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Daily (Intermittent) Open-End Puzzle: Sweeping up the night’s dead moths
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Daily (Intermittent) Open-Ended Puzzle: Stub
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February 4, 2008
DOEP (Daily (intermittent) Open-Ended Puzzle: Web clichés
I’m about to post a new issue of my (free) newsletter, which has the following Bogus Contest:
These days, instead of saying “If you look up ‘miserable failure’ in the dictionary, there’s a picture of George Bush there,” you’d more likely say, “If you google ‘miserable failure,’ George Bush is the first return.”
Can we come up with more clichés transposed to the world of tech? For example:
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The more things are upgraded, the more they stay the |
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A watched IPO never boils |
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It takes two to flame |
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A woman needs a man the way a fish needs a C compiler |
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There’s more than one way to skin a Firefox |
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When the net nanny’s away, the mice will play |
Your turn! (To enter — which is, remember, functionally the same as not entering — post your updated clichés as a comment.
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