# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/121 "2008-02-14T22:26:05Z")
Like shooting fish in a barrel full of monkeys. It takes one to know thyself. A fool and his money is a friend indeed. Better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick. A stopped clock never strikes the same place twice. Good fences make enough room to swing a cat. One man’s trash springs eternal. Quit while you’re behind. Each day is better than the next! Loose wrists sink ships. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/122 "2008-02-15T02:41:56Z")
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow is another day. ---
**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 15, 2008, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/123 "2008-02-15T03:18:18Z")
Measure, schmeasure, go ahead and cut already! ---
**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 15, 2008, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/124 "2008-02-15T03:22:08Z")
Scarlett: With God as my witness, I’ll never be mangy again! Rhett: Frankly Scarlett, I don’t give a rat’s ass! ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/125 "2008-02-15T03:34:55Z")
Okay, okay, every one of these is freaking brilliant. Now more than ever before (but I say this every day), I am absolutely utterly convinced that I am hanging out with some of the finest people on earth. “One man’s trash springs eternal”…I will be chuckling evilly about that for years to come. Hell, I’m still chuckling over “1920’s-style Wreath Day”. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/126 "2008-02-15T03:37:04Z")
Cut twice, measure once ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/127 "2008-02-15T04:14:28Z")
[QUOTE=Rick] Cut twice, measure once [/QUOTE] I think that works better as “Measure once, cut twice”. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/128 "2008-02-15T04:44:28Z")
[QUOTE=Rysto] I think that works better as “Measure once, cut twice”. [/QUOTE] That’s for sissys. Real men cut first (twice) and then measure. ---
**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 15, 2008, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/129 "2008-02-15T04:54:31Z")
Don’t cut your cheese without checking your list twice. If I had a nickel for every time I heard that, I’d be flat broke. When a lamb lies down with a lion, the lamb is an idiot. Give me liberty or give me a break! I regret that I have but one wife to give for my country. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/130 "2008-02-15T12:04:45Z")
I saw,I conquered, I came…and so did she after a while ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/131 "2008-02-15T13:18:46Z")
A good man is in the eye of the beholder. When life gives you lemons, it’s no use crying over spilt milk. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/132 "2008-02-15T13:27:47Z")
It’s an ill wind that brings no good deed will go unpunished. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/133 "2008-02-15T14:33:14Z")
All’s well that ends in better than none ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/134 "2008-02-15T16:08:56Z")
If wishes were horses, then beggars wouldn’t be choosers. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/135 "2008-02-15T16:53:28Z")
He who laughs last has a bird in the frying pan Float like a brick sting like a butterfly There’s many a slip twixt a rolling stone and a swallow ---
**Author:** ![Ragiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ragiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ragiel)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/136 "2008-02-15T16:54:08Z")
It takes a village to bell the cat. . . . damn sneaky feline . . . ---
**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 15, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/137 "2008-02-15T17:16:15Z")
Where there’s muck, there’s muckles. Si ---
**Author:** ![Ragiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ragiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ragiel)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/138 "2008-02-15T17:20:13Z")
When the cat’s away, the mice can haz teh cheezburgr! ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/139 "2008-02-15T17:24:31Z")
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/140 "2008-02-15T17:24:31Z")
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