The popular saying that you never know 'what's around the corner' is total and utter rubbish!

I actually tried this out when I got home from work this afternoon. After I'd drunk my well-deserved cup of tea, I ventured back outside and discovered our wheelie bin... you've guessed it -around the corner underneath our off-shot kitchen window.

Where we keep it!

Yes!

What's more, I knew perectly well that it would be there, because I had pushed it there not fifteen minutes earlier as I'd arrived home from work (it was emptied this morning).

It stood there as proud as punch - never attempting to hide - along with several other objects, which I knew were there, including a half-housebrick and a broken plant-pot.

Poppycock, I say.

Well I say... Stunned, and I'd always believed in that saying too.

<- Going outside to test the theory...

It gets worse!

I just went upstairs and when I turned the corner to go into the bathroom, the Monet picture was there on the wall.

I tried to feign surprise, but this particular emotion failed to manifest itself.... in simple terms I knew very well it was there. I distinctly remember hammering the nail in and hanging it there after we decorated about eighteen months ago.

No chance of a mugger catching you off guard by hiding round the corner then eh,Sam?

Oh yes: of course this could happen. But the saying needs modifying to say something like: 'You usually know what's around the corner, but sometimes you don't'.

The original statement is grossly misleading and should be banned for health and safety reasons.

.........when you're lost.

I once remember walking around a corner of our garden shed and standing on a rake. It flipped the handle upwards thus hitting me on the forehead - much cursing and pain being the direct result.

Now I never knew that that was there.

Looks like someone's been reading Viz Comic!

"no Man Is An Island"

Says another popular phrase....

...well...

...what about the Isle Of Man? Says Hudu.

You are a funny man Sam!!:lol:

But what is the ratio of known to unknown corners? I feel an experiment coming on...

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
I once remember walking around a corner of our garden shed and standing on a rake. It flipped the handle upwards thus hitting me on the forehead - much cursing and pain being the direct result.

Sorry mate, but that wasn't you. That was an episode of Road Runner.

Originally posted by Fantomas
But what is the ratio of known to unknown corners? I feel an experiment coming on...

Yes, let's find out.

If we all count the corners which we venture round tomorrow and deduct the ones which evoked shock, surprise or merely made us smile or even cry, from those that didn't, we can come up with a result.

I can then forward the result with our newly suggested modified saying to the concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

As for the 'no man is an island' quotation. The Isle of Man needs its name changing to the Isle of No Man. This way the statement wil make sense.

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
I gets worse!

You said it :thumbsup:

Yes, FNKY:

I certainlys do!