{"id":7894,"date":"2014-08-24T06:13:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T06:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/08\/24\/araprosdokians\/"},"modified":"2014-08-24T06:13:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T06:13:43","slug":"araprosdokians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/08\/24\/araprosdokians\/","title":{"rendered":"Araprosdokians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nWinston Churchill loved araprosdokians, figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is\u2026surprising or unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>\t1. Where there&#8217;s a will, I want to be in it.<\/p>\n<p>\t2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it&#8217;s still on my list.<\/p>\n<p>\t3. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.<\/p>\n<p>\t4. If I agreed with you, we&#8217;d both be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\t5. War does not determine who is right &#8211; only who is left.<\/p>\n<p>\t6. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.<\/p>\n<p>\t7. They begin the evening news with &#8216;Good Evening,&#8217; then proceed to tell you why it isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>\t8. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.<\/p>\n<p>\t9. I thought I wanted a career. Turns out, I just wanted pay checks.<\/p>\n<p>\t10. In filling out an application, where it says, &#8216;In case of emergency, notify:&#8217; I put &quot;DOCTOR.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t11. I didn&#8217;t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.<\/p>\n<p>\t12. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street&#8230;with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.<\/p>\n<p>\t13. Behind every successful man is his woman.<br \/>\n\tBehind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.<\/p>\n<p>\t14. A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.<\/p>\n<p>\t15. You do not need a parachute to skydive.<br \/>\n\tYou only need a parachute to skydive twice.<\/p>\n<p>\t16. Money can&#8217;t buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.<\/p>\n<p>\t17. There&#8217;s a fine line between cuddling and&#8230;<br \/>\n\tholding someone down so they can&#8217;t get away.<\/p>\n<p>\t18. I used to be indecisive. Now I&#8217;m not so sure.<\/p>\n<p>\t19. You&#8217;re never too old to learn something stupid.<\/p>\n<p>\t20. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.<\/p>\n<p>\t21. Nostalgia isn&#8217;t what it used to be.<\/p>\n<p>\t22. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.<\/p>\n<p>\t23. Going to church doesn&#8217;t make you a Christian any more<br \/>\n\t than standing in a garage makes you a car.<\/p>\n<p>\t24. I&#8217;m supposed to respect my elders, but now it\u2019s getting harder and harder for me to find one.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> ACPA on August 24, 2014, 4:55 pm<\/p>\n<div>The last one is ever so true, isn&#8217;t it Doc?<\/p>\n<p>\tNoah<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> sevenout on August 27, 2014, 4:23 am<\/p>\n<div>#9 totally sums up the way I feel about work.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Scan on August 27, 2014, 10:22 pm<\/p>\n<div>Those are great<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winston Churchill loved araprosdokians, figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is\u2026surprising or unexpected. 1. Where there&#8217;s a will, I want to be in it. 2. The last thing I want to do is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}