IMPOSSIBLE IS POSSIBLE - POSSIBLY?

"We live very close together. So, our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." - Dalai Lama

Sounds like the Hippocratic Oath to me. - 2q(Jim)

Squatter has Rights

"Home for Harry Hallowes is a rickety shack surrounded by junk..
Yet the 70-year-old Irish tramp is the unlikeliest of property millionaires.
He has become the proud owner of a prime plot of land on the edge of Hampstead Heath in North London - by claiming squatter's rights.

Because he has lived there longer than the 12 years required by law, he has been declared the legal owner by the Land Registry. The plot near Highgate... has been Mr Hallowes's home since 1986. If it were sold... estate agents say it would fetch more than £2million."
..........................- Daily Mail, Last updated at 08:55am on 24th May 2007

"DON'T LOOK A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH"

Factual Basis
A horse's teeth begin to project further forward each year as they age. This makes it possible to estimate a horse's age by checking to see how prominent the teeth are.

Meaning
The advice given in the 'don't look...' proverb is: when given a present, be grateful for your good fortune and don't look for more by examining it to assess its value.

Origin
Unlike most proverbs , we have some clues as to the origin of this particular one . The phrase was originally "don't look a given horse in the mouth" and first appears in print in 1546 in John Heywood's "A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the Englishe tongue", where he quotes it as: "No man ought to looke a geuen hors in the mouth."

Squatter's Rights - Don't Look, Don't Tell

"Mr Hallowes is free to sell the land, but without planning permission to build housing it is unlikely that it would attract much attention..."

..."If I write a will I will leave the land to the Royal Family. They are the last bastion of refinement and sophistication so they'd know what to do with it."
- Daily Mail, Last updated at 08:55am on 24th May 2007

I wonder if the Royal Family will look this gift-horse in the mouth ? The ability of governments to receive free gifts never ceases to amaze me.- 2q(Jim)

Impossible is Possible - Possibly?

"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." -Arthur C. Clarke

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke

The Possible Impossible Dream

Two buddies were sharing drinks while discussing their wives.
"Do you and your wife ever do it doggie style?"
"Well ... not exactly", his friend replied, "She's more into the trick dog aspect of it."
"Oh, I see, kinky, huh?"
"Well ... not exactly ... I sit up and beg and she rolls over and plays dead."