Cliche's are dangerous

Self | 8-28-02 | Festa

[Richard Kimball]

Looks pretty good to me, but you know what they say, "You can lead a skunk to water, but you can't make him stink." Just run it up the flagpole and see if it makes a splash, drop it down the well and see if anyone salutes it. Then let's do lunch. We can kick it around, get down to the nut-cutting, and take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

Seriously, I think it's a good piece.

[dighton]

Don't beat a dead horse until you've walked a mile in his shoes.

[Dakmar]

That's like so true.

[Dakmar]

Don't beat a dead gifthorse in the mouth.

[FixitGuy]

Plagiarize, plagiarize; let not a thing evade yer eyes.

But for Pete's sake, call it research.

[parsifal]

I thought you were supposed to flog dead horses when there was water, water, everywhere but not an ounce of prevention? parsy the dizzy.

[gcruse]

I think a dangerous cliche today is the government justification for taking away liberties that were
in place hundreds of years.

"This time it's different."

[parsifal]

That is so profound! What we achieve too lightly, we tread on. parsy.

[gcruse]

If you can't say something nice about somebody,
come over here and sit by me.  --Dorothy Parker

[paulklenk]

Read George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language." It's a great essay, touches on much of what you've said, and I dare say after reading it you will never compose another sentence in quite the same way again.

[handk]

Whoa, I missed that!

Plagiarism it is, compounded by illiteracy. Throw the book at him.

The more I think of this poster, Festa, the more I'm incredulous.

First, he plagiarizes an online article, for the ostensible purpose of getting it published in his college newspaper.

Stupid Mistake #1. Now, instead of a single professor or assistant reading it, the whole college can read it.

Second, he's so "proud" of his plagiarism that he can't wait to see if it will get published, so he posts it here, at FreeRepublic.

Stupid Mistake #2. Now, the whole freakin' world can read it!

Third, besides being a plagiarist, he's a DUMBED-DOWN plagiarist. I mean, he can't even COPY without screwing it up with spelling errors, grammatical errors, and punctuation errors.

Stupid Mistake #3. Speaks for itself.

Fourth, under "Comments", he says; "I hope the [sic] accept it."

Stupid Mistake #4. As if to say; "Lookie what I wrote! It's for my college newspaper. Golly gee, I hope they accept it!"

[FixitGuy]

"If you can't say something good about the dead, then don't say anything!"

About her husband: "He dead! Good!" Moms Mabley (sp?)

[parsifal]

Before you eschew the trite cliche.
Remember there still is a niche.
For the garbage so dumb
Is the treasure of some.
But how do we know whiche is whiche?

[tet68]

I thought that was , "You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think."

[gcruse]

LOL I don't remember Moms saying that, but if she didn't, she should have! Thanks.

[gcruse]

That, too, was Dorothy Parker, on being challenged to use the word 'horticulture' in a sentence.

[bootless]

I thought that was , "You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think."

Heh! The answer to the Jeopardy question: "Use the word horticulture in a sentence."

:-)

[dighton]

Water, water, every where,
My name is Mister Ed;
Water, water, every where,
Don't speak ill of the dead.

[OHelix]

Don't speak ill of a dead horses mouth...

[ErnBatavia]

You can beat a DEAD horse in the mouth, but you can't make him drink."

"You buttered your bread, now sleep in it"