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Post by Ben Grimm on Apr 28, 2016 9:24:02 GMT -5
There's more than one way for curiosity to skin the cat.
Whenever you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains is improbable.
The early bird gets the sour grapes.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2016 11:25:15 GMT -5
My limey great-grandmother lived to be 91, so I recall her saying, on more than one occasion:
-never kick a gift horse in the face
-when one door closes, two doors shut
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Post by MarkInTexas on Apr 28, 2016 13:03:57 GMT -5
How I tend to mangle one I use fairly frequently but no one else outside my family seems to have ever heard it:
It's half of one and six dozen of the other.
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on Apr 28, 2016 13:08:44 GMT -5
A guy I used to work with who was legendary for his butchering of the English language once said "It's like throwing out the roast beef with the bathwater"
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Post by Il sole sotto la terra on Apr 28, 2016 13:39:40 GMT -5
A guy I used to work with who was legendary for his butchering of the English language once said "It's like throwing out the roast beef with the bathwater" Hey, I think I worked with that guy! Always said "That's the hair of a different dog." too. |
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on Apr 28, 2016 13:59:40 GMT -5
A guy I used to work with who was legendary for his butchering of the English language once said "It's like throwing out the roast beef with the bathwater" Hey, I think I worked with that guy! Always said "That's the hair of a different dog." too. It's possible! Did he also call rotisseries "rotisseraries" (may not have been applicable if you didn't work with him in the kitchen appliance industry) |
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Post by Jimmy James on Apr 28, 2016 14:06:55 GMT -5
Even a blind squirrel can find his own nuts.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2016 18:16:53 GMT -5
Even a blind squirrel can find his own nuts. that's just good science |
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Apr 28, 2016 18:25:23 GMT -5
I don't have a dog in this pony show.
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Post by haysoos on Apr 28, 2016 19:10:07 GMT -5
Don't count your weasels before they pop.
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Post by Trurl on Apr 28, 2016 21:24:37 GMT -5
He's still green behind the ears.
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Post by Gumbercules on Apr 29, 2016 5:52:19 GMT -5
Quid pro choice
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on Apr 29, 2016 13:29:02 GMT -5
I think Ricky of Trailer Park Boys is the king of this:
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Post by Gumbercules on Apr 29, 2016 14:12:16 GMT -5
I like saying "Ipso factoid" as well.
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Post by rimjobflashmob on Apr 29, 2016 15:39:02 GMT -5
They're not the sharpest lightbulb in the toolbox.
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Post by repulsionist on Apr 29, 2016 16:26:43 GMT -5
"What, me furry?"
Half-ahead She Blue Man Group
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Apr 29, 2016 17:56:02 GMT -5
It's not rocket surgery.
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Post by Post-Lupin on May 2, 2016 14:02:41 GMT -5
One man's meat is another man's person.
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Post by Dellarigg on May 2, 2016 14:10:42 GMT -5
Never judge a book by its character.
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Post by moimoi on May 2, 2016 18:57:35 GMT -5
Don't throw your babies before they're hatched.
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Post by songstarliner on May 2, 2016 20:51:43 GMT -5
I think Ricky of Trailer Park Boys is the king of this: Some Rickyisms have become so ingrained in my day-to-day speech that I have to try hard NOT to say them around strangers, including: Worse case Ontario Get two birds stoned at once Water under the fridge What comes around is all around and Make like a tree and fuck off |
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on May 13, 2016 15:04:40 GMT -5
This is more a pop culture one, but somehow Barton Fink and Pulp Fiction have been crossed in my memory:
“Roadmap motherfucker, do you need it!”
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Post by Trurl on May 13, 2016 16:12:33 GMT -5
The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is thinking
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2016 20:32:05 GMT -5
iirc, Larry Holmes via Not Necessarily the News: "I wasn't even a thought in my daddy's penis."
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2016 0:36:20 GMT -5
I'll burn that bridge when I come to it.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on May 16, 2016 6:00:37 GMT -5
Time wounds all heels.
That'll throw a wrench into the wood works.
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Post by rimjobflashmob on May 16, 2016 23:53:39 GMT -5
I'll burn that bridge when I come to it. This is gonna be the subheading to my memoir. |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2016 0:17:16 GMT -5
a lot of these are sounding like tshirts and signs from Spencer's Gifts, so in that vein, i have seen:
a hard man is good to find
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it's not pretty being easy
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Post by monodrone on May 17, 2016 9:30:10 GMT -5
If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes should fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2016 14:45:59 GMT -5
About fifteen years ago my mom and I were at Target, talking about a guy I was seeing. Ma asked why I wasn't more serious about him and I told her I "didn't want to put all my eggs in his basket."
Another lady overheard and laughed.
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