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Sesquipedalian Sayings
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Posted on 12/23/2010 2:47:08 PM PST by EveningStar

The stylus is more potent than the claymore.

Pulchritude possesses exclusively cutaneous profundity.

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

The greatest of need is the maternal parent of the art of original contrivance.

A revolving lithic conglomerate accrues no lichen.

Everything is legitimate in matters pertaining to ardent affections and international armed conflicts.

The temperature of the aqueous content of a metallic receptacle under unremitting surveillance does not attain its level of evaporation.

Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate.

Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.

It is fruitless to endure lacrimation over precipitately departed lacteal fluid.

Similar sire, similar scion.

Pulchritude reposes within the optic parameters of the perceiver.

Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.

Where there are visible emissions from carbonaceous materials, there exists conflagration.

Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony.

Integrity is the superlative strategy.

A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques vitiate the potable concoction.

Eleemosynary deeds have their incipience domestically.

All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not, ipso facto, auriferous.

An addlepated individual and his specie divaricate with prematurity.

The ultimate entity of dried gramineous organism induces a rupture of the dorsal portion of the ship of the desert.

Hubris antedates a gravity-impelled descent.

Three quarters of a dozen individual movements by slender sewing instrument may be obviated by the utilization of a single, opportunistic thrust of said instrument.

Exclusive dedication to necessitous employment without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders John a hebetudinous young person.

Soft airs possess the potency to mitigate the anguish residual in the barbaric thorax.

Minuscule erudition jeopardizes security.

Consolidated we maintain ourselves erect; bifurcated we plummet.

A feathered biped in the terminal part of the arm equals the value of a brace of such creatures in densely branched shrubbery.

Persons deficient in judgment hasten to undertake that for which winged celestials hesitate to assume responsibility.

Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices of patent frangibility are advised to refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles.


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1 posted on 12/23/2010 2:47:13 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro; Borges

ping


2 posted on 12/23/2010 2:48:03 PM PST by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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To: EveningStar
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3 posted on 12/23/2010 2:49:42 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek

Couldn’t have said it better myself!


4 posted on 12/23/2010 2:52:44 PM PST by Tonytitan
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To: EveningStar

Huh?


5 posted on 12/23/2010 2:53:46 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: cripplecreek

Whenever I see that picture, I crack up! Thanks for the laughs!


6 posted on 12/23/2010 2:55:43 PM PST by Buddygirl
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To: EveningStar

Thanks, those are pretty good!


7 posted on 12/23/2010 2:56:55 PM PST by Jolla
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To: EveningStar

OK, I will bite!
The first one says, The pen is mightier than the sword (or gun [whatever!])


8 posted on 12/23/2010 2:58:33 PM PST by Buddygirl
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To: cripplecreek

Perfect picture!!

Say what? LOL


9 posted on 12/23/2010 2:58:51 PM PST by aquila48
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To: EveningStar
Otherwise known as obfuscations.
10 posted on 12/23/2010 3:01:27 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Inspiration. The momentary cessation of stupidity.)
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To: EveningStar
And the ever-popular:

Please attempt to propel certain renal byproducts vertically along a section of woven hemp.

11 posted on 12/23/2010 3:11:13 PM PST by SAJ (Zerobama -- a phony and a prick, therefore a dildo.)
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To: EveningStar

A scintillating carbon crystal surrounded by superfluous strata.

Merry Christmas!


12 posted on 12/23/2010 3:11:17 PM PST by bigheadfred (what a gem...)
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To: Buddygirl

And the second is “Beauty is only skin deep”.


13 posted on 12/23/2010 3:19:46 PM PST by DejaJude
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To: EveningStar

Excellent! Great post.


14 posted on 12/23/2010 3:20:29 PM PST by golux
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To: EveningStar

Eschew obfuscation!


15 posted on 12/23/2010 3:20:39 PM PST by Slings and Arrows
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To: golux

(Love and War and Bird in the Bush are my LOL favorites - I hope they replace the originals in my mind!)


16 posted on 12/23/2010 3:23:17 PM PST by golux
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To: EveningStar

Sir, I cordially invite you to go conduct yourself in a biologically impossible manner!

;^)


17 posted on 12/23/2010 3:23:49 PM PST by elcid1970 ("Buy Sabra brand Hummus, made in Israel!")
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To: EveningStar; Envisioning; waterhill

You’ve been reading William F. Buckley again, haven’t you?

Good for a much needed laugh.


18 posted on 12/23/2010 3:24:49 PM PST by ixtl (When people fear government, there is tyranny; when government fears people, there is liberty.)
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To: EveningStar

Those are great! My family loves word games. Going to print these off for them.


19 posted on 12/23/2010 3:27:06 PM PST by MWestMom (Tread carefully, truth lies here.)
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To: EveningStar
Get the guy who wrote these.... get they guy who posted them! Merry Christmas ES!Great stuff!


20 posted on 12/23/2010 3:36:19 PM PST by Daffynition (Merry Christmas!!!)
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