“It’s no use boiling your cabbage twice.” (Irish Proverb) At first, this one puzzled me. Does it have to do with making corned beef and cabbage? Maybe it means that you can overdo certain things. I wonder if it means that pastors shouldn’t preach the same sermon twice. I’ll bet you can come up with some other interpretations. ;-) Jack
FROM GOOD DEBT JON IN OHIO: I think this could be a metaphor illustrating the two-year-long presidential campaign. If what they are feeding us was anything near as nutritional as cabbage (raw, boiled, or re-boiled) then at least the entire exercise would not be in vain. The sweet fruits of common sense are not to be found on the menu—in the end we will be left to choose from the right or left wing of the Robin Hood Party. They make new menus with lovely promises and describe the cabbage with the reckless abandon of Shakespeare himself, yet in the inevitable end it comes to this: we get cabbage.
FROM L.K. IN OHIO: There can be too much of good things.
ANOTHER FROM GOOD DEBT JON: You coax the Mencken out of me. I am beginning to write a short book 100 to 120 pages and cartoons on Politics and Common Sense. I have a working title of Common Sense: The Third Rail of Politics. It takes a little mental lifting to reconcile common sense and politics in one short book. As Alan King said, “If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ll have to buy two books.”
FROM M.L. IN ILLINOIS: "beating a dead horse"..."reinventing the wheel"..these types of quotes come to mind...
FROM B.S. NEAR ORLANDO: Hi, many people will get a significant amount of gas from cabbage no matter how many times you cook it. We survived on cabbage during the depression, that is cabbage and potatoes and knockwurst ( about 5c/lb ) Uncle John had an area under the Haymow in which he stored cabbage until the price went up, until then we lived on it. Thank the Good Lord for cabbage and potatoes.
FROM REV P.H. IN MINNESOTA: this is sort of like refried beans....if they didn't fry right the first time, why bother to refry them???
1 comment:
If something isn't working the way you are doing it, doing it over again the same way isn't going to make it work better.
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