Aaaaruuuuuuugh!...I have to start over.

[Old 97]

Was this a pun? What are you getting at?

Here's what it means Chip.....

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002.

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry


No matter how carefully a project is planned, something may still go wrong with it. The saying is adapted from a line in “To a Mouse,” by Robert Burns: “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.”

And then this too....

Glossary entry for mice and men:

Van's use of the phrase "of mice and men" traces its origin to the poem "To a Mouse" by Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796):
The best-laid plans o' mice an' men
Gang aft a-gley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain
For promised joy.

Burns' phrase was also used by American writer John Steinbeck (1902-1968) on his 1937 novella Of Mice and Men. That story is about Lennie, a man who has great physical strength but a feeble intellect, and he unwittingly commits homicide. Other well known works by Steinbeck are The Grapes of Wrath (1939; Pulitzer Prize), Cannery Row (1945) and East of Eden (1956). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962.

 

[SpaceMouse]

I liked it better as a pun. But I thought it was a Steinway quote.

 

[OldGettysk]

Chip sorryI caused such a storm . All I meant is that sometimes no matter how you plan something there is a glitch in it. Hence Murphy's Law ! There's another shot in the dark. No pun intended !!!!