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Subject: RE: BS: curious expressions From: catspaw49 Date: 29 Sep 00 - 06:06 PM I always liked, "Tighter than a bull's ass in fly time." Also, "Hotter than a popcorn fart." My partner and godd friend Denny used to say something was "Slicker than a mini's peter." My Dad had this stupid litany of stuff he would drive you crazy with (yeah, its hereditary) such as, "Its colder in the country than it is in the winter." Now, if you said that to him, he'd respond, "What's that got to do with the price of tea in China?" Everytime it rained he asked, "Do you think the rain will hurt the rhubarb?" The correct response to this was, "Not if its in cans." I come by it honestly folks. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: curious expressions From: Lonesome EJ Date: 29 Sep 00 - 06:41 PM Spaw,I'm not sure if your Dad was nuttier than a fruitcake or cornier than Kansas in July,but he certainly was a pistol,so I guess we know what that makes you,ya son of a gun. |
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Subject: RE: BS: curious expressions From: rabbitrunning Date: 29 Sep 00 - 06:52 PM I learned it "Colder 'n a witch's tit in a brass bra." (Not from a parent!) and I've always liked the description of a scoundrel as "lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut." When I was in the Air Force I was told that the whole nine yards referred to the amount of space that a military family was allowed to fill with household goods on a long move from base to base. It was certainly an expression that our sergeants used a LOT! |
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Subject: RE: BS: curious expressions From: radriano Date: 29 Sep 00 - 07:16 PM How about those "leaving" expressions like: "Time to make like a baby and head out" "Time to make like a hockey player and get the puck out" |
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Subject: RE: BS: curious expressions From: Mbo Date: 29 Sep 00 - 07:19 PM Make like a bread truck and HAUL BUNS. |
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Subject: RE: BS: curious expressions From: kendall Date: 29 Sep 00 - 07:20 PM Cold enough to freeze two dry rags together Hotter than the hinges of Tofit as nervous as a Christian Scientist with a severed artery. Deaf as a haddock Numb as a hake as funny as Mothers Day in a orphanage. or Fathers day in Harlem. the snow was hub deep to a ferris wheel. harder than a brides bisquits Meaner than turkey turd tea. |
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Subject: RE: BS: curious expressions From: catspaw49 Date: 29 Sep 00 - 07:24 PM Deader than an Apollonio 12 string. Tinnier than a Taylor. Dumber than a beardless downeaster. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: curious expressions From: kendall Date: 29 Sep 00 - 07:27 PM I know you are there Spaw, I'm ignoring you until you say something intelligent LOL |
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Subject: RE: BS: curious expressions From: radriano Date: 29 Sep 00 - 07:31 PM "About as useful as a screen door on a submarine" "About as useful as waxed floors in a polio ward" "Cold as a witch's tit on Holloween" |
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Subject: RE: BS: curious expressions From: Bill D Date: 29 Sep 00 - 07:37 PM "up the proverbial polluted estuary, lacking the customary means of locomotion"....(learned that'n in college!) rainin' like a cow pissin' on a flat rock..... and im my family, one who was upset in various ways could be "in a snit",or "having a hissy"..(or even a "hissy-fit"), and my dad used the curious "sick a-bed on two chairs"....not sure whether that meant very sick, or faking sick, or having to pretend you weren't sick.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: curious expressions From: Micca Date: 29 Sep 00 - 07:38 PM One that made me laugh a lot was a friend came in the pub and asked for a beer as his throat was "as dry as a nuns pussy" |
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Subject: RE: BS: curious expressions From: Sorcha Date: 29 Sep 00 - 07:38 PM I doubt it Ebbie. The root of the phrase is still the same. "Gyp"......as in non union people are gypsies, and will bug out.........whoops, there's another one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: curious expressions From: Dharmabum Date: 29 Sep 00 - 07:41 PM As funny as a pay toilet in the diareha ward. |
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Subject: RE: BS: curious expressions From: radriano Date: 29 Sep 00 - 07:50 PM A variation: "I see," said the blind man, as he took out his hammer and saw. |
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Subject: RE: BS: curious expressions From: DougR Date: 29 Sep 00 - 08:05 PM Rabbitrunning: Yep we said "catty corner." Another one: When describing some hell hole of a town, "If the devil was gonna give the world an enima, he'd give it in (name of the town). Our First Sergeant's favorite saying when perturbed: "you better give your heart to God, 'cause I'm gonna get your ass! and I want those boot shining like a diamond in a cat's ass!" Don't know if anyone explained where, "Holy Mackerel" came from. Anybody know? DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS: curious expressions From: Allan C. Date: 29 Sep 00 - 10:17 PM This thread is continued here. |
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Subject: RE: BS: curious expressions From: Little Hawk Date: 29 Sep 00 - 10:18 PM Ever seen the movie with Willie Nelson and Robert Redford (I think...), where Willie says, apropos of nothing in particular..."Me, I'm gonna go find one of those Chino girls who can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch, and just kick back for awhile..." God how I laughed! Apparently, it WASN'T in the script. Willie just came up with it, cos he felt like it. Everybody liked it so much that they left it in the final cut. Wish I could remember the name of that movie. Mbo - thanks for the Sam Weller stuff!!! Great! kendall - You're waiting for Spaw to say something intelligent???? You poor, poor, deluded soul... |
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Subject: RE: BS: curious expressions From: Lonesome EJ Date: 29 Sep 00 - 11:32 PM Hawk...the Electric Horseman |
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Subject: RE: BS: curious expressions From: GUEST, Banjo Johnny Date: 30 Sep 00 - 02:22 AM I risk opening a whole n'other can of worms with the following: First Person: I bear a distinctively masculine air. Second Person: You could use a shower, pardner. Third Person: He stinks like a dead goat.
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Subject: RE: BS: curious expressions From: WyoWoman Date: 30 Sep 00 - 08:54 PM Thread is getting longish. Go here for Expressions: Part Deux ww |
