new proverb

[Jonathan Lighter]

On a marquee outside a local church:

"Going Against the Flow is like Building a Boat on Dry Land."

Somebody knows less than squat about boat-building. Or else is
a black-belt in proverb irony.

I pick number one.

JL




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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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