# "Gay as a \" similes **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-as-a-blank-similes/596297 **Category:** In My Humble Opinion **Created:** [September 14, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-as-a-blank-similes/596297 "2011-09-14T15:48:16Z") **Posts on this page:** 9 **Page:** 4
### Author: ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel) #### Post date: [September 22, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-as-a-blank-similes/596297/61 "2011-09-22T17:11:36Z")
‘‘Gayer than a picnic basket’’ is my favorite. Nice play off of the original meaning of ‘‘gay.’’ ---
### Author: ![Beltane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@Beltane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beltane) #### Post date: [September 23, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-as-a-blank-similes/596297/62 "2011-09-23T02:43:27Z")
“Gay as Uncle Brother Boy” “Nobody’s that gay!” ---
### Author: ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind) #### Post date: [September 23, 2011, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-as-a-blank-similes/596297/63 "2011-09-23T03:55:50Z")
So deep in the closet she might as well be a garment bag. He is as gay as an Umberto spring frock. ---
### Author: ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa) #### Post date: [September 23, 2011, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-as-a-blank-similes/596297/64 "2011-09-23T04:52:30Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > He is as gay as an Umberto spring frock. A friend of mine is especially fond of the variant “Gay as a Halston sun dress.” Freddy Mercury once described himself as “Gay as the Queen of the May” which I thought had a nice poetry to it. ---
### Author: ![JoMama85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@JoMama85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoMama85) #### Post date: [August 7, 2024, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-as-a-blank-similes/596297/65 "2024-08-07T06:03:07Z")
Here in Nebraska I hear gayer than a three peckered billy goat” a lot. Lmao ---
### Author: ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove) #### Post date: [August 7, 2024, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-as-a-blank-similes/596297/66 "2024-08-07T06:36:22Z")
What’s that part of your nose just under the browline? The part you pinch and go “ahhh…?” ---
### Author: ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm) #### Post date: [August 7, 2024, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-as-a-blank-similes/596297/67 "2024-08-07T15:00:40Z")
> [@JoMama85](#): > > Here in Nebraska I hear gayer than a three peckered billy goat” a lot. Lmao On behalf of gay men everywhere, I want to sincerely thank you for reviving this necrotic appeal to sniggering bigotry, if only to highlight how far we’ve come even in the past 13 years. ---
### Author: ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit) #### Post date: [August 7, 2024, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-as-a-blank-similes/596297/68 "2024-08-07T15:03:38Z")
**Moderating** : I’m going to close this thread as it really doesn’t live up to current standards of the SDMB. There have been 4 flags about its revival already. ---
### Author: ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit) #### Post date: [August 7, 2024, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-as-a-blank-similes/596297/69 "2024-08-07T15:04:07Z")
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