# He who knows little often repeats it **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 24, 2002, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-who-knows-little-often-repeats-it/115754 "2002-06-24T18:47:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-who-knows-little-often-repeats-it/115754/1 "2002-06-24T18:47:40Z")
So on some site I went to this little pop-up came up with a picture of a book and the title PROVERBS. Under the book it said “He who knows little often repeats it.” Below that was a button reading “Next Proverb” I hit the button, the page refreshes and the proverb comes up: “He who knows little often repeats it.” I hit it again, something else comes up, then the page refreshes _by itself_ and again: “He who knows little often repeats it.” I figure it’s a randomizer script with very few quotes, you tend to get the same one over and over with those. So I hit it one more time. A new proverb comes up, and before I can read it the page refreshes _again_ and reads: “He who knows little often repeats it.” So either this is a very dumb joke or someone is trying to tell me something. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-who-knows-little-often-repeats-it/115754/2 "2002-06-25T07:44:56Z")
Ever look up the word “gullible” in the dictionary? ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-who-knows-little-often-repeats-it/115754/3 "2002-06-25T10:45:35Z")
Only a fool repeats himself, himself. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-who-knows-little-often-repeats-it/115754/4 "2002-06-25T13:03:17Z")
Sounds like a version of a card I once got, which I used to leave laying out on my desk. One one side was printed: How do you keep an idiot occupied? (Turn over for answer) The other side had exactly the same text. People would pick up the card, read it, turn it over, read the other side, look back at the first side, read the back again, etc etc etc. ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-who-knows-little-often-repeats-it/115754/5 "2002-06-25T13:58:17Z")
I had a keychain like that, Lurk. Rilchaim: blpppppppppt! ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-who-knows-little-often-repeats-it/115754/6 "2002-06-25T14:19:48Z")
Sounds repetitive and redundant… ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-who-knows-little-often-repeats-it/115754/7 "2002-06-25T15:41:32Z")
**dan** , that’s the _point_ ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-who-knows-little-often-repeats-it/115754/8 "2002-06-25T15:46:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Speaker for the Dead \* > \*\ ***dan** , that’s the _point_ \*\* As was _mine_… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-who-knows-little-often-repeats-it/115754/9 "2002-06-25T18:13:22Z")
Whoa, I just had the weirdest feeling of _deja vu_ while reading this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-who-knows-little-often-repeats-it/115754/10 "2002-06-26T04:06:23Z")
Sorry, **Cessandra**. If it’s any consolation, when I was ten years old, I once saw a stained glass lamp with a sign on it that read, “Expensive and fragile – Please touch.” So I did. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-who-knows-little-often-repeats-it/115754/11 "2002-06-27T06:32:25Z")
Whoa, I just had the weirdest feeling of deja vu while reading this thread.