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I decided to do some more of these myself.

For any new people a pedantic proverb is taking a common saying and make it sound like a lawyer said it.

For example: "an explosion of light occurring in a cooking utensil." is another way of saying "A flash in the pan".

So here are six sayings. After translating them, can you tell something else about the sayings?

And as always, please hide your answers or provide spoiler space so everyone can do this.

1) An accumulation of the outermost extremity of the upper limb on the human body that is more than a few causes an activity not pursued for pleasure to be rendered of a nature that provides for successful completion with minimum effort.


2) If the number of those whose profession is of a culinary nature exceeds an optimum number by even a single unit, then the clear liquid obtained by heating animal or vegetable materials in a mixture of one part oxygen and two parts hydrogen is rendered unmerchantable.


3) The organ responsible for circulating a nourishment-carrying, waste-removing fluid through the body of a vertebrate animal is said to increase in affection for that which once was in close proximaty but is currently beyond one's physical presence.

4) An item whose appearance is rendered null through distance or by the intervention of some obscuring object and thus cannot be perceived by ocular organs will likewise be missing from that organ responsible for cognitive thought processes.

5) Those who exhibit the characteristics of a fearless and daring spirit will be shown partiality towards by a hypothetical force or personified power that unpredictably determines events and issues favorably or unfavorably.

6) In a competition involving traveling a set distance, victory is assured to one who exhibits a counterintuitive velocity and a manner showing little variation or fluctuation.

I luv lawyer-talk!

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2. Too many cooks spoil the broth
3. Absence makes the heart gro fonder
4. Out of sight, out of mind
5. Fortune favors the brave
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TD, you need better spoiler spacing. On the "active topics" you can read your answers

Oh wait with this post I fixed that problem

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1)I know what this says, but I don't know the proverb

2)Too many cooks spoil the broth

3)Absence makes the heart grow fonder

4)Out of sight, out of mind

5)Fortune favors the bold

6)Slow and steady wins the race

What's obvious is how 1 & 2, 3 & 4, and 5 & 6 contradict each other.

Edited for color.

(edit: Spoiler space added since I didn't get the color this was supposed to be.)

I think I've figured out the second batch:

<span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">1) Criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot.

2) With great power comes great responsibility.

3) Long Live The Legion!

4) "In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night ..."
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No problem!

<span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">
1. Criminals are a cowardly and superstitious lot.
2. With great power comes great responsibility.
3. Long Live the Legion
4. In brightest day, in blackest night...</span></span>

Both of you are correct.

PS. please tell me it took a little bit of thought to figure them out.

OK, I came up with some more using TV catchphrases.

1) The negative ownership of the distaff member of the species Bos taurus is advised to the appellation of an adult male.


2) The revenge and retribution of the being recognized by the majority as creator of all reality will be caused by the specific action performed by the person opposite the speaker.


3) The first person singular takes great pleasure in the occurrence of an orderly arrangement of parts of an overall design or objective uniting


4) The application of a counter or retarding force to an initial application of invasive or aggressive force will achieve a null consequence and is an inefficient use of time, energy, and effort.


5) The property of being in accord with fact and reality remains located in a place to which one must venture forth


6) You are requested to refrain from causing any action that would result in a state of antagonism as the consequence of the state of antagonism would produce a negative perception during such period.


7) The probability of success was assumed to be one hundred percent but for a group of immature individuals who interested themselves in matters to which they had no right or propriety

Ok I was bored and came up with some more.


1) One is instructed to act in a manner consistent with what is expressed in words and to not act in a manner similar to how the speaker executes his/her own physical activities.

2) People with an XY chromosone who has been deprived of the animating force is unable to narrate a series of facts or events.

3) Authorization is given to a person who has never transgressed any moral or religious law to catapult the primary projectile made of earthy or mineral matter.

4) The sum total of thoroughfare, bypaths, avenues, and boulevards result in an end terminus at a metropolis purportedly founded by twin brothers.

5) A holiday thought to have orginiated in opposition to pagan celebrations of the winter solistice arrives upon a single occurance within a period consisting of 365 days.

6) The incorporaton of discarded or useless material will result in the exportation of an end product of similar properties.

7) High thick masonry structures forming a long rampart of enclosure is said to be in possession of vertebrate organs capable of detecting vibratory motions.

<span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">
1. Do as I say, not as I do.
2. Dead men tell no tales.
3. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
4. All roads lead to Rome.
5. Christmas comes but once a year.
6. Garbage in, gargage out.
7. The walls have ears.
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The thirty-sixth element is remarkable or outstanding in magnitude, degree or extent!

The precise chronal increment has been arrived upon in which it is incumbent upon the individual to perform great acts of physical violence.

Individuals engaged in the attainment of vengeance against those who have perpetrated wrongdoing upon them will gather.

The party of the second part is anticipated to have a strong negative preference to any occurrence in which the party of the first part becomes emotionally agitated.

The party in question is to be considered merely an amiable and geographically regionalized humaniform with arachnoid characteristics.

Veracity is not localized.

The speaker is a structure for the transformation of visible light into chemical energy through a chlorophyll-based process existing precariously upon an agitated waveform of air molecules.

7 for 7, Bicycle Repairman

<span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">

1. Great Krypton!

2. It's Clobberin' Time!

3. Avengers Assemble!

4. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

5. Your friendly neighborhood Spider-man.

6. The truth is out there.

7. ?
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I had used 4 & 6 (if I am correct) for a previous round. See 5 & 6 in the TV Catchphrases above.

Oops, I did the first couple of sets, but kept rushing the page because I didn't want to read the spoilers.

For my seventh, it's a relatively memorable line from a TV show-turned-movie.