No, I’m not pulling your leg! It’s an interest of mine.
A couple I like are, (for being sick from drinking): “Praying to the Porcelain God”; or “Calling God on the big white phone” (I never used them, just think they’re sort of funny).
“When the shit hits the fan” is of course a classic.
I’d like to hear others from around the world.
Once I read a list of one-hundred terms for ‘penis’, in Playboy, a long time ago. I lost the article, unfortunately, but it was amusing.
This is my first post and I’m sort of sleepy, but I hope someone here finds this subject interesting.
Ever heard the expression, “cool beans”? I swear my step brother made it up 9 years ago when he and I were 14. We were eating dinner and thinking of stupid phrases, much like this thread, and my mother had made 3 bean salad. Hence “cool beans”. I hear it all over the place now, and it still trips me out.
Plato? Aristotle? Socrates? Morons!
~It’s the way you shake and sway, and it’s the passion that you play… -Better Than Ezra
A French girl I once worked with translated “When the shit hits the fan” into French for me: “Quand la merde frappe le ventilateur”. Doesn’t that sound so much better? I hereby propose that we all start using the French version. It sounds wonderful to say.
[sub]BTW, sorry if I’ve got the French slightly wrong. I’m trying to recall this from memory, from several years ago, with very rusty basic French.[/sub]
I love “prairie-dogging”; when a something loud happens and a roomful of cubicle-dwellers poke their heads over the
little walls to see what happened.
Grinning like a possum in a cow plop.
Nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
Runnin around like her ass is on fire.
Theres also a great list on the net of ways to tell people
their fly’s undone, like
-Sailor Ned’s making a break for shore!
-You’ve got windows on your laptop
-Captain, we have a breach in hull security
etc.
I’ve been known to say
“Well dip me in shit and roll me in cracker dust!”
when I encounter some modern miracle of technology.
I don’t know where I first encountered it, but I’ve been using it (sparingly) for at least 25 years.
Playboy? I remember an article in National Lampoon listing all the terms for various body parts. It started with a representation of a man and a woman, body parts proportionate to the number of terms for them. The penis, breasts and nose were the biggest.
I’ve decided my favorite idiom for having sex is “getting your ashes hauled”.