BS: What phrases do you love :-)

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 09:38 AM

He's so mean he can peel an orange in his pocket.

Cold as a witches tit.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: bfdk
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 09:08 AM

Welcome!

The way it was said to me time and again this last weekend by various members of the Portland "chain gang" headed by the truly lovely and gracious Sinsull and echoed by everybody else I got into touch with.

Best wishes,

Bente

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: thehiker
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 06:08 AM

He's so mean he wouldn't give you the steam off his piss.
A face like a welders bench
Not the fizziest drink in the fridge
Wet as a bucket of piss (gullible)
Sick as a small hospital

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Crystal
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 05:08 AM

Yes please with Chocolate on top!

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: JennyO
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 10:16 AM

Well love me tender and call me Elvis!

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: GUEST,Ruler
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 08:51 AM

..ugly as a bucket full of frogs...
..mutton dressed up as lamb...
..slap my thigh and call me David...

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: GUEST,Bruce Baillie
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 07:38 AM

...made me feel as welcome as a fireball in a crowded chip shop!
...me throat's as dry as a Nuns twat!

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Janie
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 09:43 PM

"He worked from can't see to can't see."

From my granddad when we left his house after a visit, "I'm glad you got to see me!"

"Does the Pope sh*t in the woods? Is a bear Catholic?"

"He's a long, cool drink of water!"

"You keep screwing your face up like that, and God will make it stick!"

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 08:55 PM

"Peel that banana!"

"Hand over the mazuma, joik, or I'll pump ya fulla lead till I can see daylight shinin' through yer pinstripes!"

"She had legs to die for."

"I never met a dame that didn't understand a shlap across the face or a shlug from a forty-five."

"The sucker with the schnozzle poured a slug, but before he could scram out I showed him the shiv and told him I could send him down the river."

"Cheese it, you mugs! It's the coppers!"

"Don't bump gums, wit' me, ya dumb lug! I ain't got the time for that."

"Grab a little air! This ain't a squirt gun I'm holdin'..."

"You could see in one glance that she was a chippy, but I didn't mind."

"This kitten had a kisser you don't forget, and she was drippin' with ice. She wasn't nobody's moll, neither, and that was hard to figure. I could see her slippin' into my life just like a good roscoe slips into a shoulder holster."

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 08:17 PM

"There'll be wigs on the green"

"Crazy as a bag of hammers"

"(S)He hasn't got all four paws on the mouse"

To give someone "the rough side of your tongue"

There are probably a million others, but those few will do for a start!

~D

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: GUEST,CrazyEddie
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 05:30 AM

eric, that is very unkind.

I like "as sharp as a sausage" (or a marble)

And, when referring to kids being just like thair parents either:
"Kicky mare, kicky foal!" OR
"What would you expect from a cracked hen, but a cracked egg!"

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 03:52 AM

May you live in interesting times.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: LilyFestre
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 06:36 PM

"Let your freak flag fly, baby!"

"Be brave. Be bold. Be innovative!"

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 05:44 PM

If my dog had an arse like yours, I'd put him on an immediate crash diet, inform the scientific community, and phone National Geographic to come and do a cover story. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Peace
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 05:33 PM

Uh, LH, that was a most unfortuitous post position. No offense intended.

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Peace
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 05:28 PM

"If I had a dog that looked like you, I'd shave its arse and teach it to walk backwards."

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 05:26 PM

"gobsmacked" - a British expression meaning "astounded"

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: GUEST,LilyFestre
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 03:55 PM

I'm busier than a one legged man in an ass-kicking contest.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Wesley S
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 02:58 PM

Snoozer - around here we use the term "dumb as a box of rocks".

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: GUEST,LilyFestre
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 02:45 PM

"Hi Chicky, I'm home!"

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: GUEST,Snoozer (at work)
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 10:15 AM

He's as dumb as a bag of hammers.

And this one I just heard recently, but I think it will come in handy:
The epitome of delirium

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Rasener
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 09:55 AM

>>As an expat Brummie I don't hear this much these days. For once, it feels bostin to be a Villa fan!
<<

You can say that again,I say you can say that again. Expect record season ticket sales. All Villa suporters will be cock a hoop at the moment, until they lose to The Gunners :-) I'll bet those Blues supporters are dead jealous he he :-)

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Stu
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 09:45 AM

One for Villan:

Bostin!

As an expat Brummie I don't hear this much these days. For once, it feels bostin to be a Villa fan!

Kipper tie?

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Al
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 09:23 AM

How unfortunate. (referring to a chinese fortune cookie missing its message)

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Rasener
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 08:22 AM

My brummie accent is tainted with the Lincolnshire/Scottish/Dutch/Sarf dialects

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Janie
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 09:20 PM

Cattywhomped.

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Mr Red
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 06:46 PM

all right our kid ????????

Yo aye speeeeekin ryeit owr kid - or is yowr accent tairnted wiv Lincolnshire?

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Rman
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 10:49 AM

Referring to a bad darts player;

"Couldn't hit an elephant on the arse with a banjo"

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: GUEST,JennyO
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 09:37 AM

Ah yes, harpmolly, that is true.

Here's another Terry Pratchett I like:

"It's a wise crow that knows which way the camel points!"

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 05:03 AM

I'm going to invent another acronym.... KAKSOD

Killed Another Keyboard Squirting Out Drink.

If we're going down the traffic sign route, there is one near me that says 'Pedestrians wait for green man'. Just behind that is a sign that says 'Green Man 1 mile'...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 04:15 AM

As thick as pigshit in winter.
A face like a bag of spanners.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Rasener
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 03:55 AM

ROTFLMAO Bruce Baillie :-)
Don't think I had better say that one to anybody who plays at my club :-)

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: JennieG
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 03:54 AM

"The chocolate's free.....so is the coffee".

Unfortunately I haven't heard this one yet, it only exists in my imagination.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: GUEST,Bruce Baillie
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 03:06 AM

...As slick as a gob full of snot...

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 02:41 PM

"You've mistaken me for somebody who gives a shit"

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Rasener
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 02:41 PM

Thanks Peace, just had my dinner (goes to puke bowl) :-)

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Peace
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 02:29 PM

S/he has a face like a bulldog lickin' piss off a thistle.

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: harpmolly
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 02:24 PM

JennyO-

Nanny Ogg alone could populate her own thread with pithy sayings! ;) Whether they'd be suitable for the kiddies or not is another question...

M

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 01:12 PM

In my town the traffic light for pedestrians says "Walk with light". I think that is grand.

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: JennyO
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 12:44 PM

"not the sharpest tack in the box"

"better than forty lashes with a wet noodle"

"you can feel it doing you harm!" - Terry Pratchett I believe

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Alice
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 10:05 AM

From a customer "I need to buy a full page ad."

From my manager "You're doing a great job!"

From my son "Love you, mom."

From the roofing contractor "There's no water damage to the rafters."

From the news "Peace broke out in..."

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 07:06 AM

'Buy one, get one free'... love that phrase.... especially when applied to chocolate bars.

If it's a movie phrase you want... 'Werewolf.' 'There wolf.' has me creased up and squeaking every time.. it's just one of those throwaways that rarely get a mention (like Michael Caine in 'Educating Rita' declaring he was going to call himself Mary Shelley - entire cinema turns in silence to stare at loudly guffawing blonde), but are worth the cinema entry or DVD purchase price.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 06:58 AM

Phoning my wife:
"You know what?"
"Yes, I know, I love you, too."

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 06:24 AM

A phrase to be used when glimpsing a particularly attractive woman:

"She could have me - if she played her cards right."

And a phrase to be used when a male person has complimented, or attempted to 'chat up', a female person in a particularly unctuous and slimy manner:

"You're as smooth as two eels in a bucket of snot!"

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Rasener
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 05:14 AM

>>She goes like a bag of peanuts at a chimps tea party..<<

That one is really funny - I like it.

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: GUEST,Bruce Baillie
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 04:58 AM

...About as much good as a chocolate fireguard...
...not as long as I've got a hole in my arse!'
...She goes like a bag of peanuts at a chimps tea party...

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Gurney
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 03:46 AM

Kiwi ones:

"You can put a ring around that!"    (Correct; I agree.)
"She'll be right, mate." (It doesn't matter!) Oz too.

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 03:20 AM

No good deed goes unpunished.

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Rasener
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 03:15 AM

"Faster, faster, harder, harder." and Bob's your uncle

As a Brummie (born in Birmingham England for our American friends) this one really tickles my fancy

Brummangem screwdriver

Meaning A hammer.

Origin
The phrase has its source in the belief that people from the English West Midlands city of Birmingham (Brummagem) were unsophisticated and made crude goods - a predudice that persists in the UK today. Other places, notably Liverpool and Ireland, have suffered the same jibe more recently.
Brummagen is a slang version of Birmingham, which is a version of Bromwicham, itself a version of Brimidgeham, the old name for Birmingham. The Bromwicham form persists in the name of the town to the west of Birmingham - West Bromwich.

Subject: RE: BS: What phrases do you love :-)
From: Slag
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 05:33 PM

"Here are your winnings, Mr. Slag."
"Faster, faster, harder, harder." (Well, you asked)
"Bank error in your favor, collect $200"
"No, just a warning this time." (Thank you officer!)
"My, what a wonderful painting!"