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    Decrypt these well known sayings!

    Can you translate these into their normal, well-known manner?

    1.Scintillate, Scintillate, asteroid exiguous.
    2. Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate.
    3. Surveillance should precede salutations
    4. Pulchritude poses possesses solely coetaneous profundity
    5. It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately departed lacteal fluid.
    6. Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
    7. The stylus is more potent then the claymore.
    8. It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.
    9. Eschew the implement of correction of vitiate the scion.
    10. The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled saucepan does not does reach 212 F'.
    11. All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
    12. Where there are visible vapors in ignited carbonaceous material, there is conflagration.
    13. Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
    14. A plethora of individual with expertise in culinary techniques vitiate the potable concoctions produced by steeping certain comestibles.
    15. Eleemosynary deeds have their insipience intramurally.
    16. Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony.
    17. Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles.
    18. Neophyte's serendipity.
    19. Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hadonisita diversion renders John a habatudinous fellow.
    20. A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congaries of a small, green bryophitic plant.
    21. A person presenting the ultimate cachination possess thereby the optimal cachination.
    22. Abstention from any aleatory undertakings precludes a potent potential escalation of lucrative nature.
    23. Missiles of ligneous or petrous consistency have the potential of fracturing my osseous structures but appellations will eternally name innocuous.



    For example number 19 is "All work and no play makes John a dull boy".
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    want the answers in here or PM?

    Quote Originally Posted by The Quentos
    "My udder is growing. Quick pass me the parsely sauce." Said Oliver.

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    May as well post them in here, unless you can get a significant amount...
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    YGPM in a minute when I've typed em

    Quote Originally Posted by The Quentos
    "My udder is growing. Quick pass me the parsely sauce." Said Oliver.

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    LOL.... OK then
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    i've got all but 4... some of them are just *too* obscure!

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    1 Twinkle, twinkle little star?
    2 Birds of a feather flock together.
    3 Look before you leap?

    My head hurts.
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    20.A rolling stone gathers no moss
    23.sticks and stones
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    Wise Men learn from Other people's mistake's...Fool's learn from their OWN.!!!

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    10. watched pot never boils
    14. too many cooks spoil the broth

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    5. useless crying over spilt milk
    8. can't teach an old dog new tricks
    12. Where there is smoke theres fire
    14. too many cooks spoil the broth
    16. Dead man can't speak
    17. people who live in glass houses should not throw stones
    23 Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me
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    7. The pen is mightier than the sword

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    1. twinkle twinkle little star
    2. birds of a feather flock together
    3. look before you leap
    4. beauty is only skin deep
    5. Don't cry over spilt milk
    6. cleanliness is next to godliness
    7. The pen is mightier than the sword
    8. You cant tach an old dog new tricks
    9. Spare the rod and spoil the child
    10. A watched pot never boils
    11. all that glitters is not gold
    12. where there is smoke there is fire
    13. beggars cant be choosers
    14. too many cooks spoil the broth
    15. charity begins at home
    16. dead men tell no tales
    17. people who live in glass houses should not throw stones
    18. beginners luck
    19. all work and no play makes jack a dull boy
    20. a rolling stone gathers no moss
    21. he who laughs last, laughs best
    22. nothing ventured, nothing gained
    23. sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me
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    In promulgating your esoteric cogitations and articulating your superficial sentimentalities or amicable philosophical observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosities.

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