Translation, please

[BigSwede]

Think you know English? Translate these proverbs into their more common form...I'll post a few at a time:

1. Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.

2. Scintillate, scintillate, diminutive asteroid.

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

[ibmx2]

2 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

3 birds of a feather flock togather

[VX KAT]

1. beauty is only skin deep?

[BigSwede]

Well done.

4. Surveillance should precede saltation.

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

6. Freedom from incrustations of grimes is contiguous to divinity

[ibmx2]

4 trust but verify

[tom4bren]

4. Look before you leap

5. Don't cry over spilt milk

6. Cleanliness is next to Godliness

[handeeman]

4. Look before you leap

5. don't cry over spilt milk

6. cleanlyness is next to godlyness

[tom4bren]

4. Look before you leap

5. don't cry over spilt milk

6. cleanlyness is next to godlyness

Yer smart ... but slow. Or did you cut & paste from my response.

[ibmx2]

Or did you cut & paste from my response.

Dam why did i not think of that !

[BigSwede]

Play nice now

7. The stylus is more potent than the claymore.

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

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

[handeeman]

Yer smart ... but slow. Or did you cut & paste from my response.

Can't type fast...I felt bad when I clicked submit and evryone had already answered and gone on to something else.
Plus I was gonna ask Big Swede to type slower cause i cannot read fast.

[ibmx2]

5 dont cry over spilled milk

[BigSwede]

Heh, I had trouble with #16 too...

Hi Larry

[Ldub]

Heh, I had trouble with #16 too...

Hi Larry

H'ya doi'n Bud...excellent thread...

Hey...way-da-minnit...you mean you're getting these out of a book?...

I thought you were making them up offin the top of yer head...

[handeeman]

I have really enjoyed this thread. Big Swede has had me thinking on the outer limits of outside the box.