# Hilarious and terrible mixed metaphors **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 22, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-and-terrible-mixed-metaphors/632298 "2012-08-22T19:12:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-and-terrible-mixed-metaphors/632298/61 "2012-08-24T16:20:16Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > I also wonder about “shits and giggles”. I love that phrase, but I hardly giggle when I shit, so… Maybe “shits and giggles” means “good stuff” or “cool”?? The “shits” could be an inversion of “not giving a shit.” Doing it for giggles is doing it for trifling amusement, and doing it for shits is because you might care, but just the smallest amount imaginable. This morning my mouth tripped up and I told my wife that something would be “no toublem.” I might use that intentionally in the future. A friend often says, “I forleft it.” Not mixed metaphors, I know, but slightly on topic. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-and-terrible-mixed-metaphors/632298/62 "2012-08-24T17:39:18Z")
As I watched the report on Isaac this morning, I accidently told my coworker that “we’d better batter down the hatches.” Not quite the same meaning. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-and-terrible-mixed-metaphors/632298/63 "2012-08-24T17:47:07Z")
Let’s not forget: Captain Zapp Brannigan: If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes should fall like a house of cards. Checkmate. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-and-terrible-mixed-metaphors/632298/64 "2012-08-24T17:52:29Z")
> [@Jumpbass](#): > > . . . “We’re just two ships that go bump in the night” . . . Been there, done that. ---
**Author:** ![kyogi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/51bf81/32.png) [@kyogi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kyogi)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-and-terrible-mixed-metaphors/632298/65 "2012-08-25T05:33:38Z")
My patent reply to"I don’t give a shit" is " that’s cool. I’m really in it for the giggles." “what’s up?”-- “Opposite of down.” ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-and-terrible-mixed-metaphors/632298/66 "2012-08-25T05:52:14Z")
> [@Jumpbass](#): > > I love mangling them on purpose. > > “We’re just two ships that go bump in the night.” > > “Half of one, six dozen of another.” My personal favorite: “Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.” ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-and-terrible-mixed-metaphors/632298/67 "2012-08-25T10:55:49Z")
> [@ecoaster](#): > > Take it for _ **granite** _. > > It actually sort of makes sense, the person who used it thought that it just meant that something is rock-solid, obvious or goes without saying. From my childhood, I recall a Muppet Show scene where Kermit meets a talking rock backstage, tells the rock he wouldn’t “take him for granite,” and the rock attacks Kermit as if to eat him. Anyway… In the spirit of Back to the Future’s “make like a tree and get the hell out of here,” whenever my wife and I are deciding which fish to thaw for the next night’s dinner, if there is, say, a salmon and a halibut, I will invariably suggest the latter, “just for shits and giggles.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-and-terrible-mixed-metaphors/632298.md?page=3)