# It's not rocket surgery **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 13, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394 "2008-02-13T03:23:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/181 "2008-02-20T19:07:44Z")
Many a true word is worth half a loaf ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/182 "2008-02-20T21:48:37Z")
[QUOTE=Shai’tan] I like that one. Is it original to you? [/QUOTE] I stole pieces of if from a book and a song, and everything else from a dictionary. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/183 "2008-02-20T21:57:55Z")
Sell a man a fish, and you’ve fed him for a day. Teach that man to fish, and you’ve lost a valued customer. (From the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/184 "2008-02-20T21:59:43Z")
Betwixt lips and ears lie many a beer. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/185 "2008-02-20T22:32:17Z")
My medium is a chicken; she can talk to the other side every time. There no good in crying over spilt seed. Say an Our Father and two Hail Marys. Oh, and wash your hands. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/186 "2008-02-20T23:37:39Z")
I’ve swiped a few of these for my email random sig file - I have, of course, given proper credit. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/187 "2008-02-21T09:23:42Z")
It’s easier for a blind man to enter a camels eye than for an early bird to close the barn door after putting all the chickens into half a loaf and leaping before he rides a bicycle ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/188 "2008-02-21T09:27:36Z")
When the loaves start leaping, it might be time to give up the ghost and switch to chopsticks. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/189 "2008-02-21T10:15:11Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] (courtesy of BrattiAtti - author unknown) Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach that man to use the internet, and he’ll leave you alone for weeks. [/QUOTE] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/190 "2008-02-21T10:23:00Z")
Missed the edit window. Quack. \*gone today, here tomorrow \*a sheep in wolf’s clothing (I actually use this one, to describe that ugly new breed of politicians who campaign posing as progressive, and then magically turn back into conservatives once elected.) \*come hell or high ground \*a chip off the old shoulder ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/191 "2008-02-21T13:59:48Z")
You people just need to wake up and smell the rose-colored glasses. When you do, all of this will hit you like a fish out of hell. If you don’t, in no time, you’ll feel like a bat out of water. Once you’ve got it all figured out, it’s a piece of sweat. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/192 "2008-02-21T14:44:14Z")
[QUOTE=Gangster Octopus] If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate. [/QUOTE] Zap! Is that you? ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/193 "2008-02-21T14:46:43Z")
_“Build a man a fire and he’ll be warm for a night; set a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life”_ ETA: Oops, just found this above. Please disregard. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/194 "2008-02-21T15:11:51Z")
“Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to sue and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” – Caption of today’s New Yorker cartoon-a-day calendar. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/195 "2008-02-21T15:30:54Z")
Many a true word is not spoken in the divorce court ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/196 "2008-02-23T17:02:34Z")
\*Somebody woke up on the bed side of the wrong this morning! \*That’s like robbing Peter to pay the piper \*All’s fair in war and peace \*making a sow’s purse from a silk ear \*I’m not my keeper’s brother ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/197 "2008-02-23T18:14:15Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] \*I’m not my keeper’s brother [/QUOTE] That sounds like the punchline to a story-joke about an asylum inmate who is constantly mistaken for the warden’s sibling… ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/198 "2008-02-24T02:03:18Z")
That’s like rubbing Paul’s peter to pay a sports bet. The pitch in pine saves a penny earned. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/199 "2008-02-24T02:14:33Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] That’s like rubbing Paul’s peter to pay a sports bet.. [/QUOTE] The way I heard it was it’s like rubbing Paul’s peter to pay Piper. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/200 "2008-02-24T18:23:51Z")
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