I'm an ellipse-lover, myself...
Bruce, I'm just so curious about this terrible ordeal... haven't you had one too many of those in the past few months??? Well, vibes, boychik.
Michael - get well!
Sayings... hmmm... my mom used to say "Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick."
Another I always liked, Yiddish, vu den, was: "In drerd!" (literally, "In the earth!") which meant "to hell with him!"
And that reminds me of: "Es helfen vee ah toyten bankes!" ("it helps as much as cupping a corpse"), which meant "It doesn't help."
And "Nisht geferlich." - "Not so terrible."