Famous phrase, but try completing it the way YOU would.
I would complete it:
"...don't make spitballs out of it."
There's a story behind my response, but I'll save it in case there is any interest.
write outside the lines.
-ron (please pull the twine) obvious
Tell them...
If they give you ruled paper and you make spitballs
you will rue the day they that gave you ruled paper. __
(Then hit them on top of their hardheads with a ruler.) ___
thank them for their consideration." (I couldn't write straight to save my life, without lines)
thank them for their consideration." (I couldn't write straight to save my life, without lines)
Amen. Being left-handed does have its drawbacks, albeit few.
Write a vignette, verse or poem and hope that they gave me enough of it to rewrite it until I liked it.
give them rebellious pens
Famous phrase, but...
Famous phrase, really? I've never heard it before? How does it finish? I'm assuming ruled paper is paper with lines on it.
>Famous phrase, really? I've never heard it before?
Glad I'm not the only one. I had to google it to find out how it was supposed to end.
...dare to drape the lines.
heh. shows you how closely I read things. didn't even matter to me. didn't even really notice that line... oh well....
Not famous really--but familiar to Bradbury, uh, scholars, I suppose. I thought that Bradbury is so much part of the mainstream that the phrase might ring a bell. It's a quote from Juan Ramon Jimenez that Bradbury quotes as the opening quote into Farenheit 451--so please forgive my crediting that quote with fame. I made a quick and careless assumption that was overblown. Very sorry here, bel'
The entire line is: If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
That caught my fancy and I wondered how others here might complete the opening subordinate clause.
>Very sorry here, bel'
<sniff>
you will want a silver pen.
Sitting on the stairs of The Art Institute with an open book...looking at the book...THAT's 'reading between the lions'!
If they give you ruled paper ...... you'd better toe the line.
The rules are made to be broken, but not if you're applying for a job. [Or Carpal Tunnelism.
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