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Old 07-23-2017, 10:31 AM
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When I was a critical care nurse I lived a time in the South and my of my very nice new friend, during a conversation said, "I didn't know him from Adam's house cat". Wow.
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I heard this in a movie...."I didn't know him from Adam".
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Old 07-23-2017, 04:12 PM
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Happy as a clam.
Yeah. Are clams that much happier than oysters?
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Old 07-23-2017, 04:17 PM
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This one makes sense, but it's too cute not to share. Another coworker was full of little sayings, "handier than a pocket on a t-shirt", etc. But whenever we had to get into one of the little buggies, or were slowly prepping for a task, we were "off like a herd of turtles."
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Old 07-23-2017, 07:33 PM
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Being at sixes and sevens, never made sense to me.
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Old 07-23-2017, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by KwiltyKahy View Post
Being at sixes and sevens, never made sense to me.
I never understood that either. I know what it means, I just don't get what sixes and sevens are.
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Old 07-24-2017, 10:57 PM
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Colder than the knob on an outhouse door, colder than the heart of a Baltimore whore
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Old 07-25-2017, 03:35 AM
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"Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" never made sense to me, until my son and I took a tour at a military museum in London. Turns out the "brass monkey" was a plate with holes cut in it. Cannon balls would be stacked on top of the plate. When it got cold enough, the metal in the plate would constrict at a faster rate than the metal in the cannon balls, and they would end up rolling out of the holes in the plate, with the whole stack collapsing and going everywhere.
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Just last night my stepdaughter, who lives in Georgia, and I were moaning and groaning about "getting old". She said "well, it's better than a dirt nap". I thought it was just one of these sayings that don't really mean anything but eventually she had to explain it means being dead and buried.
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Old 07-25-2017, 05:31 PM
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One I thought of today....."clean as a whistle."

Full of saliva, bobbing up and down on a coach's sweaty chest... mmhh....sure.
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These are so good. I am really enjoying them! LOL!
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