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gekkogecko
08-01-2021, 09:12 AM
...twisted. Post your favorites. Example:

he who lives by the mixed metaphor shall put his boot on the other foot!

dicksbro
08-01-2021, 10:36 PM
To be or more likely not to be isn't a question but a prediction.

Winston77
08-18-2021, 04:48 PM
A bird in the hand means less shit on your head

gekkogecko
08-19-2021, 06:30 AM
A journey of a thousand miles begins with you already worn out.

dicksbro
08-20-2021, 01:23 AM
To be or not to be ... those are the only possibilities.

gekkogecko
08-20-2021, 09:49 AM
He who is able to undo this know shall have a lot of rope left over.

Winston77
08-23-2021, 11:01 AM
Live by the sword die by the pen

dicksbro
08-24-2021, 01:10 AM
Necessity is the mother of two bathrooms in a house with kids

gekkogecko
08-24-2021, 06:05 AM
When life hands you lemons, throw rotten fruit at the stage.

dicksbro
08-25-2021, 01:04 AM
Time heals all wounds ... except those too serious!

gekkogecko
08-25-2021, 06:04 AM
That which does not kill be had better be able to outrun a bullet.

dicksbro
08-26-2021, 12:56 AM
A stitch in time .. will take a lot of thread if it's a big clock you want to stop.

gekkogecko
08-26-2021, 06:12 AM
May the bluebird of happiness crap all over you.

dicksbro
08-29-2021, 02:55 AM
Laughter is the best medicine - and hear we've been told to wear masks.

gekkogecko
08-29-2021, 09:28 AM
We do but stand on the shoulders of giants: who have been turned into a puddle of goo by everyone standing on them.

dicksbro
08-30-2021, 02:06 AM
"Freedom is not free." In fact with inflation it's going up steadily!

PantyFanatic
08-30-2021, 02:42 AM
Do unto others as they would do unto you, but do it first.

gekkogecko
08-30-2021, 06:06 AM
The way to a man's heart is between the 4th & 5th ribs.

Winston77
08-30-2021, 07:21 AM
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be crack whores!

gekkogecko
08-31-2021, 06:01 AM
Know yourself. In the biblical sense.

dicksbro
08-31-2021, 11:52 PM
The squeaky wheel gets the high repair bills if you take it to a garage.

gekkogecko
09-01-2021, 06:03 AM
All roads lead to those paved with hellish intentions.

dicksbro
09-02-2021, 03:13 AM
The truth will set you free .. so you can throw away all those keys.

gekkogecko
09-02-2021, 06:11 AM
Seek ye the truth, and the truth shall make ye strange.

dicksbro
09-03-2021, 01:50 AM
Hell hath no fury like .. a baby with poopy diapers.

gekkogecko
09-03-2021, 09:41 AM
Always be yourself. Unless you're a dick. Don't be a dick.

dicksbro
09-03-2021, 11:55 PM
The grass is always greener if you have artificial grass with green imbedded in the material it's made of.

gekkogecko
09-04-2021, 09:46 AM
If every cloud has a silver lining; therefore, silver is so common as to have lost its monetary value.

dicksbro
09-05-2021, 04:52 AM
To continue with your "old saying" ... while every cloud has a silver lining .. equally true is that every silver lining has a cloud.

gekkogecko
09-05-2021, 09:03 AM
When life hands you lemons, let them rot before throwing them at the next idiot politician.

dicksbro
09-06-2021, 04:46 AM
Keep Your Friends Close, but Your Girlfriend Closer. :D

gekkogecko
09-06-2021, 06:20 AM
One vulture does not a spring make.

dicksbro
09-06-2021, 11:33 PM
Don't count your chickens in on a cattle ranch.

gekkogecko
09-07-2021, 06:03 AM
It's like making a mountain out of a single drop of water.

dicksbro
09-08-2021, 01:09 AM
Love is a many splendid and complex thing.

gekkogecko
09-08-2021, 06:13 AM
We need to bring the people of the 21st Century back into the Stone Age.

dicksbro
09-10-2021, 02:32 AM
You Can Lead a Horse to Water unless it's a Clydesdale, in which case he'll have a Bud.

gekkogecko
09-10-2021, 10:30 AM
If a tree falls in the forest, and there's nobody around to hear it, do all the squirrels and birds and insects that use to live in it move into your place?

dicksbro
09-10-2021, 11:37 PM
Silence is golden ... noise refines it!

gekkogecko
09-11-2021, 09:39 AM
Virtue is its own reward; but then, so is vice.

gekkogecko
09-18-2021, 10:43 AM
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for an evening. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

dicksbro
09-18-2021, 11:54 PM
All play and no work makes a politician's career.

gekkogecko
09-21-2021, 06:36 AM
Well, *that's* killing way more than two species with one stone.

dicksbro
09-22-2021, 01:42 AM
Beauty is only skin deep, but that's all that's necessary to get a guy's blood flowing!

gekkogecko
09-24-2021, 09:31 AM
We'll burn that bridge when we come to it.

dicksbro
09-25-2021, 03:17 AM
You can't judge a book by it's cover ... especially if all it has is printing and you can't read. :shrug:

gekkogecko
09-25-2021, 12:45 PM
Let's talk about the mouse in the elephant enclosure.

dicksbro
09-26-2021, 01:39 AM
If at First You Don't Succeed, Try Try Again. Unless of course it was a death defying (??) leap from a 10-story building without a parachute into a pail of water..

gekkogecko
09-26-2021, 10:31 AM
Two rights don't make a left. that takes three.

dicksbro
09-27-2021, 01:15 AM
What's Good for the Goose Is Good for the Sale of Trojans.

gekkogecko
09-27-2021, 06:21 AM
Is that the incident that involved "The face that sank a thousand ships?"

dicksbro
09-28-2021, 03:16 AM
A Bird in the Bush is Better Then Two Droppings on the hands.

gekkogecko
09-28-2021, 06:11 AM
It's always darkest far underground; with no candle, flashlight, or electricity.

dicksbro
09-29-2021, 10:41 PM
Many Hands Make Things Difficult if the Space is Limited.

gekkogecko
09-30-2021, 06:17 AM
The future looks watery-brown.

dicksbro
10-01-2021, 02:31 AM
What Goes Up, Must Come Down unless, of course, you're in a zero gravity environment.

gekkogecko
10-01-2021, 07:40 AM
Always remember that which is entirely forgettable.

dicksbro
10-04-2021, 02:44 AM
Stitch in time makes the clock stop if it's done right.

gekkogecko
10-04-2021, 06:10 AM
A watched clock never boils.

PantyFanatic
10-05-2021, 02:32 AM
Two birds in the bush are better than one bird that craps in your hand.

dicksbro
10-05-2021, 04:45 AM
A Really Big Rolling Stone Gathers a lot of stuff on it's way down ... people included if they get in the way. :(

gekkogecko
10-09-2021, 09:58 AM
Remember that in many porn movies, the hero gets the girl in the end.

dicksbro
10-10-2021, 03:44 AM
Top or bottom end, that is the question.

gekkogecko
10-10-2021, 09:38 AM
Do dentists recommend biting the sugar-free bullet?

dicksbro
10-11-2021, 02:44 AM
Or, do they recommend Fluoride treated ones?

gekkogecko
10-11-2021, 03:51 AM
If you don't look a gift horse in the mouth, how are you to tell if there's a bunch of Greeks in there?

PantyFanatic
10-11-2021, 02:20 PM
^^^ :roflmao:

gekkogecko
10-12-2021, 05:54 AM
Something that doesn't need twisting:

No good deed goes unpunished.

gekkogecko
10-22-2021, 10:23 AM
Everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion. But an opinion without 3.14 is just an onion.

gekkogecko
11-04-2021, 05:48 AM
A watched clock never boils.

PantyFanatic
11-05-2021, 06:47 PM
A hand in a bush is better than two birds.

gekkogecko
11-06-2021, 10:16 AM
This, too, shall pass through your bowels.

gekkogecko
11-07-2021, 10:00 AM
The consequences of leaving things in too long:
Burnt Pizza
Frozen Beer
Pregnant Girlfriend

gekkogecko
11-08-2021, 06:56 AM
It's always darkest in a sealed oubliette, with no candles, torches, or electric light.

dicksbro
11-09-2021, 04:05 AM
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the opposite is also true.

gekkogecko
11-09-2021, 07:16 AM
You should never kill two birds with one stone inside a glass house.

Fangtasia
11-09-2021, 04:07 PM
Drier than a dead dingos donger

gekkogecko
11-10-2021, 07:02 AM
I have a firm grip on reality. I'm gonig to choke it to death.

gekkogecko
01-13-2022, 07:12 AM
Common sense is not necessarily either common nor sensible.

PantyFanatic
01-13-2022, 03:16 PM
When one door closes and another door opens, you are probably in prison. :nod:

gekkogecko
01-14-2022, 10:37 AM
Help! The paranoids are after me!

gekkogecko
03-21-2022, 06:21 AM
He who hesitates...is looking at the mouse that blundered into the trap.

dicksbro
10-14-2022, 02:14 AM
A little bird told me a secret ... my car was it's next poop target.

dicksbro
10-14-2022, 02:23 AM
Since Ying is feminine and Yang is masculine would YingYing be Lesbian and YangYang be gay? Then YingYang which would be traditionally female and male.

gekkogecko
10-18-2022, 06:23 AM
So many brains...so little time.

txgrneyes
10-29-2022, 06:18 PM
Always give 100% except when giving blood.

gekkogecko
10-30-2022, 12:40 PM
In which case, you should give 110% ?

Namaste, bitches.

gekkogecko
11-02-2022, 06:39 AM
Donate a kidney, you're a hero. Donate fifteen, people start asking questions.

gekkogecko
11-13-2022, 11:57 AM
The effed-up past is the key to the effed-up future.

gekkogecko
01-10-2023, 07:58 AM
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide things into two categories, and those who don't.

PantyFanatic
01-10-2023, 03:43 PM
Someone who buys a lottery ticket is an optimist. Somebody that buys more than one is just BAD at math.

gekkogecko
01-11-2023, 07:29 AM
^^^Too true to not even need twisting.