Dumber than...As nervous as...what *rural* similes amuse you?

“Crazier than a peach orchard boar.” Do you want to be around a wild hog that has been eating fermented peaches?

There’s one that goes something like “He’s allright most of the time, but after a few six packs he turns ten foot tall and bulletproof.”

“I was raised on red beans and rice”, meaning that the speaker is a basic, down to earth sort.

As a lawyer I hired once wrote, “I was born at night but it wasn’t last night, and the same goes for the jury who will hear this case if your client does not accept our demand…”

Nobody has pointed it out yet that “In tall cotton” means you’re in for a nice check come harvest time.

I believe it refers to the fact that tall cotton is easier to pick. You don’t have to strin your back stooping over all day. So someone who’s in tall cotton is enjoying good fortune.

Here’s another one:

Busier than a cat covering crap on linoleum.

“His brain would rattle around in an ant’s ass like a pea in a boxcar”

or

“It was raining like a bull pissing on a flat rock”

I can’t believe nobody has posted the greatest simile of all, Christopher Marlowe’s poem:

She had dumps like a truck truck truck
Thighs like what what what

I think to sing it again

She had dumps like a truck truck truck
Thighs like what what what

Quieter than a mouse pissing on cotton

Darker than a black cat’s ass at midnight

“He’s got a shit eating grin.”

Never quite understood that one…I sure as hell wouldn’t grin if I were eating shit. A more elaborate variation:

“Grinning like a racoon eating fish guts out of a wire brush.”

I got that one from P.J. O’Rourke, he was describing Jimmy Carter.

As nervous as a sword swallower with the hiccups.
Popular as a porcupine in a petting zoo.
As useless as a screen door on a submarine.

Thick as pigshit in the neck of a bottle.

“Damn, look at the tits on her. Like two puppies fightin’ under a blanket.”

Here are a few of my favorites:

“Can’t dance, and it’s too wet to plow.” Means “Might as well.”

“He’s a good boy, but he shits a little close to the house.” Means “Not too bright.”

“I’ve enjoyed about as much of this as I can stand.” Means “This sucks and I’m leaving.”

“You feelin’ froggy, you leap!” Means “Do you want to fight me?”

“It’s getting drunk outside”. Means “I’m completely wasted.”

“People in hell want icewater, too.” Means “You’re not getting what you want, so get used to it.”

“Rode hard and put away wet”. Means someone looks terrible.

I also genuinely enjoy the eerie yet hilarious sounds of true hog-calling: “Woo, pig, SSOOOOOO-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!” (You can very occasionally see this in action on certain channels that will play rodeo competeitions and such.)

“Yeah, well, YOUR mama’s boots have instruction written on the heel!”

“They’re workin’ me like a barred owl.”

“That girl would make a freight train take a gravel road.” (homely)

“She’s enough to make a young bulldog break his chain.” (pretty)

“He’s tougher than a tattooed cockroach.”

“Snug as a bug in a rug.”

“His singing is not as bad as it sounds.” --Mark Twain

“Busier than a billy goat with three wives.”

As my gram says occationally: “That boy doesn’t have sense enough to suck alum and drool.”

“He’s crazy as a sprayed roach.”

“She’s crazy as a run-over dog.”

“He’s runnin’ around like a chicken with it’s head cut off.”

“I need that like I need a sharp stick in the eye.”
-OR-
“It beats a sharp stick in the eye.”

(When someone is whining) "You’ve got me cryin’ tears as big as horse turds (or cow paddies).

(When someone is perpetually an asshole) “They’ve got the personality of a bag of chapped assholes.”

(Eating dinner) “Haven’t eaten anything yet I wanted to spit back out.”

(When food is really good) “It’ll make your tongue slap your brains out.” (originally, “if _____ (whatever dish/food) was atop my head, my tongue would slap my brains out trying to get to it.”

(when something is unlikely/calling someone a liar)
-“Yeah, and I’m a gypsy jet pilot.”
-“Anyone would believe that standing on their head.”

“He can’t carry a tune in a bucket.”

“She’s got a face like the business end of an old plow horse.”

“He’s busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kickin’ contest.”

“…like white on rice.”

“…cold as a witches tit.” or “…cold as a well-digger’s ass.”

“He’s so full o’ shit his eyes are turning brown.”

“He’s about as worthless as tits on a boar hog.”

(asking someone how they’re doing) “Finer than a frog’s hair”

“He couldn’t find his way out of a torn paper bag.”

“'Bout as full as a tick.”

“Mad as a cat dunked in water.”

“He doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground.”

“She looks like she was beat with an ugly stick.”

“Don’t piss on my head and tell me it’s raining.”

“About as nervous as a cat in a roomful of rocking chairs.”

“He’s drunker than Cooter Brown”

Instead of saying “Be there soon.” they all say “Be there directly.”

(talking about someone’s aim, either throwing or shooting) “He couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn.”

(When asking an obvious question…)
-“Does a bear shit in the woods?”
-“Does a one-legged duck swim in a circle?”
-“Are pork chops greasy?”

“Don’t go getting your panties in a wad.” (calm down)

“He’s so poor, he ain’t got two nickels to rub together.”

“Up shit creek without a paddle.”

“He’s so slick he could sell ketchup Popsicles to a woman in white gloves.”
“He could sell ice to an eskimo.”

“I’ll be on you like a dog on a meat wagon.”

“That’s enough to make the preacher cuss.”

“He’s got about as much sense as tree bark.”

“He’s got a snoball’s chance in hell of…”

Heard this one on Will and Grace (not exactly rural): “Dumb as a box of hair.”

Another zombie sneak attack. I was reading along and saw a post by Ringo. That made me check the dates and see this is a ten year old thread.

But I have some to add.

Slicker than owl shit ~ Stephen King

She can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch. (She’s slutty.)

Also, very un PC but I’ve heard it: When telling someone to do something:

“What color do I look?”

“Could knock a buzzard off a shit wagon,” in reference to a particularly foul odor.

Mine are a little on the raunchier side…

+1 for “Beat you like a rented mule.”

“Beat my dick like it owes me money.”

“Queerer than a three-dollar bill.”

“Busier than a dog with two dicks.”

If something is particularly or surprisingly prominent:

It stuck out like a diamond in a goat’s ass.

Applied regularly to a golf ball that went in to the rough, but is surprisingly easy to find.

Sweatin’ like a whore in church

A few fries short of a Happy Meal