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warwgn

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The following 18 questions are all complicated ways of saying simple adages- Can you decipher them? (no cheating/ google-ing)

1) Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.

2) Neophyte's serendipity

3) A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small, green, biophytic plant.

4) Members of an avian species of identical plumage tend to congregate.

5) Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.

6) Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.

7) It is fruitless to become lachrymose of precipitately decanted lacteal fluid.

8) Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.

9) The stylus is more potent than the rapier.

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

11) Surveillance should precede saltation.

12) Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minific! Fain would i fathom your nature specific!

13) The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.

14) Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interlude of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow.

15) Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be wee advised to refrain from catapulting petrious projectiles.

16) Where there are visible vapors having their provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.

17) All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly resplendent.

18) Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.[/Quote]


#1 is a dead man tells no tales
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how many can you get
 
1) dead men tell no tales

2)

3) a rolling stone gathers no moss

4) birds of a feather flock together

5)
6)

7) don't cry over spil't milk

8) spare the rod, spoil the child

9) the pen is mightier than the sword

10) you can't teach an old dog new tricks

11) look before you leap

12)
13)

14) all work and no play makes jack a dull boy

15)
16)
17)
18)



I'll have to think about the others a bit longer...
 
(warwgn @ Jun. 29 2007,15:41) The following 18 questions are all complicated ways of saying simple adages- Can you decipher them? (no cheating/ google-ing)

1) Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.

2) Neophyte's serendipity

3) A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small, green, biophytic plant.

4) Members of an avian species of identical plumage tend to congregate.

5) Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.

6) Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.

7) It is fruitless to become lachrymose of precipitately decanted lacteal fluid.

8) Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.

9) The stylus is more potent than the rapier.

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

11) Surveillance should precede saltation.

12) Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minific! Fain would i fathom your nature specific!

13) The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.

14) Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interlude of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow.

15) Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be wee advised to refrain from catapulting petrious projectiles.

16) Where there are visible vapors having their provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.

17) All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly resplendent.

18) Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.


#1 is a dead man tells no tales
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how many can you get[/Quote]
A couple of them jump out - some are harder... I could not get 13 - but 12 was good!

2. Beginner's luck.
3. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
4. Birds of a feather flock together.
5. Beauty is only skin deep.
6. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
7. Don't cry over spilled milk.
8. Spare the rod, spoil the child.
9. Pen is mightier than the sword.
10. Can't teach an old dog new tricks.
11. Look be fore you leap.
12 - ha ha - this one is good - How I wonder where you are
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14. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.
15. People who live in glass houses should cast no stones.
16. Where there is smoke there is fire.
17. All that shimmers isn't gold.
18. Beggars can't be choosers.
 
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