Some of it goes back to the old adage about news being the unexpected.
As the old adage goes: When we win on Sunday, we sell on Monday.
As the old adage goes, you can tell when a politician is lying -- he's moving his lips.
And now, a story that seems to illustrate the old adage if you can't beat them, join them.
The old adage of what would it mean if every Chinese family had just one car still stands.
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Hussey proved the old adage that you should never write off a champion.
But all of this begs the question: Does the old adage hold up?
But the old adage that they live to maximize shareholder values is evolving.
Remember the old adage--those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
"The old adage 'if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all' applies to sentencing statements, " Bernstein said.
Simpson has proven the old adage that the best place to find oil and gas is where someone's found it before.
Prisoners live the old adage that necessity is the mother of invention, and they are living proof that great inspiration depends on some desperation.
"We didn't play anywhere near to what our expectations were but there's the old adage of hockey you don't critique a win, " Carlyle said.
The old adage K-I-S-S (Keep It Simple, Stupid) may be the clarion call to which businesses and software vendors alike would do well to answer.
Otherwise, as the old adage has it: rubbish in, rubbish out.
As the old adage goes, when in a hole, stop digging.
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We take the old advice and the old adage that in the calm ahead we use the strength of purpose that we found in the storm.
"This court cannot but comment that the Corps' approach reminds the court of the old adage, 'Close your eyes and you become invisible, ' " said the ruling.
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"This could well be the legacy that our supermarkets have left us, whereby, basically the old adage comes in where you get what you pay for, " he said.
The premise that women who come in contact with interesting men at work are likely to sleep with them hails back to the old adage suggesting that women are best kept "barefoot and pregnant".
Not exactly how you remember the old adage?
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The rise of Islamofacism in Gaza : Israel 's ill-advised withdrawal from the territory along the Mediterranean that it captured in the Six-Day war proves the old adage that if you think things can't get worse, just wait.
You're probably familiar with the old adage that getting sued just isn't satisfying enough until you take someone else to court over the exact thing that you're being accused of, but even if you're not, DirecTV's here to refresh your memory.
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But if the old adage is right, that in politics you need to define yourself before your opponent does, then the Romney campaign will need to more fully explain his time at Bain, including why he made millions even as he fired workers and closed companies, denying workers their health care and pensions.
At the same time, the old adage that defense wins championships is less true in 2011 than it was in the halcyon days of Red Auerbach's dynastic Celtics of the 1960s--those days of yore when Fortune 500 companies could tell the mainstream media "no comment" when a crisis hit until they figured out their strategy days later.
After three days of Senate hearings on Anthony Lake's nomination to be the next director of central intelligence (DCI), a variation on the old adage "familiarity breeds contempt" seems at work: Senators' increasing familiarity with Tony Lake's contempt for Congress is breeding opposition to his controversial candidacy -- including, it would appear, among some expected to support it.
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The old John Wanamaker adage about not knowing which half of your advertising works has reached the point where most advertisers roll their eyes at the thought of it.
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The best approach is like the old Chicago voting adage: do it early and often.
The old Field of Dreams adage: If you build it, they will come.
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After a couple of days spent chugging through the landscapes of the Old West, the well-worn travel adage about the journey being as important as the destination starts to sound a lot less trite.
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