I am inspired to try the soup cheer. But it may lead to the soup boo.

Or the soup WAAAAAAAVE

as clear as mud in a beer bottle

dunno if this has been posted but

GOING OFF LIKE A FROG IN A SOCK

i just like it

"Gene's Beans, they're good for your heart
The more you eat 'em, the more you fart
The more you fart, the better you feel
So eat Gene's Beans with every meal!"

Beans beans the magical fruit,
The more you eat the more you toot,
The more you eat the better you feel,
So eat your beans with every meal!

[semi hijack]

Funny bumpersticker this morning:

Have You Flogged Your Crew Today?

[/hehe]

My tonsils are floating. (hint to friends when you need to take a wizz).

I never heard that as tonsils. Always "back teeth". Perhap this is because I am from the generation that mostly had their tonsils yanked at the first signs of infection?

I still have mine, incidentally. One of the lucky few. I didn't want the ice cream that badly.

Now, when one's tonsils (or back teeth) are floating ... why do you have to see a man about a horse?

i, too, have often wondered that. It's a saying common amongst my more rustic companions.

ps-to my thinking--the more rustic, the better!

The only reason I can come up with is that placing bets on horses in public places used to be illegal (still is?) when this saying developed. It's just a way for a man to say he's off to do something private for a few minutes (could be followed by 'I'll be back in a couple of shakes'* which might gve the game away (shaking being a required finishing action!)- can't see a macho man using the 'I'm off to spend a penny' alternative. Horse racing's for men, men do manly things...!

* think the full saying was: 'I'll be back in a couple of shakes of a donkey's tail' (before you ask, no I don't, except it's something that doesn't take long to do....)

Two shakes of a lambs tale. ;)

I'm more familiar with "going to see a man about a dog", although that also fits in with Cyclefrance's betting theory.

A South African friend of mine used to say "That went down with hooks on" if he hadn't particularly enjoyed something to eat or drink (usually the first pint after a hangover...)

I wonder if there's a loose connection with the fact that the dogs (greyhounds ) start off by being put into a line of stalls.....(and horses too, these days, although I think when this saying first started they used to line up behind a tape that was raised...)

"Guess what?"

"Chicken butt!"


Don't ask. Or, ask all you want. I have *no idea* how/where that one came from.