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07/04/2005: Tranlating Techno-Speak...
Answers to Techno-Speak:
1) Avian species of identical plumage congregate.
-- Birds of a feather flock together.
2) Freedom from incrustations of noxious substances is contiguous with conformity to divine prescription.
-- Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
3) Pulchritude posses solely cutaneous profundity.
-- Beauty is only skin deep.
4) A superannuated canine is immune to indoctrination in innovative maneuvers.
-- You can’t teach an old dogs new tricks.
5) Ululate not over precipitated lactal secretion.
-- Don’t cry over spilt milk.
6) All that coruscates with replendence will not assay auriferous.
-- All that glitters is not gold.
7) The existence of visible vapors from ignited carbonaceous materials confirms conflagration.
-- Where’s there’s smoke there’s fire
8) Mendicants are interdicted from elective recipiency.
-- Beggars can’t be choosers.
9) Probity gratifies reflexively.
-- Virtue is it’s own reward.
10) Male cadavers are unyielding of testimony.
Dead men tell no tales.
11) Inhabitants of vitreous edifices ill-advisedly catapult petrous projectiles.
-- People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
12) Ergonomia exclusive of diversion renders John a hebetudinous progeny.
-- All work and no play makes John a dull boy.
13) He who cachinnates ultimately, cachinnates optimally.
-- He who laughs last laughs best.
14) Abstention for speculatory undertaking precludes attainment.
-- Nothing ventured nothing gained
15) Missiles of ligneous an do non-metallic mineral consistency have the potential to fracture my osseous structure, but malicious appellations are eternally innocuous.
-- Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
Hat tip to Clarence Petersen (Chicago Tribune)
Extra Credit:
A. Person possessed of above average growth indicators precipitately descend more severely.
-- The bigger they are the harder they fall.
B. Avian species attracted to the beginning of the diurnal period enjoy the ownership of invertebrate annelids.
-- The early bird catches the worm.
*And HAT's off to Len who got all the translations (sent in an e-mail) just for FUN. :-)
Karen on 07.04.05 @ 07:37 AM CST
