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UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: Tongue-Teasers - XLIX « Third Degree » is when you add « Insult to injury ». If you take everything everybody says with a « pinch of salt », we’ll soon be able to drink ocean water free of charge - and eat plastic weeds and fish growing on the shores. A « sweet tooth » soon rots to the root. If you send coal to Newcastle, you’ll feel the heat as far down in your muscles as/at Neuchatel or Machu Pichu castle ! "Think twice" before you jump but don’t jump anyway, for thinking so is a « vice » and thinking « twice » won’t make it any the more « wise » or « nice » ! If you don’t « listen" to what you normally « say", you risk having both your ears boxed-in tight ! If SALSA is favela-bred « dirty-dancing », then TANGO is stylish, high-class but prudish titillating « teasing ». A « yawn » is a « yarn » about it being not so much a sign of insomnia or even boredom as an act of having lost the thread of the speech or argument in a debate on the stage. By « tightening the belt » when times get hard, the Wise Guy who coined the phrase really meant to say: « Don’t « indulge » yourself or else you’d have an « extra mouth » to feed ! A wrinkled brow is only « an unmade bed » at the end of the night - not a sign of wisdom or authority ! A « scrum » in rugby is not so much an « head-on » clash as a « bum-stretching » exercise: the last anchor-man stifles snorting ! Andalusian Flamenco dancers who are invariably women at most « palos », imitate/mimic the MALES of birds in the courting process through frisky head-and- hind-jutting movements while their men - mostly - prefer to sit it out with « palmas » - clapping their women onto greater action. Who courts whom ???? Do English football fans sing « Swing Low, Sweet Chariot… » at football matches because they want to be taken back to Africa without their « chains » ????? Who took them to the Americas in the first place ????? Are you having « sex » when you masturbate ? Answer « Yes » and you are right ! Answer « No » and you’re right tight ! Which girls are the best ? Those who enjoy themselves ? Or, those who let you enjoy yourself ? Answer the « former » and you’re ….. Answer the « latter » and you’re equally….. The Child is Father of the Man, but Man is Father of any and of all the « gods », for not only he "invented" them (as figments of his imagination), but has been interfering with the Will of the Almighty ever since… What goes up must come down ??? Even if all objects « fall » at the same speed, owing to « gravity », the French astro-physicist and philosopher-poet maintains that it’s the Earth that catapults itself to receive the falling objects (correct me if I’m wrong, Aurélien). The question is, When thunder strikes down onto the earth, is it the Earth which produces and projects THUNDER from down under??? Isn’t it, then, rather a question of « What goes up, goes up and stays UP ! » NOT « What comes down ! » This’s for Dr. Edward Phillips at Authorsden.com in response to his comment on UNQUOTABLE QUOTES XLVIII: Tongue-Teasers (Poetry) - 7/6/2019 5:51:28 AM "Your are either wise beyond reason, or unreasonably wise. I haven't yet got you figured out. But I'm getting onto you..I think.": The response:« The LAST barrier to fall is still the INTELLECTUAL barrier, after the SKIN, HAIR, NOSE, CHIN, BROW and SEX barriers ! » Happy hunting ! (c) T. Wignesan - Paris, July 6/7, 2019
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