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• If a lawyer and an IRS agent were both drowning, and you could only save one of them, would you go to lunch or read the paper?
• A help wanted add for a photo journalist asked the rhetorical questio
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• A conservative sees a man drowning fifty feet from shore.
  The conservative throws the man a rope 25 feet long and tells the man to start swimming, all the while wondering where he is going to send the bill for the 25 feet of rope used in this effort....
• Ever negotiate with lawyers at a huge company? If they saw you drowning 100 feet from the shore, they'd through you a 51-foot rope and say they went more than halfway.
  -- Paul Somerson in 'PC Computing,' 1996...
• A drowning man will catch at a straw. -- Proverb
• If you can't make both ends meat, make one end vegetable.
• No bath cures ignorance, but drowning would help.
• A sentence well couched takes both the sense and the understanding.
  I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. -- Fletham...
• Each time you think you are about to be able to make both ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
  -- Quality-of-Life Consta...