Obfuscated Famous Sayings Quiz
Below are clues to well-known sayings which have been obfuscated. How many can you turn into normal speak? One guess per clue. No use of reference material or the internet of course to ensure fair play. Good luck.
REMEMBER - NO POSTS instead you PM me with your guesses any time up to 5AM tomorrow. If possible, please wait until you've completed all the guesses you want to make to avoid too many PMs and to make my job easier. So no hurry and it doesn't matter when you submit the answers because I'll be judging them solely on who has the most correct - and in the event of two or more being level it will be a tie. I hope this is clear and good luck. Tomorrow I’ll post the names of the top entries.
1. It hath been deemed unwise to calculate upon the quantity of junior poultry prior to the completion of proper incubation.
2. Where there are visible vapours having their provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there will be also observed conflagration.
3. Unwanted egotism prophesies the speedy effect of the force of gravity.
4. A small, one-eyed steel instrument used at the crucial moment may rescue the square of three.
5. To depart from the path of rectitude is characteristic of the human species, but to be tolerant, loving and kind toward wrongdoers is Godlike.
6. Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
7. Male cadavers are incapable of yielding testimony.
8. The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.
9. When the humidity attains the bursting point it does so profusely.
REMEMBER - NO POSTS instead you PM me with your guesses any time up to 5AM tomorrow. If possible, please wait until you've completed all the guesses you want to make to avoid too many PMs and to make my job easier. So no hurry and it doesn't matter when you submit the answers because I'll be judging them solely on who has the most correct - and in the event of two or more being level it will be a tie. I hope this is clear and good luck. Tomorrow I’ll post the names of the top entries.
1. It hath been deemed unwise to calculate upon the quantity of junior poultry prior to the completion of proper incubation.
2. Where there are visible vapours having their provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there will be also observed conflagration.
3. Unwanted egotism prophesies the speedy effect of the force of gravity.
4. A small, one-eyed steel instrument used at the crucial moment may rescue the square of three.
5. To depart from the path of rectitude is characteristic of the human species, but to be tolerant, loving and kind toward wrongdoers is Godlike.
6. Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
7. Male cadavers are incapable of yielding testimony.
8. The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.
9. When the humidity attains the bursting point it does so profusely.
