Adages again

     Since I'm still working through the tail end of the French play that's eaten my entire week, and starting to focus on finals, this is going to be another short post. I'd wanted to draw these out, but they've been sitting around forever, and I haven't felt inspired, so you'll have to make do with non-hand-drawn pictures.

     Here's the next batch of modernized adages!

1) Don't count your checks before they're cashed.

Modernized adages

     In an attempt to clean up the language a little, so we don't confuse the heck out of either ourselves or foreigners trying to learn the muddled chaos that is English, I would say it's time to update our supply of adages a little bit. Let's face it, not many people go around receiving horses as gifts anymore, or picking up eggs in the morning, regardless of how many baskets are used, or that sort of thing. Instead, here are a few modernized versions:

1) Don't look a gift car under the hood: