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What funny colloquialisms or sayings have you heard?

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BillyFalcon
 
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Reply Thu 23 Oct, 2003 07:35 am
Willow

I'm so broke. if it cost a nickel to go round the world,
I couldn't get out of sight.
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oldandknew
 
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Reply Thu 23 Oct, 2003 08:42 am
"That woman over the road looks like mutton dressed as lamb"

"Her husband looks like 10 men, 9 dead , 1 dying"

"She's never happy unless she's got something to moan about"

"He's a severe rectal pain about everything, changes his mind as often as his socks"
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georgeob1
 
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Reply Fri 20 Feb, 2004 08:44 pm
How cold does it get in....

"Colder than the handle on the outhouse door,
Colder than .... (there's more)
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dyslexia
 
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Reply Fri 20 Feb, 2004 08:53 pm
you can't drive me crazy, I'm close enough to walk.
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Fri 20 Feb, 2004 08:55 pm
Colder than the ring around a polar bear's ass.
Colder than the ring around a well-digger's ass.
Colder than a brass bra on a witch's tits.


that's Cool
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Diane
 
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Reply Fri 20 Feb, 2004 08:57 pm
Georeob, would that be, "Colder than a witch's tit?"

Dag nab it woman, you'll be the death of me yet. (From my grandfather).
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Fri 20 Feb, 2004 09:07 pm
Colder than my landlord's heart.
Colder than my boss's heart.
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dyslexia
 
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Reply Fri 20 Feb, 2004 09:12 pm
colder than the ticket takers smile on saturday night at the I-Bar theatre.
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caprice
 
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Reply Sat 21 Feb, 2004 02:34 am
tight as a duck's ass and that's water tight!
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caprice
 
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Reply Sat 21 Feb, 2004 02:34 am
useless as tits on a nun
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caprice
 
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Reply Sat 21 Feb, 2004 02:36 am
My Mom is actually the source of those two.
Hard for me to believe that sometimes! *L*
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 21 Feb, 2004 03:04 am
I like every place, which is colder than hell.
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Vivien
 
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Reply Sat 21 Feb, 2004 03:07 am
it's black over Bill's mothers (approaching rain)

icudg'madangi'rockaway - local dialect expression = I could go mad and give rock away (rock=sweets)

eleven pence to the dozen (not all there mentally)

the lights are on but there's no one home (stupid/thick/dim/weird)

mardy - not a phrase but a brilliant local word that sums up sulking/moody/bad behaviour all in one word
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caprice
 
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Reply Sat 21 Feb, 2004 03:18 am
Vivien wrote:
the lights are on but there's no one home (stupid/thick/dim/weird)


Oh, I've heard so many variations on that theme!

The cheese has slid off his cracker.
A few fries short of a Happy Meal.
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
The wheel's spinning but the hamster's dead.
Elevator doesn't go all the way to the top floor.
A sandwich short of a picnic.

And on and on! Smile
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georgeob1
 
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Reply Sat 21 Feb, 2004 07:09 am
Diane,

It was a bit of doggerel we had to memorize at Annapolis, - a response to the question "How cold does it get in Maryland?" However, Joe Nation's contribution suggests it has other, parallel origins as well. You were right about the witch's tit line. As I recall it was;

"...colder than the nipple on a witch's tit.


the last stanza ended

'colder than the handle on the outhouse door,
colder than the @$#% on a Baltimore whore
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Turner 727
 
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Reply Sat 21 Feb, 2004 08:25 am
From Major League 2, I actually use this a lot.

"Women. Can't live with them, they can't pee standing up."

To which my wife replies: "We can, we just make a huge mess."
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Sat 21 Feb, 2004 10:06 am
Re: thickwitted (the lights are on but nobody's home etc.)

A village somewhere is missing its idiot.
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Vivien
 
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Reply Sat 21 Feb, 2004 12:39 pm
caprice wrote:

The wheel's spinning but the hamster's dead.
Elevator doesn't go all the way to the top floor.


Smile


i'd heard them all except these 2 - like them!
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caprice
 
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Reply Sat 21 Feb, 2004 12:47 pm
Merry Andrew wrote:
Re: thickwitted (the lights are on but nobody's home etc.)

A village somewhere is missing its idiot.


*L* I'd forgotten about that one!
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hamburger
 
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Reply Sat 21 Feb, 2004 02:08 pm
"it tastes like a postman's old sock " hbg
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