Talk:Apologetic proverb

About the "Kruis of munt" dutch example: "Kruis" is no longer used in modern dutch if it ever was. To be honest, I don't think dutch coins ever had crosses on them, since at the time that we got our own currency, after the revolution against Spain, we were a mostly secular republic. Still the Cross may refer to spanish coins which I think did have crosses. Nowadays we use "kop" (Head) instead, referring to the fact that our coins have the head of the monarch on one side and the value ("munt") on the other. Robrecht 00:15, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I can attest that "kruis" is definitely still in use today. Maybe it's a Netherlands vs. Flanders thing?
 * Anyway, what I came here to ask is: what are the Dutch examples doing here in the first place? 90.129.128.98 (talk) 02:12, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

I did a serious cleanup, but I don't think I did enough.

- I removed the paragraph about Archer Taylor. It had nothing to do with the particular topic, and it was unsourced.

- I removed the vague sentence from the first paragraph that tried to generalize about the point of Wellerisms. In fact, most of the ones I've run across seem to be there to amuse more than to say something profound about the human condition.

- I left in two of the Dutch examples and added a line attempting to justify their inclusion. They should probably go. (I took out the one about crosses and coins because it required too much explanation to be worth it.)

- The explanation of Tom Swifties was not quite right. It's closer now.

Further, I find few references anywhere to the term "apologetic proverb." This whole entry should probably be moved under the heading "Wellerisms," which, judging by Google results, is the far more common term. dweinberger (talk) 00:59, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Why is this not titled simply "wellerism"? That is a standard term, but I've never come across "apologetic proverb".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pete unseth (talk • contribs) 01:16, 1 February 2009 (UTC)