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The following is a list of famous sayings as you have never heard them
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before. See how many you can figure out.
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Hint: Number 1 is "twinkle, twinkle, little star".
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CELEBRATED ORACULAR UTTERANCES
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Phill Caron 3-2-86
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1. Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minific.
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2. Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate.
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3. Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
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4. Surveillance should precede saltation.
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5. It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately departed
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lacteal fluid.
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6. Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
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7. The stylus is more potent than the claymore.
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8. It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with
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innovative maneuvers.
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9. Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.
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10. The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled
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saucepan does not reach 212 degrees F.
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11. All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly
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auriferous.
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12. Where there are visible signs of vapors having their prevenience in
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ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.
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13. Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
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14. A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques vitiate
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the potable concoction produced by steeping certain comestibles.
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15. Eleemosynary deeds have their incipience intramurally.
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16. Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony.
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17. Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be advised
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to refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles.
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18. Neophyte's serendipity.
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19. Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interlude of
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hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow.
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20. A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of a small,
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green bryophytic plant.
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21. The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the
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optimal cachinnation.
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22. Abstention from any elevatory undertakings precludes a potential
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escalation of a lucrative nature.
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23. Missiles of ligneous or petrous consistency have the potential of
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fracturing my osseous structure, but appellations will eternally remain
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innocuous.
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Need hints?
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2. avian = birds
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3. pulchritude = beauty
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4. saltation = leaping
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5. lachrymose = tearful
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6. rectitude = upright moral character (don't be too literal)
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7. claymore = a Scotish weapon capable of slicing off body parts
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8. superannuated = old
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9. scion = offspring
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10. aqueous = water
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11. auiferous = (literally) golden metal
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12. prevenience = antecedents (lotsa help? means what came before)
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13. mendicants = beggars
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14. steeping comestibles = making broth
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15. eleemosynary = charitable
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16. cadavers = bodies (but you knew that didn't you)
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17. petrous = stony
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18. serendipity = good fortune (from the 7 princes of Serendip in
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Candide who always had good things happen even though their
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plans always went awry)
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19. hebetudinous = dull
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20. lithic = stony (as in paleolithic = stone age)
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& congeries = collections
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21. cachinnation = laughter
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22. lucrative = profitable, but maybe gainful is a better clue
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23. osseous = bony
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Quite possibly you find the Greek and Latin easy, but it's
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aphorism (adage if you prefer) that escapes memory. Here are
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the first words of each:
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Twinkle Birds Beauty Look No Cleanliness The You Spare A All
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Where Beggars Too Charity Dead People Beginners All A He Nothing
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Sticks
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Allright, some do begin with articles; it shouldn't be too easy.
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