friday, November 20, 2009
Start your day with an enormous poop, and you can jump through any hoop!
[Catchphrase for 40s radio pitchman, Ranger Regular, maker of Ranger Regular's Rocket Fiber Supplements]
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Another day, another Doris.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Taco, burrito, cheese enchilada...If he's eaten all three, he's probably your father.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Give a man a twinkie and he'll snack for a few minutes, teach a man how to build a well-concealed underground shelter stocked with thousands of twinkies and he'll survive the coming zombie attacks. -- [overheard on a bus in Tulsa]
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Lemmings to the sea--more lemming chow for me.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
There are no stupid questions--only stupid birds.
Friday, June 12, 2009
The nose is a lot plainer on the end of somebody else's face.