>>>>I thought that you shoot yourself in the foot, not the head, that's getting kind of extreme? <s>
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>>>Yeah, but it makes the point pretty clearly <s>
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>>With the original simile, you live to regret it- with the new one, you'll never find out that you did something stupid.
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>Actually, in many cases, shooting someone in the foot is just as deadly, since some people seem to stick their foot in their mouth all the time...

Okay, I'm trying to picture a contortionist with foot in mouth trying to fire gun...