Derestrictor's been at the proverbs

[Big_M]

Well I was doing my homework - find 23 English proverbs - but Derestrictor has been at my workbook and messed about with them. Can anyone translate these for me?

1. Scintillate, scintillate asteroid minific.

2. Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate.

3. Surveillance should precede salutation.

4. Pulchritude possesses solely curtaneous profundity

5. It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately departed lacteal fluid.

6. Freedom of incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.

7. The stylus is more potent than the claymore.

8. It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative manoeuvres.

9. Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.

10. The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled saucepan does not reach 212 degrees Fahrenheit.

11. All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.

12. Where there are visible vapours in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.

13. Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.

14. A plethora of individuals with expertise in the culinary techniques vitiate the potable concocted by steeping a selection of comestibles.

15. Eleemosynary deeds have their incipience 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 hedonistic diversion, renders John a hebetudinous fellow.

20. A revolving petrous conglomerate accumulates no congeries of a small green, bryophytic botanical entity.

21. The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation

22. Abstentions from any aleatory undertaking precludes a potential of a lucrative nature

23. Missiles of a ligneous or petrous consistency have the potential of fracturing my osseous structure, but appellations will eternally remain innocuous.

[ScoobyZoom]

8. Can't teach an old dogs new tricks

14. too many cooks spoil the broth

16. dead men dont tell tales

17. People in glass houses shouldnt throw stones.

Thats it, i'm done.



>> Edited by ScoobyZoom on Wednesday 1st December 20:29

[BliarOut]

7: The pen is mightier than the sword.

[tvrgit]

A slight inclination of the cranium is as adequate as a spasmodic movement of the optic towards an equine quadruped devoid of its visionary capacities.

[jacobyte]

3 should be "saltation", not "salutation". DOH!

[Big_M]

A nod's a good as a wink to a blind horse

[BliarOut]

No one likes a show-off Wendy

[jacobyte]

tvrgit said:

A slight inclination of the cranium is as adequate as a spasmodic movement of the optic towards an equine quadruped devoid of its visionary capacities.

Like a bit of photography eh, Squire?

[Big_M]

BliarOut said:

No one likes a show-off Wendy

Know what she was doing for 20 minutes

Well done Wendy

[tvrgit]

jacobyte said:

tvrgit said: A slight inclination of the cranium is as adequate as a spasmodic movement of the optic towards an equine quadruped devoid of its visionary capacities. Like a bit of photography eh, Squire?

know what I mean eh? eh? Know what I mean?

[simpo two]

Never could do cryptic crosswords...

[wendyg]

Big_M said:

BliarOut said: No one likes a show-off Wendy Know what she was doing for 20 minutes Well done Wendy

I type much slower than I think, but if you want me to delete it for others fun I will

Edit: and in fact I have, I can't stand the thought of people like BliarOut hating me for being so clever, attractive, rich and successful.

>> Edited by wendyg on Wednesday 1st December 22:53

Edit again: I was kidding, I'm not attractive, rich or successful.

>> Edited by wendyg on Wednesday 1st December 22:55

[BliarOut]

wendyg said:

Big_M said: BliarOut said: No one likes a show-off Wendy Know what she was doing for 20 minutes Well done Wendy I type much slower than I think, but if you want me to delete it for others fun I will Edit: and in fact I have, I can't stand the thought of people like BliarOut hating me for being so clever, attractive, rich and successful. >> Edited by wendyg on Wednesday 1st December 22:53 Edit again: I was kidding, I'm not attractive, rich or successful. >> Edited by wendyg on Wednesday 1st December 22:55

Oh you have as well.... And I was only joshing. Hope you pasted them somewhere.. lol

Edit to add:

Oi, whaddya mean "people like BliarOut"???

>> Edited by BliarOut on Wednesday 1st December 23:15

[TheExcession]

wendyg said:

Big_M said: BliarOut said: No one likes a show-off Wendy Know what she was doing for 20 minutes Well done Wendy I type much slower than I think, but if you want me to delete it for others fun I will Edit: and in fact I have, I can't stand the thought of people like BliarOut hating me for being so clever, attractive, rich and successful. >> Edited by wendyg on Wednesday 1st December 22:53 Edit again: I was kidding, I'm not attractive, rich or successful. >> Edited by wendyg on Wednesday 1st December 22:55

Fair play Wendy - there's not many about who would take such an honourable role!

Must admin it took me ten minutes to remember what a proverb was and then I wasn't far behind you

Still I was astonished at how quick you put that post in!

best
Ex

[Zorro]

Did Mr. Logic write these ?

5. No crying over spilt milk
7. The pen is mightier than the anti-personnel mine (unless you step on it )
20. A rolling stone gathers no moss.

[V8 Archie]

2) Birds of a feather...
3) Look before...
5) Don't cry...
6) Cleanliness...
7) The pig pen is more entertaining that headlines about Beckham
8) You can't teach...
9) Spare the :smoking:Z3M and spoil No. 6
10) The watched pot...
11) All that glistens is not ice
12) Where there's smoke there's a straight six
14) Too many cooks make a TV series
16) Dead men...
17) People in glass houses...
18) Beginner's luck!
19) All work leaves no time for surfing PH
20) A rolling stone can't find the Ilk either
21) He who laughs last hasn't seen the joke
22) He who dares, wins. Nothing ventured...
23) Sticks and stones make a crap road surface

[V8 Archie]

Do I have sadistic, bestial, necrophilial tendencies or am I flogging a dead horse?

[ErnestM]

tvrgit said:

jacobyte said: tvrgit said: A slight inclination of the cranium is as adequate as a spasmodic movement of the optic towards an equine quadruped devoid of its visionary capacities. Like a bit of photography eh, Squire? know what I mean eh? eh? Know what I mean?

Nod, Nod. Wink, Wink. Say no more...


ErnestM

[ApexClipper]

23: Sticks & stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.

[FunkyGibbon]

Big_M said:

1. Scintillate, scintillate asteroid minific.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star