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Offline OldZaskar

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Re: Colloquialisms
« Reply #75 on: May 06, 2019, 02:42:23 PM »
"That's going to have to improve quite a bit to suck."
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Re: Colloquialisms
« Reply #76 on: May 06, 2019, 03:04:27 PM »
the force is not strong within me today
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Re: Colloquialisms
« Reply #77 on: May 06, 2019, 04:18:37 PM »
"Y'all kin say whut y'all want about the South, but y'all never heard o' nobody retirin' an' movin' North".

So true...
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Re: Colloquialisms
« Reply #78 on: May 06, 2019, 09:57:40 PM »
"Y'all kin say whut y'all want about the South, but y'all never heard o' nobody retirin' an' movin' North".

So true...

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Offline Don R

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Re: Colloquialisms
« Reply #79 on: May 06, 2019, 10:36:57 PM »
 I moved from the north side of east south st to the south side of west north st. See how far I've come?
No matter how many times you paint over a shadow, it's still there.
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Offline Marks78

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Re: Colloquialisms
« Reply #80 on: May 07, 2019, 05:50:21 AM »
Some of grammas' favorites --
"...doesn't have enough sense to pour piss out of a boot"
"...doesn't have enough sense to pound sand in a rat hole"
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Re: Colloquialisms
« Reply #81 on: May 07, 2019, 10:28:39 AM »
Some of grammas' favorites --
"...doesn't have enough sense to pour piss out of a boot"
"...doesn't have enough sense to pound sand in a rat hole"

These remind me of my gramma. ;D
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Re: Colloquialisms
« Reply #82 on: May 08, 2019, 11:54:54 AM »
One of my dads favorites was " your ass sucks buttermilk too!"  A long way to say BS!
"Wish in one hand and sh1t in the other, then tell me which fills up first"
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Re: Colloquialisms
« Reply #83 on: May 08, 2019, 12:41:00 PM »
My dad use to say"go pound salt in your ass"
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Re: Colloquialisms
« Reply #84 on: May 16, 2019, 12:58:56 AM »
As flat as a pooh carters hat.
 Or for someone looking very seedy and hungover, "You look like a mad woman's breakfast"
To describe a dainty looking fellow, " I reckon he has got a bit of corn stuck in the Jap eye"
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Re: Colloquialisms
« Reply #85 on: May 16, 2019, 06:04:06 PM »
all over the place like a mad womans sh1t
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Re: Colloquialisms
« Reply #86 on: May 17, 2019, 06:16:02 AM »
She had teeth like the ten commandments.........
All broken.

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Re: Colloquialisms
« Reply #87 on: May 22, 2019, 04:08:57 PM »
"I'm as busy as a one-armed wallpaper hanger!"
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Re: Colloquialisms
« Reply #88 on: May 23, 2019, 02:54:09 PM »
Roses contribution:

You're an idiot/Talking BullS#!T - "I can hear your brain rattlin' around like a BB in a boxcar"

follow up to first - "Empty Cans rattle the loudest"

"you're as useful as a handbrake in a canoe"

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Re: Colloquialisms
« Reply #89 on: May 29, 2019, 04:41:34 AM »
Slower than molasses on a flat rock in the winter. Something my grandpa used to say.

our local version...…..."Slower than molasses flowing up steps"
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Re: Colloquialisms
« Reply #90 on: May 31, 2019, 06:50:33 AM »
Just okay - "Good enough for the whores I run with".

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Re: Colloquialisms
« Reply #91 on: May 31, 2019, 02:45:40 PM »
at work - "any slower and we'd be putting sh1t back on the shelves"
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Re: Colloquialisms
« Reply #92 on: June 01, 2019, 03:58:24 AM »
referring  to people  who can't do the job " He can't hit his ass with both hands"
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Re: Colloquialisms
« Reply #93 on: June 01, 2019, 10:44:28 AM »
Sargent, waking the troops for a 20k pre-dawn march:

Drop your cocks and grab your socks!
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Offline Marks78

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Re: Colloquialisms
« Reply #94 on: June 03, 2019, 06:43:57 AM »
Dad used to say someone or something that was moving fast (typically out of fear) was...running like a stripedy assed ape...
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