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Old 11-14-2005, 09:12 PM   #151
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"guess why"

"chicken thigh"

i don't know either, BigV.

"guess how"

"up a cow"


ewwww.
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Old 11-14-2005, 09:28 PM   #152
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And Ian Fleming having a bit of fun with a phrase, shouted from offstage, as it were, in the background of a James Bond novel that has Bond taking the cure in a spa that gave plenty of enemas: "See you later, Irrigator!"

Well, it was racy about nineteen-sixty.
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Old 11-16-2005, 10:50 AM   #153
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"In the US we say "happy as a clam". In Mexico it's "happy as a worm."

In the UK, we say Happy as Larry or I have even heard ( though a little archaic) "Happy as a sandboy"
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Old 11-16-2005, 11:16 AM   #154
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In Mexico it's "happy as a worm."
so would you be -- if you spent your life in a bottle of Mezcal:

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Old 11-16-2005, 12:05 PM   #155
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"Avoir la gueule de bois" : "to have a wood face" : to be sick after being drunk

"Appuyer sur le champignon" : "to push the mushroom" : to accelerate

"être haut comme trois pommes" : "to be high as 3 apples" : to be small

"se creuser la tête" : "to dig one's head" : to think

"se mettre le doigt dans l'oeil" : "to put one's finger in the eye" : to be wrong / make a mistake

"tomber dans les pommes" : "to fall in the apples" : to blank out

"poser un lapin" : "to put a rabbit" : to miss a rendez-vous

"avoir un coup de foudre" : "to feel a lightning" : to love at first sight
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Old 11-16-2005, 02:14 PM   #156
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One of my grandmother's (and therefore exceedingly old):

'In and out like a fart in a cullender'

Similar for a fussily busy person:

'Up and down like a yo-yo'
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Old 11-16-2005, 04:26 PM   #157
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'In and out like a fart in a cullender'
Is that typo or a difference in spelling from the american "colander"? Just wondering...
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Old 11-16-2005, 05:07 PM   #158
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Is that typo or a difference in spelling from the american "colander"? Just wondering...
Well, I must admit that I spelled it that way, thought it looked all right, but wasn't 100% sure so checked on the internet and was told that it was an OK spelling (but so was colander.....). The strain is telling on us both!!
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Old 11-16-2005, 09:00 PM   #159
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snip... The strain is telling on us both!!
OH! The humanity!

I love in and out like a fart in a colander. I can't wait to use it!
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Old 11-17-2005, 04:41 AM   #160
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Once we'd reached our teens my parents didn't watch their mouths quite as closely. The following were brought to mind by the up & down phrase & I think you can work out the subsequent theme:

Up & down like a whore's knickers
A whore's breakfast - alcohol before midday
A whore's bath - washing pits & bits in the sink
Like a whore at a christening - surprisingly decorous behaviour
Smells like a tart's boudoir - usually used about men wearing any scent but Brut for Men
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Old 11-17-2005, 10:17 AM   #161
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Old 11-17-2005, 10:21 AM   #162
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Old 11-17-2005, 12:05 PM   #163
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Dead to rights.

Anyone know the origin of this?
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Old 11-18-2005, 01:46 AM   #164
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Exactly where or what is the "get-go?"
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Old 11-18-2005, 06:57 AM   #165
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I think its the same thing as "right off the bat"
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