yeah - and the goddamn rabbits have been pretty damn rough, too....
shot duck
dagmaraka wrote:As the clever Slovaks say: "The shot duck will quack!"
Why do the Slovaks say that, dagmaraka? Is it clever? Am I missing something? It sounds to me like loony proverbs of the world!!
Not if it is bloody well dead it won't....
He who quacks last.......................
Stop it! I'll quack under the pressure....
She sang like a duck...
.........has no one to tell him to shut up
Unlike in this situation.....
Think I'll settle down to my morning quackers and milk - and, they don't have to be dead either........
or, I could make that coneys and chili ----------------- a brace would do
I shall make sure your bum is burned mightily upon the egress of the chili con coney if you do...
The 'quacking shot duck' I believe would be a person who speaks first accusing others of things of which he himself is quilty. Or the one who answers a question without a specific addressee. If you, say, have a classroom full of freshmen and you, the teacher, ask :Who the hell put the plastic poop on my chair?!?! Todd will first reply: I didnt't do it!!!! Then you know he did and he is the shot duck. Phew.
That's why it is the saying of the clever Slovaks, the rest of us Slovaks only guess as to what the hell they mean in their proverbs.
Still better then the happy goat proverb, but let's not even go there...
I'm all teeth, how 'bout them goats; if we can't hash it out here, there are no other good forums
Ok, let me run this past you guys...
A few weeks ago, I once again heard the disagreeable expression, "I'm going to give it 110%". I've forgotten now who said it, but obviously it was either a politician, a soldier, or a footballer.
The expression is disagreeable not merely because of that disagreeable-by-definition triad of common users, but because, I was thinking, that there may be NO instance of someone actually giving 100 per cent plus another 10 on top. But I realized there is one. Only one.
A fellow, crisp suit and tie, is sitting at his laptop in his large downtown office. Lush place...perhaps a Monet or two on the walls. Behind him, a large glass wall looking out onto other office buildings. We estimate this is up high, perhaps forty stories or so. As he shuffles a few papers across the large shiny mahogany desk, we notice, through the large glass window/wall, another man falling past...and that man is flapping his arms.
Now, that second man is giving it 110%. It's the only instance of its kind.
Charming tale, that, Mr. Pondquility. One would have to be leary of such a companion--were he pulling your leg, his motives might not be entirely humorous. You wouldn't want to offer him a hand. Were he to say he'd love to have you for dinner, you'd be best advised to decline. I wouldn't wanna chew the fat with that guy. I've run out of bad jokes . . .
BillW, suffice it to say that every Slovak's excitement is ruffled when somebody tells him/her: Don't get too excited, you know what happened to the happy goat!!!
(The happy goat, as we all know, was soooo happy it couldn't contain itself and decided to dance on ice. Thus she broke her neck and died.)
Dag, thanks for saving my cow. I owe you.
blatham, I've always found that "110%" usage was a big joke, then yesterday I heard someone say they would give 1000%. I have to say, what have you been doing for me all this time
Thanks dag, I won't kid myself anymore
gustavratzenhofer wrote:Dag, thanks for saving my cow. I owe you.
Yeah, you owe him a truck-load of garlic, a tanker-load of holy water and a stake the size of a fence-post.
Gus, that Romanian 'throat-milcher' is gonna turn you and your family into something a bit like Michael Jackson and a lot like Anne Coulter!!
You can give 110% - and more - when it is money.
There was a fella here whose land tax went up by 900% in one year. He's giving 900% - he'd rather not, though....
910% of an average load of garlick coming your way, gus!
