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Daniel Nest's avatar

Platitudes---still better than flatulence.

But that's just the way the cookie crumbles.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Fartitudes: the ways in which the fart cookies crumble

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Carolyn Nafziger's avatar

"Plat" is the French word for flat.

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Daniel Gmyrek's avatar

My depression era Dad was fond of “No pain, no gain!”

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Classic Depression-Era slogan! That's right there up with "a penny saved is a penny earned", something that was ingrained deeply into my consciousness at an early age.

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Rabbi Eli L. Garfinkel's avatar

Folks have just gotta pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Such a weird concept to visualize!

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

You better check yourself before you wreck yourself.

It’s hard to have a conversation with certain family members without ‘everything happens for a reason’ thrown out

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Ew!

I mean, it is what it is.

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