# Popular sayings: UNdoperize them! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 2, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909 "2006-10-02T01:17:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/21 "2006-10-02T20:21:15Z")
[QUOTE=Askia] Joey, this _Is_ obscure. So I’m gonna keep the ball rolling until ypu come back and elaborate: [/QUOTE] Okay, so it’s probably a midwest thing, but I’ll leave it open for a little while longer. pssst, the lady’s name is Ann ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/22 "2006-10-02T20:23:03Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] Upon your return, be sure you possess a baked fruit pastry. [/QUOTE] That’s still open?! We can take care of that When come back…bring pie. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/23 "2006-10-02T20:26:31Z")
[QUOTE=Joey P] Okay, so it’s probably a midwest thing, but I’ll leave it open for a little while longer. pssst, the lady’s name is Ann [/QUOTE] Are you callin’ Ann Arbor a whore? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/24 "2006-10-02T20:54:09Z")
Engage in coprophagia and then expire. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/25 "2006-10-02T21:21:07Z")
Eat shit and die. **I did not have sex with that woman.** I had sex with that woman. Sorry, I have a cold, and I got nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/26 "2006-10-02T22:26:31Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] Are you callin’ Ann Arbor a whore? 😃 [/QUOTE] Who me? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/27 "2006-10-02T23:10:25Z")
**Althiough it is entirely possible to direct a member of _Equus caballus_ to a quantity of liquid comprised of two parts hydrogen to one part oxygen, it is impossible to employ force as a means to coerce it to imbibe.** ---
**Author:** ![bundykala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@bundykala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bundykala)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/28 "2006-10-02T23:30:33Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] **Althiough it is entirely possible to direct a member of _Equus caballus_ to a quantity of liquid comprised of two parts hydrogen to one part oxygen, it is impossible to employ force as a means to coerce it to imbibe.** [/QUOTE] You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink The entirety of the expansive spherical body of matter we reside on which is currently held in orbit around a central mass of blazing gases is, in fact, a region devoted solely to performance, whilst the male and female occupants of said body simply partake in acting particular roles. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/29 "2006-10-03T00:02:48Z")
[QUOTE=bundykala] The entirety of the expansive spherical body of matter we reside on which is currently held in orbit around a central mass of blazing gases is, in fact, a region devoted solely to performance, whilst the male and female occupants of said body simply partake in acting particular roles. [/QUOTE] All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. The totality of your fortifications are presently in our posession. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/30 "2006-10-03T00:35:17Z")
> [@](#): > > The totality of your fortifications are presently in our posession. [All your base are belong to us!!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf9Y--_aY70) Next: Headed north on a well-known tributary lacking viable means of locomotion. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2006, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/31 "2006-10-03T01:34:03Z")
As presented: Up the creek without a paddle. The height of misfortune is to possess sentience, but to squander that sentience. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/32 "2006-10-03T01:34:20Z")
[QUOTE=Patty O’Furniture] [All your base are belong to us!!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf9Y--_aY70) Next: Headed north on a well-known tributary lacking viable means of locomotion. [/QUOTE] Up the creek without a paddle. (I would’ve qualified your tributary with “feces-laden” personally, but that’s just me). _Diospyros ebenum_ and _pachyderm_ enamel cohabitating in such a manner analagous to audible frequencies arranged in tonal triadic patterns with flawless dominant-tonic cadences. ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/33 "2006-10-03T02:22:50Z")
Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony _The individual possesses no receptacle for purposes of micturation, nor any means of defenestrating the aforesaid_ ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/34 "2006-10-03T11:16:47Z")
[QUOTE=Civil Guy] The height of misfortune is to possess sentience, but to squander that sentience. [/QUOTE] A mind is a terrible thing to waste. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/35 "2006-10-03T12:20:29Z")
\*\*Achieve maximum velocity, maintain current vector and ignore the presence of waterborne explosives. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/36 "2006-10-03T12:32:11Z")
[QUOTE=Alessan] \*\*Achieve maximum velocity, maintain current vector and ignore the presence of waterborne explosives. \*\* [/QUOTE] Full ahead, damn the torpedos! ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/37 "2006-10-03T12:46:26Z")
[QUOTE=Myron Van Horowitzski] _The individual possesses no receptacle for purposes of micturation, nor any means of defenestrating the aforesaid_ [/QUOTE] He hasn’t a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of. On that note… **His paucity of capital is more egregious than that of a _Mus musculus_ whose residency lies within a tabernacle.** ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/38 "2006-10-03T12:46:56Z")
[QUOTE=Myron Van Horowitzski] _The individual possesses no receptacle for purposes of micturation, nor any means of defenestrating the aforesaid_ [/QUOTE] This one is still up for grabs… any others? (I’ve got the first half, but not sure about/familiar with the second half. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/39 "2006-10-03T15:41:18Z")
He is as poor as a churchmouse In the case that the average kinetic energy of the particles in the location of the preparation of and heat transfer to comestibles is too great, the individual experiencing the great difference in average kinetic energy between his body and the atmosphere of his location is compelled to vacate said setting. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909/40 "2006-10-03T15:54:50Z")
[QUOTE=chaoticbear] In the case that the average kinetic energy of the particles in the location of the preparation of and heat transfer to comestibles is too great, the individual experiencing the great difference in average kinetic energy between his body and the atmosphere of his location is compelled to vacate said setting. [/QUOTE] If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. A intellectually challenged individual and his fiat currency are expiditiously dispossessed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-sayings-undoperize-them/374909.md?page=3)