Cliché overload

Scooter · Post by **Scooter** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:59 am

I was composing an email to someone and at one point realized that I had written, "They will have to eat their words if they hear right from the horse's mouth that they have the wrong end of the stick on this."

For a second I wondered whether I had been transported into that episode of Bewitched where Endora casts a spell on Darrin that makes him speak in nothing but clichés.

Burning Petard · Post by **Burning Petard** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:51 pm

Cliches become cliches because they contain a common truth.

snailgate

RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:43 pm

Hmm. There's more to this than meets the eye.

Long Run · Post by **Long Run** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 5:13 pm

I need to chew on this one before I hazard a guess.

RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 5:29 pm

Good. Run it up the flagpole once you've digested all the details.

Sue U · Post by **Sue U** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 6:18 pm

You need to start thinking outside the box, Scooter.

Joe Guy · Post by **Joe Guy** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 7:18 pm

I cried because all I could think to write was cliches until I met a man with no feet.

Econoline · Post by **Econoline** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 7:57 pm

Yeah, Joe, that happened to me once too. I figured that was a good opportunity to walk a mile in his shoes.

Scooter · Post by **Scooter** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 8:00 pm

I think you people are all wet, and your comments aren't worth the paper they're written on.

Gob · Post by **Gob** » Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:19 am

Hurry up Scooter, time and tide wait for no man.

MajGenl.Meade · Post by **MajGenl.Meade** » Fri Feb 09, 2018 11:48 am

Gob wrote:Hurry up Scooter, time and tide wait for no man.

Since no man is an island and still waters run deep, is no man in imminent danger of becoming a drowned rat?

Burning Petard · Post by **Burning Petard** » Fri Feb 09, 2018 1:44 pm

Walk a mile in his shoes, and then he is barefoot and a mile away. There are two kinds of people in the world, me and everybody else.

snailgate

Bicycle Bill · Post by **Bicycle Bill** » Fri Feb 09, 2018 1:59 pm

Burning Petard wrote: There are two kinds of people in the world, me and everybody else.

Is that the motto — in Russian, of course — on Trump's coat of arms?

-"BB"-

Big RR · Post by **Big RR** » Fri Feb 09, 2018 5:27 pm

В мире есть два вида людей: я и все остальные.

RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Fri Feb 09, 2018 8:24 pm

Big RR wrote:В мире есть два вида людей: я и все остальные.

V mire yest' dva vida lyudey: ya i vse ostal'nyye.

Joe Guy · Post by **Joe Guy** » Fri Feb 09, 2018 8:34 pm

que sera sera

Econoline · Post by **Econoline** » Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:24 pm

Ob-la-di, ob-la-da.

ex-khobar Andy · Post by **ex-khobar Andy** » Sat Feb 10, 2018 3:30 am

I can assure you that no-one cares about this sort of thing around here. Yes siree Bob: that dog don't hunt in this neck of the woods.

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