Stupid Sayings

good ones shiver ...we had a thread a while back...but you've got some new ones.

groan if you've heard

Busier than a dog with two dicks

Couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the directions were on the heel

Hotter than a jackrabbit in a wool sock on a Texas tin roof.

busier than a one armed paper hanger

"Hey y'all, watch this"

we have a winner

Ooh, that's an oldie! I remember my grandfather used to say that!

Ballin' the jack.

actually you could pair that up with

"how hard could it be, i've seen it done lot's of times before"

dj - same thing, different accent.

true

What's the last thing a redneck says?

panzade, exactly.

when a task seems to big to take on and finish
" It's like pissing in the wind"

Hmmm does this have anything to do with "snapping the carrot" ?
choking the chicken ?

Opps maybe that's another post

Useless as tits on a hog

funny we say as useless as tits on a bull.

and speaking of tits
"colder than a witches tit"

My dad says, "useless as tits on a warthog".

Have we covered "**** or get off the pot"?

Go piss up a rope.

Your ass sucks buttermilk. (I love that one)

Are these well-known, or is it just my family that says stuff like that?

Oh, and Don, "ballin' the jack" actually means to be working hard and fast to get something done. I think it has to do with railroad workers way back when.

pretty close Kicky...it means I'm catching up to you on total posts...



The phrase ball the jack was popularized in 1913 by a ragtime song by Jim Burris and Chris Smith called "Ballin' the Jack." This well-known song introduced a dance step of the same name that was the subject of the song, so one sense of ball the jack was 'to perform (the dance step introduced in the song)'.

The usual sense of the expression, though, is 'to go fast; make haste', and this is often used in reference to railroad trains. This train-related use seems not to be the origin, however; jack 'a railroad locomotive' isn't found outside this phrase until later. (The phrase is verbal, which is why I said that it doesn't mean 'with great haste', but rather 'to do something with great haste'.) A slightly different sense is 'to work hard and efficiently'.

The ragtime song was published in 1913, and the phrase is not attested earlier. It is unknown whether the song actually coined the phrase or merely popularized an already existing one. Both the 'go fast' and the 'work hard' senses were common by the end of the 1910s.