BS: Stupid Sayings

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: GUEST,Kenny
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 11:38 AM

Tight as a scotchman -

This common saying originates from the fact that scotch people do not like buying rounds of drinks for friends but are more than happy to accept them.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: GUEST,Manny
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 11:39 AM

Mean as a Scotchman

Originates from the fact that all scotch are very mean.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: mindblaster
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 11:45 AM

Scotch is aaa drink you foolish english twat.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Slag
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 02:40 PM

It's Scotsman!

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 03:23 PM

It's Scot.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Becca72
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 03:31 PM

Unless of course you mean those mean, tight-wad scotch drinkers...

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: cockney
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 03:41 PM

Talking of stupid sayings, what about if you can't be bothered to do somthing. Which is it:

1) Can't be arsed.
2) Can't be asked.

I always thought it was 2) but have seen it written several times as 1)

Any comments?

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Kaleea
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:17 PM

"Cuter than a cocker spaniel . . ." sang Eddie Cantor in Ma He's Makin' Eyes At Me.


I understand the above, but I do not understand:

"Good Grief."

"Judas Priest!"

"It's a doggie-dog world." (I heard a graduate assistant say that when he was teaching one of my college Speech classes)

"I'm gonna take & . . ." (usually pronounced as: Ahmmo tak'n . . .)

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: frogprince
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:40 PM

Kaleea, either you heard "It's a doggie-dog world" from someone who didn't know the real expression, or you mis-heard it, which would really be very easy, since the usual expression is "It's a dog-eat-dog world". Which is to say (if you believe it) that it's a vicious world, with everyone out strictly for himself.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Tweed
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:52 PM

I had a friend who'd eaten dog in VietNam. He said it was fairly greasy and that the best tasting dog was a black dog, but I've never verified it for myself.

Hmmm...my post in itself is pretty stupid.
Hmmm.......in itself...

Brilliant!

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 08:40 PM

do people who believe in Gosh go to Heck?

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 08:54 PM

frogprince -

"It's a doggie-dog world" was fairly common in juvenile slang a while back, and was sometimes used by people who do know the original expression, in some cases quite obviously to ridicule a particular person prone to the use of trite expressions, or to ricicule trite expressions in general, by deliberately "corrupting" a noxious bit of drivel in common use.

Call it a "second generation corruption."

But of course people most prone to trite and repetitius "combinations of words in lieu of though processes" do use lots of "sayings" without knowing what they say.

"Judas' Priest" of course is a way of saying "Jesus Christ" without actually saying it: a fairly common origin for "mild profanity."

John

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 08:56 PM

Maybe they meant it's a Snoop-Doggie Dog world?

Jerry