# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Ethan\_Complex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Ethan\_Complex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethan_Complex)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/61 "2008-02-13T21:29:18Z")
No news is old news. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/62 "2008-02-13T21:34:41Z")
One man’s drink is another man’s treasure. ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/63 "2008-02-13T21:39:48Z")
Diplomacy is the art of saying, “Nice sticky!” until you can find a dog. It’s easier to get forgiveness and forget. You catch more flies with honey than a one-legged cat in a room full of rocking chairs. Garbage in, the worms crawl out. Look before you leap out of the frying pan into the soup. Now is the winner of our disk content. Ich bin ein, zwei, drei, vier! RR ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/64 "2008-02-13T21:49:21Z")
If you break your leg, don’t come running to me! A man’s home is his castle, until foreclosed on because he had one of those baloon mortgages. Then it’s the bank’s castle. Too many cooks spoil the restaurant’s profit margin. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/65 "2008-02-13T22:38:49Z")
A man’s reach should exceed his vocabulary or what’s a metaphor? Forewarned is half an octopus. You catch more flies with bullshit than you do with honey. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/66 "2008-02-13T22:47:56Z")
We’re not laughing at you, we’re laughing about you. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/67 "2008-02-13T22:54:25Z")
“Hello”, he lied. ---
**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 14, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/68 "2008-02-14T00:46:36Z")
It takes a thief to catch someone else’s money. I think, therefor I imagine. He’s not the smartest tool in the shoe. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/69 "2008-02-14T01:17:43Z")
Do, or Da-doo-Run-Run-Run-Da-doo-Run-Run. There **is no** try. ---
**Author:** ![This\_ll\_Do](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/this_ll_do/32/3023_2.png) [@This\_ll\_Do](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_ll_Do)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/70 "2008-02-14T01:39:34Z")
I didn’t just fall off the bandwagon, ya know. ---
**Author:** ![Ragiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ragiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ragiel)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/71 "2008-02-14T01:56:16Z")
Just let sleeping bags lie. You can’t make an omelet without opening up a can of worms. ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/72 "2008-02-14T02:14:35Z")
You’re skating on thin water. Spontaneous combustion doesn’t just happen. You can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/73 "2008-02-14T02:21:40Z")
Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows. You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/74 "2008-02-14T03:38:09Z")
Too many cooks make stew out of one oyster. It’s just a tempest in another kettle of fish. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/75 "2008-02-14T03:59:51Z")
A watched pot never does much of anything. ---
**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 14, 2008, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/76 "2008-02-14T04:07:50Z")
A watched pot never smokes. ---
**Author:** ![Yeeter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/96bed5/32.png) [@Yeeter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeeter)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/77 "2008-02-14T04:11:13Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make a sow’s ear out of a pig in a poke.” - Opus [/QUOTE] I think technically it is: “You can lead a Yak to water, but you can’t teach an old dog to make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke.” Half of one, dozen of the other. No pain…NO PAIN! ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/78 "2008-02-14T04:12:20Z")
If I want your opinion, I’ll read your entrails. ---
**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 14, 2008, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/79 "2008-02-14T05:05:20Z")
Silence when you speak to me! ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/80 "2008-02-14T05:11:16Z")
A lot of horse ones. And here are a couple more, in which the horse has given up the ghost: Don’t look a dead horse in the mouth. S/he’s beating a dead horse into the ground. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394.md?page=5)