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These two famous sayings have been rewritten into traditional Australian slang. Can you decipher them and rewrite them into correct English prose?

1. Make sure you're a dead cert to put your plates of meat in the right spot, then be you'd best not move a muscle.

2. The whole bang lot's ruddy-well hilarious as long as its happening to some other bloke.

1. Be sure ? don't budge, hang, or sit, tight, don't move a muscle, but I can't think today, so have no idea where the meat comes in.

2. It's funny if it happens to someone else, and we can't help but laugh, but it's not funny when it happens to us. Tripping and falling for example.

Great try, Gayle. It would actually take an Aussie to decipher this and I know we have a few relocated here. Thought I would do something new.

For those of you that care to give it a try, here is a hint:

#1 is an Abraham Lincoln quote.

#2 is a Will Rogers quote.

Oh Oh I know the second one, I don't know why I didn't get it automatically yesterday, darn fibro fog sometimes makes memory iffy, at least I had the right idea. I'll PM it to you so others have a chance to play.

I'm still not getting what the Lincoln quote is, I'm just bashing my head against a brick wall. Maybe if I stop trying it will come.

editor said go ahead and post the answer to #2

"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."

Excellent! It is my error that I was reading the whole of your comment and not just the quote answer.