# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![FlyByNight512](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/82dd89/32.png) [@FlyByNight512](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyByNight512)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/41 "2012-11-25T19:18:55Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Either I’m missing something, or you did. 🙂 It’s a combination of “people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” and “let he who is without sin cast the first stone”. I giggled. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/42 "2012-11-25T19:29:41Z")
Tis better to have loved two birds in the bush than never to have cried over spilled milk. ---
**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 25, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/43 "2012-11-25T19:50:32Z")
These days, I say, “Is water wet? Is the Pope German?” “People who live in grass houses shouldn’t stow thrones.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/44 "2012-11-25T20:08:37Z")
I’m burning the midnight candle at both ends against the middle. My teacher used to say, when something was completely accurate, “dead on the money.” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/45 "2012-11-25T20:20:15Z")
But… but I really do say we should up the screwing. ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/46 "2012-11-25T20:38:17Z")
Someone should have told Paula Radcliffe to… “Leak before you lope” What would I know though? I’m just a prawn in the game… ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/47 "2012-11-25T21:02:43Z")
Let sleeping dogs bury the dead. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/48 "2012-11-25T21:05:55Z")
Wine heals all wounds. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/49 "2012-11-25T21:38:21Z")
There is no fuel like a old fuel. Ragnarok is bliss. Nothing is certain, except death and taxis. Red spy at night, Turkish delight. Political power grows out of a barrel organ. What happens in vagueness, stays in vagueness. ---
**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 25, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/50 "2012-11-25T21:53:24Z")
A nerd is as good as a twinkie to a deaf goat. ---
**Author:** ![FrancisCastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b4bc9f/32.png) [@FrancisCastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrancisCastle)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/51 "2012-11-25T21:55:08Z")
Don’t look for a gift in a horse’s mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/52 "2012-11-25T22:17:20Z")
I have a friend who has a very diplomatic way of dealing with gabby people. After they have lost their audience and left the room she sometimes says, “Well, I guess that took the sail out of his wind.” ---
**Author:** ![owlfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@owlfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlfan)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/53 "2012-11-25T23:11:25Z")
Hindsight is for assholes. ---
**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 26, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/54 "2012-11-26T01:51:10Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Thanks for checking in, it’s good to know you’re still above the ground. > > You’re only as old as your fields. Or as we say in Thailand: You’re only as old as the girl on the end of your arm. (But since the wife is only two years younger than I, that _still_ puts me in my 50s. :() ---
**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 26, 2012, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/55 "2012-11-26T13:14:39Z")
> [@FlyByNight512](#): > > It’s a combination of “people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” and “let he who is without sin cast the first stone”. I giggled. 🙂 Ah, I see. The saying made perfect sense to me - no throwing stones in glass houses. 🙂 ---
**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:** [November 26, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/56 "2012-11-26T14:25:11Z")
Ignorance is blessed. That was said to me by someone who must be the most blessed person ever. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/57 "2012-11-26T17:27:07Z")
Time wounds all heels. Phobody’s Nerfect. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/58 "2012-11-27T00:05:16Z")
Melody, the ditzy blonde bombshell from the _Josie & The Pussycats_ comic book did this as a regular schtick. ---
**Author:** ![Crab\_Rangoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Crab\_Rangoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crab_Rangoon)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/59 "2012-11-27T01:34:38Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > My teacher used to say, when something was completely accurate, “dead on the money.” Which I read as Dead on the Monkey. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-up-the-screwing/641952/60 "2012-11-27T05:30:52Z")
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