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22 Jul 06 - 12:35 PM (#1789901) Subject: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Jerry Rasmussen "She's cuter than a button." Most things are. Since when is a button held up as the standard of measurement for cute? Jerry |
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22 Jul 06 - 12:44 PM (#1789909) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Yeah Jerry, the woods are full of them. "Sick as a parrot", or "Sick as a pig", two UK expressions meaning not as you might think, unwell, but in fact disappointed. "Tight as an owl" (drunk). Anyone ever seen a drunken owl? Don T. |
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22 Jul 06 - 12:44 PM (#1789910) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Matt_R "I'm finer than hair on a frog" |
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22 Jul 06 - 12:47 PM (#1789912) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: John MacKenzie Sober as a judge. HIC!!!! G. |
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22 Jul 06 - 12:58 PM (#1789922) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: fat B****rd "Sick as a Blackpool Donkey" I've only heard this in Sunny Aycliffe. |
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22 Jul 06 - 01:08 PM (#1789933) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Bee-dubya-ell I've heard numerous "cuter than..." sayings which include the word "butt". "Cuter than a baby's butt" and "cuter than a bug's butt" come to mind. Perhaps "button" was substituted for "butt" somewhere along the line. Possibly by the same lanquage sanitizers who gave us "Oh, shoot!" |
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22 Jul 06 - 01:18 PM (#1789943) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Bill D You may dispute me, but "What goes around, comes around" has always seemed to me to mean nothing if you didn't already 'get' it. It is as silly and poorly phrased a saying as I can think of. |
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22 Jul 06 - 01:21 PM (#1789946) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Rasener Drunk as a skunk As tight as a nuns **** Pissed as a newt He is absolutely rat arsed |
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22 Jul 06 - 01:39 PM (#1789962) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: GUEST Better than sliced bread Get in the hole! ( yelled by bloody idiots at golf!) The Lord will provide It's God's will Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs! |
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22 Jul 06 - 01:51 PM (#1789972) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Bill D Oh YES! That "get in the HOLE" bit is really wearing! |
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22 Jul 06 - 01:51 PM (#1789973) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Jerry Rasmussen "A penny saved is a penny earned" No, a penny saved is a penny saved. Perhaps it was initially earned, and once it was earned, it was saved. In which case a penny earned would be a penny saved. But what about a penny that is a gift? Not that anyone gives a kid a penny any more. You'd be like to get a kick in the shins if you did. Jerry |
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22 Jul 06 - 02:02 PM (#1789985) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Bill D "It'll never be seen on a galloping horse" well...maybe! Or 'it' might attract MORE attention on a horse. |
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22 Jul 06 - 02:44 PM (#1790027) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: robomatic "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is useful as a marker to how certain people's minds work, if only to show that often people's minds don't work that well. "who can comprehend infinity?" is a dumb question, since the human brain invented the concept of infinity and has all sorts of names for it and does math with it. The universe itself so far as we know does not comprehend infinity because it is finite. "We only use one quarter (or one fifth, or one x'th) of our brains" Well, ma nature is a parsimonious ol' hag according to the gospel of evolution and the brain is a pretty complex thing. Some parts of it can get whacked off and all you lose is your personality, which for many of us would be an undetectable difference, but there are some really important bits that when you lose them you go blind, or your memory for faces is permanenty deleted, etcetera. In short, the fact that you can kill off a lot of neurons with alcohol does not substantiate that you had a surplus to begin with, just that you probably didn't have enough to begin with and are going to have less'n less. "cheap at half the price" shouldn't that be "cheap at twice the price" but somehow that doesn't sound as euphonious so we get by with the wrong part of that phrase. |
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22 Jul 06 - 03:20 PM (#1790059) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Rasener He's just dropped a right bollock. Why not a left bollock. any explanation? To get your leg over Surely that would be a bit difficult if you were having a knee trembler? |
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22 Jul 06 - 03:52 PM (#1790076) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: JohnInKansas What makes quite a few of the stupid ones stupid is that they were originally delivered as sarcasm, with full awareness of the "misfit." Adopted by those who've failed to think about it, and who just assume they "mean something" because lots of people say them, they lose their effect - because the users are too stupid to give them proper application. "More fun than a barrel full of dead babies...." John |
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22 Jul 06 - 04:02 PM (#1790077) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Mr Fox "They can take our lives but they cannot take our freedom" Yep. You're free to rot with all the other corpses. |
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22 Jul 06 - 05:25 PM (#1790124) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Peace "I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." That cutsie thing: "I really like Bush. NOT!" |
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22 Jul 06 - 05:54 PM (#1790139) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: robomatic Bruce, interestingly enough I just looked up that phrase yesterday "I disagree with what you say but I will...etc etc" and it turns out that Voltaire never said it, it comes from a book about him. |
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22 Jul 06 - 05:58 PM (#1790141) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: ragdall Is there a difference between "dead right" and "dead wrong", or is someone dead, right, or wrong? |
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22 Jul 06 - 06:00 PM (#1790143) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Peace Good article about it here. |
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22 Jul 06 - 06:28 PM (#1790178) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Liz the Squeak "It was in the last place I looked" - well of course... who goes on looking for something once they've found it? LTS |
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22 Jul 06 - 06:29 PM (#1790180) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Peace One night in the 1960s . . . . |
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22 Jul 06 - 07:24 PM (#1790227) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Little Hawk "Fuck off" People say it all the time, but they don't really mean it. |
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22 Jul 06 - 08:51 PM (#1790274) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: 282RA "You ain't shit" doesn't work as an insult. "You are shit" works a lot better. |
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22 Jul 06 - 09:03 PM (#1790279) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: *daylia* Break a leg. |
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22 Jul 06 - 09:06 PM (#1790282) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Bill D Oh, the questions I want to ask anyone who says "I'm a PEOPLE person!" This is supposed to set you apart from those of us who are merely...umm...Hedgehog persons? |
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22 Jul 06 - 09:06 PM (#1790283) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Little Hawk Yes, but what "you ain't shit" really means is...you don't even measure up to the value of a piece of shit. I think that works. ;-) Shit, after all, has its uses. |
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22 Jul 06 - 09:10 PM (#1790287) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Little Hawk I avoid people who say that any way I can, Bill... ;-) I also grit my teeth when someone says, "You go, girl!" |
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22 Jul 06 - 09:11 PM (#1790289) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Peace Do these people look really stoned to you? |
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22 Jul 06 - 09:18 PM (#1790298) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: GUEST,Shat Oh for God's sake get a life |
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22 Jul 06 - 09:19 PM (#1790300) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Little Hawk Boy, talk about charisma, eh? Damn shame he didn't have his phaser handy to blast these friggin' teletubbies off the screen. |
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22 Jul 06 - 09:21 PM (#1790304) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Bobert "Fixin' to break..." |
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22 Jul 06 - 09:23 PM (#1790308) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Peace Like, was that Captain Kirk from that spaceship show? |
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22 Jul 06 - 09:25 PM (#1790310) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Bill D Someone said "Hold your tongue, Bill..." but he couldn't get a grip. |
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22 Jul 06 - 11:12 PM (#1790366) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: John O'L My dad used to say - I wouldn't say anyone who doesn't take you for a fool's no mug. |
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22 Jul 06 - 11:25 PM (#1790371) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Bee-dubya-ell And what did your dad do before he became incoherent, John? |
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22 Jul 06 - 11:34 PM (#1790376) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: John O'L I think just being my dad was enough to do it to him. |
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22 Jul 06 - 11:51 PM (#1790382) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Peace LOLOLOL |
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23 Jul 06 - 12:03 AM (#1790389) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: GUEST,Joe_F Jerry R.: Ambrose Bierce improved that to "A penny saved is a penny to squander". Bill D: I think "people person" contrasts with "thing person" & "idea person"; "people" designates not what such persons are, but what they regard the world as being primarily made of. The world, of course, is all too full of such persons. %^) --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Ten bums lay in the sun; a passer-by offered a dollar to whichever was laziest; nine jumped up to claim it. :|| |
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23 Jul 06 - 02:24 AM (#1790444) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Purple Foxx "They passed like ships in the night" Foghorns blaring? "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it." That's usually the best time to do it. "Will you join me in a cup of tea?" It's a good trick if you can do it. |
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23 Jul 06 - 02:27 AM (#1790447) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Dave Hanson Re Shatner, A face like a bulldog chewing a wasp, or, A face like a bag of spanners, or, a face like a slapped arse. eric |
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23 Jul 06 - 02:38 AM (#1790455) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Peace A face like a bulldog lickin' piss off a thistle. |
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23 Jul 06 - 02:52 AM (#1790459) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: John O'L A face like a hatful of monkeys' arseholes |
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23 Jul 06 - 04:33 AM (#1790494) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: JennyO a face like a ruptured prune a face like a turd with a bellyache a face like a friendly turd in a bike basket (Terry Pratchett) |
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23 Jul 06 - 06:31 AM (#1790544) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: clairerise The wheel's spinning, but the hamster's dead. |
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23 Jul 06 - 06:50 AM (#1790551) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Don(Wyziwyg)T "If he fell into a barrel of tits, he'd come out sucking his thumb". Naah! On second thoughts that's not a stupid saying. It's a description of GeeDub. Don T. |
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23 Jul 06 - 07:08 AM (#1790563) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Jerry Rasmussen To of my least favorite sayings, usually from people I end up not liking much: "I know what I like." As my sons would say "No Duh!" (one of my favorite sayings.... "I tell it like it is." My youngest son says that when he hears someone say that, he heads for the nearest door. When was the last time that you heard someone preface a statement with that comment and then say something positive? Was it during this lifetime? What they usually mean is, I'm going to say something really ignorant and prejudiced, but that's alright because I'm not a hypocrite like all the rest of you idiots." I try to tell it as I perceive it, realizing that half the time I either get it wrong, or oversimplify it to make a point. Jerry |
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23 Jul 06 - 12:37 PM (#1790742) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Becca72 My father used to tell us " if you break both your legs don't come running to me". Used to piss me off, although with my father it was said tongue planted firmly in cheek. |
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23 Jul 06 - 01:42 PM (#1790792) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Geordie-Peorgie "A face like a slate-hanger's nail-pouch!" |
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23 Jul 06 - 02:40 PM (#1790841) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Bill D (I know what 'people person' is supposed to convey, but I have never heard it used except in a smug, condescending or defensive way....usually repeated regularly like a mantra.) |
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23 Jul 06 - 03:28 PM (#1790885) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Little Hawk Exactly. That's why whenever I hear it, I move away....far away. I'm tired of young women prefacing every subordinate clause with the word, "like". Does that count? Then there's "I'm like...geddadahere!" And she's like..."Don't tell me to geddadahere!" and I'm like..."Listen, bitch, when I, like tell you to..." etc., etc., etc. (LOL!) They should all be exported to some country that is looking for really stupid young women...but not necessarily virgins. |
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23 Jul 06 - 06:24 PM (#1791049) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Tootler A favourite one of a former Vice Chancellor of the University I where I used to work was "I hear what you say and I hear what you don't say" |
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23 Jul 06 - 06:34 PM (#1791060) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Add the irritating "I know where you're coming from". My response:- "So you know where I live, but you don't have a clue what I'm saying." Don T. |
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23 Jul 06 - 06:51 PM (#1791081) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Liz the Squeak Managers who say 'it would be in the interest of the team' meaning he/she wants you to do it and that's all there is to it. LTS |
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23 Jul 06 - 07:21 PM (#1791104) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Jerry Rasmussen What about "This hurts me more than you," Or "I'm doing this for your own good." Don't do me any favors, huh!? Jerry |
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23 Jul 06 - 07:23 PM (#1791109) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Peace I love that: 'the team'. It has come to mean that the employee will be worked until he/she can no longer keep up and then tossed out like trash. |
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23 Jul 06 - 07:39 PM (#1791122) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Little Hawk Yes, the comic "Dilbert" is very good at illustrating that kind of corporate office BS. |
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23 Jul 06 - 08:00 PM (#1791146) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Slag Do you know the difference between a duck? Blah Blah Blah... at the end of the day... (will this day never end?) 7/24 yuh know? ... and then I go, "..." ... and then he goes"..." in a pig's eye til the cows come home for crying in a bucket (has anyone ever cried in a bucket?) DUDE! You'll be fine (this one is just rife with disaster!) Hello-o? (When Holmes did it, it worked fine, but you're not Holmes!) |
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23 Jul 06 - 08:41 PM (#1791180) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: *daylia* I see! Said the blind man. And picked up his hammer. And saw. |
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23 Jul 06 - 08:45 PM (#1791185) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: John O'L Do Americans really say "7/24"? Here in Oz, where we date things Day/Month/Year, I have only ever heard it as "24/7". |
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23 Jul 06 - 08:47 PM (#1791186) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: John O'L "I see", said the blind man, but he didn't really see at all. |
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23 Jul 06 - 09:26 PM (#1791210) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Bonnie Shaljean "At this moment in time" or even worse, "At the present moment in time" when what they mean can be stated in one syllable: Now. (Who started that? Was it Nixon?) Also its halfwit cousins: "At the end of the day" = Finally "State of the art" = Best. |
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23 Jul 06 - 09:30 PM (#1791212) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Peace "point in time is a cliché, a bit of padded prose. It has been around for a long time, but the Watergate hearings of the 1970s made many people conscious of it and determined to root it out of their language. A single word will usually do nicely: At this point in time is now; at that point in time was then; at some point in time will be sometime." Thats from a www dictionary. |
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23 Jul 06 - 09:37 PM (#1791214) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: number 6 If you press hard enough with "a point in time" ... you will break the "time barrier". sIx |
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23 Jul 06 - 10:15 PM (#1791242) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Bill D No, we don't say "7/24"....never, ever heard that. |
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24 Jul 06 - 12:00 AM (#1791302) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: JohnInKansas Photographic evidence posted on the always truthful internet posits that at least one person in the US (New Jersey, as I recall) has a "vanity" license plate on her (female driver presumed) vehicle that reads: PMS24-7 ... ... ... ... and is never tailgated. John |
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24 Jul 06 - 12:10 AM (#1791308) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Bee-dubya-ell But we do say "7/24". Look at your calendar. |
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24 Jul 06 - 01:35 AM (#1791332) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Slag 24 days a week/ 7 hours a day, or like WHATEVER!!! |
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24 Jul 06 - 05:42 AM (#1791460) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: robomatic "the immortal soul" |
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24 Jul 06 - 05:46 AM (#1791464) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: John O'L 'The most unique' - did someone already say that? |
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24 Jul 06 - 06:01 AM (#1791470) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Paul Burke Now then. It'll either rain or go dark before morning. |
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24 Jul 06 - 06:03 AM (#1791471) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Dave the Gnome Things said by mothers to kids - Just look at the back of your neck. Come here and I'll give you a clout. I was waiting for ages and all these buses kept not coming. Things just said - Cheap at twice the price. If he goes any faster he'll meet himself comimg back. Cheers DtG |
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24 Jul 06 - 06:39 AM (#1791489) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Paul Burke Cheap at half the price was more common on the Height. Well, I'll go to our house! Where's Mam? She's in a bottle on the roof. |
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24 Jul 06 - 06:39 AM (#1791490) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Purple Foxx Still waters run deep. Still waters don't run at all. "How may I help you on the journey that is you." Once said to me by a shop assistant in Washington State. |
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24 Jul 06 - 07:01 AM (#1791503) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Dave the Gnome Half the price made a lot more sense, Paul. Perhaps twice the price was a Swinton saying. Just proving how daft Swintonians are and what a good move I made to th'height:-) I'll go to t'foot of our stairs It's black o'er Bills mothers Were another two. Cheers DtG |
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24 Jul 06 - 08:33 AM (#1791547) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Don(Wyziwyg)T "Cheap at twice the price" is in fact the logical one as it's a contraction of..."It would be cheap at twice the price" to describe an exceptionally good bargain. Sorry, it's the pedant in me getting loose again. Don T. |
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24 Jul 06 - 08:35 AM (#1791549) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Dave the Gnome Perhaps I had better move back? :D (tG) |
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24 Jul 06 - 08:36 AM (#1791550) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Don(Wyziwyg)T I suddenly realised that the other one works just as well. "It would be cheap at half the price" to describe something that isn't a bargain at all. Sorry guys, we'll have to disallow the stupidity of both. Don T. |
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24 Jul 06 - 08:37 AM (#1791553) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Don(Wyziwyg)T You can stay where you are DtG.....LOL Don T. |
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24 Jul 06 - 08:46 AM (#1791557) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: John O'L Too stupid by half. |
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24 Jul 06 - 09:29 AM (#1791589) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Dave Hanson As thick as pigshit in winter, daft as a brush, as thick as two short planks, whale oil beef hooked. eric |
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24 Jul 06 - 12:44 PM (#1791752) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Bill D "But we do say "7/24". Look at your calendar." pooh! My calendar is silent. We PRINT dates with the month first (usually). If someone askes me when I was born, I 'say' May the 20th...(or maybe "the 20th of May)....but 24/7 is a specific locution with an inflexible connotation! (ooohh..he's babbling again!!) |
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24 Jul 06 - 06:33 PM (#1792043) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: harpmaker Flamenco Ted. |
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24 Jul 06 - 06:35 PM (#1792045) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Peace Montego Bay |
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24 Jul 06 - 07:01 PM (#1792071) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: John O'L Flamenco Ted? Montego Bay? Eh? 'as thick as two short planks' - Love that 'a specific locution with an inflexible connotation' - Love that too. |
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24 Jul 06 - 07:05 PM (#1792073) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Becca72 I don't think this one is stupid, in fact it's one of my favorites: "grinning like a dog eating bumblebees" the visual that goes along with it is priceless! |
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24 Jul 06 - 07:16 PM (#1792084) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Jim Dixon If you're in, say, a 20% tax bracket, then a penny saved is 1.25 pennies earned. |
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24 Jul 06 - 08:19 PM (#1792146) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: 282RA How about "fit as a fiddle"? Is that necessarily a good thing? Or what about "dead as a doornail"? A doornail is no more dead than any other inanimate object. It's as stupid as "dead as crystal champagne goblet." |
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24 Jul 06 - 08:56 PM (#1792172) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: harpmaker The bees Knees Ape shape Speed camera partenership The dogs bollocks Gnatts piss You are what you eat (How can that be??) Flamenco Ted Does my bum look big in this? Air guitar Shit hot Don't worry, you'le get over it. Hmmmm.... And finally See how much you could save!!.. has become a favorite in recent years, and is a utter load of crap. |
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24 Jul 06 - 09:10 PM (#1792179) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: HuwG "As tight as a camel's a*** in a sandstorm". "As much use as a chocolate teapot" "As much use as a concrete cushion" "As much use as a rubber crutch" "As much use as a one-legged man at an a***-kicking contest" "As much use as a haemorrhoid transplant" |
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25 Jul 06 - 12:49 AM (#1792350) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Slag Happy as a dead pig in the sunshine! Looks like a mule eatin' briars. |
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25 Jul 06 - 02:03 AM (#1792377) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Amergin fuck me sideways |
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25 Jul 06 - 02:09 AM (#1792381) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Peace "You are what you eat (How can that be??)" You have NO idea how much I am having difficulty not replying to this one . . . . |
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25 Jul 06 - 02:30 AM (#1792389) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Rasener If you keep on doing that, you will go blind I never understood what me mother meant, in fact thats when I stopped reading books. You dozy twat Put a sock in it If your not in bed by 10, come home You wait till your father comes home (mother unable to control the situation with the children) What a load of cobblers |
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25 Jul 06 - 03:31 AM (#1792409) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Liz the Squeak If you are what you eat then I'm sweet, cheap and easy. LTS |
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25 Jul 06 - 04:24 AM (#1792447) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Dave Hanson Stop that or you'll go blind, well can I do it half as much and wear glasses? Thank god your mother died in childbirth, if she'd seen you she'd have died of shame. eric |
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25 Jul 06 - 09:10 AM (#1792628) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Mr Fox Face like a bag of smashed crabs. If I get there first I'll chalk a cross on the wall. If you get there first rub it out. |
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25 Jul 06 - 09:48 AM (#1792659) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Tweed Dumb as a bag of hammers. from the "O Brother film" "I am the Decider!" GW Bush, 2006 |
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25 Jul 06 - 10:09 AM (#1792679) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Kim C Neck of the woods. Why is it always a neck? Why not a crotch, or an armpit? Or an elbow, for that matter. Not worth a shit. Well, that depends on how much a shit is actually worth. Comparing apples to oranges. They both grow on trees, they both have seeds inside (except for the hybrid oranges), they are edible and tasty, they both produce a good juice for drinking, they are nutritious, they are both sort of round. I'm thinking apples and mailboxes might be a better analogy if you're talking about two things that aren't alike. |
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25 Jul 06 - 11:34 AM (#1792762) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Amos We say 24/7 and sometimes 24/7/365 for activities that are always going (24 hours a day, seven days a week). It has nothing to do with calendar dates. A |
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25 Jul 06 - 11:38 AM (#1792768) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: GUEST,Kenny 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. |
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25 Jul 06 - 11:39 AM (#1792769) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: GUEST,Manny Mean as a Scotchman Originates from the fact that all scotch are very mean. |
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25 Jul 06 - 11:45 AM (#1792775) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: mindblaster Scotch is aaa drink you foolish english twat. |
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25 Jul 06 - 02:40 PM (#1792917) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Slag It's Scotsman! |
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25 Jul 06 - 03:23 PM (#1792955) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: gnu It's Scot. |
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25 Jul 06 - 03:31 PM (#1792960) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Becca72 Unless of course you mean those mean, tight-wad scotch drinkers... |
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25 Jul 06 - 03:41 PM (#1792967) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: cockney 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? |
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25 Jul 06 - 04:17 PM (#1792995) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Kaleea "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 . . .) |
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25 Jul 06 - 04:40 PM (#1793018) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: frogprince 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. |
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25 Jul 06 - 04:52 PM (#1793029) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Tweed 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! |
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25 Jul 06 - 08:40 PM (#1793224) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: GUEST,petr do people who believe in Gosh go to Heck? |
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25 Jul 06 - 08:54 PM (#1793234) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: JohnInKansas 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 |
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25 Jul 06 - 08:56 PM (#1793235) Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings From: Jerry Rasmussen Maybe they meant it's a Snoop-Doggie Dog world? Jerry |
