Classical Variations on a theme:

How many bags could a bin man bag if a bin man could bag bags?

How much mulch could could a goat put in a gulch if a goat had mulch to put in a gulch.

How many yokes can a yokel yoke if a yokel could yoke yokes?

That's soooo beautiful!! That's sooooooooo beautiful!!

These aren't tears of sadness but tears of joy!!

How many rats could a sackful of cats catch if a sackful of rats went unattached

Hors d'oeuvres and proverbs divine the sooth of the truth unless the canapés do not compute.

Ain't it the trut'

Whoa.
I just flashed on Danny Kaye doing:
The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon;
the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.

Quasimoto cooly quaffed a quick cool quenching cup of coco coffee mocha

she sits she shifts, sits shifts, shifts sits, shifts, sits, sits shifts.

I loved that movie.

Hawkins: I've got it! I've got it! The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right?
Griselda: Right. But there's been a change: they broke the chalice from the palace!
Hawkins: They broke the chalice from the palace?
Griselda: And replaced it with a flagon.
Hawkins: A flagon...?
Griselda: With the figure of a dragon.
Hawkins: Flagon with a dragon.
Griselda: Right.
Hawkins: But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle?
Griselda: No!!! The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!
Hawkins: The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
Griselda: Just remember that.

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

From http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/as-i-always-say/?ref=opinion&nl=opinion&emc=tya3

Joe (stolen from a quote in the NYT from a guy named Steven McGeady)Nation