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Life is like a....
Beatrice Posted Jul 20, 2013
I like that one.
Life is like a bowl of cherries. That aren't there.
(Which aren't there?)
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Sho - employed again! Posted Jul 20, 2013
I've often thought it was more like a bowl of toenails.
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Dr Anthea - ah who needs to learn things... just google it! Posted Jul 20, 2013
curious yet disgusting?
who put those there? why would you put toenails in a bowl?
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U14993989 Posted Jul 20, 2013
Life is a non-reducible property of certain organised forms of matter.
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swl Posted Jul 20, 2013
La vida loca or la dolce vita, depending on my medication.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jul 20, 2013
From the same Rodgers and Hammerstein song that produced the nonexistent cherries:
Life is a room full of feathers
That keep getting in your hair.
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Beatrice Posted Jul 20, 2013
Why did elephant paint his toenails?
So that he could hide in the cherry tree.
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KB Posted Jul 20, 2013
Why did the cherry tree buy a mouse?
She got sick of all the elephants.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jul 20, 2013
Why did Disney use hippos instead of elephants? Because he didn't want to be remembered for Elephantasia.
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U14993989 Posted Jul 20, 2013
Beatrice Posted 34 Minutes Ago
"Why did elephant paint his toenails?
So that he could hide in the cherry tree."
I herd another version involving balls. This is then followed by the question: "What is the loudest noise in the jungle?" to which the answer is "A giraffe eating cherries"
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Rod Posted Jul 20, 2013
Life is what you make it, or so they say
But what you were given is more like the way
For now the luck is good ... and now it's ill
And if the Right one doesn't get you, the Left one will
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Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... Posted Jul 21, 2013
Life is like a thing you can't ever adequately describe in metaphor because it's too complicated. 
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Atticus Posted Jul 21, 2013
Life may not be a game, but why not treat everything in life as play....?
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jul 21, 2013
"Life is a rum go, guv'nor"
Bert the Chimney Sweep.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jul 21, 2013
"Life is like cricket. You play by the rules,
But the secret which few people know,
Which sets men of class well apart from the fools,
Is to make up the rules as you."
From the song "There are so many things to remember," in the musical "The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd."
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Milla, h2g2 Operations Posted Jul 31, 2013
... sexually transmitted condition with a 100% fatal outcome.
Enjoy it while it lasts, I say
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Aug 2, 2013
Life is like a really good afternoon-tea, over by the point you really want to get started...
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- 21: Beatrice (Jul 20, 2013)
- 22: Sho - employed again! (Jul 20, 2013)
- 23: Dr Anthea - ah who needs to learn things... just google it! (Jul 20, 2013)
- 24: U14993989 (Jul 20, 2013)
- 25: swl (Jul 20, 2013)
- 26: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Jul 20, 2013)
- 27: Beatrice (Jul 20, 2013)
- 28: KB (Jul 20, 2013)
- 29: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Jul 20, 2013)
- 30: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Jul 20, 2013)
- 31: U14993989 (Jul 20, 2013)
- 32: Rod (Jul 20, 2013)
- 33: Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... (Jul 21, 2013)
- 34: swl (Jul 21, 2013)
- 35: ITIWBS (Jul 21, 2013)
- 36: Atticus (Jul 21, 2013)
- 37: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Jul 21, 2013)
- 38: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Jul 21, 2013)
- 39: Milla, h2g2 Operations (Jul 31, 2013)
- 40: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Aug 2, 2013)
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