# Cliches (or, I have half a mind to make this a game) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 21, 2013, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliches-or-i-have-half-a-mind-to-make-this-a-game/664121 "2013-07-21T16:52:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Girlundone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@Girlundone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlundone)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliches-or-i-have-half-a-mind-to-make-this-a-game/664121/82 "2013-08-11T15:13:17Z")
It’s getting hot in here. Looks like someone might open up a can of whoop-ass. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliches-or-i-have-half-a-mind-to-make-this-a-game/664121/83 "2013-08-11T16:10:28Z")
Look, I didn’t come in here to eat crow, so if you’re looking for your pound of flesh, you’re barking up the wrong tree. If we need to solve this mano-a-mano, I’m ready to throw down the gauntlet. I’m taking off the kid gloves, kickin’ ass and takin’ names! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliches-or-i-have-half-a-mind-to-make-this-a-game/664121/84 "2013-08-11T16:19:08Z")
Well, live and let live, and let bygones be bygones. Whatever SixSwords said or did, that’s water under the bridge, and we may as well let sleeping dogs lie. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliches-or-i-have-half-a-mind-to-make-this-a-game/664121/85 "2013-08-11T17:46:03Z")
Well put, **astorian**. I did kind of go off half-cocked. But now I’ve seen the light, I’m turning over a new leaf. I’m sure I’ll catch more flies with honey than I could with vinegar. ---
**Author:** ![Girlundone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@Girlundone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlundone)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliches-or-i-have-half-a-mind-to-make-this-a-game/664121/86 "2013-08-11T17:53:00Z")
Well thank goodness. All this confrontation had me sweating like a whore in church. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliches-or-i-have-half-a-mind-to-make-this-a-game/664121/87 "2013-08-11T18:26:26Z")
Speak of whores, there are some people around here their would pimp their sister for some attention. It’s not all about you. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliches-or-i-have-half-a-mind-to-make-this-a-game/664121/88 "2013-08-11T18:28:41Z")
> [@kevja](#): > > Speak of whores, there are some people around here their would pimp their sister for some attention. It’s not all about you. Hey, I’m just looking out for number one. ---
**Author:** ![Girlundone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@Girlundone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlundone)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliches-or-i-have-half-a-mind-to-make-this-a-game/664121/89 "2013-08-11T18:33:24Z")
You guys are so good! It’s this kind of stuff that makes you wanna slap your grandma. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliches-or-i-have-half-a-mind-to-make-this-a-game/664121/90 "2013-08-11T18:42:56Z")
Like I said, I’m looking out for number one. You say it takes two to tango, but third times the charm. I was born with a four leaf clover, and I’m five by five six ways to Sunday. I’m in seventh heaven working eight days a week for the whole nine yards. ---
**Author:** ![Girlundone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@Girlundone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlundone)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliches-or-i-have-half-a-mind-to-make-this-a-game/664121/91 "2013-08-11T18:46:51Z")
Yep, Larry, I’m pickin’ up what you’re puttin’ down. Two and two makes four, man. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliches-or-i-have-half-a-mind-to-make-this-a-game/664121/92 "2013-08-11T18:59:01Z")
Well, you know it’s just a numbers game. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliches-or-i-have-half-a-mind-to-make-this-a-game/664121/93 "2013-08-11T20:40:05Z")
Hmpf—If I had a dime for every time I heard that one… ---
**Author:** ![Girlundone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@Girlundone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlundone)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliches-or-i-have-half-a-mind-to-make-this-a-game/664121/94 "2013-08-11T20:59:07Z")
Always a day late and a dollar short. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliches-or-i-have-half-a-mind-to-make-this-a-game/664121/95 "2013-08-11T23:01:20Z")
I’ll bet you dollars to doughnuts that things are looking up ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliches-or-i-have-half-a-mind-to-make-this-a-game/664121/96 "2013-08-12T16:15:49Z")
If I didn’t have bad luck I wouldn’t have any luck at all! So low, I can only go up! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliches-or-i-have-half-a-mind-to-make-this-a-game/664121/97 "2013-08-12T22:11:14Z")
Just you wait- every dog has his day, and the worm will turn. Your ship will come in, and you’ll be smelling like a rose. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliches-or-i-have-half-a-mind-to-make-this-a-game/664121/98 "2013-08-13T00:32:43Z")
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. (That Shakespeare guy didn’t write much that isn’t a cliche.) As may be. Niether a borrower nor a lender be. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliches-or-i-have-half-a-mind-to-make-this-a-game/664121/99 "2013-08-13T01:13:47Z")
Alas poor [this thread] I knew it well. A [thread] of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Here hung those [posts] that I have [read] I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your [puns]? your [cliches]? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the [SDMB] on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own [:D]? ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliches-or-i-have-half-a-mind-to-make-this-a-game/664121/100 "2013-08-14T15:25:27Z")
It looks you got some fancy book learning under your belt. Using them hoity toity words. I may not be from the Ivy League, but I got street smarts. The only school I ever attended was the school of hard knocks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cliches-or-i-have-half-a-mind-to-make-this-a-game/664121.md?page=4)