Fun With Famous Phrases!

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Here's a fun little word game for you, compliments of your friends here at "kevin's myth."

DIRECTIONS: Think of any famous proverb, saying, quote, axiom, etc. Now shorten the famous saying to give it a whole new meaning. You cannot add words, or change the order of the words. You can only shorten the original saying.

Here are a few examples to get you started. The new saying is in bold-faced red italics with the original ending of the famous saying in gray typeface:


"I regret that I have but one life to give to my country"
(the short-changed cat's lament)

"*You* can lead a horse to water, but *you* can't make him drink"
(ranch owner appraising the equestrian skills of two new cowhands)

"We've got to get to the bottom of this"
(motto of the Derriere Appreciation Society)

"The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence"
(one of the many benefits of house-breaking your puppy)

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions"
(sinning is too easy)

"What goes up, must come down"
(male sexual tunnel(ing?) vision)

"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time"
(basic logic)

"Et tu, Brute?"
(Jeffrey Dahmer's response when asked how is it that he killed 19 people but only 17 bodies were found)

"Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes"
(old Negro slavery rebellion saying - believed to have re-surfaced during the Watts riots of 1965)



Now wasn't that fun?!

Feel free to add your very own "Fun With Famous Phrases!" entries to the "comments" section below.

C-mon! Give it a try! You know you want to play!



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(imagined Peggy response to this blog entry)

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