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Quaint Quips & Quotes!

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The other night, my ex wife called & I answered the phone while coughing. I swallowed some air to quickly I guess. Well, I said to her, "it went down the wrong pipe" as she wanted to know what happened. She brazenly replied, "you only have one pipe."

I got to thinking about what she said & posted this thread with some things we say that are trivial in nature. Here are a few of the things I have said, so sound off with some of your favorites. As I think of more I will add later.

You don't believe fat meat is greasy!
It went down the wrong pipe!
Is it the real McCoy!
Don't bite the hand that feeds you!
You have bitten off more than you can chew!
Don't rain on my parade!

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Most of these sorts of phrases and proverbs can be traced to practical experience as in "biting the hand that feeds you", clever put downs "Would argue a black horse was a white one", or objects, products, tools, or inventions lost to memory, such as "The Real McCoy". Here's a clever piece on the Real McCoy, with several opinions for possible sources for the phrase.

From phrases.org.uk

"There are at least half a dozen theories about which of the myriad McCoys of America at the end of the nineteenth century is the genuinely real McCoy. Was it, as Alistair Cooke argued, a famous cattle baron? Or was it perhaps Elijah McCoy, who invented a machine to lubricate the moving parts of a railway locomotive? The broad consensus seems to be that it was Kid McCoy, the former welterweight boxing champion of the 1890s. He had so many imitators, taking his name in boxing booths in small towns throughout the country, that it seems he had eventually to bill himself as Kid "The Real" McCoy, and the phrase stuck.

The Oxford English Dictionary records this from a letter written by the author Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883: "He's the real Mackay". It's not only in a different spelling, but a decade before Kid McCoy became famous, and almost certainly refers to the famous Scottish firm of whisky makers."

A third alternative comes from the days of prohibition in the USA. Billy McCoy was an infamous smuggler of hard liquor from Canada into the eastern US seaboard. Since the articles were genuine and not home-brewed the they were "real McCoys"."
 
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Yea Pooshan,
My grandfather was a whiz at spouting off using some of those old sayings.

That log one is a classic.
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You sure of that Old Tv Nut!
Shouldn't that be Rocket Science? :scratch2:

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Granddad's always know the best sayings... One of my Grand-pap's favorites was applied to anyone he thought couldn't be trusted - He'd say; "That feller would sooner climb a tree to lie to you, than stand flat-footed on the ground and tell the truth".
 
A few of my favorites from my dad:

"Come hell or high water"
"God willing and the creek don't rise"
"Much obliged 'till you're better paid"
 
My ex-g/f's grandad, Hiram, was a salty old so'n'so...One of his favorites was, when people would come to visit was: "Make yerself t'home, which is where you oughta be..." He was Bethany's great-granfather, so she comes by her smart-aleckness pretty honest....
 
I came out with this one in a meeting and everyone roared with laughter - it is not original as far as I know.

"That sounds like a good idea, let's run it up the flagpole and see who salutes it"

And another one

"Alright, let's beat the bushes and see what runs out"

My mother also had a unique one - based on the old, he or she is "having kittens" expression (to indicate someone who is highly excited or apprehensive). She always used to say "having rows of jugs" - I don't know where it came from or why 'jugs'.

John
 
ozmoid said:
"a pig in a poke"
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Time to show what a nerd I am. "A pig in a poke" has the same origin as "let the cat out of the bag"

A poke was a type of sack, used to hold/carry small livestock (such as piglets) at markets etc. Sometimes dodgy merchants would try to pass of a cat as a piglet to an unsuspecting customer. So you should never buy "a pig in a poke" without looking inside. Always have a look inside you may just "let the cat out of the bag"
 
Klassic ones Ozmoid!
I heard some of the old folks I grew up using the gully washer line. I think it was my grandmother.

Nice,
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Ahhhh nice sentiment Dark Matter!
Kinda, reminds me of one that goes "her legs have been more open than the doors of a 7-11."

Klassic,
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Nice ones Rich PA!

I wish I had a dollar for all the times I have heard the "come hell or high water" line.

Now, the God willing line brings into play my spritual up bringing. Even today when I pray, I use "if it is God's will" when I talking to someone or refering to myself about doing something in the future. I was taught to honor God, in that, I do not own my own time here on this earth & if I am going to do something, it will be because He has allowed me to do so.

Great sentiment,
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Hi Sandy!
Wow, never heard that one. It just keeps on reminding how smart those old folks were, though many did not finish the third grade. Just a good old down home sentiment.
Gotta love the ole folks!

Nice,
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Hi Hyperion!
Man, I am enjoying this immensely & learning some new lines of whimsical sentiments. Like Sandy's, I am not familiar with these, nonetheless they are unique & get their points across.

Nice,
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