Colloquialisms [promises to be Unutterably Silly]

[RWood]

Is that a threat or promise? Promises are broken, threats are always kept.
His elevator doesn't go all the way to the top.
Can't carry a tune in a bucket.
A few tacos short of a combo platter.

[yvanleterrible]

This "Unutterably Silly" suite is pretty interesting. It should have its own forum.

[zelda_pinwheel]

it already has its own tag.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by RWood

His elevator doesn't go all the way to the top.

very nice...

too many of mine depend on puns and you can't translate them.

here's one for making fun of someone butchering your language : "he speaks french like a spanish cow." can be applied to people with poor english skills as well ; spanish cows are notoriously bad at languages.

[Greg Anos]

catti-corners - Texan term for something on the far opposite side from the location you re describing. See drawing

I.........|
I.........|X
I..========
I.......Y|
I.........|


X is catti-corners to (or from) Y.

[fifteenjugglers]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i think my favorite ones are the "few somethings short of a something" variety. which is in itself pretty good. in fact, i think next time i just say, verbatim, "he's a few somethings short of a something."

As a variation on gradations of somethingnesses how about "he's half a bubble off plumb"?

[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by fifteenjugglers

As a variation on gradations of somethingnesses how about "he's half a bubble off plumb"?

Oh, that was a good one. I just told it to a roomful of engineers. They loved it.

[montsnmags]

Well, being an Australian, I am completely unfamiliar with any colloquialisms, and might have to leave this thread alone.

Besides, today I'm as busy as a cat burying shit, and I'll be flat out like a lizard drinking all day. No doubt this banana bender'll end up as dry as a dead dingo's donger and I'll knock the top off a coldie later, no doubt.

So, rather than sitting here in this thread standing out like dogs' balls, I'll have to shoot through and be off like a bucket of prawns in the sun. I'll still be within cooee though, not down the far end of the long paddock, so if you want to give me an earbashing, don't get all cross as a frog in a sock. Just say g'day and I'll be down quicker than I can skull a throw-down.

Hooroo,
Marc (a coupla snags short of a barby)

[sharpshin]

As they say in Texas: "He's all hat and no cattle."

[fifteenjugglers]

As sharp as a banana.

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by sharpshin

As they say in Texas: "He's all hat and no cattle."

Ya talkin' to me, ya drongo? 'S if y'are, fair suck of the sav', I'm up for a blue with ya, kinnoath mate, and I'll bail ya up! Stuff like that gets me mad as a cut snake, but'll let it go if ya shout tha nex' round. I'll 'ave a Bundy, thanks, cheers, no worries.

Marc (built like a brick shithouse and cunning as a dunny rat(*))

(* Note, this line, amongst others, is an outright porky )

[fifteenjugglers]

You've got a few roos loose in the top paddock there Marc

[pilotbob]

This thread makes me more nervous than a long tail cat in a room full of rocking chairs... no, make that a sparrow at a skeet shooting contest. I've gotta tell you, I should probably stop reading this thread because I can't afford to pay attention.

Boy, I'm funnier than a screen door on a submarine

Heard said to Marty McFly... why don't you make like a tree and beat it.

BOb

[fifteenjugglers]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

why don't you make like a tree and beat it.

BOb

Is that similar to making like a shepherd, and getting the flock out of here?

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by fifteenjugglers

Is that similar to making like a shepherd, and getting the flock out of here?

No, more like make like a drum and leave.

BOb