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Old 08-15-2008, 04:43 AM   #271
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Old 08-15-2008, 06:11 AM   #272
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I've always liked, "He's a few fries short of a Happy Meal."
I always liked "The wheel is spinning but the hamster's dead"
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Old 08-15-2008, 06:17 AM   #273
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Here's 2 Star Trek Colloquialisms:

"His body transported, but his head's still in the buffer."

"His turbolift doesn't quite reach the bridge."
Ooooh, lovely!
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Old 08-15-2008, 06:22 AM   #274
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In Dutch we have the lovely expression: "te dom om te poepen" which translates as "too stupid to take a sh*t". I like that.
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Old 08-15-2008, 07:16 AM   #275
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In Dutch we have the lovely expression: "te dom om te poepen" which translates as "too stupid to take a sh*t". I like that.
that's *really* stupid.
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Old 08-15-2008, 09:38 AM   #276
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Old 08-15-2008, 10:07 AM   #277
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Old 08-15-2008, 10:42 AM   #278
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Old 08-15-2008, 10:44 AM   #279
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This is one of those wanta wanta wanta! things.
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Old 08-15-2008, 10:48 AM   #280
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Old 08-15-2008, 10:56 AM   #281
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This is one of those wanta wanta wanta! things.
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Old 09-11-2008, 02:08 AM   #282
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-- That's not worth the match to burn it.

-- Running like a top. (usually describes some mechanical device, most often a car)

-- Standing around with their teeth in their mouths. (not doing anything when they should be)

-- Rare as hen's teeth.

-- My tired (pronounced "tarred") hurts. (I'm so weary that it's actually painful)

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Old 09-11-2008, 04:52 AM   #283
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Antarctica once was Australia, or vice-versa
That's not even vaguely true. Gondwana split to form a bunch of little continents, including Australia and Antarctica. Unless you count the very hairy idea that some of the sedimentary rock making up each continent possibly came from rock that now forms the other, and even that's dubious IMO.

Of course, I once was Moses by exactly the same reasoning...
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Old 09-11-2008, 05:17 AM   #284
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That's not even vaguely true. Gondwana split to form a bunch of little continents, including Australia and Antarctica. Unless you count the very hairy idea that some of the sedimentary rock making up each continent possibly came from rock that now forms the other, and even that's dubious IMO.

Of course, I once was Moses by exactly the same reasoning...
Wow, moz. Way to take some of my self-consciously "unutterably silly" reasoning that by presence in this thread was already and self-consciously stretched to that of your last sentence, take it out of that context and turn it in a prompt for an officious rebuttal and "correction". I suggest you look up a few of my posts, so that you can tell me how gibbons can't be invisible and how I cannot hold Parties backwards in time. Thanks for enlightening me and the rest of the masses though - I'll put you in my contacts list as someone to get in touch with next time I have a question about tectonics but have somehow become completely incapable of Googling.
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Old 09-11-2008, 05:34 AM   #285
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I've not noticed any 'A useful as...' colloquialisms yet. May I add...

As useful as a chocolate teapot

...and...

As useful as a condom machine in the Vatican

And also (the blackadder version of) Sir Arthur Wellesley once said

Give 'em and inch and they'll take a foot, any more than that and you don't have a leg to stand on.
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