dlowan wrote:You dirty, dirty birdie!!!
Take that back - or I shall slap your face!!
That is INNUENDO!
... said the winking bunny with the cigarette in her own mouth. Now
that's innuendo!
My mouth is not my end - and I do not smoke.
It is a prop.
Yeah, I know whatcha mean, Bunny Wabbit . . . cigarettes are a crutch for me, too . . .
Jeez - I'm off the air for a cuppla days, and this thread has gone to hell in a handbasket! Innuendo, smut, cigars, SlickWilly....what happeend to the lofty standards of the beginning of the thread! It's enough to send me back to the quacks!
G'day all!
"gone to hell in a handbasket"... i know it's an expression. but WHY, WHY, WHY handbasket? what the hell (without a handbasket)?
It may've originally been handcart. I've a-heard that one, too.
Now, I just put "handcart" into Google, and got a whole lot of Mormon stuff. Connection?
Dag and Thomas look awfully out of place on this page . . . mebbe they need to get themselves some animal avatars . . . humans look so . . . ungainly . . .
I'm jes sayin' that standards have slipped while I wasn't watching.....but it's good to see Setanta about!
Hmmm - Margo is correct.
Time for the fire extinguisher.
Mormons? Frankly I am not surprised.
dagmaraka wrote:"gone to hell in a handbasket"... i know it's an expression. but WHY, WHY, WHY handbasket? what the hell (without a handbasket)?
I believe the expression comes from one Lady Helena Handbasket, a Brit woman of noble birth but the details are fuzzy.
Perhaps Ellpus has a better recollection than I .
I think "going to hell in a handbasket" is just one of those intentionally non sequitur absurd expressions that someone uttered once in a moment of inspiration, it gor picked up by those who overheard it, reused, etc. etc. etc. I once knew a woman whose favorite exclamatory curse was, "Oh, Jesus Christ on a biscuit tin!" Made no sense, but it was funny.
What's a handbasket, anyway?
Why would you put a basket around your hand?
Christ on a pogo stick, Mr. Wizard, i think he's got something there . . .
A handbasket is to the thoracic limb what a footlocker is to the pelvic limb.
dlowan wrote:What's a handbasket, anyway?
Why would you put a basket around your hand?
One carries a handbasket in one's hand. It's a widdle iddy-biddy thingy. Set, the JC on a biscuit tin lady was Canajun, btw. Maybe that explains everything.
Do you have Prince Albert in a can?
No. That would be inhumane. He's in a jar.
