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Mainecoons
08-27-2012, 03:25 PM
From an email:


Chinese proverb/the Chicago way
Original Chinese Proverb:

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.


2012 Revision:

Give a man a welfare check,
a free cell phone with unlimited free minutes,
cash for his clunker,
food stamps,
section 8 housing,
free contraceptives,
and he will vote for Democrats the rest of
his life; even after he's deceased.

And he'll vote for Republicrats too!

Cigar
08-27-2012, 03:33 PM
But if the Fish ain't clean ... don't marry her. :)

patrickt
08-27-2012, 05:39 PM
My favorite used to be "Nothing is difficult for the man who doesn't have to do it," but lately I go with, "You can do whatever you want as long as you have someone to blame."

URF8
08-27-2012, 06:28 PM
But if the Fish ain't clean ... don't marry her. :)

Shakes head. What is up with you pal?

GrumpyDog
08-27-2012, 07:07 PM
Give a Republican a fish, and he will sell it to a Democrat, and then go buy 3 more fish. The Democrat will then demand he pay 1 extra fish as taxes, so that the goverment can divide up that fish into 10 pieces to feed 200 other people around the world.

Meanwhile 10 trillion fish swimming around in the ocean thank god that starving people are unable to relocate where the beach is and decide to remain in a desert, looking for lizards under the sand and procreating 24/7 to increase their own burden.

MMC
08-27-2012, 08:20 PM
It's not Chinese.....but Walt Whitman has an excellent proverb.

I have learned that to be with those I like.....is Enough! :wink: