Tried And True

And so groups like al-Qaeda will for the foreseeable future continue to use the tried-and-true tactics of hijackings, truck bombs, and suicide attacks, rather than being able to successfully pull off the deeply uncertain, complex, and prohibitively expensive task of developing true weapons of mass destruction. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)

But somehow Bobby has maximized their abilities, using his tried-and-true system of managing. ❋ Lang Whitaker (2011)

In addition to tried-and-true recommendations for handling clutter, Bishop actually discusses screen dimensions in this chapter, reminding you that there may be important messages waiting below the line of your browser window. ❋ Arthur Rosenfeld (2011)

Seems I saw somewhere that there was a program-level requirement which said (pretty clearly) that, absent a very compelling reason, tried-and-true working solutions (such as telemetry, command, link, etc) would be re-used from existing programs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You can also monitor your hydration status by a tried-and-true method: checking the color of your urine. ❋ Unknown (2011)

For years, the videogame industry has followed a tried-and-true pattern. ❋ Daisuke Wakabayashi (2011)

"He is a tried-and-true realist, innately cautious and conservative, and has little time for idealistic goals." ❋ Richard Boudreaux (2011)

It was, Betty noted grimly, the same tried-and-true pattern that the OSS had perfected—create discord, then divide and conquer. ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

Amino acids are not themselves living, but they are an essential organic component of proteins and therefore life, and the Miller-Urey experiment proved they could be formed, through tried-and-true chemistry, from inorganic parts. ❋ Marc Kaufman (2011)

With potentially so much at stake, the SETI field has come alive in recent years with alternatives to the tried-and-true technology of radio astronomy. ❋ Marc Kaufman (2011)

Nature tends to conserve tried-and-true biological structures. ❋ Michael Chorost (2011)

These are among the tried-and-true financial rules consumers have been told to live by for years. ❋ Cristina Lourosa-Ricardo (2011)

That willingness to buck the community—be it religious or scientific—was essential, because he could never have made the methane discovery had he stuck to tried-and-true strategies, and had he been swayed by the many people who told him his approach was misguided and his goal most likely unattainable. ❋ Marc Kaufman (2011)

Person 1: You know you don't necessarily need a [tuner] to tune your guitar, right? As long as you have the biggest string to where you want it, you can use respective [frets] [onward] to accurately tune the rest of your strings. Person 2: Wow, really? So I just wasted 20$ on this fuckin' piece of plastic? Damn. Person 1: Tried and True, baby. Fuck tuners. Person 2: Must be true, I've never seen you use one, but somehow your shit still sounds good. Person A: None of the weedmen in this town so far have a scale, or so they say. I'm pretty sure I'm getting [low-balled]. Fuck dude. Person B: How long you been here? My man Tim's Tried and True, always weighs .2 over [on the dot]. I call him Triple-T. He doesn't set up base on the street, he's one of the more reserved and lesser known guys in town. I'll set you guys up if you want. Person A: Thanks man. Finally, something true, [shiiiit]. Person Y: Fuck dude, Monkey Bombs just saved my fuckin' ass man, these [Z's] almost just had me RIP! Person Z: Tried and True for sure baby! Ha! Don't stop runnin' though they still spawnin'! Person Y: [True true]!!! ❋ TRWoof (2018)