# Popular sayings: UNdoperize them! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 2, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909 "2006-10-02T01:17:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/61 "2006-10-04T16:37:06Z")
[QUOTE=chaoticbear] Read the fucking manual! What is the quantity of material from the secondary xylem of a woody plant that a _Marmota monax_ would be able to mill, under the assumption that this organism possessed the ability? [/QUOTE] How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? **In the course of an attempt which initially ends in failure, one should always endeavour, endeavour further.** ---
**Author:** ![ChordedZither](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9c0ed/32.png) [@ChordedZither](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChordedZither)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/62 "2006-10-04T17:33:55Z")
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth] **In the course of an attempt which initially ends in failure, one should always endeavour, endeavour further.** [/QUOTE] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. And, in that spirit: **The paternal ancestors of those gathered here founded a novel governmental unit some 87 years ago.** ---
**Author:** ![934spe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/90db22/32.png) [@934spe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/934spe)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/63 "2006-10-04T17:37:59Z")
[QUOTE=ChordedZither] **The paternal ancestors of those gathered here founded a novel governmental unit some 87 years ago.** [/QUOTE] Is that “Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers…” ---
**Author:** ![ChordedZither](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9c0ed/32.png) [@ChordedZither](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChordedZither)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/64 "2006-10-04T18:41:31Z")
[QUOTE=934spe] Is that “Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers…” [/QUOTE] Yep. Give that man a cigar! Or, perhaps, a cheer: **That person** (934spe?) \*\* is a cheerful and splendid comrade, something which no one shall gainsay!\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/65 "2006-10-04T19:02:18Z")
[QUOTE=ChordedZither] **That person** (934spe?) \*\* is a cheerful and splendid comrade, something which no one shall gainsay!\*\* [/QUOTE] For he’s a jolly good fellow, which nobody can deny! **If you should chance to find yourself in the capital of the nation formerly headed by Silvio Berlusconi, conduct your affairs as though you were a denizen of said metropolis.** ---
**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:** [October 4, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/66 "2006-10-04T19:27:56Z")
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. **Any give species of _Aves_ invariably congregates with its own genus.** ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/67 "2006-10-04T19:52:52Z")
Birds of a feather flock together. **Mirth, when ejaculated subsequent to mirth, is superior either in quality or volume, depending.** ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/68 "2006-10-04T19:53:13Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] When in Rome, do as the Romans do. **Any give species of _Aves_ invariably congregates with its own genus.** [/QUOTE] Birds of a feather flock together His synapsial firings are insufficient for his consciousness to distinguicsh between the excretions of the cloaca and a defunct product for the cosmetic rejuvenation of one’s footwear. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/69 "2006-10-04T19:54:22Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Birds of a feather flock together. **Mirth, when ejaculated subsequent to mirth, is superior either in quality or volume, depending.** [/QUOTE] He who laughs last, laughs best Mine still stands: **His synapsial firings are insufficient for his consciousness to distinguicsh between the excretions of the cloaca and a defunct product for the cosmetic rejuvenation of one’s footwear.** ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/70 "2006-10-04T20:01:24Z")
[QUOTE=scotandrsn] **His synapsial firings are insufficient for his consciousness to distinguicsh between the excretions of the cloaca and a defunct product for the cosmetic rejuvenation of one’s footwear.** [/QUOTE] He don’t know shit from Shinola. **It’s a situation reminiscent of permitting a vulpine mammal to be assigned the security detail regarding the roofed enclosure in which dwell female representatives of _Gallus gallus_ and related species.** ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/71 "2006-10-04T20:05:54Z")
[QUOTE=scotandrsn] He who laughs last, laughs best Mine still stands: **His synapsial firings are insufficient for his consciousness to distinguicsh between the excretions of the cloaca and a defunct product for the cosmetic rejuvenation of one’s footwear.** [/QUOTE] He’s to stupid to tell the difference between shit and shinola? I’m not really sure of the exact phrase. **It is a simile to a culinary implement accusing a culinary implement of absorbing all hues.** ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/72 "2006-10-04T20:09:24Z")
It’s like the fox watching the henhouse. **Are you in a familiar, if casual, relationship with agent Bauer? I don’t think you are.** ---
**Author:** ![934spe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/90db22/32.png) [@934spe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/934spe)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/73 "2006-10-04T20:38:07Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] It’s like the fox watching the henhouse. **Are you in a familiar, if casual, relationship with agent Bauer? I don’t think you are.** [/QUOTE] You don’t know jack. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/74 "2006-10-04T21:46:22Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] It is a simile to a culinary implement accusing a culinary implement of absorbing all hues. [/QUOTE] It’s like the pot calling the kettle black. **A small woody flowering shrub of the genus _Rosa_ would create the same ambrosial olfactory impact even if its appelation were to undergo substantial revision.** ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/75 "2006-10-04T22:07:54Z")
[QUOTE=Dervorin] **A small woody flowering shrub of the genus _Rosa_ would create the same ambrosial olfactory impact even if its appelation were to undergo substantial revision.** [/QUOTE] A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet. ---
**Author:** ![934spe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/90db22/32.png) [@934spe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/934spe)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/76 "2006-10-05T12:57:17Z")
**The attempt to prematurely end the pulmonary functions of one whole interger greater than one of an aviary species with a singular small granite chunk.** ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/77 "2006-10-05T14:12:36Z")
[QUOTE=934spe] **The attempt to prematurely end the pulmonary functions of one whole interger greater than one of an aviary species with a singular small granite chunk.** [/QUOTE] Trying to kill two birds with one stone. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/78 "2006-10-05T14:13:38Z")
Killing two birds with one stone. **It is inadvisable to micturate against pronounced oncoming air currents.** ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/79 "2006-10-05T14:18:17Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] Killing two birds with one stone. **It is inadvisable to micturate against pronounced oncoming air currents.** [/QUOTE] Don’t piss into the wind. **And it is furthermore inadvisable to antagonize the individual whose Christian name is James.** ---
**Author:** ![934spe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/90db22/32.png) [@934spe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/934spe)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/80 "2006-10-05T16:24:17Z")
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