# Game: Put the common saying into a modern/alternate context **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2006, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-put-the-common-saying-into-a-modern-alternate-context/352498 "2006-04-13T08:11:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-put-the-common-saying-into-a-modern-alternate-context/352498/21 "2006-04-13T22:18:48Z")
Don’t upset the apple-trademark. Never judge a program by its manufacturer’s web pages. Old coders never die, they just become management which is much worse. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-put-the-common-saying-into-a-modern-alternate-context/352498/22 "2006-04-13T22:33:46Z")
[QUOTE=Bippy the Beardless] A check in the hand is worth two in the mail. [/QUOTE] Ain’t that the truth!!! Great creations all. I especially like this one **Bippy** , hope you don’t mind if I steal it. (because I’m going to steal it anyway! :)) ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-put-the-common-saying-into-a-modern-alternate-context/352498/23 "2006-04-14T08:21:35Z")
An apple a day keeps Bill Gates away. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-put-the-common-saying-into-a-modern-alternate-context/352498/24 "2006-04-14T12:22:04Z")
Two many cooks made a Celebrity Cookoff Show. No use crying over unsold Enron stock. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-put-the-common-saying-into-a-modern-alternate-context/352498/25 "2006-04-14T12:31:40Z")
ET, text message home. (I know it’s not an old saying, but this is how my mind works) ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-put-the-common-saying-into-a-modern-alternate-context/352498/26 "2006-04-14T17:08:00Z")
Go ahead and use any of them. I’m reading **Eats, Shites & Leaves** Crap English and how to use it. It has a section of Contemporary Proverbs all credited to Anon. from the book… A fool and his money are soon partying. Soup should be seen and not heard. All work and no play makes Jack a rich boy. ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-put-the-common-saying-into-a-modern-alternate-context/352498/27 "2006-04-14T20:14:14Z")
Two wrongs don’t make a right…but 3 lefts do. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-put-the-common-saying-into-a-modern-alternate-context/352498/28 "2006-04-14T20:39:37Z")
My way, or the information superhighway. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-put-the-common-saying-into-a-modern-alternate-context/352498/29 "2006-04-14T21:12:49Z")
A source code of a thousand lines, begins with a single loop. A problem shared is a problem you can blame on the other guy’s incompetence. There is nothing so foolish as the blonde leading the blonde. (one from my Sister in law) A woman’s place is in the wrong. All is fair in love and war. But at least in war you are protected by the Geniva Convention. Behind every great woman there is a great ass. Better the version you know, than the beta you don’t. ---
**Author:** ![MissMossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-put-the-common-saying-into-a-modern-alternate-context/352498/30 "2006-04-15T02:15:47Z")
Cecil has left the SDMB. Running around like a frat boy with his keg all gone. Spare the therapist, screw up the child for life. There’s more than one way to google a website. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-put-the-common-saying-into-a-modern-alternate-context/352498/31 "2006-04-15T02:36:28Z")
“Let them read spam!” Marvin the Martian Internet investor: “Where’s the .com boom? There’s supposed to be a loud, earth-shattering .com boom!” ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-put-the-common-saying-into-a-modern-alternate-context/352498/32 "2006-04-15T07:57:04Z")
The Journey Of A Thousand Miles begins with the X-raying of your Luggage He who LOLs last has the slowest internet connection Rome: Total War wasn’t coded in a single day Now you’re cooking with Napalm Don’t count your cheques before they’ve cleared Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they can cancel each other out The Digital Camera Never Lies (Unless it’s been near anyone with Photoshop) As the Aeroplane flies (referring to distance) Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he’ll outsource all the work to China for considerably less money and effort. ---
**Author:** ![Ms.Spunkmuffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ms.Spunkmuffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms.Spunkmuffin)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-put-the-common-saying-into-a-modern-alternate-context/352498/33 "2006-04-15T08:02:21Z")
In the spirit of being PC, “the visually impaired leading the visually impaired”. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-put-the-common-saying-into-a-modern-alternate-context/352498/34 "2006-04-17T18:54:52Z")
[QUOTE=Martini Enfield] Don’t count your cheques before they’ve cleared. [/QUOTE] Excellent, I was trying to think of a good one for that phrase. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-put-the-common-saying-into-a-modern-alternate-context/352498/35 "2006-04-17T19:23:15Z")
There’s going to be the source code to debug. (kudos for any who get what phrase I’m adapting.) ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-put-the-common-saying-into-a-modern-alternate-context/352498/36 "2006-04-17T19:56:44Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] There’s going to be the source code to debug. (kudos for any who get what phrase I’m adapting.) [/QUOTE] There’s going to be the devil to pay? You can’t make a working database without breaking normal form. God is on the side of the biggest lies. Nerds of a feather MORPG together. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-put-the-common-saying-into-a-modern-alternate-context/352498/37 "2006-04-17T20:11:51Z")
You got it, **Bippy**. 😉 I just didn’t think that most computer savvy people realized that paying the Devil wasn’t about money, but about nasty, demanding work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-put-the-common-saying-into-a-modern-alternate-context/352498.md?page=1)