"Brian" == Brian Randall <brian@azurite.org> writes:

DB Sommer wrote:

<snip>

"For crying out loud," Haruka groaned, shaking her head.

Ukyou smirked, flipping over another okonomiyaki. "The best laid
plans

I think it's 'the best laid of plans' but I could be wrong

    Ukyou's got a funny accent? Let's see what google says.

    Indecisive. I'll leave this one as is -- I think the meaning is
clear, and it would probably work out like the 'nother thing'
vs. 'nother think' debate, which was completely inconclusive. :/

"The best laid plans" is directly from Robert Burns's poem "On a
Mouse", which reads 

  The best laid plans o' mice and men
     Gang aft agley

(The second line's occasionally semi-translated "go oft awry", which
works.)

And it's "another think", really.
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/thing.html from Dr. Paul Brians of
Washington State.

(Ahem.  We now return the pedant to his regularily scheduled lurking.)

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