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that's harder than pokin' a raw oyster in a parkin' meter

Jasperfield

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Woodcarver

A variant on the snake theme: so low he would have to climb a ladder to tickle a snake's belly.
Just an old dog learning new tricks.......Woodcarver

beenthere

Quote from: Jasperfield on November 11, 2008, 11:21:45 PM
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Remember Jeff's policy...if it can't be said in his living room, it doesn't belong in his Forum. 
(If'n I'm hearing your question right).
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Radar67

"What's on the spit?"

It originated from the early to mid 1800s, used to ask what was cooking on the open fire. It is now used to ask what do you have planned or what are you going to be doing?
"A man's time is the most valuable gift he can give another." TOM

If he can cling to his Blackberry, I can cling to my guns... Me

This will kill you, that will kill you, heck...life will kill you, but you got to live it!

"The man who can comprehend the why, can create the how." SFC J

DanG

"Packed like sardines."

note:  Maybe this one belongs in the Defunct Sayings thread.  I just opened a can of sardines, and it didn't seem crowded in there at all. :-\
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

Tim L

My grandfather used to say "better than a peck on the head with a sharp stone " if I said what do you think ?
Do the best you can and don't look back

nas

Quote from: DanG on November 12, 2008, 01:14:24 PM
"Packed like sardines."

note:  Maybe this one belongs in the Defunct Sayings thread.  I just opened a can of sardines, and it didn't seem crowded in there at all. :-\
"Opening a can of sardines, or worms" If you say something that gets everyone "Hot and bothered"
Better to sit in silence and have everyone think me a fool, than to open my mouth and remove all doubt - Napoleon.

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timberfaller390

It was more fun than a train wreck.
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brdmkr

Gooder than snuff and not near as dusty.

I was better, but I got over it.

Finer than a frog's hair split four ways.

Slicker than owl poop on a tin roof.

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Radar67

I'm sorry, but you're wrong. The Shinola's the other one.
"A man's time is the most valuable gift he can give another." TOM

If he can cling to his Blackberry, I can cling to my guns... Me

This will kill you, that will kill you, heck...life will kill you, but you got to live it!

"The man who can comprehend the why, can create the how." SFC J

Toolman

Grandpa used to say to door to door salesmen, "I'm so poor, I can't even pay attention"

When he had so much sawing business lined up that he could'nt find time to fish "I'll still take feast over famine"

My personal favorite, his name for watermelon "pith pumpkin"
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have" (Thomas Jefferson)

timberfaller390

"Handy as a handle on a water melon" and a friend of mine uses this sometimes "That idea is like windshield wipers on a billy goat's butt, niether one would work"
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zopi

raining like a cow peeing on a flat rock off a forty foot bluff...
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Meadows Miller

Gday
heres a few to do with speed

He's going like a cut snake

He's going like a cat on a hot tin roof

I sitting on a Dollar ,100kph. dollar 10 ,110kph only came in in the 60s

Ausse measurement

I got it within a Bees d#@k = Dang near close to perfect

Its within a poffteenth = 10 bees d@#$

Its within a Bulls roar = within 100 bees things or 10 poffteenths

Going out past the black stump  .a real place out past the back of Bourke in other words going a long way as bourke is about 800 miles noth west of my home town

and

Its cold enough to freez the b@#$s of a brass monkey


Ive got more but some of them arnt appropriate here as i think im pushing it with the bees one .just let me know if i have Jeff  ;)

reguards Chris





4TH Generation Timbergetter

Tom

Some of those Australian sayings almost need to be explained.  Y'all sure do talk funny.  :D :D

Mr Mom

When we would get in trouble and my dad was at work my mom would say" the calm before the storm" thats when we knew dad was pulling in the driveway and we beter run for cover.


Thanks Alot Mr Mom

Polly

   :)  y ou have to learn to hoe your own roe  other words solve your own problems          you made your bed now you have to lay in it meaning you made a decision now stick to itl            you all ant making no money reading stuf i wrote :D :D 8)                                     

Meadows Miller

Gday

Yeah Tom the way we do things and our sence of humor and some of our sayings need explaning sometimes . sometimes people think where taking the pi$$ outa them when were only joking around with them  ::) ;) :D Aussies are pretty dang sacastic Mob at times tho dang it all the time  ;)  :D :D ;D

Heres one Dad uses on me all the time !
You put the cart before the horse all the time.
He gets a reply that ive allways prefered rear wheel drives or havent you seen a horsencart back up a hill  ;) :D :D :D ;D 

OR
Paddling your own cannoe .in other words doing it on your own

Chris
4TH Generation Timbergetter

DanG

"Dead as a doornail," is something I've always heard.  Being one with a sharp and analytical mind, I've always wondered why a doornail is any deader than any other kind of nail, except a'course, those that jump out in front of your sawblade. ::)
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

Woodcarver

Speaking of canoes, 'up a creek without a paddle'.
Just an old dog learning new tricks.......Woodcarver

Tom

Dead'rn a doornail has an explanation.   I read that the saying came from clinching the old cut nails over to keep them from being extracted and the door falling apart.  The instance was given of "Z" doors and the panel boards nailed to the "Z" and then bent over in the back .  Bending the nail caused it to be "dead".

Polly

 8) 8)   a friend of mine from esstern ky when you ask him how he was would say   he never felt better when he had less i dont know exactly how to translate this you people have a good you ant making no money talking to me  :D :D 8)

Jim_Rogers

Quote from: Tom on November 17, 2008, 12:20:32 AM
Dead'rn a doornail has an explanation.   I read that the saying came from clinching the old cut nails over to keep them from being extracted and the door falling apart.  The instance was given of "Z" doors and the panel boards nailed to the "Z" and then bent over in the back .  Bending the nail caused it to be "dead".

Recently I saw a door in a bathroom that had/has some door nails that Tom has mentioned.



 

Above you can see the tips of the nails has been bent over as the nails were longer than the two pieces of wood that they were going through.

And to further the explanation of the saying "dead as a door nail".
The house where the nails were used would/could burn down. Then several days later the person owning the home/house would find in the ashes of the house all the nails that were in it. They would want to use them again as they were hand made by a blacksmith and usually were very strong and could survive the fire.
Trying to use a door nail, that was bent over, was a challenge. The owner would try and bend the point out straight so that they could use it. It would normally break off. Then the nail would not have a nice long point. And using such a nail would/could split the piece of wood you're trying to use. This meant that the nail was dead, as it could not be used.
So something that didn't work as it was supposed to work was said to be "dead as a door nail".....

Jim Rogers
Whatever you do, have fun doing it!
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