Folksy sayings

[maren]

I, too, growing up in Wisconsin, always thought my dad was saying "fair-to-middlin' "...

but now that you mention it, he WAS stationed in San Antonio in 1945-47!!!

[Jim Alfredson]

It's a damn conspiracy!

[patricia]

He's about as smart as a sackful of wet mice.

Sticks like soft shit to a wool blanket.

Has an I.Q. two points lower than a potted plant.

Slicker than snot on your sleeve.

Stands out like a wart on the end of a witch's nose.

An ass two axe handles wide.

Walking like his/her ass was a bag of feathers.

Good coffee is thick enough to walk a mouse across.

Ears so keen that he could hear a mosquito fart on the ceiling.

As hopeless as trying to catch a fart in a mitten.

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Each and every one of the above was used by my late father, a quiet, dignified man who rarely joined into frivolous conversation. These were off-the-cuff remarks, which always took me by surprise.

Edited February 21, 2005 by patricia

[Neal Pomea]

So dumb she couldn't direct traffic on a one way street

Edited February 21, 2005 by It Should be You

[patricia]

WD,

Isn't the saying "Hotter than the hubs of Hell"?

[Chuck Nessa]

"Just like an Organissimo poster". B-)

[Jazzmoose]

Man, that one makes me as nervous as a cat in a roomful of rocking chairs!

[Man with the Golden Arm]

Dad sometimes said when lifting a weighty object: "that's heavy enough to cut washers off yer bung-hole".