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« Reply #60 on: October 29, 2008, 12:04 PM »
Quote from: not terribly clever on October 29, 2008, 10:12 AM
quiet as a church mouse - I guess church mice are really quiet, unlike field mice, who are always making a racket.

I've heard a variation of this, "Poor as a Church Mouse".  Which makes about as much sense, I guess.
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« Reply #61 on: October 29, 2008, 01:44 PM »
I've heard this one from my dad.

I'm so hungry I could eat a baby's ass through a park bench. Not sure why he wanted to do that. I was afraid to ask.
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« Reply #62 on: October 29, 2008, 06:25 PM »
Quote from: Otis P Jivefunk on October 29, 2008, 04:17 AM

I use these words.  Never realised they were old time slang.

Good to know.  I guess some sayings are just timeless.
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« Reply #63 on: October 29, 2008, 08:12 PM »
Quote from: CyborgPolarBear on October 28, 2008, 05:52 PM
(S)He'd cut of their nose to spite their face - Indicated party is a prick.

I'd always thought it was more an indication that someone was making a stand out of foolish pride that they would suffer for, eg;  Fine, if we're not going to play the video game I want, then I'm not playing at all.  My manager said it to me after I yelled at him the other day actually.  "Don't cut off your nose just to spite your face bud."

Another one that I've just remembered;  Go like the clappers - very similar to hammer and tongs, done with great gusto and/or speed.
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« Reply #64 on: October 30, 2008, 07:20 AM »
oh yeah, "knee high to a grasshopper"
and "when hector was a pup"
and "deader than a doornail"
and "can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear"
and "ten pounds of shit in a five pound sack"
and "champagne taste with a beer wallet"
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« Reply #65 on: October 30, 2008, 08:41 AM »
-built like a brick shithouse, and not a brick out of place (to describe a buxom lady)
-up your nose with a rubber hose (nonsensical fuck you)
-by the baldheaded (by god), ...
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I just saw Shawn Michaels at Costco about two weeks ago.
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« Reply #66 on: October 30, 2008, 02:15 PM »
I have been hearing this all my life and I am not sure how old it is but here goes.


 Shit or get off the pot. (stop procrastinating)
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« Reply #67 on: October 30, 2008, 04:38 PM »
 Some of my favorites:

" Close enough only counts in horseshoes and handgrenades"   
 
 "If I got a dollar every time you said that, I be rich" 

" That and 2bucks will get me a soda"   

"Well aren't you full of piss and vinegar"

" Pickle puffer" or "He's light in the loafers"

" Its as easy a shooting fish in barrel"

" Does a bear crap in the woods" or "Is the pope catholic"

" good enough for government work"

  and my favourite universal response whenever somebody asks me how I'm doing " Another day, Another dollar."

  I'm pretty sure these are all self explanatory  but if not? Ask and I shall explain them.
 
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« Reply #68 on: October 31, 2008, 11:52 AM »
My favorite:  giving someone the hairy fish eye.
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« Reply #69 on: October 31, 2008, 12:04 PM »
-And if the dog wouldn't of stopped to shit, he'd have caught the rabbit too (in response to somebody boring you with 'what if' scenarios).
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« Reply #70 on: October 31, 2008, 12:52 PM »
"The whole nine yards"...refers to the length of the ammunition belt used by the Vickers machine gun in ww1...i.e., give them/it everything you've got.
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« Reply #71 on: October 31, 2008, 01:11 PM »
I think every person in this thread who's tried to explain where their phrase originated had been wrong.
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« Reply #72 on: October 31, 2008, 01:30 PM »
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« Reply #73 on: October 31, 2008, 03:03 PM »
my grandmother(91 years old) has been saying "Oh, Bally Who" lately, she didn't say it at all when I was younger, but I've heard her say it several times in the last year.
I'm thinking of addong it to my list of popular phrases.
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« Reply #74 on: November 01, 2008, 09:17 AM »
We took our younger son and a friend of his trick-or-treating last night. There was little girl who was as cute as a button who was following the same route and decided she wanted to trick-or-treat with us. She was only knee high to a grasshopper but also quick like a bunny so she was able to keep up. There was a party going on at one house and they didn't answer the door fast enough so she announced in her adorable, little girl voice "This sucks. I'm going to the next house." and charged off, hell bent for leather.
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« Reply #75 on: November 01, 2008, 12:47 PM »
Away an' boil yer heid (Go away and boil your head) - Stop talking nonsense
How many eggs you laid today hen? - Asked of an irate woman who won't stop squalking about something.
Like keeping a dog and barking myself - A waste of time doing something that someone else will/could do.
Better an empty house than an angry tennet - An appology for farting/burping
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« Reply #76 on: November 01, 2008, 03:28 PM »
Quote from: not terribly clever on November 01, 2008, 09:17 AM
hell bent for leather.

Stay far the fuck away from that house.
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Quote from: MindBullet on November 10, 2008, 03:12 PM
Well maybe it's not NSFW for French Canadiens.
I bet it's like the "Hang in there!" kitty poster of Quebec offices.
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« Reply #77 on: November 01, 2008, 05:11 PM »
I first heard this one when I was talking to a old friend of mine ("old friend" as in "he's old and he's my friend", rather than "we've been friends a long time "). I asked what he was up to and he said, "Just screwing the pooch". 

"You're doing what?" 

'You know, 'screwing the pooch'?"

I just laughed in his face.  I couldn't help it, it was a hilarious thing to say, and I had no idea what he meant.  Apparently it's a fairly common expression from his day that means "not doing much of anything".

Norm MacDonald told on a story on Tom Green's show that reminded me of it.
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« Reply #78 on: November 02, 2008, 10:39 AM »
It is a faily common expression in Canada, even among young people ('fucking the dog', 'dog fucker'), etc...).

Funny story (to me): I was listening to the messages on the answering machine at my parent's place, because I was asked to check. My mother saved a call from my dad who had been working out of town. He was talking normally, saying I miss you and what not. Suddenly, some guy he used to work with apparently walks by because he yells "Hey Glen, you old dog-fucker! How's it going?!"

My name is Glenn, of course, so I jumped at being yelled at by my father, and being called a dog-fucker. How did he know I would be listening to this message? Has my dad figured out some sort of ESP with which to belittle me across space and time?
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« Reply #79 on: November 02, 2008, 10:50 AM »
Back home in Canada I used to work in factories, and all my blue-collared chums would use the term 'dog fucker' to an alarming extent.  Young or old, it was guaranteed good times.  I've been using it on my Aussie friends and they seem to be catching on quickly.

And for old time sake, and cause it makes me all fuzzy inside, I like to pepper my reactions with 'Jesus H Murphy'. 

Oh ya, gotta love dem Canadiens.
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