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BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2
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Subject: Favorite Sayings, adages, etc. part 2 From: CapriUni Date: 27 Jan 02 - 11:12 PM The first part, here, is now over 100 messages, so I figured it's start a new half. And for the most ambitious among us (the talented or the fearless) can we turn this into a song challege? Well, I'm gonna try, anyway! Write a song using as many of these sayings as you can.
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: Bert Date: 27 Jan 02 - 11:44 PM "Wish in one hand..." My Grandmother used to say that, she died in 1953. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: Jim Dixon Date: 28 Jan 02 - 01:16 AM See these related threads (listed according to date started, oldest first):
Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: Genie Date: 28 Jan 02 - 05:56 AM Before moving on to THE CONTINUATION THREAD (link above), a couple of comments on posts in this thread: GUEST,Russ, I believe it was Yogi Berra who (first) said, What is "ado" and why shouldn't there be any further of it? My great aunt used to say someone was "as nervous as a fart in a hot skillet." "It ain't over till it's over." Yogi Berra "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." (also Yogi Berra) Genie
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: Gareth Date: 28 Jan 02 - 06:30 PM Hmmm ! ???Mad Magazine???? "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide"
Sound more like stage cockney - or Essex TRS It is very foolish to bribe the police in counterfeit money. Gareth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: Gareth Date: 28 Jan 02 - 06:31 PM Hmmm ! ???Mad Magazine???? "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide"
Sound more like stage cockney - or Essex TRS It is very foolish to bribe the police in counterfeit money. Gareth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: CapriUni Date: 29 Jan 02 - 09:13 AM A saying that is made better by its context (Printed around the circumfrence of Pete Seeger's banjo head): "This machine surrounds hate, and forces it to surrender." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: Mr Red Date: 29 Jan 02 - 12:48 PM Don't forget Woody's slogan (I've seen it on photos as well) "This machine kills facists" - it was wartime, but it says enough. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: Skipper Jack Date: 29 Jan 02 - 05:56 PM Some sayings from my pa and grandpa. "That's about the middle and both ends of it!" "The point is - as far as it goes, But how far does it go? that is the point!" "All weighed, all paid!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: Gareth Date: 29 Jan 02 - 07:00 PM "Ah well, it's all part of lifes rich tapestry" Gareth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: mack/misophist Date: 29 Jan 02 - 07:01 PM The best one I know's from central Europe somewhere: An insult is a cup of poison, anyone can hand it to you but only you can drink it. I got that from a bohunk in Texas many years ago when there were still towns that only spoke German or Czech. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: CapriUni Date: 29 Jan 02 - 07:10 PM Ooh, Misophist! You're right -- that is a great one. Having seen how easily flamers and nasty trolls[*] can take over a newsgroup, I also think it's a great saying for cyber culture...
[*] as opposed to Pro-Fun Trolls who go from newsgroup to newsgroup spreading playful ideas, and inciting thoughtful commentary... or at least, we try ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: SINSULL Date: 09 Jul 02 - 07:59 PM I can't find tghe correct thread but a short time ago someone was looking for weather proverbs. For sale on Ebay: Weather Proverbs. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=892917746 Hope the right person finds this. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: khandu Date: 09 Jul 02 - 08:02 PM Dear old granddad often said, "Never trust anyone that ain't got a penis!" He said it, I didn't! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: SINSULL Date: 09 Jul 02 - 08:05 PM Did he mean men? What about trusting a woman who walks around with one in her pocket? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: Micca Date: 09 Jul 02 - 08:18 PM Gareth, do you know the origin of that quote,? hint, it is MUCH more modern than you think!!! and saying for the day " the more things change the more they remain the same" "thats the trouble with Nostalgia, its not what it was" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: khandu Date: 09 Jul 02 - 09:10 PM If I met a woman walking around with a penis in her pocket, I would never get near enough to have to trust her! khandu |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: GUEST,van lingle Date: 09 Jul 02 - 10:33 PM "Give me ambiguity or give me something else." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: Trevor Date: 10 Jul 02 - 06:13 AM 'Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine' 'No man is an island, but some men are from Canvey Island' |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: Brakn Date: 10 Jul 02 - 06:40 AM One from my mother regarding someone who couldn't keep a secret. "He couldn't hold his own piss" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: C-flat Date: 10 Jul 02 - 08:49 AM "Lean dogs for long hunts" "Put a beggar on horseback and watch him ride to hell" Both of these were favourites of an elderly relative, but I think his best was, "Never let your braces dangle in the shite" Queer old bugger, he was! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: mack/misophist Date: 10 Jul 02 - 11:19 AM Since the thread has come back to me, I'll add another: "Warum einfach wenn es auch geht compliziert"? or Why should anything be easy when it can ALL be screwed up? Please excuse the spelling. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: Nigel Parsons Date: 10 Jul 02 - 11:23 AM To Err is human, but to totally screw up needs a computer! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: beadie Date: 10 Jul 02 - 03:56 PM A wise old Master Sergeant was fond of saying, "One ivory tower at a time, young airman, one at a time." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: lady penelope Date: 10 Jul 02 - 04:24 PM LOL, Beadie, LOL. My maternal grandmother's " Ach your're neither sugar nor salt, you won't melt " should you complain about getting wet in any situation. From the same school, "Ach it's far aff your backside, you'll no sit on it " which was used almost indescrimintly, regardless of occasion. " May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits"
About as useful as.......
About as welcome as..... "He who lives by the pork sword, shall die by the pork sword" ( By Me! ) Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it. "Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life!" Tom Lehrer A bird in the hand usually craps on it. TTFN M'Lady P. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: Gray D Date: 10 Jul 02 - 07:28 PM Picking up one of Lady P's threadlets:- "About as welcome as a french kiss at a family reunion" Dave Sealey of Cosmotheka (from the great live album "A Good Turn Out") |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: Bill D Date: 10 Jul 02 - 09:23 PM "You don't wanta do too good of a job, folks will begin to expect it." Talkin' John- old carpenter (explaining to the boss why there were 1/2" gaps in the plywood risers he just built) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: Socorro Date: 10 Jul 02 - 10:23 PM All generalizations are false, including this one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: Mudlark Date: 11 Jul 02 - 03:20 AM My husband's classic ditherer's remark...I am definitely of two minds... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: fogie Date: 11 Jul 02 - 06:21 AM Opinion is divided. Your opinion ,and the rest of the world. (sort of derived from Blackadder) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: Micca Date: 11 Jul 02 - 06:28 AM " allez kunst ist umsunst wenn ein Engel in die zundloch brunnst!"( forgive spelling) trans " all skill is in vain when an angel pisses in the touchole of your musket" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: GUEST,Brian Date: 11 Jul 02 - 06:57 AM Statistically it has been proven that 50% of all statistics are rubbish. And from an old work colleague (now retired):- That's the trouble with common sense, it ain't so f***ing common! Brian
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: rube1 Date: 11 Jul 02 - 07:09 AM This is where we separate the deadbeats from the ne'er do wells. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: GUEST,fred Date: 11 Jul 02 - 10:33 AM My grandmother--Come on out from back down up in under there. (She has a way with prepositions.) My other grandmother used to talk about ne'er do wells who went around "drinkin and swarpin," but my mother couldn't tell me what "swarpin" was. I need to know, hope to preserve the lost art of swarpin. Because, as Mae West said "whenever I have to choose between two evils, I take the one I haven't tried yet." A good man is hard to define. To each his own, or it's equivalent. Conceptual artist Jenny Holtzer had a bunch of sayings on posters and things, and I once won a bet that I could re-arrange them into better, truer, sayings. A few mixed sayings were "sex differences are nothing to be proud of" and "the land is living on borrowed time". Yesterday someone asked about the phrase "spooning" and my friend John told him it just meant snuggling front to back. Later I explained that that's what we told John, because he's a little young yet, but spooning is actually... well, think of the dirtiest thing you can. It's still a little dirtier than that. I'm afraid it actually involves a spoon. But don't tell John. I like to tell my kids warped versions of sayings so that they will hate me for it later. My daughter wonders why I work at night, I tell her "because Rome wasn't built in the day". fred |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: Mr Red Date: 11 Jul 02 - 10:53 AM Micca nostalgia ---- but it will be one day. plus ca change |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 11 Jul 02 - 01:11 PM "It's a poor workman who blames his tools." Someone says, "Take it easy." I say, "I'll take it any way I can get it!" Someone says: "How goes it?" I say, "It doesn't go; ya gotta push it!" (A whole philosophy of life there, if you think about it.) Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: The Walrus at work Date: 12 Jul 02 - 08:49 AM "Reality is for those that can't take fantasy" W |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Sayings, part 2 From: EBarnacle1 Date: 12 Jul 02 - 10:51 AM From our childhood,one for the "As usesless as" file: A screendoor on a submarine. Very handy for avoiding road rage: My gonads are between my thighs, not my ears. Generally, I can bring myself to a full stop when I think: "I've half a mind..." |