# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/81 "2006-10-05T16:57:25Z")
[QUOTE=934spe] **The infantile offspring has an over- whelming desire for two unused covering for their future locatomotive appendages.** [/QUOTE] Baby wants a brand new pair of shoes. **Subsequent to enjoying ablutions, it is wise to defenistrate the liquid. One should not simultaneously commit infanticide, however.** ---
**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, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/82 "2006-10-05T17:01:30Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] **Subsequent to enjoying ablutions, it is wise to defenistrate the liquid. One should not simultaneously commit infanticide, however.** [/QUOTE] Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/83 "2006-10-05T17:02:21Z")
[QUOTE=934spe] **The infantile offspring has an over- whelming desire for two unused covering for their future locatomotive appendages.** [/QUOTE] “Baby needs a new pair of shoes!” (usually spoken while shooting craps.) **Postpone taking inventory of the fowl flock while their original sturdy packages contain them.** ---
**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, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/84 "2006-10-05T17:03:38Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] **Postpone taking inventory of the fowl flock while their original sturdy packages contain them.** [/QUOTE] Don’t count your chickens until they are hatched. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/85 "2006-10-05T17:19:48Z")
**The Weird One** ’s puzzle has me baffled. Don’t fuck with Captain Kirk? **The score is unimportant. Did you have fun?** ---
**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, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/86 "2006-10-05T17:24:44Z")
**To utilize multiply methodiology to attempt to remove the dermal coverings of a feline.** ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/87 "2006-10-05T17:39:09Z")
[QUOTE=934spe] **To utilize multiply methodiology to attempt to remove the dermal coverings of a feline.** [/QUOTE] There’s more than one way to skin a cat. (Horrible saying) ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/88 "2006-10-05T17:42:29Z")
**The popular swivel-hipped singer from the south is no longer on the premises.** ---
**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, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/89 "2006-10-05T17:47:10Z")
[QUOTE=The Weird One] **And it is furthermore inadvisable to antagonize the individual whose Christian name is James.** [/QUOTE] I’m going to guess at this one: I’m Rick James, bitch! ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/90 "2006-10-05T18:30:41Z")
[QUOTE=jali] **The popular swivel-hipped singer from the south is no longer on the premises.** [/QUOTE] Elvis has left the building. **Those members of the genus Homo, or similar anthropomorphic animals, who choose to partake in exploration of a seemingly random nature, are not necessarily doing so because they are unable to discern the correct path to their place of residence.** ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/91 "2006-10-05T18:31:03Z")
[QUOTE=jali] **The popular swivel-hipped singer from the south is no longer on the premises.** [/QUOTE] Elvis has left the buffet. **By the clock, a sewing manuever prevents harm from befalling a number of things.** ---
**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, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/92 "2006-10-05T18:32:30Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] **By the clock, a sewing manuever prevents harm from befalling a number of things.** [/QUOTE] A stitch in time saves nine? ---
**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, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/93 "2006-10-05T19:04:46Z")
[QUOTE=The Weird One] **And it is furthermore inadvisable to antagonize the individual whose Christian name is James.** [/QUOTE] Sorry, I guess that was more obscure than I thought. [And you don’t mess around with Jim.](http://www.twin-music.com/lyrics_file/jimcroce/mess/you.html) (Kinda goes with the “Don’t piss into the wind” line, which is what made me think of it.) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/94 "2006-10-05T19:10:09Z")
[QUOTE=934spe] A stitch in time saves nine? [/QUOTE] Yep. Let’s see… **One can travel to a variety of locations. If one makes the effort to do so, then one will invariably succeed.** ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/95 "2006-10-05T19:11:15Z")
[QUOTE=Baffle] **Those members of the genus Homo, or similar anthropomorphic animals, who choose to partake in exploration of a seemingly random nature, are not necessarily doing so because they are unable to discern the correct path to their place of residence.** [/QUOTE] 😕 You can never go home again? ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/96 "2006-10-05T19:14:47Z")
[QUOTE=The Weird One] Don’t piss into the wind. **And it is furthermore inadvisable to antagonize the individual whose Christian name is James.** [/QUOTE] and you don’t mess around with Jim, doot dootin da-doot doot! ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/97 "2006-10-05T19:15:50Z")
[QUOTE=Baffle] Elvis has left the building. **Those members of the genus Homo, or similar anthropomorphic animals, who choose to partake in exploration of a seemingly random nature, are not necessarily doing so because they are unable to discern the correct path to their place of residence.** [/QUOTE] Just because I’m wandering doesn’t mean I’m lost ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/98 "2006-10-05T19:23:08Z")
[QUOTE=Alessan] \*\*Achieve maximum velocity, maintain current vector and ignore the presence of waterborne explosives. \*\* [/QUOTE] Admiral Farragut at the Battle fo Mobile Bay, “Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead.” [hijack] growing up in Mobile, I often heard the joke, that not unlike the questions surounding punctuation in Keats’s \*Ode on a Grecian Urn \* that lead to multiple interpetations, someone left a comma out of Farragut’s explanation, which should read, “Damn! The torpedoes! Full speed ahead!”[hijak] ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/99 "2006-10-05T19:26:41Z")
Let’s see if I can get this right… **He possessed no follicle appendages on the superior surface of his cranium where such follicle appendages habitually germinate.** ---
**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, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/100 "2006-10-05T22:51:05Z")
[QUOTE=Musicat] Let’s see if I can get this right… **He possessed no follicle appendages on the superior surface of his cranium where such follicle appendages habitually germinate.** [/QUOTE] Um … bald as a cue ball? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909.md?page=6)