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<puddle> Well, I guess I'll probably end up throwing the French fries away and just eat this box of cereal without milk instead
<schwal> it's the best way to eat cereal.
<schwal> dosn't get soggy.
<Ariamis> cereal is best eaten.
<rcombs> Ariamis++
<rcombs> revenge is a dish best served
<Ariamis> rcombs++
<Bucket> rbrushes
<rcombs> ITH (In This Hour): we leave off the important parts of idioms
<rcombs> It's like Christmas in December!
*** schwal changes topic to 'It's leave off the important parts of idioms hour | ...'
<rcombs> schwal: you wouldn't like me
<Spork> schwal: Like "A penny saved is a penny" ?
<Ariamis> hahaha
<rcombs> Spork++
<schwal> Spork: Perfect
<Ariamis> mentally filled in the blank
<Ariamis> spork++
<Ariamis> that's great
<rcombs> never thought I'd say that
<Renc> All work and no play makes jack.
<Ariamis> don't count your eggs
<rcombs> Keep your nose.
<Ariamis> it becomes a lot more ominous.
<Ariamis> Don't cut off your nose!
<Mriswith> If you can't say anything nice, don't
<rcombs> Don't make a mountain
<Ariamis> You can lead a horse to water
<Bucket> and drown it and no one will ever know.
<Ariamis> Bucket <3
<Bucket> Ariamis <3
<rcombs> why, I ought to give you a sandwich
<rcombs> (note: the important part need not be at the end)
<rcombs> Why don't you pick on someone?
<schwal> The bird gets the worm
<Ariamis> rcombs++
<schwal> Do unto others as you want.
<Mriswith> schwal++
<rcombs> No sense crying over
<Ariamis> oh my god, "a good man is hard to find" truncated
<schwal> bwahahaha
<Mriswith> A good man is?
<rcombs> looks like we'll be burning the oil tonight
<schwal> Mriswith: A good man is hard
<Shrdlu> relsqui: oh?
<rcombs> Mriswith: a good man is hard
<Ariamis> Mriswith: a good man is hard
<rcombs> schwal: dammit ninja'd
<Ariamis> Absence makes the heart grow?
<schwal> if you fight and run away, live another day.
<Ariamis> that which does not kill us makes us
<Ariamis> the bigger they are, the harder
<Ariamis> =D
<Mriswith> Throw out the baby with the bathwater
<Ariamis> "There's a time and a place"
<rcombs> Ariamis: "There's a time and place for everything."
<schwal> "Time waits."
<tomatosalad> wait, can somebody TL:DR the conversation?
<schwal> tomatosalad: topic
<tomatosalad> schwal: har har
<Bucket> boo
<Ariamis> [too many cooks] spoil the broth
<rcombs> a chain is only as strong as its link
<Ariamis> s/chain/hyrule/?
<schwal> "Never get involved in a land war"
<Ariamis> I repeat, "Don't cut off your nose" is pretty great.
<tomatosalad> "Get involved in a land war"
<tomatosalad> "Get involved in a land war in Asia"
<schwal> "Get involved in asia"
<Antipaganda> "A horse in the mouth"
<Ariamis> Antipaganda++
<rcombs> Ariamis: you mean "keep your nose [clean]"
<rcombs> a bird in the hand is worth two
<Ariamis> rcombs: don't cut off your nose to spite our face
<schwal> rcombs: Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
<Stereo> a hand is in the bush.
<rcombs> oh, did not know that one
<Ariamis> Stereo: that was a surprisingly vivid mental image
<rcombs> Stereo: nice
<relsqui> I didn't see when this started but it's great
<rcombs> a knight in [shining] armor
<OnVar> "An eye makes the world blind."
<rcombs> OnVar++
<schwal> heh
<relsqui> ... a closed mouth flies? we don't have that proverb in english I don't think
<Stereo> life is like a box.
<rcombs> relsqui: <Ariamis> cereal is best eaten, then  <rcombs> revenge is a dish best served, and it became a thing
<Ariamis> relsqui: catches no? I've heard it before
<tomatosalad> "Throw stones"
<schwal> Loose ships sink.
<Ariamis> it's vagina euphemism hour in Stereo
<tomatosalad> Ariamis: ew
<rcombs> those who live in glass houses shouldn't
<Ariamis> rcombs++++
<Mriswith> rcombs++
<Stereo> the bird gets the worm.
<schwal> Stereo: Beat you to that one.
<feriority> may you live in time
<Ori> every pot has.
<rcombs> a picture is worth a thousand
<Stereo> oh. well, i didn't read everything
<Renc> Do unto others.
<feriority> Renc: "then run"
<Renc> lol
<Shrdlu> Do others as you would have them do you.
* Ariamis snrk
<OnVar> "Every rose thorn"
<Stereo> it's like calling the kettle black.
<Ariamis> Shrdlu++
<rcombs> a rose by any other name smells
<OnVar> Hah
<relsqui> Bucket: remember Ariamis stereo
<Bucket> Okay, relsqui, remembering "it's vagina euphemism hour in Stereo".
<Mriswith> Never judge a book
<Ariamis> it's an ill wind that blows nobody
<rcombs> Mriswith: "judge a book by its cover", but yours is also good
<Mriswith> rcombs: I like yours better
<Ariamis> Every cloud has silver.
<OnVar> "A picture is worth words."
<rcombs> a watched pot boils
<Renc> Don't count your chickens.
<rcombs> OnVar++ yours is far better than mine
<Ariamis> Renc: had that one
<OnVar> :D
<Renc> I feel like we should be putting these in a factoid.
<OnVar> Corrupted proverbs?
<Ariamis> Truncated? Shortened?
<Ariamis> next up in #xkcd: proverb concatenation hour
<Renc> I thought truncated but that doesn't seem right when you remove words from the middle
<Mriswith> I want to start adding badly misspelled idioms to this. Like: It takes a village to raze a cild
<Ariamis> hahahahahaha YES
<rcombs> a wolf in sheep's
<relsqui> if you guys are going to go off on a good running gag for a while, someone start the factoid
<schwal> A cat may king.
<rcombs> Renc: it's "remove the important bit"
<Ariamis> relsqui, I'm worried that we're going to run out soon
<Renc> so "corrupted"
<rcombs> I'm going down a list: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a.html
<schwal> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proverbial_phrases
<Ariamis> rcombs: the only reason I recognise that list is
<WassPord> "A bird in hand is worth" 
<Antipaganda> under the sun
<Ariamis> Don't teach your grandma to suck.
<schwal> "You eat"
<OnVar> "A place for its place."
<rcombs> Ariamis: "teach your grandma to suck"
<schwal> "you are too old to learn"
<bk> "A stitch saves."
<relsqui> screw your courage.
<feriority> Better never.
<rcombs> all that glitters is gold
<OnVar> "Time saves."
<feriority> bk: Stitch saves nine
<feriority> (disney headlines)
<Mriswith> "Youth is wasted"
<bk> feriority: booo
<rcombs> come to he who waits
<Ariamis> Mriswith: Shouldn't that be "Youth are wasted"?
<rcombs> feriority++
<Ariamis> rcombs++
<Bucket> rbrushes
<relsqui> sticks and stones hurt me.
<schwal> "You can't make an omelette"
<Ori> now do this for laws of thermodynamics
<rcombs> an eye for a tooth
<relsqui> schwal: haha
<feriority> schwal: it... it's true
<relsqui> hahaha
<feriority> it always ends up scrambled
<Ariamis> rcombs: that's how we escalate!
<Mriswith> "What goes, comes"
<rcombs> an offer he can't [ref]use
<feriority> good things come
<Ariamis> imo the best so far is "People who live in glass houses shouldn't"
<schwal> "You win them all"
<rcombs> Ariamis: that was mine! :D
<Ariamis> haha yes
<feriority> God helps themselves
<Ariamis> rcombs: never say that at a paternity test
<relsqui> have your cake and eat it.
<OnVar> "All publicity is publicity."
<feriority> great minds think
<relsqui> fuck the horse
<tomatosalad> relsqui: wait, wahat
<uberushaximus> all news is news
<schwal> 0_o
<bk> "Great minds think"
<rcombs> as fast as grease[d lightning]
<relsqui> tomatosalad: "... you and the ... you rode in on"
<bk> dammit feriority 
<schwal> "Carry a big stick"
<tomatosalad> relsqui: ohhhhhh
<schwal> Ah.
<feriority> make war
<Bucket> screw love!
<Ariamis> relsqui: that's creative, sure enough
<bk> "Cleanliness is next"
<Ori> you have nothing to fear
<Ariamis> "Make not war" is okay to.
<schwal> What goes around comes
<Ariamis> bk++
<Ariamis> too* aaaaa
<Ori> err there's nothing to fear.
<tomatosalad> "Make war"
<rcombs> ask a silly question and you'll get an answer
<Renc> "Make [...] war"
<feriority> one man's treasure is trash
<Renc> dammit
<schwal> "When in Rome, do the Romans"
<relsqui> yesss
<Mriswith> "The hand that rocks rules the world"
<rcombs> schwal++++++++
<rcombs> hasta la baby
<uberushaximus> Don't horse in the mouth
<feriority> the grass is on the fence
<OnVar> schwal wins.
<rcombs> ask for whom the bell tolls
<Ariamis> schwal++++++
<WassPord> "A bird in hand is worth the bush."
<WassPord> to fix my previous one :p
<OnVar> "The grass /is/ the other side."
<Ariamis> WassPord: Stereo already broke that one, "A hand in the bush"
<uberushaximus> far out
<Ariamis> OnVar: yes!
<schwal> "Muck is brass"
<WassPord> Ariamis: alrighty then
<rcombs> feriority: #walkie talkie# THE GRASS IS ON THE FENCE #BUZZ#
<relsqui> don't make a right.
<tomatosalad> "2 wrongs make a right"
<rcombs> back to the drawing
<feriority> dogs lie
<relsqui> hope for the worst
<Ariamis> feriority++
<schwal> "Wonders will cease"
<Bucket> That would be a good name for a band.
<schwal> >_<
<relsqui> keep your friends closer.
<Ariamis> it actually would
<OnVar> "Sick, dog." (Sick as a dog.)
<rcombs> beat [around] the bush
<Ariamis> rcombs, nonono
<relsqui> god helps themselves.
<Stereo> don't throw out [the baby with the] bathwater.
<schwal> "Worrying did good"
<OnVar> Throw out the baby?
<rcombs> beat the living [daylights] out of him
<Ariamis> rcombs++
<Bucket> rbrushes
<relsqui> if you beat 'em, join 'em.
<relsqui> one man is another man
<rcombs> behind every great man is a great
<feriority> the best mice go awry
<schwal> "Company is a crowd"
<rcombs> alt: behind every man is a woman
<Mriswith> Misery loves.
<Stereo> man is an island.
<puddle> give a man a fish
<rcombs> the best laid schemes of mice
<uberushaximus> teach a man to feed
<rcombs> better to never have loved at all
<schwal> "To err is devine"
<puddle> just...load up a burlap sack and throw them everywhere downtown
<feriority> spare the child
<relsqui> beauty is in the eye
<rcombs> Beware of Greeks [bearing gifts]
<schwal> "Those who learn history are doomed"
<relsqui> hahaha
<relsqui> good things wait
<rcombs> relsqui: good things come
<Shrdlu> rcombs: beware of bear gifts
<rcombs> birds of a feather flock
<relsqui> !
<rcombs> Shrdlu++
<schwal> "Deaf will not hear"
<relsqui> if you want, do it yourself
<rcombs> the blind leading [the blind]
<Stereo> look a horse in the teeth.
<Mriswith> Thanks to that phrase list, I believe I have found myself a new /nick
<rcombs> blood[, sweat,] and tears
<schwal> "There is no time"
<Stereo> there is no present.  cake is a lie.
<uberushaximus> there is no place
<schwal> "There is no such thing as lunch"
<Shrdlu> schwal: actually I like "there is no present" better
<rcombs> too big for [your] boots
<Mriswith> Well, maybe. Can our /nicks have spaces in them?
<Ori> "Silence is."
<schwal> Shrdlu: Heh, good one.
<Shrdlu> because then you can say "there is no paaast" and relsqui goes "dammit shrdlu"
<rcombs> born with a spoon in your mouth
<schwal> Mriswith: underscores
<Bucket> underscores is a personal thing
<WassPord> Ori: that reminds me of that finnish saying, "Elämä on." (Life is)
<OnVar> "Something, something, something, blue."
<rcombs> bread always falls [buttered side] down
<feriority> I am become the world
<rcombs> bring the bacon
<relsqui> mmm
<Ariamis> we may be running low now
<OnVar> rcombs: That can just be simplified to "Bacon."
<puddle> Everyone likes sausage until they see how
<feriority> fight fire
<rcombs> feriority: fight with fire
<feriority> rcombs: I like yours better
*** Mriswith is now known as Jack_Trades
<rcombs> Ariamis: I'm only on B
<puddle> honey attracts flies
<rcombs> Call a spade
<Jack_Trades> I am now Jack Trades, Master on None
<OnVar> "A penny thoughts."
<Stereo> it'll be cold in hell.
<Jack_Trades> err, Master OF None. Stupid fingers...
<Shrdlu> you'll catch more honey with vinegar
<relsqui> haha
<relsqui> :)
<schwal> "The road to hell is paved with good"
<Walther> Bucket: remember Shrdlu vinegar
<Bucket> Okay, Walther, remembering "you'll catch more honey with vinegar".
<rcombs> children should be seen and heard
<Shrdlu> Bucket: forget that
<Bucket> Okay, Shrdlu, forgot that Shrdlu quotes <reply> <Shrdlu> you'll catch more honey with vinegar
<puddle> there's no business like business
<rcombs> close your eyes and think [of England]
<feriority> you can't teach a dog tricks
<relsqui> have a nail.
<schwal> "End the means"
<puddle> Rome wasn't built
<feriority> like taking a baby
<Ori> between a rock.
<OnVar> "The customer is always"
<rcombs> coming in on a wing [and a prayer]
<schwal> "Idle hands are the plaything"
<Stereo> hands are the devil's.
<rcombs> curiosity killed
<feriority> idle hands play
<rcombs> cut the chase
<schwal> "Schemes of mice often go awry"
<puddle> a penny saved is a penny.
<relsqui> all play makes jack a dull boy
<Lhyzz> The apple doesn't fall far.
<tomatosalad> "Far fall from the tree"
<schwal> [the age of] miracles is past
<relsqui> better to have lost than loved.
<tomatosalad> relsqui: that sounds like a terrible emo band lyric
<Walther> you're not doing it right, you're just reversing the ones
<Lhyzz> "Diamonds are a best friend."
<Walther> Shrdlu at least twisted the meaning
<relsqui> Walther: I'm not! that was very careful
<schwal> "Set a thief to catch"
<rcombs> as different as cheese
<Ariamis> "Diamonds are best."
<Shrdlu> Walther: even if you were the arbiter I don't know why I would be the reference implementation
<schwal> "Shrouds have pockets"
<rcombs> have them do unto you
<relsqui> Walther: better to have (loved and) lost than (never to have) loved (at all)
<rcombs> better: have them do you
<Walther> Shrdlu: because you omitted the flies that are the actual "important" part of the sentence
<Jack_Trades> "'Tis better to have lost, than never to have"
<Ariamis> ++++++
<Walther> relsqui: ...ohwait, yes
<Shrdlu> Walther: I mean, I remember what joke I made
<schwal> "Spare the rod and the child"
<Walther> schwal++
<Bucket> schwalbe
<relsqui> Walther: hmph
<rcombs> a dog is a man's
<feriority> "rod the child"
<Bucket> http://rodthechild.tumblr.com/
<relsqui> schwal: that's a good one
<Bucket> Thanks, I try.
<Lhyzz> Nobody here gets to decide how to do it "right" -- don't redo other people's attempts like you could do it better. It's pretty dickish.
<Walther> relsqui: sorry :< it's still just 09:25 in the morning
<puddle> the more things, the more they stay the same
<Walther> yesyesyes sorry guys!
<relsqui> eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow.
<Walther> you're all awesome!
<Bucket> Except Mriswith.
* Walther hugs all
<Ariamis> puddle: I like it, some kind of entropy-gravity law.
<Walther> no bad feelings right?
<rcombs> don't look a gift horse
<Ariamis> don't look in the mouth
<rcombs> don't look in the mouth
<Ariamis> seriously, don't
<feriority> House cannot stand
<Ariamis> rcombs is in there
<rcombs> Ariamis: ^5
<Lhyzz> don't look a horse in the  mouth
<schwal> "Red at night, shepherds warning"
<rcombs> Lhyzz++ best
<Walther> Sweet home.
<feriority> "Look, a horse!"
<rcombs> down in the dump[s]
<Shrdlu> schwal: red touches black, you're a dead fellow
<schwal> Shrdlu: Don't know that one.
<Lhyzz> Kiss frogs.
<Ariamis> You played with my heart!
<Walther> Sweet dreams are made.
<feriority> "brevity is wit"
<relsqui> give a man himself
<Walther> Teach a man to fish.
<relsqui> fences make good.
<puddle> if at first you succeed, try, try again
<feriority> beauty is skin
<Walther> Gras is greenr.
<schwal> "Procrastination is time"
<relsqui> can we do it on a letter level instead of a word level?
<rcombs> eeney meeney miney
<relsqui> if so, hell hath no fury like a scone.
* Ariamis pages up for what seems like forever
<rcombs> relsqui: sure, and nice
<Walther> hm, my left hand seems weak. re: Grass is green.
<Ariamis> relsqui++
<Bucket> Okay, Ariamis, relsqui's karma is now 656.
<Lhyzz> "Brevity."
<rcombs> relsqui: but I think it's better with words in general
<Ariamis> hahahahahaha, Lhyzz++
<relsqui> yeah, agreed
<rcombs> relsqui: as a rule "if it's funny it goes"
<feriority> blood is thick
<schwal> "Old soldiers die"
<Lhyzz> "Grass is always on the other side."
<rcombs> Elvis has left
<Ariamis> schwal++ =(
<Ariamis> schwal and Lhyzz are on fire
<Walther> Lhyzz++
<Walther> (btw we need to quote all these at the end)
<Shrdlu> live fast, die good-looking
<schwal> "One who lives, dies by the sword"
<relsqui> those who can, teach.
<rcombs> the face that launched
<relsqui> any job is worth doing well.
<Ariamis> relsqui, I like it.
<Shrdlu> The perfect is good.
<Ariamis> you only live once
<uberushaximus> the hand that feeds
<Walther> uberushaximus: or, don't bite the hand
<rcombs> it fell off the back
<rcombs> uberushaximus: that's already an idiom
<rcombs> Ariamis--
<Renc> the pen is mightier
<feriority> pain, gain
<schwal> "Never put off today"
<Walther> the pen is a sword
<uberushaximus> the mightier sword
<feriority> power, absolutely
<Walther> feriority++
<Ariamis> schwal: yes!
<rcombs> fi, fie, fo, fum, I smell blood
<schwal> "Never speak of the dead"
<relsqui> no one can make you consent.
<Ori> Don't drink and drive, smoke.
<rcombs> flying by the seat
<feriority> things come in packages
<Walther> :D
<Antipaganda> fly by your pants
<Lhyzz> If you have nothing to say, don't say anything.
<Stereo> good things come?
<Ariamis> relsqui, that made me realise this corruption: "your kink is not okay"
<relsqui> D:
<Ariamis> lhyzz++, feriority++
<Ariamis> so much karma in here
<Ori> PF haha, Lhyzz
<relsqui> *several* of my kinks are okay
<rcombs> forgive them for they know what they do
<schwal> "Many a word is spoken"
<Walther> Lhyzz: hm, wait, isn't that already an idiom as is?
<relsqui> Walther: "nothing nice"
<Walther> Ah
<rcombs> Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me ears
<Walther> right :D
<Ariamis> "Silence."
<Walther> There is no lunch.
<Lhyzz> Walther: it's missing the word "nice"
<Antipaganda> Science is golden.
<schwal> "Many hands make work"
<Walther> Antipaganda++
<feriority> truth is strange
<Bucket> "Truth Is Strange" would be a good name for a band.
<Renc> truth is fiction
<schwal> "Mighty acorns grow"
<rcombs> genius is 99 percent perspiration
<Lhyzz> "Like a cat in a room."
<rcombs> better: genis is 1 percent perspiration
<Ariamis> Renc: niiice
<Ariamis> "Way to skin a cat!"
<Walther> heh
<schwal> "More speed!"
<rcombs> give a man a fish and you will feed him
<Renc> there's more than one cat
<Walther> teach a fish to man
<feriority> strokes great oaks
<relsqui> teach a fish for the rest of his life
<schwal> "Music has to soothe the savage beast" Or else we are totally screwed.
<rcombs> going in a hand basket
<Ariamis> relsqui++
<Bucket> relsqui is DESU KOMMANDANT
<Lhyzz> "Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a lifetime."
<relsqui> haha
<Renc> give a man a fish and you'll set him on fire
<schwal> "Laugh and the world weeps"
<uberushaximus> teach a man to fire a fish
<rcombs> take it with [a grain of] salt
<feriority> if you give a mouse, he'll ask for milk
<Walther> take it with grain
<feriority> you can't stand the kitchen
<Ariamis> Spend money on the [things which sit between you and the] ground.
<schwal> "Little strokes great oaks"
<rcombs> hard cases make [bad] law
<schwal> "Keep dry"
<Ariamis> Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day, set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life
<schwal> [your powder]
<rcombs> he who laughs [last] laughs [longest]
<feriority> offense is the best
<schwal> "If anything can, it will"
<Walther> schwal++ <3
<Ariamis> schwal++
<Renc> Never squat [with your spurs on]
<feriority> speak loud words
<Walther> Bucket: broken <reply> If anything can, it will.
<Bucket> Okay, Walther.
<schwal> "If god had meant to fly, he would have wings"
<Walther> I think I am
<rcombs> hell hath no fury like a woman [scorned]
<relsqui> schwal: ha
<Ariamis> hell hath no woman
<Walther> hell hath no woman
<relsqui> nice.
<phthano> "A hand in the bush is worth two in the bird."
* Ariamis hi5 Walther 
* Walther ^5's Ariamis 
<Walther> :D
<Ariamis> :D
<schwal> "Hell hath no scorn"
<Renc> The grass is always greener.
<feriority> the gods die young
<rcombs> phthano: that's not removing, that's rearranging
<Walther> rcombs: still funny, so whta gives :D
<phthano> rcombs: That's fair.
<rcombs> honesty is the best
<puddle> if you're happy you know your hands
<feriority> you can't make a silk sow
<schwal> "If you cannot stand, get out of the kitchen"
<rcombs> A horse, a horse, my kingdom
<phthano> "Don't look a horse in the mouth."
<Renc> you can lead a horse to water, make it drink
<Walther> don't look in the mouth
<uberushaximus> Don't horse in the mouth
<phthano> "Don't mouth."
<relsqui> rcombs: a horse for a horse
<Renc> you can't drink
<Kliment> The bird gets the worm
<relsqui> rcombs: (... leaves the whole world blind?)
<rcombs> <_<
<rcombs> lulz
<Antipaganda> only the good die
<schwal> relsqui: Leaves the whole world walking.
<Kliment> Keep your friends close and your enemies
<rcombs> I have nothing to offer but blood and tears
<Antipaganda> a shoe for a shoe leaves the whole world shuffling in circles
<rcombs> if you can't stand the heat, get out
<Renc> a shoe for a shoe leaves the whole world with one shoe that doesn't fit
<Kliment> Abandon all hope, Yahoo, enter here
<Ariamis> walk a mile in shoes
<puddle> okay, I'm cheating and googling a website
<feriority> the darkest hour is the dawn
<relsqui> puddle: that's okay, so is everyone else
<Kliment> I'm not
<Bucket> Only the true Messiah denies His divinity!
<Kliment> He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!
<schwal> "It is better to curse"
<phthano> puddle: Websites are mostly the things I google.
<rcombs> The true Messiah denies divinity
<schwal> "It is no use locking the horse"
<Kliment> A penny saved is a penny
<rcombs> it ain't over till the lady sings
<rcombs> alt: it ain't over till the fat sings
<feriority> money is the root of all
<Kliment> Too many cooks the broth
<rcombs> it's better to [give than to] receive
<schwal> "Half a loaf is bread"
<rcombs> it's better to [light a candle than] curse the darkness
<schwal> "Hard work did harm"
<Ariamis> I still like "A good man is hard".
<Kliment> All work and play leaves Jack a dull boy.
<Antipaganda> kill you, makes you stronger.
<Renc> I still like "All work makes jack"
<rcombs> Jack of all trades, master
<Quix0te> Nice guys finish.
<relsqui> Quix0te: guys finish last.
<feriority> it's no use crying milk
<relsqui> feriority: augh
<relsqui> true
<Quix0te> relsqui: touché
<schwal> "Give a man rope"
<rcombs> feriority: that is far better than mine earlier
<puddle> Don't cut off your face
<Kliment> Let dogs lie
<rcombs> keep a stiff lip
<uberushaximus> keep a stiff
<feriority> it is better to recieve
<rcombs> feriority: already had that one
<rcombs> everything but the kitchen
<schwal> "Fools in angels"
<feriority> a stone gathers moss
<puddle> Absolute power absolutely!
<puddle> :D
<feriority> measure and cut once
<schwal> "Failing to plan is planning"
<rcombs> life's not all beer
<rcombs> alt: life's not all skittles
<feriority> fish rots the head
<rcombs> like a chicken with its head
<feriority> a friend is a friend
<schwal> "Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow"
<Quix0te> Idle are The Devil's playthings.
<feriority> schwal: "eat, drink, and be merry tomorrow"
<uberushaximus> hands are the devil
<Savitry> "The sun always"
<Bucket> "The Sun Always" would make a good name for a band.
<feriority> if it broke, fix it
<schwal> "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die" is wikipedias version.
<puddle> when in Roman, do the Romans
<rcombs> make him an offer he can refuse
<puddle> Rome
<puddle> <_<
<Savitry> if you're already in the roman..
<rcombs> Savitry++
<Quix0te> Don't say ain't a word
<schwal> "Do not make a mole hill"
<relsqui> unless you're a mole
<relsqui> then it's okay
<schwal> Fuck moles.
<relsqui> haha
<feriority> the cat's mice will play
<puddle> There's no such thing as lunch.
<Quix0te> Don't say ain't ain't a word
<Quix0te> duh
<relsqui> puddle: haha
<Renc> It is better to have lost than to have loved at all
<rcombs> misery acquaints strange bedfellows
<Quix0te> Renc++
<Ori> If muhammed doesn't come to the mountain.
<maxh> Then we're utterly fucked.
<rcombs> Ori: "the mountain doesn't come to muhammed"
<schwal> "Caesar['s wife] must be above suspicion"
<rcombs> Necessity is the mother
<tomatosalad> is this still happening?
<schwal> "Children should be seen and heard"
<rcombs> man is an island
<feriority> birds flock
<Quix0te> last one's a rotten egg!
<rcombs> not playing with a [full] deck
<feriority> "do it yourself"
<rcombs> nothing is certain but taxes
<rcombs> alt: nothing is certain but death
<schwal> "barking dogs bite"
<rcombs> Oh, they have slain LadyMondegreen
<relsqui> rcombs: haha
<puddle> You can't always want.
<schwal> "Better the devil"
<feriority> puddle: but sometimes you can need
<Quix0te> puddle: but if you get what you need?
<LadyMondegreen> rcombs: and the Earl o' Moray
<schwal> "All ends"
<feriority> you made your bed, now lie
<rcombs> one does not make a summer
<Quix0te> Early bed to rise!
<rcombs> ([swallow])
<puddle> An apple keeps the doctor.
<feriority> revenge is cold
<puddle> Rolling gathers moss.
<rcombs> [over]paid, [over]sexed, over here
<mdia> Every dog has.
<rcombs> feriority: good one; similar to the original in here ("Revenge is a dish best served")
<schwal> "All roads lead"
<Renc> if you lie down with dogs, you'll wake up [with fleas]
<AlcariTheMad> With devotion's visage and pious action we do the devil himself.
<Renc> All who wander are lost.
<feriority> when you seek revenge, dig
<schwal> "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is men"
<rcombs> a plague on [both] your house[s]
<feriority> schwal++
<rcombs> schwal++
<puddle> A drowning man will clutch.
<mdia> Eyes are windows.
<rcombs> the pot calling the kettle
<Quix0te> Are you what I am?
* schwal gets out his book of latin proverbs
<Walther> I came [saw, won]
<rcombs> I need sleep; night guys. Someone PLEASE xkcdb this epicosity <-- (Note: I ended up doing it :3)
<rcombs> 'night all
<Bucket> 'night rcombs
<Quix0te> heh
<Walther> revenge is served
<Bucket> http://revengeisserved.tumblr.com/
<schwal> "[Fear, not] Kindness restrains the wicked"
<Quix0te> that's gonna be either a long-ass quote or a whole bunch of them
<Kliment> Revenge is a dish.
<Quix0te> Is a dish best served cold?
<schwal> "[It's too late to] ask advice when danger comes"
<Ori> Pudding is a dish best served cold.
<Ori> To bring this thread to its conclusion.
<schwal> Okay, I can't think of how to twist it, but "It's better to profit by a horrible example than to be one"
<Kliment> schwal: It's a horrible example to be.
<schwal> Good one
<Walther> profit by a horrible one
<Renc> it's better to profit
<schwal> "If fortune wants to do you [in], she makes you stupid"
<Kliment> Luck favors the man.
<feriority> cheaters prosper
<feriority> (alternatively, crime pays)
<Quix0te> Only you can help forest fires.
<Kliment> Oh, we're doing quotes now?
<Kliment> The market can remain irrational for longer.
<Walther> Dumb [ways] to die
<AlcariTheMad> fools rush in where angels tread.
<Kliment> [than you can remain solvent]
<Kliment> The devil quotes scripture.
<Walther> A friend is in need.
<Walther> reads like the devil
<Quix0te> Friends don't let friends drive.
<Walther> Friends don't let friends.
<Walther> (let as in rent, iirc that word had that meaning as well?)
<relsqui> sure. room to let.
<Quix0te> is that a Britishism? I've never heard it
<Walther> probably
<AlcariTheMad> those whom gods would destroy, they first make
<feriority> relsqui: I don't get that one
<relsqui> if you had a really good NLP engine you could generate these programatically
<relsqui> it wouldn't be able to gauge funny but it would be better at weird than we are
<relsqui> feriority: that wasn't a proverb
<Walther> relsqui: ...neurolinguistic programming? not sure how that applies here :P=
<Quix0te> NLP?
<feriority> oh, wait, that wasn't - right
<relsqui> juts saying "room to let" is an expression
<feriority> natural language processing
<schwal> "Everybody lives; [not] everybody deserves to."
<relsqui> what feriority said
<Walther> schwal: <3
<Quix0te> When in Rome, do the Romans.
<Ori> Swallow [your pride].
<schwal> "A man must have some wit [to know that he is a fool]"
<Walther> A man must have a fool
<schwal> I like this one as it is, but feel free to twist it. "If only we would become when well the men we promised to become when sick" -Pliny the younger
<AlcariTheMad> Nymph, in thy / Be all my sins.
<Kliment> If only we would become men when sick.
<schwal> "He preferred [being] a good man [to looking like one]"
<Kliment> Sticks and stones can break my words.
<puddle> what if every cloud had a stomach lining instead of a silver one
<Quix0te> More electricity than I need, or lettuce dreams.
<Kliment> puddle: Raining diarrhea?
<puddle> it could happen in certain Stephen King-like universes
<Quix0te> meh
<Kliment> puddle: YOu mean Salvador Dalí-like universes
<schwal> I think we just found this channel's new motto: "Exuberance is easily corrected, dullness is incurable"
<schwal> "It's best to do [favors for] people with good memories"
<AlcariTheMad> [Don't] stick your dick in crazy.
<Walther> Kliment: sticks and stones may break
<schwal> relsqui: :D
<relsqui> hee
<schwal> A way darker version just occurred to me: "Drink, for tomorrow we die."
<relsqui> eat and we die
<Walther> schwal: what's the original?
<schwal> Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die
<Quix0te> Drink and marry tomorrow
<Quix0te> homophones allowed? *shrug*
<Stereo> Tomorrow, we dine.
<Stereo> and the day after.
<schwal> heh "Everyone would have thought him fit to rule if only he never had"
<AlcariTheMad> Do others as you wish others to do you.
<relsqui> there's nothing under the sun
<Stereo> The emperor has clothes.
<Kliment> The dead live king.
<schwal> Okay, we've kept an hour going for 2 hours, I think that's a record.
<Kliment> The [king is] dead[, long] live [the] king.
<Kliment> God the Queen.
<Bucket> http://godthequeen.tumblr.com/
<schwal> "Cry and let slip the dogs"
<Kliment> Live and let.
<Quix0te> I like the deserts, Miss Rain.
<schwal> Don't know that one.
<Quix0te> it's an old song by a group called Everything But the Girl, often misattributed to Sade
<Quix0te> so clearly you can see how little steam I'm running off of, here :P
<relsqui> schwal: cry and let the dogs war
<schwal> heh
<Savitry> As above, so below, there is no love
<Walther> Baby don't hurt me.
<Bucket> no more
<uberushaximus> What is love?
<relsqui> all's in love
<Walther> Time likes an arrow.
<Kliment> Fruit like a banana
<schwal> Fruit likes a banana
<schwal> dammit
<Walther> Time flies like a banana?
<schwal> fruit
<Savitry> A bird in the hand is worth the bush.
<Walther> a hand in the bush is worth it?
<Walther> killing two birds with one scone
<Savitry> what can you do with water under the bridge
<Savitry> the bigger they are the harder [they fall]
<Savitry> We got off [on the] wrong [foot], Walther
<Savitry> keep your chin.