# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/141 "2008-02-15T18:02:24Z")
I love a good malaprop. A few of my favorites, courtesy of a friend of mine: “He’s going to get paid radioactively for that” “Keep your eyes pierced, it’s around here some where” “We’re in trouble. The shit’s really gonna hit the stick” ---
**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, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/142 "2008-02-15T19:55:51Z")
Leap before you look! ---
**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, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/143 "2008-02-15T21:26:14Z")
Never let your mouth write a check bigger than your stomach. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/144 "2008-02-15T21:33:44Z")
Once the shoe drops on the other foot, you can’t put the genie back into the can of worms. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/145 "2008-02-15T22:07:44Z")
Don’t eat with your mouth full. The cows never lay on the western side. An old crow always flies east. Fair hair, dark mind. It’s like the parable of the blind elephants and the snake. The man who wakes up to find himself successful didn’t have strange bedfellows. A 100% growth rate only lasts half as long. An egg and a half is a hen and a half for a sixth as long. Like the old crow in the parable, don’t fly halfway and caw to the bull. You can only love a dog until the cows come home. If the chickens are annoying, don’t drown the beans in Tabasco. ---
**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, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/146 "2008-02-15T22:28:06Z")
Don’t wake a sleeping pill, or you’ll dream of things that never were and ask for another man’s kettle of fish … ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/147 "2008-02-15T22:42:50Z")
[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad] Where there’s a will, there’s fire. [/QUOTE] Where there’s a will, there’s a relative. ---
**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 15, 2008, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/148 "2008-02-15T23:13:13Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] When a lamb lies down with a lion, the lamb is an idiot. [/QUOTE] The lion may lay down with the lamb, but the lamb won’t get much sleep. -Woody Allen ---
**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 16, 2008, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/149 "2008-02-16T06:47:13Z")
I was going to post another, but I think this thread has probably run its course. No point in beating a dead man while he’s down. ---
**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 16, 2008, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/150 "2008-02-16T14:06:54Z")
We’ve really been burning our bridges at both ends. With midnight oil. ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2008, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/151 "2008-02-16T15:37:39Z")
Usually when I go to say “She/He’s isnt the brightest crayon in the box/best cookie in the jar/sharpest tool in the shed” it ends up coming out “He isn’t the brightest cookie in the shed.” ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/152 "2008-02-17T20:31:55Z")
A bird in the hand beats a dead horse to water. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/153 "2008-02-17T20:39:53Z")
It’s always darkest just before the end of the tunnel. Don’t hide your lights under one basket. It’s better to light a single candle than to curse the working class. Religion is the fly in the opiate. ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/154 "2008-02-18T00:41:18Z")
That’s the whole nine yards of wax in a nutshell. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2008, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/155 "2008-02-18T15:26:58Z")
I’ll cross that bridge when I’ve counted all my chickens ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/156 "2008-02-18T16:22:27Z")
Now the shoe’s on the other hand. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/157 "2008-02-18T18:31:22Z")
A rolling stone gathers the four corners of the world under one roof. It’s like the sound of two hands clapping. A chicken in every pot beats two cars in the garage. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Rosewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mr.Rosewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Rosewater)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/158 "2008-02-18T22:59:13Z")
A bird in the hand is worth … EEEEWWW! Now I have to wash my hands. ---
**Author:** ![Klytus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Klytus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klytus)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/159 "2008-02-18T23:31:43Z")
You can’t beat that with a poke-in-the-eye with a sharp stick. ---
**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 19, 2008, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-rocket-surgery/437394/160 "2008-02-19T07:13:01Z")
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