# Substandard drayage! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 30, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substandard-drayage/580279 "2011-04-30T12:54:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@Mother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mother)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substandard-drayage/580279/21 "2011-05-02T20:01:21Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > Whoa, sorry, we had a simulpost incident there, and I’ve only just noticed your request. > > I can be clumsy like that. Sometimes, I can’t tell my ass from a hole in the ground. 😃 Of course! Thanks. I should have known this one. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substandard-drayage/580279/22 "2011-05-02T20:06:37Z")
Anyone else hear the thread title in Daniel Plainview’s voice? _You see, you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, but I want to move that milkshake, and I have a horse. There it is, my horse, you see? And my horse walks across the town and carries your milkshake back to me. I carry your milkshake!_ ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substandard-drayage/580279/23 "2011-05-02T20:18:11Z")
The fecal matter has recently had its arc of motion interrupted by a rapidly rotating blade. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substandard-drayage/580279/24 "2011-05-02T23:38:43Z")
> [@](#): > > I can be clumsy like that. Sometimes, I can’t tell my ass from a hole in the ground. My favorite version of that one is “can’t tell a burro from a burrow”. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substandard-drayage/580279/25 "2011-05-03T16:52:27Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > The fecal matter has recently had its arc of motion interrupted by a rapidly rotating blade. The shit’s hit the fan. Ordure occurs. ---
**Author:** ![Redwing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@Redwing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redwing)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substandard-drayage/580279/26 "2011-05-03T17:01:39Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > The shit’s hit the fan. > > Ordure occurs. Shit happens. His vocal commentary is far more magnificent than his ability to masticate. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substandard-drayage/580279/27 "2011-05-03T17:34:16Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > We are experiencing challenges in the practical application of discernment vis a vis our anterior surface, and the realtime result of experimental excavation. Don’t know your ass from a hole in the ground? ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substandard-drayage/580279/28 "2011-05-03T19:42:31Z")
It appears that we are engaging in games of chance without a full complement of standard equipment. We have emerged from an educational institution whose curriculum consists mainly of direct interaction with sharp, percussive impact. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substandard-drayage/580279/29 "2011-05-03T23:47:18Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > It appears that we are engaging in games of chance without a full complement of standard equipment. > > We have emerged from an educational institution whose curriculum consists mainly of direct interaction with sharp, percussive impact. I hear that’s a [Catholic school](http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/knock.htm). ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substandard-drayage/580279/30 "2011-05-04T00:07:10Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > It appears that we are engaging in games of chance without a full complement of standard equipment. > > We have emerged from an educational institution whose curriculum consists mainly of direct interaction with sharp, percussive impact. Playing with less than a full deck? and Graduated from the school of hard knocks? Can’t think of one right now… ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substandard-drayage/580279/31 "2011-05-04T00:27:27Z")
To grant absolution and cease to remember. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substandard-drayage/580279/32 "2011-05-04T06:09:18Z")
Excellent! We are availing ourselves of sharp-edged tools to abrade in a repeated linear manner the absolute nadir of this typical example of the cooper’s art. We have bid goodbye, so long, adieu and farewell to that capacity which dwells in each of us for reason and perception. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substandard-drayage/580279/33 "2011-05-04T12:31:29Z")
> [@Redwing](#): > > His vocal commentary is far more magnificent than his ability to masticate. His bark is worse than his bite. Manually secured fowl may be valued at double the rate of fowl which enjoy a more topiary location. Prior to the initiation of precipitate acceleration of one’s person which may be expected to occasion a temporary separation from the Earth’s surface and the concommitant commitment to relinquishing moment-to-moment control over the trajectory of one’s body, one would be well advised to invest some portion of time in a detailed survey of the intended location of one’s return to terra firma, with a view to ensuring a successful landing. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substandard-drayage/580279/34 "2011-05-04T14:20:05Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > My favorite version of that one is “can’t tell a burro from a burrow”. From one of the journalist style guides, probably misquoted but close: > [@](#): > > A _burro_ is an ass. A _burrow_ is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to be able to tell the difference. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/substandard-drayage/580279.md?page=1)