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• If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker, It is slick to stick a lock upon your stock.
  Or some joker who is slicker, Will trick you of your liquor, If you fail to lock your liquor with a lock....
• You no sooner get your head above water but what someone pulls your flippers off.
  -- Stock's Observatio...
• Stock's Observation: You no sooner get your head above water but what someone pulls your flippers off.
• Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details. -- William Feather, Sr.
• Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.