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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. Capman911
    Member

    If all else fails read directions.

    Posted 4 months ago #

  2. Greatest Potential
    Member

    That's the third time this week!

    Posted 4 months ago #

  3. muggins
    Member

    Not on the rug, man.

    The rug is an important issue. Even when you live in a house where they rebuild engines in the kitchen, if the rug is beyond all hope, it defines the entire environment. You walk into a house, and the first thing that catches the eye, is the rug. If you'll notice, it takes up at least a third of the eyeful of the viewer. It goes to a kinky extreme with white rugs. You're not supposed to clip your toe nails over the rug, or barf. The quote above if directly out of the film, The Big Lebowski, where the main plot is about the Dude trying to replace the rug that got peed on. It brings to mind something real to me in my life, many moons ago, where we invited a neighborhood wino into the house to try to get him to start smoking pot instead of drinking himself to death with his port. He preferred the real thin bottles that he could stash in the arm of his faux leather jacket. Anyhow, we handed him the bong, and he looked at it, and tipped it up to start drinking the fluid. "No, don't do that...oh, man not on the rug..." as you might imagine, he'd have to spit out the bong water as soon as it entered his mouth.

    Posted 4 months ago #

  4. Greatest Potential
    Member

    Waste not, want not.

    Posted 3 months ago #

  5. neuroway
    Member

    The sword is mightier than the pen.

    Posted 3 months ago #

  6. neuroway
    Member

    The more things change the less they stay the same.

    Posted 3 months ago #

  7. neuroway
    Member

    The blade is mightier than the tongue.

    Posted 3 months ago #

  8. Greatest Potential
    Member

    Old habits die hard.

    Posted 3 months ago #

  9. neuroway
    Member

    Posted 3 months ago #

  10. HalvDog
    Member

    It's not you... it's me.

    Posted 3 months ago #

  11. Greatest Potential
    Member

    just the cliché Your hearts are in the right place,

    missing tagline but your brains need to wake up.

    Posted 3 months ago #

  12. muggins
    Member

    Oh, did I say that outloud?

    Posted 3 months ago #

  13. leoNard
    Member

    How babies are made and planned abortions slaved...What to breed, is in the heat of the momment...or, rape my seed of mustard---"the steed"...birth of life and all born is[are] foundations of sexual[art.ti.ficial] and in death ...arti.Fact

    Posted 3 months ago #

  14. muggins
    Member

    It's as easy as pushin' a Cadillac uphill with a rope.

    Posted 3 months ago #

  15. neuroway
    Member

    What is Freedom? Freedom is to have the intelligence to think about whatever comes to your mind. To have the honesty to say what you think, to have the courage to do what you say, and finally, to have the strenght to face and endure the consequences.

    Posted 2 months ago #

  16. Greatest Potential
    Member

    It's not brain surgery.

    Posted 2 months ago #

  17. pennsyltucky9
    Member

    You'll pay to know what you really think!

    Posted 2 months ago #

  18. Greatest Potential
    Member

    A thundercloud doesn't suddenly appear in a clear sky.

    Posted 1 month ago #

  19. neuroway
    Member

    Sex is never a solution. But it can be entertaining.

    Posted 1 month ago #

  20. neuroway
    Member

    Entertainment doesn't solve anything. But it can be lucrative.

    Posted 1 month ago #

  21. neuroway
    Member

    Money is never a solution. But it can be a problem.

    Problems don't solve anything. But they can be time consuming.

    Time can be consumed by solving problems. But in the end, it consumes everything (including the problems and the solutions). Eh. Mundus vult decipi.

    Posted 1 month ago #

  22. Greatest Potential
    Member


    Last Rule of Politics: Kingdoms are good. Empires are evil.

    Posted 1 month ago #

  23. pennsyltucky9
    Member

    Where there's folk there's a sire.

    Posted 1 month ago #

  24. spelcheck
    Member

    Don't drink paint.

    Posted 1 month ago #

  25. neuroway
    Member

    "A frog in a well shaft seeing the sky."
    - Chinese proverb

    Posted 1 month ago #

  26. bsomebody
    Member

    I don't need a weatherman to tell me which way the wind is blowin'.

    Posted 1 month ago #

  27. katies
    Member

    Misery Loves Company

    Posted 1 month ago #

  28. leoNard
    Member

    A woman cannibal,
    by Leonhard Kern, 1650 A "frame" in a nature photograph, especially an obvious possibility such as an overhanging branch, can be a cliché.~~~~French word “cliché” comes from the sound made when the matrix is dropped into molten metal to make a printing plate. ~~~~~company incorporates
    ...rate my click...
    or how is this
    Allstates new commercial uses the words of FDR to remind America that through all the years since Allstate was founded- The only thing we have to fear
    is fear itself.
    ... (more info)

    (less info) ..... anti-cliché relates to the relative merit of any particular news story. A report that will likely garner interest in the target readership must be considered newsworthy; reporting similar trivial events does not generate a sufficient level of interest. The most prominent example of this is the Man Bites Dog paradigm. "clean as a 'pea-whistle' blown"

    Posted 1 month ago #

  29. Greatest Potential
    Member

    Posted 1 month ago #

  30. Dalek
    Member

    That needs to be on ice…

    Posted 1 month ago #

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