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Name your favorite, relate a related story, add some verbal freestyle...
I recently came across this witty corollary: Once you pull the pin, mister grenade is not your friend.
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)"Once you (verb) the (adjective), (title/prefix) (adjective) is _____."
I'll try to come up with a few, but for now:
-Once you turn the knob, Dr. Bidet is a mean @ss f-cker.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,600 posts)Last edited Thu Nov 6, 2014, 01:10 PM - Edit history (1)
The Brontosaurus Principle: Up to a point, the bigger the better. After that point, the bigger the worse.
The Syrakosia Rule: Anything designed to do everything will not do one thing well. Named after the Syrakosia, an ancient ship designed to be a royal yacht, a grain freighter and a battleship. It was too slow and clumsy to be a battleship, to expensive to operate to be a grain freighter and too crowded and uncomfortable to be a royal yacht.
Wolf
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)...for the optimist, is half full.
...for the pessimist, is half empty.
...for the engineer, is twice as big as it needs to be.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)One "aw shit" cancels a hundred "attaboys".
The number of alligators is in direct ratio to the difficulty of draining the swamp.
Never let a mechanical object know you're in a hurry.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)That four wheel drive and fancy equipment will just get you lost farther out, usually shortly before the nor'esterly arrives.