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From: koved@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Common sayings
Message-ID: <4349@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Dec-83 18:25:20 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  9 18:25:20 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Dec-83 01:40:30 EST
Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept.
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This should keep people busy during finals:

Instructions:  Give the common equivalent of the following well-known
               adages.  Answers are being distributed in the file
               EXAM1 ANSWERS.  This file is ciphered.  The cipher key
               will be sent to you on request.
 
 1.  Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid diminutive.
 
 2.  Members of an avarian species of identical plumage congregate.
 
 3.  Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
 
 4.  Surveillance should precede saltation.
 
 5.  It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately departed
     lacteal fluid.
 
 6.  Freedom from incrustation of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
 
 7.  The stylus is more potent than the claymore.
 
 8.  It is feasible to attempt indoctrination of a superannuated canine
     with innovative maneuvers.
 
 9.  Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.
 
10.  The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled
     culinary vessel will not achieve 100 degrees on the Celsius scale.
 
11.  All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not necessarily
     auriferous.
 
12.  Where there are viable vapors having their production in ignited
     carbonaceous material there is conflagration.
 
13.  Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
 
14.  A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques
     contaminate the potable concoction produced by steeping certain
     edible nutriments.
 
15.  Eleemosynary deeds have their incidence intramurally.
 
16.  Male cadavers are incapable of yielding testimony.
 
17.  Those who abide in vitreous edifices would be well advised to
     refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles.
 
18.  Neophyte's serendipity.
 
19.  Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of
     hedonistic diversions renders John a vacuous fellow.
 
20.  A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of a
     minikin green bryophytic plant.
 
21.  The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses, thereby,
     the optimal cachinnation.


I will post the answers soon.

Larry