Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Why I didn't take GRE...... Hilariours

A NORMAL PERSON: People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

GRE STUDENT: Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting perilous projectiles.

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NORMAL PERSON: Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

GRE STUDENT: Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minim.

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NORMAL PERSON: All that glitters is not gold.

GRE STUDENT: All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.

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NORMAL PERSON: Beggars are not choosers

GRE STUDENT: Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.

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NORMAL PERSON: Dead men tell no tales

GRE STUDENT: Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.

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NORMAL PERSON: Beginner's luck

GRE STUDENT: Neophyte's serendipity.

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NORMAL PERSON: A rolling stone gathers no mass

GRE STUDENT: A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small, green, biophytic plant.

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NORMAL PERSON: Birds of a feather flock together

GRE STUDENT: Members of an avian species of identical plumage tend to congregate.

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NORMAL PERSON: Beauty is only skin deep

GRE STUDENT: Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.

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NORMAL PERSON: Cleanliness is godliness

GRE STUDENT: Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.

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NORMAL PERSON: There's no use crying over spilt milk

GRE STUDENT: It is fruitless to become lachrymose of precipitately departed lactile fluid.

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NORMAL PERSON: You can't try to teach old dog new tricks

GRE STUDENT: It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.

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NORMAL PERSON: Look before you leap

GRE STUDENT: Surveillance should precede saltation.

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NORMAL PERSON: He, who laughs last, laughs best

GRE STUDENT: The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.

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NORMAL PERSON: All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.

GRE STUDENT: Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow.

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NORMAL PERSON: Where there's smoke, there's fire!

GRE STUDENT: Where there are visible vapours having their provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.

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