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06 Sep 00 - 07:04 AM (#291981) Subject: Words of Wisdom From: sian, west wales Branching off the Household Tips thread (which I think is a superior thread!) how about proverbs, and stuff? There's a guy in Canada who's published some excellent books of Canadian sayings (Bill? Casselman) I like to jot them down when I find them - whether or not they make any sense. For instance, ...
S/he ain't go the sense God gave a head o' lettuce. I also see a lot of modern day creations these days ... Home is where you hang your @. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single click. Pentium wise; pen and paper foolish. The modem is the message. The geek shall inherit the earth. There's no place like http://www.home.com Be it ever so humble, there's no place like your homepage. Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. Any additions? sian
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06 Sep 00 - 07:26 AM (#291985) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: GUEST,micca at work. as much use as a chocolate teapot as much use as pigskin bound Koran he/she is an @ short of a .com as much use as a Ham sandwich at a Bar Mitzvah |
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06 Sep 00 - 07:29 AM (#291986) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Quincy A closed mouth gathers no feet! Yvonne |
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06 Sep 00 - 07:32 AM (#291988) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Quincy As much use as an ash-tray on a motor-bike. |
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06 Sep 00 - 07:33 AM (#291989) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: JulieF The ones that come to mind:- To damm with faint praise ( as opposed to the other way round) As Welcome as a fart in a spacesuit Julie |
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06 Sep 00 - 07:36 AM (#291992) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: CarolC Oh....you got me started, now. Rule #1....Never shoot the driver. Rule #6....Evolve or die out. Life is like a box of chocolates...a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody asked for. (The Smoking Man on the X-Files) In a fight between a big dog and a little dog, the little dog will usually go for the testicles. I think, therefore I think I am. Scars achieved during battle will not count against contestants. (Quote from a dog show rule book) Slow has got 4 letters, so has Life. Speed has got 5 letters, so has Death. (Sign at a train station in India) Everyone needs at least one person in their life who recognizes what's truly great about them. Just because you haven't succeeded yet, doesn't mean you've failed. Carol |
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06 Sep 00 - 07:44 AM (#291995) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Troll One wall shy of a room. Useless as tits on a boar hog. Busy as a one-legged man in an ass-kickin' contest. All hat and no cattle. Even a blind pig will find an acorn sometimes. Th' willin' horse is aye warked tae death. troll |
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06 Sep 00 - 08:11 AM (#292004) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: catspaw49 Its colder in the country than it is in the winter. Spaw |
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06 Sep 00 - 08:17 AM (#292009) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: sledge As much use as a choclate tea pot. Just because you are paranoid, it dosn't mean they are not out to get you.
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06 Sep 00 - 08:31 AM (#292011) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Midchuck Uglier than Death taking a s***. My wife likes to collect metaphors for people whose contact with reality is dubious - variants on the old "a few bricks shy of a load"...I don't know whether this originates with living with me so long or not. got one oar in the water. A couple of cans shy of a six-pack. Dumber than a sack full of hammers. Peter. |
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06 Sep 00 - 09:08 AM (#292026) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: SINSULL One ace short of a deck |
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06 Sep 00 - 09:36 AM (#292041) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: GUEST,Russ Dumber than a bucket of hair. Slicker than snot on a doorknob. |
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06 Sep 00 - 09:48 AM (#292044) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie On the not very clever side: "Not the sharpest tool in the box" "As sharp as a sausage" (also....as a marble) "As bright as a five Watt bulb" Others? "As popular as a turd in a fruit salad" "As brief as a butterflys fart" "You can't wrap fire in paper" "One hand washes the other" We also used to split two sayings, and cross-join them. For Example "People who live in glass houses...live to fight another day" While "He who fights & runs away...should't throw stones" Of course "It's a bad day for the Gaels, when the ducks are in the nettles"
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06 Sep 00 - 09:49 AM (#292045) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: sian, west wales spaw, we luv ya. Also, Mudcat's great. Ya throw out a thought pre-lunch and, bingo, post-lunch ya get all this food for thought. More ...
One sandwich short of a picnic.
Others from the Casselman collection which come to mind And one from my mother's youth ...
You never know when you go to sit That's *spit*, spaw. sian |
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06 Sep 00 - 10:36 AM (#292060) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Bert You smell like a Turkish wrestler's jock strap. He wouldn't know his dick from his thumb if it didn't have a nail on it. He's daft as arseholes and twice as nasty. You look like a bundle of arseholes tied up ugly. You look like a sack of shit tied up with string. As thick as two short planks. Bert. |
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06 Sep 00 - 10:41 AM (#292065) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Ely So full of s**t you could smell it on his breath Slower than molasses in January (does not apply in hot climates?!) Slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter. Colder than a witch's elbow (my dad's favorite. Personally, I've never wanted to get close enough to see how cold that is . . .) |
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06 Sep 00 - 11:08 AM (#292079) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Kim C One day, Mister uttered this gem: Sometimes ya pokes the cow, sometimes the cow pokes you. (Make of it what you will.) I always liked the one about not being able to find one's backside with both hands and a flashlight. |
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06 Sep 00 - 11:55 AM (#292111) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Bert Ely, it's NOT 'elbow' and they're not cold, really. Bert. |
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06 Sep 00 - 12:02 PM (#292113) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Midchuck To his bride, a young bridegroom said: "Trish, Your c*** is as big as a dish!" She responded, "You fool, With your limp little tool, It's like driving a nail with a fish!" Peter. |
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06 Sep 00 - 12:34 PM (#292144) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Marymac90 My grandmother liked "You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground!" A variant is "You don't know your ass from your elbow!" This one really IS elbow, Bert! She also liked "He didn't have a pot to piss in!" My grandmother was a colorful character! Another from that era is "He can't tell s*** from Shinola!" Are there young folks or people from abroad unfamiliar with Shinola? One that I like is "He's so full of s*** his eyes are brown!" |
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06 Sep 00 - 12:35 PM (#292145) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Mbo Here are some of my personal favorites! Used in everyday life, when warranted.
Beautiful like the backside of a frying pan. (Italian) |
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06 Sep 00 - 12:38 PM (#292147) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Lox Of a pointless argument or pep-talk, "It's like pushing string" |
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06 Sep 00 - 12:41 PM (#292150) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Bert Marymac, I had a friend who wanted to use that expression in a lecture but of course he couldn't. He was very pleased with himself when he came up with 'Couldn't tell spit from Shinola' Bert. |
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06 Sep 00 - 12:49 PM (#292156) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Mbo My sister works with a woman from Germany, who instead of saying "crapola", says "carpola." |
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06 Sep 00 - 01:00 PM (#292162) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: IvanB "Sometimes the dragon wins." |
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06 Sep 00 - 01:07 PM (#292170) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Midchuck "Like pushing string" reminded me of "Like trying to shove butter up an eel's ass with a red-hot awl." Peter. |
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06 Sep 00 - 01:11 PM (#292173) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Bert Then there's this one that has become such a part of everyday life that no one has mentioned it - Scary thought. Pissing into the wind. Bert. |
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06 Sep 00 - 01:18 PM (#292179) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: SINSULL Or up a rope. Dumb as a doorknob. So full of S**t, his eyes are brown. |
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06 Sep 00 - 01:34 PM (#292193) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Jim the Bart Comparisons: Dumb as a box of rocks Cuter than a bugs ear Dumb as a stump harder than Chinese arithmetic Aphorisms: He didn't know whether to shit or go blind Some folks will eat shit and howl at the moon |
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06 Sep 00 - 01:51 PM (#292218) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Clinton Hammond2 Dumb as a can of smashed a$$holes... As sharp as the edge of town Not the shiniest coin in the fountain Never give a celt an even break... Compound fractures heal slower just to name a few... {~` |
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06 Sep 00 - 02:27 PM (#292244) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Morticia My dad says " S/He's enough to give an aspirin a headache" and " rarer than rocking horse shit" is a personal favourite as is 'Spaw's " too dumb to pour piss from his boot with the instructions written on the heel" Loved that, thanks Uncle Pat...... |
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06 Sep 00 - 02:30 PM (#292246) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: wysiwyg Always check six. This is from air warfare. Because you can see all the hours of the clock, except six, when you are driving. So, in battle, always, always check six, cuz here it comes right up your..... crash boom. What a song challenge it would be, to work ALL of these into songs. ~S~ |
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06 Sep 00 - 02:42 PM (#292255) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Kim C Grab the bull or get off the pot. |
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06 Sep 00 - 02:50 PM (#292265) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: SINSULL From my father: "He/she is "half past six". meaning wacky.
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06 Sep 00 - 02:56 PM (#292274) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Naemanson How about: Number than a pounded thumb Clear as mud Line him up with a tree to see which one is moving Or as I saw on a bumper sticker once: Vegetarian - An old word meaning poor hunter. |
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06 Sep 00 - 03:07 PM (#292282) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Uncle_DaveO If you drink, don't drive--hell, don't even putt!! Someone says to me, "How are you today?" I tell them: "Pretty fair; Fair ta middlin'; Fair to partly cloudy." He says "How's it go?" I reply: "It doesn't go; you gotta push it!" (and therein lies a whole philosophy of life, say I.) Dave Oesterreich |
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06 Sep 00 - 03:37 PM (#292312) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Mbo Wait--should I unload all the Wellerisms I know? Some of the are great advice! "He'd be as sharp as a serpent's tooth if he wasn't as dull as ditchwater." |
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06 Sep 00 - 04:11 PM (#292330) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: GUEST,Les B "Ma said there'd be days like this -- she just didn't say there'd be so damn many!" |
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07 Sep 00 - 06:18 AM (#292667) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie "Thicker than a whale omlette" "If brains were dynamite, he wouldn't have enough to blow his nose." "Shit, or get off the pot" = make up your mind "You don't keep a dog, and bark yourself" "He who lies down with dogs, shall rise with fleas" "He couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery" "Don't be difficult. Put a bit of effort into it, & be bloody-well impossible" BTW what IS shinola? Is it something like Brasso? |
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07 Sep 00 - 06:37 AM (#292669) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: CarolC Crazy Eddie, I think it's shoe polish, but I could be wrong. |
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07 Sep 00 - 06:53 AM (#292675) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Catrin A difficult task is like 'walking through treacle' A low paid job pays 'tuppence a lifetime' My mother in law had some classics including:
You're a long time dead (when persuading herself to spend money/ have an extra drink/dance or do anything which other people might frown on) Better late in this world than early in the next. (when tempted to rush across roads or drive too fast)
Or there's And plenty of others which I can't think of right now. Catrin |
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07 Sep 00 - 07:18 AM (#292681) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Tony in Sweden A few more that spring to mind.... As usefull as a one legged man in an arse kicking contest. As thick as shit in the neck of a bottle. As bright as two O'clock in the morning. A face like a hen laying razors. A face like a skittery hippen ( soiled nappy/daiper) A face like a wet night looking for a dry mornin' A face like a bag o bruised fruit. |
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07 Sep 00 - 07:21 AM (#292682) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Tony in Sweden I forgot this one:- Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, DOESN'T try it on!! |
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07 Sep 00 - 07:26 AM (#292683) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: CarolC Tony in Sweden, (Ahem)...Um...dare I ask where you put it when you try it on? |
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07 Sep 00 - 07:31 AM (#292684) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Catrin A face like a smacked a*se |
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07 Sep 00 - 07:58 AM (#292691) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: derrymacashatwork On the subject of "a face like ..." A face like a bulldog chewin' wasps A face like a bulldog pissing on a nettle A face like a wet binbag A face you'd never grow tired of slappin' One of my granny's sayings "Beauty is only skin deep ... but ugliness goes right to the bone." A variant on "shit or get off the pot" is a saying my da used to use: "Die dog, or shite the licence!" Variants on the "as thick as two short planks" theme: "There's air getting in." "The lift doesn't go all the way to the top floor." "A few twigs short of a nest" "He doesn't know shite from custard." "He doesn't know whether he's livin' or stuffed." "The lights are on, but nobody's home." |
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07 Sep 00 - 07:59 AM (#292692) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Crazy Eddie I omitted "A face like a bulldog chewing a wasp" " One more brain cell, & he'd be a plant" True story! One guy I worked with got sacked after repeated warnings. Someone said he should have been given another chance. The boss immediately replied: "As sure as God made little green apples, that guy had more bites of the cherry than you can shake a stick at." Got three metaphors mixed in one sentance, and couldn't understand why people were grinning. |
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07 Sep 00 - 08:44 AM (#292708) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Dharmabum As useless as a screen door in a submarine. As funny as a pay toilet in the diarrhea ward. When they were passing out looks he/she thought they said books & said "give me a scary one". The most important rule in life is to be sincere,& once you learn how to fake that you've got life by the b*lls. & my favorite It's easier to get forgivness than it is permission. |
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07 Sep 00 - 09:04 AM (#292715) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: kendall Useless as a trap door in a canoe homely as a bucket of armpits He'd be over his head in a parking lot puddle so stupid, he was the villege idiot in three towns a face that would stop an 8 day clock " " " turn a funeral procession up an alley cold enough to freeze two dry rags together. My friend Gordon, who never cusses says: "Shift or get off the pike." |
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07 Sep 00 - 09:07 AM (#292717) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: kendall deaf as a haddock Numb as a hake going like the hammers of hell hotter than the hinges of tofit |
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07 Sep 00 - 09:11 AM (#292719) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Brendy Some people are as odd as a bottle of chips. Some others are a few sandwiches short of a picnic. And there are times when I'd be dead if I had the wit to stiffen. B. |
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07 Sep 00 - 09:32 AM (#292734) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Tony in Sweden Carol C. I suppose it all depends on whether you would trust him! |
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07 Sep 00 - 09:40 AM (#292743) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Catrin Never wash up unless its fish! and No point in doing any dusting because after the first three months it doesn't get any worse (Both Quentin Crisp) I know this is an old one and a joke rather than a proverb but anyway....
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07 Sep 00 - 09:46 AM (#292756) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Brendy That 'drunkard' was Sir Winston Churchill, and the 'woman' was Lady Astor (I think), who shouted those immortal words at the Prime Minister from the Public Gallery of the House of Commons, at the end of one of his speaches. It was some all-night debate in the Commons, and Sir Winston had been sipping the old G & T's during this time. B. |
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07 Sep 00 - 09:50 AM (#292760) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Mbo One of my favorites: "I haven't passed through fire and death just to bandy crooked words with a serving man till the lightning falls!" |
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07 Sep 00 - 09:52 AM (#292766) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Brendy "I didn't come up the river in a bubble". B. |
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07 Sep 00 - 09:56 AM (#292773) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Kim C I watched a program about Churchill where his secretary said he had a speech impediment, and that she never saw him drunk. I wonder if said speech impediment led people to believe he'd been drinking when he hadn't? But I digress. Carry on, mates. :) |
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07 Sep 00 - 09:58 AM (#292775) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Grab There's a few good flying proverbs:- "Try to keep your number of landings equal to your number of takeoffs." "There's old pilots, and there's bold pilots, but there's not many old, bold pilots." "In the ongoing battle between aircraft and the ground, the ground has yet to lose." "It's always better to be on the ground and wishing you were in the air, than in the air wishing you were on the ground." A Mark Knopfler lyric:- "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug." And untold number of Blackadder-isms:- "[She] goes like the privy door when the plague's in town." "If I should die, think only this of me - I'll be back to get you!" Grab. |
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07 Sep 00 - 09:59 AM (#292776) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Brendy Well, apparently he admitted to being drunk: "I may be drunk madam, and you are ugly. But I will be sober..." or words to that affect. I wouldn't think that he was pissed, though. B. |
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07 Sep 00 - 10:50 AM (#292811) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: derrymacashatwork Referring to shifty types: He'd nick the eye out of your head and come back on your blind side for the other one. If you shake hands with that fella, you'd better count your fingers afterwards. Referring to ugliness: As rough as a badger's chuff. Ugly as sin. Referring to miserliness: As tight as a gnat's chuff. Wouldn't spend Christmas. Still has his communion money. Referring to heat: Hot as the hobs of Hell (because sweating so much) If it wasn't for the sheugh (ditch) in my arse, I'd be drownded. |
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07 Sep 00 - 10:50 AM (#292812) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: derrymacashatwork Referring to shifty types: He'd nick the eye out of your head and come back on your blind side for the other one. If you shake hands with that fella, you'd better count your fingers afterwards. Referring to ugliness: As rough as a badger's chuff. Ugly as sin. Referring to miserliness: As tight as a gnat's chuff. Wouldn't spend Christmas. Still has his communion money. Referring to heat: Hot as the hobs of Hell (because sweating so much) If it wasn't for the sheugh (ditch) in my arse, I'd be drownded. |
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07 Sep 00 - 11:09 AM (#292824) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: catspaw49 When in doubt, enjoy the feeling and life will be less stressful. Spaw |
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07 Sep 00 - 11:11 AM (#292826) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: GUEST,Mbo_at_ECU My grandfather's alltime favorite line: It's a great life if you don't weaken. |
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07 Sep 00 - 11:17 AM (#292836) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Catrin See a penny, pick it up All that day you'll have good luck If you accidentally spill some salt, throw a pinch over your left shoulder - it gets the devil in his eye before he can get you....
When I was a child, if two of us said the same thing simultaneously without planning it we would hook our right little fingers and pull gently saying
'a wish, a wish, a wish come true, Each of us would make a secret wish whilst doing this. The idea being that saying the rhyme would make both wishes come true... |
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07 Sep 00 - 11:26 AM (#292842) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Gervase XXX is to msuic what Douglas Bader was to tap-dancing. XXX? He's got Van Gogh's ear for music. Mad as two waltzing mice. Camp as a row of pink tents. A face that only a mother could love. A face like a bucket of smashed crabs. |
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07 Sep 00 - 12:03 PM (#292858) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: catspaw49 Douglas Bader's "legs" are on display in some museum over there aren't they Gervase? Interesting, if not always charming, he had the repect of many, but very few close friends among his peers. Robert Stanford Tuck said that upon their first meeting they immediately took a dislike to each other which "blossomed over the years." Spaw |
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07 Sep 00 - 12:22 PM (#292864) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Llanfair My favourite is; "Life's too short to stuff a mushroom" Bron. |
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07 Sep 00 - 12:36 PM (#292874) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Metchosin two in use by my old father-in-law
Smells worse than all the night soil of China
And how did the expressions "Drunk as a skunk" and "pissed as a newt" arise? I always regarded those creatures as rather sober little fellows....
No wonder Churchill did not like Lady Astor:
A couple of my favorite Oscar Wilde quotes:
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07 Sep 00 - 12:37 PM (#292875) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: GUEST A psychiatrist is someone who hopefully finds out what makes a person tick before they explode -- Alfred E. Neuman |
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07 Sep 00 - 04:21 PM (#293021) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Uncle_DaveO Find a penny; pick it up. And all the day you'll have a bad back. Dave Oesterreich |
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07 Sep 00 - 05:16 PM (#293057) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Ely Hotter than the ungreased tubs of Hell. (??) "Don't do anything you don't want to admit" "It's not your fault but it is your problem" my aunt's favorite: "You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose." |
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07 Sep 00 - 05:33 PM (#293074) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: GUEST, Banjo Johnny An ugly woman: her face would make a freight train take a dirt road. Not too smart: he's hitting on five cylinders. Hotter than a two-bit pistol, hotter than a depot stove. Hotter than hell's hinges. Busy as a one-arm paperhanger. Raining harder than a cow pissing on a flat rock. A journey of a thousand miles begins with forgetting something. A woman needs a man, like a fish needs a bicycle. Ain't no hoss that can't be rode, ain't no cabboy that can't be throwed. Never ask a barber whether you need a haircut. His brain is on vacation, but his mouth is working overtime. NOTABLE QUOTES: Never trust a barber, or a ventriloquist. -- W.C. Fields Godfrey Daniel! -- W.C. Fields Wagner's music is really not as bad as it sounds. -- Mark Twain
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07 Sep 00 - 05:56 PM (#293086) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Mbo One coupon short of a toast rack! |
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07 Sep 00 - 05:58 PM (#293089) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Catrin When god invented man she was just testing |
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07 Sep 00 - 06:32 PM (#293114) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Diva As much use as a chocolate fireguard. As much use as an ashtray on a motorbike. As much use as a chocolate teapot. You don't look at the mantlepiece when you're stoking up the fire. As welcome as a pork chop at a Jewish wedding. If he fell in a pile of s**t he'd come up smelling of roses.
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07 Sep 00 - 06:42 PM (#293129) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Diva On meanness..he's so mean he'd take the pennies off a dead man's eyes. He's so mean he wouldn't give you the matter oot his een.
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07 Sep 00 - 06:47 PM (#293136) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Brendy As useless as tits on a bull; As mean as cats' shite; As cold as a witch's tit; As odd as two's even. B. |
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07 Sep 00 - 08:10 PM (#293187) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Lena I don't know any canadian ones,and the italian ones are too dirty usually to write them down carelessly.But I know a very cute eastern european one saying: He must have been bred like an onion.With his legs up on air and his head stuck in the ground. |
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07 Sep 00 - 11:21 PM (#293268) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Bill D "You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't wipe your friends off on the saddle horn" on dumb: "He ain't got the good sense God give a retarded rubber duck" THE law of doin' guy stuff-"If it don't go, don't force it...get a bigger hammer" "Rainin' like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" The ultimate justification template:.."Of course it was a just war, my son died in it"...(Nietzsche..Also Sprache Zarathustra "Never go to bed with anyone crazier than you"....(*grin*...ponder THAT one!) from an old carpenter I worked with once, on doing good work:"Awww...all they're gonna do is (walk...sit...pile stuff, etc.) on it...it ain't like they're gonna take pictures of it!" "You can't teach an old Gnu dog tricks" from my father...."If you was carryin' all the feathers you could carry, could you carry one more?"....(maybe why I went into Philosophy)
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08 Sep 00 - 01:40 AM (#293331) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Mickey191 A halo has only to slip a few inches to become a noose. My cow died-so I don't need your bull. Somedays it's chicken-somedays it's feathers. Somedays your the pidgeon-somedays your the statue. (Describing a chubby lady) Beef to the heels, like a Mullingar Heifer. The only way to entertain some people is to listen to them When arguing with a stupid person, make sure their not doing the same. My dear Irish Mom used to say this all the time and I would love to know if anyone has heard it before "God help us Morris, there's a lot of us here and nothing for us." The last is a thinker-Life is what you do, while your waiting to die. Slainte Maithe Mickey191NY |
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08 Sep 00 - 05:08 AM (#293368) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: CarolC An immaculate house is a sign of a misspent life. |
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08 Sep 00 - 05:17 AM (#293370) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: GUEST "A tidy desk is the sign of a diseased mind, or the person doesnt have enough work to do" Life, Liberty and the happiness of pursuit |
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08 Sep 00 - 05:26 AM (#293372) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: sian, west wales Gosh, your system goes down for a day, and ya come back to all this!
A school friend of mine was getting all hot-and-heavy with her boyfriend and her mother's clincher was, By the way, does anyone actually *use* these regularly? I decided a while back that I was going to, just to make life more colourful. Goes down just fine in the pub, but you get some funny looks in the Board room. (their loss, not mine) sian
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08 Sep 00 - 05:37 AM (#293374) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: okthen only knitting with one needle if i fell in a bucket of tits i'd come up sucking my thumb we're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars--oscar wilde cheers bill |
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08 Sep 00 - 06:46 AM (#293382) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: mcpiper If your brains was dynamite they wouldn't blow a straw hat off your head. If your brains was leather, they wouldn't saddle a bug. Grinning like a horse chewing thistles, and one of my fathers favourites, probably not politically correct now but here goes: Flash as a chow on a bike. |
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08 Sep 00 - 07:15 AM (#293386) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: GUEST,micca at work |
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08 Sep 00 - 07:16 AM (#293387) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: GUEST,micca at work Sorry the Guest above posted 05.17 was me,its the work machines, |
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08 Sep 00 - 07:52 AM (#293391) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Midchuck Not enough fabric in that woman's outfit to pad a crutch. That woman was so tall she could stand flat-footed and piss in the radiator of a Chevy pickup. (For this to make sense, you have to be old enough to remember when cars and trucks had radiator caps on the outside of the hood.) We lived so far out in the country, the first thing we had to do in the morning was sweep the coon-farts outa the kitchen. (The last two are from the late H. Allen Smith, who had a bundle of 'em, and put the publishable ones in his books.) Peter. |
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08 Sep 00 - 08:24 AM (#293396) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: derrymacashatwork Of something that's certain - "As sure as there's an eye in a goat." Of a certain type of nasty drunk - "Street angel, house devil" Of something that's very hard - "As hard as the road" Of a peaceful character - "He doesn't break much delph" Of a quiet character - "He wouldn't say boo to a goose." "You wouldn't hear him behind a tram ticket." Of a shrewd character - "There are no flies on him (and any there are are dead ones)." My granny would never make plans for the future without a caveat " ...if we're living and spared" or "...if God spares us" or "...with the help of God". Which always seemed a tad pessimistic to me. My mother would always say of some pillock who she observed doing something stupid "Ireland's rarin' them yet!" Of doing something with too much haste and too little care - "Like a bull at a gate"
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08 Sep 00 - 08:56 AM (#293412) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Big Mick "Will Rogers never met Howard Cosell" |
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08 Sep 00 - 11:19 AM (#293436) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: derrymacashatwork Two final thoughts for today ... Of someone's who's thin - "I've seen more beef on an oxo cube" "I've seen more meat on a tinker's stick after a fight" |
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08 Sep 00 - 03:35 PM (#293621) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Clinton Hammond2 If you have to eat a toad, don't look at it too long If you have to eat 2 toads, eat the big one first
Those are from Mark Twain I believe... And the best is {~` |
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09 Sep 00 - 12:30 AM (#293902) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Amos It was attributed to W.C. Fields that he once dictated a letter, while drunk, which read: "Dear Sir, You ar e a no-good son of a bitch, and I would not piss in your ear if your brain were on fire. Sincerely yours, W.C. Fields." And the classic Glaswegian (or Newfie or whatever....) condemnation is "He couldn't pour pee out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel." Other favorites from the ages -- TANSTAAFL, it annoys the pig, and "Sheep lie!". |
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09 Sep 00 - 05:22 AM (#293970) Subject: RE: BS: Words of Wisdom From: Metchosin "All men matter, none much" - Brownie McGhee "I am matter, you are matter, the stars are matter, it doesn't really matter" - Captain Beefheart |