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Just Clichés - one per post

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  • Started 1 year ago by HotForWords
  • Latest reply from Greatest Potential
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  1. pennsyltucky9
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    Bumper sticker on an old VW van: "I AM flooring it!"

    Posted 6 months ago #

  2. pennsyltucky9
    Member

    Terminally hip

    Posted 6 months ago #

  3. Dalek
    Member

    Money is the root of all evil

    Posted 6 months ago #

  4. Greatest Potential
    Member

    There you go quoting Nietzsche again

    Posted 6 months ago #

  5. Dalek
    Member

    Nietzsche- That's God is dead
    but, crack that whip... -Devo

    Posted 6 months ago #

  6. paljoey1957
    Member

    It is what it is.
    (sick of that one yet?)

    Posted 6 months ago #

  7. muggins
    Member

    Hate that when that happens.

    Posted 6 months ago #

  8. Greatest Potential
    Member

    Up your nose with a rubber hose.

    Posted 6 months ago #

  9. muggins
    Member

    You don't get it, do you?

    Posted 6 months ago #

  10. Greatest Potential
    Member

    Salted nuts?

    Posted 6 months ago #

  11. pennsyltucky9
    Member

    Urban assault vehicle

    Posted 6 months ago #

  12. muggins
    Member

    dead cat bounce

    Posted 6 months ago #

  13. muggins
    Member

    'nuff said.

    Posted 6 months ago #

  14. pennsyltucky9
    Member

    Game over.

    Posted 6 months ago #

  15. muggins
    Member

    It ain't over 'till the fat lady sings.

    Posted 6 months ago #

  16. pennsyltucky9
    Member

    [It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings] has already been done. How about:

    "present company excepted"

    Posted 6 months ago #

  17. pennsyltucky9
    Member

    Suit yourself.

    Or, as we say in rockclimbing, "Suture yourself."

    Posted 6 months ago #

  18. muggins
    Member

    There are 28 pages so far. There are 17 entrees on this page alone.

    bottom line:

    That's roughly around 500 cliches, total. How many people are going
    to read all of those cliches, and remember them? So, there's bound
    to be duplicates.

    Posted 6 months ago #

  19. pennsyltucky9
    Member

    @muggins: True enough, my friend. At this point the sheer number of cliches is growing a bit unwieldy to say the least. But I read them all before posting my first entries, just so I knew what was already represented. I'm not saying you should be so diligent. I'm certainly not perfect, no one is. Eventually I discovered that despite my best effort, I repeated 2 of them myself, but I'm happy to challenge anyone to figure out which ones they are. On the other hand, I probably have added 2 cliches for each one submitted by anyone else. These things stick in my mind and remain fixed there for some reason. I guess I'm a bit pathological in that regard: once I hear a cliche that resonates with my personal experience in some way, it's unlikely to escape further usage. That said, here's a quote by a person whose words I've always found well worthy of repetition:

    "Men who know not what they do should not do they know not what."

    -Abigail Adams

    What a smart girl.

    Posted 6 months ago #

  20. Greatest Potential
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    @pennsyltucky9
    not to be a stick in the mud ( as the cliché goes) but seeing as I like to have my fun and such, I must therefore point out that I already did game over

    Posted 6 months ago #

  21. pennsyltucky9
    Member

    Yep. That's one of the ones I repeated, as I said.

    "Life's just a bowl of cherries," has probably also been done already, but just in case...

    Posted 6 months ago #

  22. pennsyltucky9
    Member

    "I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you"

    -Fred Rogers

    Posted 6 months ago #

  23. Greatest Potential
    Member

    An akward moment

    Posted 6 months ago #

  24. pennsyltucky9
    Member

    A pregnant silence

    Posted 6 months ago #

  25. pennsyltucky9
    Member

    An unspecified interval

    Posted 6 months ago #

  26. pennsyltucky9
    Member

    There is a time, we know not when.
    A place, we know not where.

    That marks the destiny of man
    To glory or despair.

    -Truett Rodgers

    Posted 6 months ago #

  27. Greatest Potential
    Member

    If you ever decide to quit the railroad business, let me know.

    Posted 6 months ago #

  28. Greatest Potential
    Member

    An enigma wrapped in a mystery.

    Posted 6 months ago #

  29. muggins
    Member

    Who cut the cheese?

    Posted 6 months ago #

  30. Greatest Potential
    Member

    Whoever smelt it dealt it.

    Posted 6 months ago #

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