Friday OT - In Your Wheelhouse
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- Cold as a well digger’s ass (my grandpa would say this and I’d laugh every time)
- Good enough for the girls I date (many in the friend group said this in high school/college and it was meant more to make fun of yourself than anything)
- Honeymoon fit (learned this working construction in high school/college and was used when things were slightly too tight to fit without extra effort…)
- You’re dumb as a mule and twice as ugly (great line from the Simpsons)
Those are all good ones that I have also used during my engineering career. Along with several movie quotes:
"So I have that going for me" - Caddyshack
"1.21 Gigawatts!" - Back to the Future
"Well all right then, I'm with you fellas" - O' Brother Where Art Thou
…Does the last one imply someone is trying to screw a bull? Or that they are just looking at them a lot?
When discussing marriage/relationships "two can live as cheap as one, but only for half as long"
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I remember Slim Pickens using it is a movie or two but don't know remember which.That was popular on ISU campus in mid 80's . . . .
Johnny used it a lot!
Quotes from movies heard frequently around our house:
Yer gonna need a bigger (boat, car, suitcase, whatever): for obvious reasons
That's my current plan, yes... : in response to do you REALLY want to do that?
Saddle up, we're burning daylight! : get your arse moving
Look, spaghetti arms - this is my dance space, this is YOUR dance space: when he's being annoying and crowding me.
I'm walking here! : when he gets in my way...
Yer gonna need a bigger (boat, car, suitcase, whatever): for obvious reasons
That's my current plan, yes... : in response to do you REALLY want to do that?
Saddle up, we're burning daylight! : get your arse moving
Look, spaghetti arms - this is my dance space, this is YOUR dance space: when he's being annoying and crowding me.
I'm walking here! : when he gets in my way...
In the “ heard around our house” category, anytime someone says “Oh, you’re right “ my reply is “I get so tired of hearing that!”
So much so that my sister got me this hat:
So much so that my sister got me this hat:
I got that one from Dad but we use "Hitch in his giddyup" and usually referring to a person.
Our version of cattywampus is "kittywompus". We also say "kitty-corner" for the opposite corner of an intersection.
"A month of Sundays" - a long time past or future.
"A coon's age" - a long time in the past since something happened.
"More nervous than a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs."
"Like a cat on a hot tin roof." - jumpy
"full of piss and vinegar." - gung ho about something; strong and willing.
"Colder than a witch's tit."
"Slicker than snot on a brass door knob." - Something that unexpectedly works really well.
"Slower than molasses in January." - really slow, usually a person.
"To hell in a handbasket." - Something that went irretrievably badly. I will sometimes refer to this when things are starting to go wrong by asking "Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?"
"Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln? - When everything that possibly could go wrong does.
"A fur piece." - A long way, usually in jest.
"The funny farm" - mental institution
"Bubble gum and bailing wire" - precariously cobbled together; a farmer's quick repair to just get the job done; something that has been repaired long past its usable life span.
"As useful as tits on a boar." - a person worthless for the job at hand or worthless altogether; incompetent
I think it just means - something specifically super masculine that would never allow that. So, sorta.
How are herding cats different from other cats?Nossir. It's a noun phrase. Used like a noun, it walks and talks like a noun. Here it is the subject:
Herding cats is my favorite hobby.
and here it is the direct object:
I adore herding cats.
