# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/81 "2008-02-14T05:24:46Z")
What doesn’t kill me, makes me older. Anyhow, it’s all water under the dam. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/82 "2008-02-14T05:26:09Z")
…and then one morning, he woke up dead! ---
**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, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/83 "2008-02-14T05:31:52Z")
Don’t beat around a dead horse. ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/84 "2008-02-14T05:33:30Z")
You can take the tiger out of the jungle, but you can’t take the jungle anywhere: it’s far too big. ---
**Author:** ![Shai\_tan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Shai\_tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shai_tan)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/85 "2008-02-14T07:41:42Z")
You can’t teach an old dog to make lemonade. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/86 "2008-02-14T08:06:24Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] 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. [/QUOTE] Depends how friendly you are and if both his/her arms are broken it’s the decent thing to do, innit? ---
**Author:** ![BACI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@BACI](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BACI)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/87 "2008-02-14T08:14:37Z")
This thread seems to have opened a Pandora’s floodgate of worms… ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/88 "2008-02-14T08:17:24Z")
If a fat girl falls in the forest, do the trees laugh? (I have this on a t-shirt) ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/89 "2008-02-14T08:27:31Z")
Don’t count your chickens until they’ve crossed the road. That sucked, will try again later. ---
**Author:** ![Shai\_tan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Shai\_tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shai_tan)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/90 "2008-02-14T09:23:08Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] That sucked, will try again later. [/QUOTE] You can do better if you try. Remember: Success is not an idea, it’s a stately human being. ---
**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, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/91 "2008-02-14T11:14:49Z")
One rotten apple is always greener on the other side. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/92 "2008-02-14T13:09:24Z")
That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger (One of my old sig lines) ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/93 "2008-02-14T14:46:24Z")
It’s like shooting fish in the ocean. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/94 "2008-02-14T14:47:34Z")
More fun than a barrel of monkeys flinging their poop. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/95 "2008-02-14T14:50:23Z")
He’s as sharp as a marble. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/96 "2008-02-14T15:08:30Z")
There’s plenty more fish in a barrel. Si ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/97 "2008-02-14T15:32:09Z")
[QUOTE=Yeeter] 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! [/QUOTE] Doh! My house divided stands corrected. ---
**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, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/98 "2008-02-14T15:36:06Z")
You can’t have everything. Where would you put it? (Steven Wright) ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/99 "2008-02-14T15:47:35Z")
As cool as a watched pot filled with nothing ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/100 "2008-02-14T15:53:18Z")
The glass is full, with a safety factor of two. -or- The glass is twice as big as it needs to be. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394.md?page=6)