"Get your ducks in a row."

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Oh for cryin out loud a Harley on ice, duh. Should have known that since every boomer in the world just has to have one these days.

absolutely, not, JB...If I get anywhere near UVA, they'll only ask for a donation, and send me an application for UVA plastic money, and a Thomas Jefferson catalogue. Hey, I got my sheepskin. I refer to it as my Dolly--no, not Salvador...(backs off sheepishly in a corner and sucks thumb)

Hey, Joanne. You gotta get with it if you're gonna make the Daytona 500. I've been informed that ain't no terrorist gonna give a plug of tobacco about the race car rednecks

Nah they better not mess with the crackers or should that be quackers?

Duck! Those damn gulls are headed this way.

Letty,
I'm still here reading all the interesting comments and the change to independent as a hog on ice. My take on that is that a hog on ice would be helpess with legs splayed and unable to get up. So the expression is sarcastic.

Perhaps, we could get a thread going on regional expressions.

Thanks, Billy,

But one never knows about idioms and such. I still remember your post on Abuzz concerning the plane that returned with gaping holes. That was such a delight. Why? Cause I knew the answer.

But, I also realize that limericks have a certain pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables...

You're sharp, Billy.

Used commonly in carnivals.