The amusing sayings thread

[Montefalco]

"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins." - Oscar Wilde, 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'

 

[marval]

"Childhood is that wonderful time when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath."

Richard Zera

 

[Dorsetmike]

Had a Google for derivations of the phrase " a bit black over Will's mum's" most agree it means "it looks like rain". It's usually attributed to the British West Midlands, Birmingham, Coventry etc. As to who Bill, or Will was, many say Will Shakespeare, as Stratford upon Avon is South west of Coventry, South Westerly being the direction of prevailing winds and thus the direction to look for approaching rain clouds.

Any more backgrounds to common phrases???????

 

[marval]

Done to a turn - Meat was roasted until cooked on an upright spit which had to be turned by hand.


Margaret

 

[Contratrombone64]

he was as useless as a one legged man in an arse kicking competition

 

[teddy]

Childhood is a wonderful thing - shame its wasted on the yound.

teddy

 

[JHC]

Childhood is a wonderful thing - shame its wasted on the yound.

teddy

yound ?????? not even a typo too much red wine :cheers:

 

[Contratrombone64]

Heard this beauty from a Scotsman on another forum (don't actually know if he thought of it or purloined it from somewhere else):

"As useful as Heather Mills left foot in a toe-curling competition"

Sadly, I just don't get it ... please explain (Pauline Hanson inflection required)

 

[Montefalco]

Money well wasted is money well spent.

 

[JHC]

I spent all of my fortune on Wine WWomen and WWWhisky I wasted the rest

 

[teddy]

yound ?????? not even a typo too much red wine :cheers:

ey donut no wot umeeann.
troddy

 

[Montefalco]

umeean 'young', peeraps troddy?

 

[Dorsetmike]

His spill chucker malfunctioned.

 

[Montefalco]

soeet wood seeam
I don't even have a spell checker

 

[marval]

Sadly, I just don't get it ... please explain (Pauline Hanson inflection required)

H CT

Heather Mills lost her left leg in a crash.


I always say as useful as a pig in a parachute.


Margaret

 

[Contratrombone64]

Ah, I see, now I get it.

As to a pig in a parachute, Margaret, I think that would be very useful, I mean you could always place him under you if said parachute failed and you'd have a (moderately) soft landing...

 

[marval]

Hi CT

I had not thought of that use for a pig, well next time I jump out of a perfectly good plane. lol


Margaret

 

[teddy]

A crow in a croud is a rook
and a rook on its own is a crow.

Old country saying.
teddy

 

[teddy]

When searching for a lost item....

It will be in the last place you look.

Unless you are stupid enough to keep looking after you have found it!

 

[Contratrombone64]

A crow in a croud is a rook
and a rook on its own is a crow.

Old country saying.
teddy

courd?? now there's a new word for my list of languages (not)