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Humour Almost Proverbs
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Some proverbs that never made it to the Go playing community:
- Never try to smoke a bamboo joint
- Hitting your opponent on the head with a wooden stick is vulgar style
- When you have a train to catch, resign
- Strange things happen at the 17-14 point
- The first line is the edge of the board
- Play fast, lose fast. Play slow, lose slow
- The empty sake bottle shape is negative
- Learn the wallet stealing tesuji
- Strong players walk straight
- The strongest player knows the way to the restaurant.
- The walls may have ears, but they don't have eyes.
- If throwing in doesn't work, try throwing up.
- Play kikashi before you forget.
- Tenuki before you forget.
- Don't die with gote.
- Faint in the east before attacking the west
- Lose 100 stones as quickly as you can.
- Since everything works in Theory, let's move there.
- A stone on the board is worth two in the bowl.
- An oddity, an oddity, always an oddity.
- Give me liberties, or give me death.
- It is better to dip your fingers in the coffee than to try to drink the stones.
- Know the time-stealing tesuji.
Government health warning: Applying these proverbs to your games may seriously damage your strength.
From http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm :
This is a copy of the living page "Humour Almost Proverbs" at Sensei's Library.
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