# Say up the screwing. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 24, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952 "2012-11-24T00:34:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/21 "2012-11-24T15:03:10Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Six of one, a dozen of the other. > > (or as a friend of mine used to say with a fake Latin accent: “Seex of Juan, seven of Armando!”) A friend regularly says: Six of one a dime a dozen. He swears I’m the only one to have ever noticed, but I suspect I’m the only one who has bothered to call him on it. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2012, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/22 "2012-11-24T15:24:09Z")
It’s no skin off the back of my nose. ---
**Author:** ![JWT\_Kottekoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@JWT\_Kottekoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JWT_Kottekoe)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/23 "2012-11-24T15:26:17Z")
It’s six and a half of one and a half a baker’s dozen of the other. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/24 "2012-11-24T15:27:27Z")
Lucy lefty, tighty whiteys. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/25 "2012-11-24T15:54:07Z")
Half of one, six dozen of the other. It’s not the heat; it’s the humanity. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/26 "2012-11-24T15:59:11Z")
Never put your money where your mouse is. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/27 "2012-11-25T07:30:22Z")
Does the pope shit in the woods? Is a bear Catholic? ---
**Author:** ![Lozman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@Lozman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lozman)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/28 "2012-11-25T10:28:35Z")
That’s a horse of a different kettle of fish! ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/29 "2012-11-25T12:16:53Z")
it’s not the heat, it’s the _stupidity_! ---
**Author:** ![dimmy\_derko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@dimmy\_derko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dimmy_derko)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/30 "2012-11-25T12:30:05Z")
There’s many a cup betwixt lip and slip. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/31 "2012-11-25T16:44:29Z")
**Leaffan** was kind enough to send me a PM, noting that I have not posted that much lately. I think, as I am 85, he was wondering if I was still among the living. Well, I am. Barely. For many years I got my daily fix by browsing through GQ, IMHO and here. So much great knowledge, wisdom and humor. My stupid back is acting up again, so it has not been possible for me to sit at the computer long enough to more than glance through GP, and now and then ask a question that Google could not. Of course, I always got answers, some even being correct. 😃 I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving, and those of you who were nutty to go out shopping, I trust you lived to tell the tale. In fact, as long as I am blathering along, how about everybody recounting their shopping experiences on Black Friday. Why anybody would go out and shop that day is beyond me, but there you have it. Me, I only go shopping anytime if my wife sedates me and then drags me out. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/32 "2012-11-25T17:03:32Z")
That’s one sayed-up screwing! ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/33 "2012-11-25T17:12:04Z")
sometimes I have more than one window open and forget what thread I’m posting it…not saying that’s happened to anyone, just saying it could. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/34 "2012-11-25T17:19:38Z")
> [@Rysto](#): > > A penny saved is 1/(1-t) pennies earned, where t is your marginal rate of income tax. > > With apologies to the Wealthy Barber. What a nice pithy way of stating it. I ought to quote that the next time someone claims that it’s so much better to not pay off your home mortgage because of the interest deduction, when they don’t take into account that the interest you are _saving_ is effectively “tax deductible” too, in a way. (Of course there’s the dual considerations of possibly getting better returns elsewhere, and having to do better than the standard deduction to get any benefit at all, but the interest deduction is what people always bring up.) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/35 "2012-11-25T17:37:32Z")
> [@KlondikeGeoff](#): > > **Leaffan** was kind enough to send me a PM, noting that I have not posted that much lately. Thanks for checking in, it’s good to know you’re still above the ground. You’re only as old as your fields. ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/36 "2012-11-25T17:40:19Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Does the pope shit in the woods? Is a bear Catholic? Came to post a variation of this. I regularly mix-and-match the following three sayings, mostly to drive my wife crazy: Does the pope wear a funny hat? Is a frog’s ass waterproof? Does a bear shit in the woods? I’m also recently using “tomato/potato” but if she’s noticed yet she hasn’t let on. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/37 "2012-11-25T18:07:06Z")
> [@fubbleskag](#): > > Came to post a variation of this. I regularly mix-and-match the following three sayings, mostly to drive my wife crazy: > > Does the pope wear a funny hat? > Is a frog’s ass waterproof? > Does a bear shit in the woods? > > I’m also recently using “tomato/potato” but if she’s noticed yet she hasn’t let on. I’d think “does the pope wear a frog’s ass?” would be pretty noticable. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/38 "2012-11-25T18:18:29Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Let those who live in glass houses cast the first stone. Either I’m missing something, or you did. 🙂 > [@fubbleskag](#): > > Came to post a variation of this. I regularly mix-and-match the following three sayings, mostly to drive my wife crazy: > > Does the pope wear a funny hat? > Is a frog’s ass waterproof? > Does a bear shit in the woods? > > I’m also recently using “tomato/potato” but if she’s noticed yet she hasn’t let on. I first heard the “tomato/potato” one from Jason Mewes - he said, “Tomayto, potahto - wait, I screwed that up, didn’t I? What the hell is wrong with me?” 😃 “Does a frog’s ass wear a funny hat?” “Does a bear shit in a funny hat?” “Is the pope’s ass waterproof?” I love these! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/39 "2012-11-25T18:22:29Z")
“How high is up? What is the sound of one hand clapping? Is the pope catholic? We don’t know these things.” Said by me to many patients when they ask unanswerable questions. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/40 "2012-11-25T18:42:07Z")
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