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Old 02-05-2007, 03:44 PM   #21
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Don't count your chickens until they are hatched is one my favorites, because of a James Thurber story in which he alters it to "don't count your boobies until they are hatched," a booby-hatch being a mental hospital...and a booby ALSO a type of bird...
That's a good one, Count!
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Old 02-05-2007, 03:45 PM   #22
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I wonder where "sticks and stones..." came from?
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Old 02-05-2007, 11:23 PM   #23
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sticks and stones...?
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That'd be 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me'?

I don't have a clue, really.
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Old 02-06-2007, 11:19 PM   #25
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That'd be 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me?
I like that one!
It's just like: "Life is hard, but a stone is harder..."
I love those down to earth sayings
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