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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 17:57:41 JST myrmepropagandist

   Have you ever heard the saying "you're just knitting a sweater of your own wool"

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   If so what does it mean?

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     Rivikah (rivikah@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 17:57:39 JST Rivikah

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     @futurebird I have never heard that, but if I did, I would imagine a sheep knitting a sweater and assume that you're doing a lot of work for no real benefit.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 17:57:44 JST myrmepropagandist

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     • Irenes (many)

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     My mom has a lot of nonsense sayings I think she probably just made up and I strongly suspect this is one of them. (But she says "no no no it's an old saying")

     That and "13 isn't one extra to the baker"

     NOBODY says this stuff, mom.

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     Irenes (many) (irenes@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 17:57:45 JST Irenes (many)

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     @futurebird we have never heard it. our first thought would be that it's something furries aspire to.

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     Irenes (many) (irenes@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 17:57:48 JST Irenes (many)

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     @futurebird haha, yeah we've never heard that one either

     we do make up proverbs sometimes but we try to be honest they're ours....

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 17:57:48 JST myrmepropagandist

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     @irenes

     My mom has been gaslighting me for YEARS with fake proverbs and I only started to discover how bad it was in my 30s after insisting that "hitching the racehorse to the plow" was an "old saying" only to learn it's not.

     😡

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     enantiomer (enantiomer@stoat.zone)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 17:57:51 JST enantiomer

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     @futurebird @irenes

     ok I'm sorry but these are great

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     Mage Moss (trying it on) (cyrus@zirk.us)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 17:57:54 JST Mage Moss (trying it on)

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     • Irenes (many)

     @futurebird @irenes I just watched a season of Survivor from a few years ago where one of the twists was the player who found a secret “advantage” could only activate it by reciting a nonsensical made-up proverb in front of all the other players, who had no idea what that was about. The reciter had to really act and make it sound like an authentic saying, in order to not have their secret discovered.

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     √(-1) (vvitchy@pagan.plus)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 17:57:57 JST √(-1)

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     @futurebird @irenes

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     "You don't hitch a race horse to plow a field."
     ~my Grandpa (farmer out on the plains) who I'm pretty sure is older than your mom since he'd be 120 something if he were still alive.

     So maybe it came from somewhere, but just not wide spread?

     Side note, my grandpa would say this, and shake his head any time saw one of those over sized half van, half truck (half assed at both) monstrosities in the lot at the farm supply store

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     James 🦉 #FBPE :europe: (freequaybuoy@mastodon.green)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 17:58:04 JST James 🦉 #FBPE :europe:

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     • Irenes (many)

     @futurebird @irenes "We have idioms at home"

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     Chris Espinosa (cdespinosa@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 17:58:05 JST Chris Espinosa

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     @freequaybuoy @futurebird @irenes There was a great book in the early 80s called Minims which were sort of maxims except totally made up, like “live and lean” and “you can get farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone” https://www.amazon.com/Minims-Knowledge-Sanskrit-Little-Trapped/dp/0395329388

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     Pavel A. Samsonov (pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 17:58:13 JST Pavel A. Samsonov

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     • 🍋 Superball ☀️

     @superball @futurebird Weirdly, this has lineage from the Sumerian dog joke:

     A dog walks into a tavern. "It's too dark to see anything," he says. "I think I'll open my eyes."

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     🍋 Superball ☀️ (superball@norcal.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 17:58:14 JST 🍋 Superball ☀️

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     @futurebird

     My dad spouts weird random stuff, too. I’m not sure how much of it he has made up versus gotten from somewhere, but sometimes I’ll hear more of a saying, which makes it make sense. Like when something becomes clear to him, he says, “ ‘I see,’ said the blind man.” It never made any sense but was just one of those things you take in stride as a kid. In recent years, I learned it’s a common saying *with a punchline*: “. . . and then he picked up his hammer and saw.”

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     Susanna (superflippy@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 17:58:18 JST Susanna

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     @futurebird @irenes You need to email A Way With Words. They’d love your mom’s sayings! And I’d love to hear their research on them. https://www.waywordradio.org/

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     Patrick Hadfield (patrickhadfield@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 17:58:23 JST Patrick Hadfield

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     @futurebird @irenes thirteen is known as a baker's dozen in Britain, stemming medieval laws controlling bread supply - to make sure they complied, bakers would over supply.

     https://www.britannica.com/story/why-is-a-bakers-dozen-13

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     Re-jeninator (jenyetagain@tooters.org)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 17:58:29 JST Re-jeninator

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     @futurebird I can't say I've heard it but it sounds like making work for work's sake? A sweater will keep me warm the same way my wool already does, but with extra steps.

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     Escarpment (escarpment@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 17:58:32 JST Escarpment

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     @futurebird ChatGPT says it means your problems are self inflicted. Whatever large problems you have (the sweater) are caused by your own bad decisions and actions (your wool).

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     Da_Gut (da_gut@dice.camp)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 17:58:42 JST Da_Gut

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     @futurebird it means your believing your own bull shit. I’ve not heard that specific one but many others similar

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