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04-04-2008, 10:43 AM
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owl snot ~ fence-tearer ~ throat-wash ~ aiming-water ~ curved drink ~ priest-grumbler ~ lag/convict-griller are all Hungarian expessions for booze, the last two being strong and of inferior quality
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04-04-2008, 09:54 AM
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I read a variation once in a book on quotations and sayings: I'll screw this chicken. You hold the beak. I've never heard of it before or since. It was supposed to be a saying about "leadership". I can't say that I'd take a leader very seriously if he told me something like that. But it never occurred to me to swap it around like that. I like this one better. I'll have to make a note to use it sometime. |
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04-04-2008, 10:54 AM
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couldn't find his ass with both hands and a flashlight.
Couldn't find his ass with both hands in his back pockets couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
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04-04-2008, 11:04 AM
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excursions
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oh, go piss up a flagpole!
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04-04-2008, 11:12 AM
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waaaaaaa :)
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^I got a one with a related picture - which I just used during the ciggie break
Ach, scheiß doch die Wand an! approximately: Oh, do shit on the wall! meaning: Oh, whatever! |
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04-04-2008, 11:25 AM
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Go on, before I snatch you bald-headed!
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04-04-2008, 02:21 PM
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landscaping is fun
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two from new jersey (I think?)
not for nothin' ...but... then you follow it with a sarcastic comment like "he really is an assh*le!" does he walk to work or carry his lunch? I still don't know what the hell this means.  but it drove me nuts at work because the stupid civil engineers used it all the time. it was like hearing fingernails scratching a blackboard. |
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04-04-2008, 05:27 PM
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Bird of Prey
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If you walk to work, then you're close enough to walk home for lunch, and make it back in time for work. But if you don't live close enough to work, then you have to drive, so you might as well bring your lunch with you in the morning. Civil engineers, or any engineers probably get a kick out of it because in logic, two conditions separated by an or have to be mutually exclusive, which, obviously, these two statements are not. |
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04-05-2008, 01:52 AM
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landscaping is fun
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04-04-2008, 02:32 PM
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Trying to herd cats.
Trying to nail Jell-O to the wall
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04-04-2008, 10:02 PM
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All That
All branch, no bole, All beep, no back, All heel, no sole, All reach, no tack; All hull, no sail, All gee, no haw, All bilge, no bail, All hiss, no claw; All bark, no bite, All boy, no scout, All mail, no knight, All no, no doubt; All plug, no play, All bump, no grind, All straight, no gay, All waste, no mind; All horn, no Satch, All feel, no know, All call, no catch, All catch, no throw; All swing, no hit, All lead, no steal, All measure, no fit, All offer, no deal; All bid, no buy, All leer, no schwing, All spatter, no fry, All prayer, no wing; All mud, no wallow, All chew, no spit, All spit, no swallow, All pot, no shit; All Paris, no Hector, All sign, no road, All thrust, no vector, All booster, no load.
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04-04-2008, 11:05 PM
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earth worker
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I got the style but not the grace
I got the clothes but not the face I got the bread but not the butter I got the winda but not the shutter But I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan but heh I'm big in Japan I got the house but not the deed I got the horn but not the reed I got the cards but not the luck I got the wheel but not the truck But I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan but heh I'm big in Japan I got the moon I got the cheese I got the whole damn nation On its knees I got the rooster I got the crow I got the ebb I got the flow I got the powder but not the gun I got the dog but not the bun I got the clouds but not the sky I got the stripes but not the tie But I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan but heh I'm big in Japan Heh ho they love the way I do it Heh ho there's really nothing to it I got the moon I got the cheese I got the whole damn nation on their knees I got the rooster I got the crow I got the ebb I got the flow I got the sizzle but not the steak I got the boat but not the lake I got the sheets but not the bed I got the jam but not the bread But I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan but heh I'm big in Japan |
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04-05-2008, 09:30 AM
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busy as a one-armed paper-hanger
busy as a one-legged man at a butt-kicking contest...
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04-07-2008, 08:56 PM
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excursions
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gloomy gus
debbie downer happy as larry serious sam
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04-09-2008, 05:16 AM
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in limbo
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zeven kleuren schijten / ik schijt alle kleuren van de regenboog
to shit seven colors / i'm shitting all colors of the rainbow to be very scared |
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