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Offline welliwont

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Re: Funny expressions we use......
« Reply #30 on: December 30, 2006, 12:19:58 pm »
I like using funny expressions, and here are just a few that I use:

"oh, take a pill"  (chill out)

"I'd rather chew glass"  - pretty self-explanatory

"are you thick?" (are you a dunderhead?)

lame-o

I have more, but I cannot dredge them up at the moment.  I really like the expressions from Yorkshire, Scotland, Victorian England...   ;D


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ok, here are two more:

"What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?"

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"He has a problem with his elbow."

(means he has a drinking problem.  I came across this expression exactly one time in my life, it was in a book written by a Maritimer [a person from one of the Maritime provinces in Canada: New Brunswick in this case.]  He explained that it was a Maritimes expression.)
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Re: Funny expressions we use......
« Reply #31 on: December 31, 2006, 02:39:02 am »
Holy Shit, thats a lot of discussion over one word.......!!

Oops, sorry  :-\  I'll just quote the link next time. No more cutting and pasting for me - I promise  ::)
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Re: Funny expressions we use......
« Reply #32 on: December 31, 2006, 11:15:59 am »
No thats fine Kerry, you cut and paste all you like....saves us having to click on the link anyway..........
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Re: Funny expressions we use......
« Reply #33 on: December 31, 2006, 12:30:27 pm »
I posted just a few of the funny expressions from The Virginian, a book about turn-of-the-century Wyoming, here:

http://72.232.132.224/forum/index.php/topic,6809.msg135188.html#msg135188
"chewing gum and duct tape"

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Re: Funny expressions we use......
« Reply #34 on: December 31, 2006, 10:34:07 pm »
Just clicked on that quote......wow......that is so funny, and such a descriptive way of calling someone a "smart arse, know it all"..............
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Re: Funny expressions we use......
« Reply #35 on: January 16, 2007, 02:10:35 am »

"Is the Pope, Catholic?"
"Does a bear shit in the woods?"
It's fun to switch those:
Is a bear Catholic?
Does the ...

I like "He's camp* as a row of army tents"
*(swishily gay)
because you can also say
"He's as straight as row of army tents."
so you never have to think about which one to use.

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Re: Funny expressions we use......
« Reply #36 on: January 16, 2007, 02:48:30 am »
Kerry told me a really cute one popular in Australia. He said it in a pm to me a few weeks ago, and I don't have it anymore.

It was something about pissing in a brewery.

Kerry, what was that? Can you tell everyone, because it was really funny.  :)
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Re: Funny expressions we use......
« Reply #37 on: January 16, 2007, 06:31:11 am »
I think what Kerry might have said was, "couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery"...

"piss-up" meaning a "drinking party"......

another one similar that we use, is "couldn't organise a fuck in a brothel"..........
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Re: Funny expressions we use......
« Reply #38 on: January 17, 2007, 10:29:20 pm »
I think what Kerry might have said was, "couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery"...

"piss-up" meaning a "drinking party"......

another one similar that we use, is "couldn't organise a fuck in a brothel"..........

LOL!

That's it! That's exactly how he said it too.

I also love the "brothel" one!

Thanks Sue!  :)
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Re: Funny expressions we use......
« Reply #39 on: January 24, 2007, 03:28:38 am »


     how about someone that is unable to hit the broad side of a barn,,,,,,,as jack shooting at the coyote..

     or someone that is a fumblefingers,,....couldnt find their ass with both hands



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