You Ain’t Nothin But A Tomato Can. Always made me think something odd. Like what the hair’s going on here.
I never get this either: Like the cow that jumped over the candlestick. I mean why would it?
Uhm, I’ve seen this used quite a few times in this thread alone, but I still don’t know what WAG means…
Does it have anything to do with the movie “Wag the Dog”? As in, someone’s kinda distracting from the main point, and your WAG is like a counter to their WAG, which means bringing them back to reality?
Or is it more probably an acronym, such as:
Wrath Against God (I always think of this whenever I see it)
War Against Guerillas (as in, the Guerillas of Ignorance!)
Witty Advice Given (maybe that’s why everyone likes to reference “my WAG”)
Wimpy-Ass Gripe (that’s why it must always be prefaced by WAG?)
Someone de-ignorize me please! That is what my WAG says.
The only thing that makes sense is Wild-Ass Guess.
Could “One will cost you a nickel” have something to do with project Exile? – where if someone commits a felony using a handgun, it’s a federal offense, with a mandatory 5-year sentence.
My Wild **A[/A]ss Guess is that it means Wild Ass Guess. 
My mother, when surprised by something, has a habit of saying “Ye gads and little fishes”. I kinda doubt I’ll ever find an etymology for that one.
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Would someone on that side of the world pop over to owlstretchingtime’s and give him his medication? Thanks much!
I hope to G*d that means something different that it does in the states (to get a girl pregnant)!
It does. It’s simply to knock on someone’s door, or go to visity them. A British lady moved in next door to a friend of mine, and he was going to help her with plumbing or something one Saturday morning. She told him she’d be up early, so he could just come and knock her up whenever he was ready. He thought it was rather forward of her. 
“Ye gods and little fishes” is from, IIRC, the movie Lifeboat (1944). Tallulah Bankhead’s character speaks the line.
At least that’s how I remember it. I remember seeing a commercial for the movie when it was to be shown on UHF (!) TV in the early 80s. That line was part of the commercial, and it’s stuck with me ever since.
Makes sense - Nickel = 5 cents = 5 years. However, why use prison slang (I assume that’s what it is) that few people can understand on a billboard that far more will see?
I googled, being the good little boy that I am, and regarding “Ye Gods …” I found this:
believe “bling-bling” which IMHO is by far the most retarded saying I’ve ever had the displeasure of hearing, it refers to the sound effect in movies, television and cartoons that is heard when light glints off of jewels, gold, or anything shiny.
And as for “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth”, this is a very old saying regarding how people tell the age of a horse. You look into the horse’s mouth and see the length of his teeth, or rather it’s really the shortness of his gums, and the longer the teeth appear the older the animal is. So looking a gift horse in the mouth and seeing that it was an old animal would be considered rude, since someone just gave it to you rather than making you pay for it.
I found that shit in my spam archive. It seems like it might be some of George Carlin’s shit, but I’m not sure. But anyway, I thought it was pretty funny shit.
<<< shit eating grin.
Oh, also, “Full of piss and vinegar.” is a distortion of the original phrase, “Full of pith and vinegar” though I’m not sure what the latter means; I believe it could be a reference to poorly made wine. Pith, being tissue of a plant or fruit, and wine when spoiled or improperly made will turn to vinegar. So saying someone was full of pith and vinegar would be like calling them old and sour.
I’ll pick off a few of these. IANAL is I am not a lawyer. It’s a disclaimer, meaning, “I think I know the answer, but it’s not my field.” You’ll see IANA doctor, electrician, Canadian, etc.
That’s a hizzle, for shizzle. It’s an irritating little warp used by Snoop Dogg. You glue “izzle” onto the first sound of a word and expect the listener to guess what word you mangled, just from the context. For shizzle is probably for sure.
Most of owlstretchingtime’s stuff just whooshed me (zinged right over my head.)
It was an expression of derision or disgust.
Valley Girl #1: Did you see that new boy in school today? Is he like the ultimate pizza face?
Valley Girl #2: Fer sure! Like, gag me with a spoon!
“Gag me with a spoon” was a Valley Girl-ism meaning, roughly, “Ewww, that’s disgusting.”
I’ll take a stab at “me old chinas.” In cockney rhyming slang, sometimes the rhyming part is dropped. So, look is butcher’s hook, or just butcher’s. Mates (friends) is china plates, or just chinas.
“It’s the queens, innit?” It’s the Queen’s English, isn’t it?
“Strewth.” It’s the truth.
I’ve chased “cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey” round and round. Nobody seems to know for sure. I think it’s just a picturesque image, like the following from Johnny Carson. “It was so cold, they had to start the Bionic Woman with jumper cables.”
Fiddler Johnny Gimble, talking about a hot dry spell, said, “I saw my dog chasin’ a rabbit yesterday. They was both walkin’.”
Adding to AskNott’s explanations.
“lemon” = “lemon squeezers” = geezers?
“doolally” = crazy
“radio” = “radio rental” (UK TV rental store) = mental
“nuclear” = “nuclear sub” = pub
“don revie” = bevvy (bevvie?) = drink. Don Revie = late manager of Leeds Utd. and England football teams.
But you’ve got me on Dagenham, spars and coo.
IANA Bluesman… but Lemon Squeezer is from Robert Johnson’s Travelling Riverside Blues. As in “Squeeze my lemon til the juice runs down my leg.” I’ll let y’all draw your own conclusion on that! 
And, once again, ccwaterback is butter!* (Cuz he’s on a roll…)
Where does Jesus H. Christ come from? Did our Lord have a middle name? (Must be in The Book of Mormon…) But seriously, Judas Priest or even Jeez are probably like a cleaned up way of swearing. But if you’re going to say JC anyways, what does the H do?
Sorry for the SNAFUs…
Ye gads and little fishes, how I love this board!
fairly weeping with gratitude
Ahem. I’ll just get myself under control now.