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For some reason, this expression left some kind of impression on me.
You might probably know it but the meaning is 'being rebuked or closely questioned by a person in authority',
What are your favourite expressions? Anybody, 99?
The immortal Satchel Paige...KF
[edited by: King_Fisher at 4:57 am (utc) on Aug. 27, 2007]
>>> poops and giggles <<<
No self respecting American male would ever say that. Sounds like British slang to me...KF
[edited by: lawman at 10:59 am (utc) on Aug. 27, 2007]
poops and giggles
[edited by: lawman at 11:00 am (utc) on Aug. 27, 2007]
I'll have to assume that "self-respecting" is the key point; I picked that phrase up in Wooster, Ohio [maps.google.com], around 6:30 in the morning, while waiting for the drive-through liquor store to open. (The owner was nice enough to open early for us, so by 7:00, we were well on our way to drunkeness...)
Ah, the daze of my youth...
68. Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance.
67. Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they don't have time to learn the trade.
65. Help stamp out, abolish, do away with, and get rid of redundancy and repetition.
63. Don't trust anyone under 30.
grandpa, Why?
You won't trust me for the next 6 years? :)
[edited by: King_Fisher at 6:36 am (utc) on Aug. 28, 2007]
"Ever since puberty I have believed in the value of two things: kindness and clear thinking."
Because you never learned to count backwards! Its # 61!
I hope you were not responding to my question :), for the following reasons:
1. I was quoting grandpa, everything is in Italic.
2. I perfectly know how to count backwards, I started the thread :)
But, still want to hear from grandpa.
59. "Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly."
[edited by: Habtom at 11:47 am (utc) on Aug. 28, 2007]
A little more serious this one, but good for keeping spirits up during seemingly endless problems :)
is it new? or is it improved? darn...can't figure that one
#56 he is a nice guy
typically referred to a total moron who doesn't have other noticeable qualities
" Batteries not inculded"
" some assembly required"
#53 When all is said and done, more will be said than done.
#52
"Back to the drawing board"
Don't you mean "back to the keyboard"?...KF
-general douglas macarthur
#49 He grounds the warship he walks on.
For the non-native, it's a play on "he worships the ground 'she' walks on.
Clever? It's a ten.
Whip out your rhetoric books. ; )
If he GROUNDS the warship he walks upon, he is a poor sailor indeed...KF
But, still want to hear from grandpa.
In my youth, the phrase was 'Don't trust anyone over 30'. It served us well, I think. Nowadays, most people (not all) that I've met, under the age of 30, are irresponsible and untrustworthy. More than anything, however, the phrase really says to just hang with people your own age, IMO. (As I sit here writing this, listening to a woman my own age blabber away, I long for a different perspective.)
which makes post 2 more, but not related to age as much ..
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#47. You become who you hang out with...
and
#46. Everybody goes crazy their own way.
#45: "Give me a break"
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My dad used to say:
"The best way to maintain a monopoly is to treat your customers as if you don't have one"
~Norm Sterzenbach 09/21/1922 - 02/23/2007~
that "s***'s and giggles" expression is also sometimes spoken as "s***'s and grins"
its north american wide and not used by me
