Caught me another one on this board...

Kay · Post by **Kay** » Wed May 14, 2008 6:32 am

You can take a horse to water but a pencil must be lead !

Post by **DonnaT** » Wed May 14, 2008 10:13 am

You've made your bed, now lay in it.

Carolynn · Post by **Carolynn** » Wed May 14, 2008 12:38 pm

"So whaddaya want, a Medal or a Chest to pin it on? Putting down a boaster.

I don't recall where this came from, but I think it was high school:

If her a-- really smelled as good as she thought, she might be worth dating.

The drunker I stand here the longer I get.

That little sh-- was so pie eyed he couldn't have hit the side of a barn with a shotgun from three feet away!!! (Very drunk)

My grandmother saying in reference to a skinny and young little gray squirrel my also young cousin had shot and brought to her to cook:

"That li'l ole' thing won't even make a grease spot in the skillet!!"

(Heard the same thing several times in SE Oklahoma where hunting is/was a way of life, mainly said by older people.)

Lori A · Post by **Lori A** » Wed May 14, 2008 12:56 pm

Speaking of small game, when we catch a small fish that should be thrown back we say it still has milk on it's lips

Kandis · Post by **Kandis** » Wed May 14, 2008 1:40 pm

"A few tacos shy of a combo plate"
"A few bricks shy of a load"
"More nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs"
"Busier than a one-legged man in a butt kicking contest"
"He's about as useful as boobs on a boar"
"You're making as much sense as screen doors on a submarine"

(Just to add a few)

Curly(SO) · Post by **Curly(SO)** » Thu May 15, 2008 2:12 am

Lori A wrote:Speaking of small game, when we catch a small fish that should be thrown back we say it still has milk on it's lips

That's cute

Curly(SO) · Post by **Curly(SO)** » Thu May 15, 2008 2:15 am

Kay wrote:You can take a horse to water but a pencil must be lead !

That reminds me, Kay....'No lead in your pencil!'......

Kay · Post by **Kay** » Thu May 15, 2008 2:20 am

CJ · Post by CJ » Thu May 15, 2008 5:31 am

-- Right now (and it's true), "it's raining enough to drink standing up."

-- Speaking of which, "I drank too much last night; I've got a wooden jaw." (hangover)

-- "He's as greasy as the bottom of a popcorn bag." (seductively manipulative, usually spoken of salespeople)

-- "His peepers are bigger than his paunch." (He's a glutton.)

-- Said to misbehaving children: "I'll let the Seven O'Clock Man take you away." This expression is a fascinating mistranslation of an English word. The French "Bonhomme Sept Heures" refers to a man who, in olden days before the advent of modern medicine, used to do house calls (often during the evening) to "fix" people who were ailing; this "fixing" was usually done through massage and quasi-chiropractic methods. While that much may be true, the man in question was never called the "Seven O'Clock Man," but rather the "Bonesetter"... a word that migrated phonetically into the French language as the "Bonhomme Sept Heures." Heh. I'm sure there's material for a horror movie in there, kiddies.

Love,
CJ

Lori A · Post by **Lori A** » Thu May 15, 2008 8:56 am

When speaking of snow and ice covered roads: It's slicker than greased owl S#!+, or slicker than snot on a door knob, (Europeans don't have round door knobs, so they can get a grip easier)

Carolynn · Post by **Carolynn** » Thu May 15, 2008 5:58 pm

Interesting CJ. How about, "You better be good or the Boogeyman will getcha'!!!

Think it could have had a similar source?

CJ · Post by CJ » Fri May 16, 2008 7:55 am

Hi all,

Carolynn,

You know, it just could be that the "Bonhomme Sept Heures" is a conflation of the Bonesetter's visits with various versions of Bogeyman tales. I checked Wikipedia (everyone's trusted source of infallibly reliable information) and it doesn't describe any real-world connection to tales of the Bogeyman the way that of the Bonesetter seems to be. But who knows? I'm thinking that, maybe, the bonesetters of old are the source of tales to frighten children (it cannot possibly be pleasant for a child to entertain the thought of having bones "cracked and set") in the same way that the midwives and herbalists of old are the source of tales that frighten adults (who considered them witches).

CJ

Curly(SO) · Post by **Curly(SO)** » Fri May 16, 2008 4:23 pm

CJ,

"His peepers are bigger than his paunch." (He's a glutton.)

We say "your eyes are bigger than your belly"!

Carolynn · Post by **Carolynn** » Sat May 17, 2008 12:03 pm

"Awww Hell. I shoulda stood to home!!"

(Stated in the late 1940s by a late middle age man (rancher near Apache, OK) who had walked to town in his Saturday night finery to still have a good time after his early '40s era "Fix Or Repair Daily" had a dead battery, then slipping down abruptly into very soupy mud as he approached a dance in an unpaved lot of a building, as most of them were at that time. I heard it from other older people in SE Oklahoma in the mid '70s, and my grandfather said it was common vernacular in the early 20th century.

Lot of explanation, but the expression of disgust with a day is still used with better English, "I should have stayed home (in bed or in the kitchen, whatever place they ordinarily were)".

Kerri · Post by **Kerri** » Fri May 23, 2008 2:50 pm

Hmmm,

If its good, that is really good -
"Its the dogs bollocks"

If it needs a bit shaving off to adjust it -
"Take off a gnats cock"

If your not very good or useful -
"Your about as useful as a chocolate teapot"

If its really rare -
"Its as rare as rocking horse manure" (oops did I swear?)

there must be more but I cant think of any

take care

Kerri