It's on like Donkey Kong!
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It's on like Donkey Kong!
Sad for Wolfman.
It's on like Donkey Kong!
What?
It's darkest just before dawn.
I understand the concept, but is it true?
Low man on the totem pole.
The figures placed lower on a totem pole are usually more respected, right?
The proof is in the pudding.
Huh? Where?
I could care less.
Grammar!
Raining cats and dogs.
On an acid trip.
Going to hell in a handbasket.
If you're tiny, like Derron.
Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
uhhh...
Blow your socks off.
No thanks.
Others?
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"It''s not dark yet--but it's getting there". -- Bob Dylan
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"Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teaches my hands to the war, and my fingers to fight."
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"Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teaches my hands to the war, and my fingers to fight."
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I wasn't aware heroin use was a big problem in Korea.
Get help, you crazy fukk.
Get help, you crazy fukk.
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Re: It's on like Donkey Kong!
Do you want to explain It's on like Donkey Kong?
Or The proof is in the pudding?
Or... how you got rolled by that other old dude? :)
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3BB = FANTASTIC game.
Looking forward to it.
Anyone not IN is just simply -----> sick in the head.
Looking forward to it.
Anyone not IN is just simply -----> sick in the head.
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This "rhyme" was popularized by Ice Cube when he used it in the song "Now I gotta Wet'cha". It is unknown whether Ice Cube was the person that originally coined the phrase. Basically means that it's time to throw down or compete at a high level, or that something is about to go down.
The proof is in the pudding is a bastardization of an old proverb. The original version is the proof of the pudding is in the eating, meaning you had to try out food to know whether it was good.The proof is in the pudding.
Originated when houses had thatched roofs where mice and other vermin would call home. When it rained hard, the rodents would fall out of the roofs into the homes. I guess raining cats & dogs was more colorful and descriptive of heavy rainfall than raining rats & mice.Raining cats and dogs.
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It's hotter than shit
Shit is generally produced at about 98.6 deg F.
So I guess if it's 99 or higher it really is hotter than shit.
Shit is generally produced at about 98.6 deg F.
So I guess if it's 99 or higher it really is hotter than shit.
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Thanks, Smackie.
Interesting.
Good point, Mikey.
One of the more annoying phrases used among political talking heads these days is, "Let's unpack this."
Interesting.
Good point, Mikey.
One of the more annoying phrases used among political talking heads these days is, "Let's unpack this."
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A wake, defined as a watch or vigil held beside the body of someone who has died, is called such because sometimes the bodies weren't really lifeless, and they would awaken after being presumed dead.
Dead ringer comes from American horse racing and originated at the end of the 19th century, when a horse that would be raced under a false name and pedigree was called a ringer. The word dead in this expression refers not to lifelessness, but to precise or exact. However, I read some time ago that it originated from when people would be buried with a string around their wrist tied to a bell above ground. Some folks were, unfortunately, interred prematurely, and if they awoke in the coffin, there were watchmen who would hear the bell ring and rush to have them dug up, which also led to the expression saved by the bell. This may not be true, but hey, why let facts get in the way of a good story?
Along the same lines, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water" is popularly believed to have originated in medieval times when water for bathing was scarce and baths were seldom taken. When they were, whole families would bathe in the same water, from the patriarch down the pecking order to the youngest child. By the time the youngest was finished bathing, the water was basically black, and care would have to be taken when draining the tub not to throw the baby out with the bath water. This is, sadly, also not true, but the expression did originate in the 1500s (1512, to be exact) in Germany as Schüttet das Kind mit dem Bade aus as part of a satirical work that translates to Appeal to Fools. The phrase was part of everyday German language from then onward but didn't emerge in English until the 19th century, when it was translated in an essay denouncing slavery entitled Occasional Discourse on the mvscal Question written in 1849.
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At the alehouse in which our team won at trivia tonight, our table was next to a vintage Donkey Kong arcade game.
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Damn, that was morbid and educational at the same time, Smackie.
Quite a skill.
Dead as a doornail
Bite the dust -- or Bite it
Kick the bucket
Swan song
Quite a skill.
Dead as a doornail
Bite the dust -- or Bite it
Kick the bucket
Swan song
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Dead as a doornail
"Dead as a doornail is a phrase which means not alive, unequivocally deceased. The term goes back to the 1300s, the phrase dead as a doornail is found in poems of the time. The term dead as a doornail was used in the 1500s by William Shakespeare, and in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in 1843. It is thought that the phrase dead as a doornail comes from the manner of securing doornails that were hammered into a door by clenching them. Clenching is the practice of bending over the protruding end of the nail and hammering it into the wood. When a nail has been clenched, it has been dead nailed, and is not easily resurrected to use again. An alternative wording of the phrase dead as a doornail is deader than a doornail."
"Dead as a doornail is a phrase which means not alive, unequivocally deceased. The term goes back to the 1300s, the phrase dead as a doornail is found in poems of the time. The term dead as a doornail was used in the 1500s by William Shakespeare, and in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in 1843. It is thought that the phrase dead as a doornail comes from the manner of securing doornails that were hammered into a door by clenching them. Clenching is the practice of bending over the protruding end of the nail and hammering it into the wood. When a nail has been clenched, it has been dead nailed, and is not easily resurrected to use again. An alternative wording of the phrase dead as a doornail is deader than a doornail."
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Imagine someone falling down, wounded or dead, literally biting the dust (ground). The earliest citation is from 1750 by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett, in his Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane: "We made two of them bite the dust, and the others betake themselves to flight." A variation, lick the dust, is found in the Bible, where there are several uses of it, including Psalms 72 (King James Version), 1611: "They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him and his enemies shall lick the dust."
The wooden frame that was used to hang animals up by their feet for slaughter was called a bucket. The beasts were likely to struggle or spasm after death and hence kick the bucket.Kick the bucket
This term derived from the legend that, while they are mute during the rest of their lives, swans sing beautifully and mournfully just before they die. This isn't true - swans have a variety of vocal sounds and they don't sing before they die. The legend was known to be false as early as the days of ancient Rome, when Pliny the Elder refuted it in Natural History, AD 77: "Observation shows that the story that the dying swan sings is false."Swan song
More importantly, however, is that Bad Company's eponymous debut album was the first to be released on Led Zeppelin's Swan Song label. If I recall correctly, Physical Graffiti was supposed to be first, but for reasons I don't remember, its release was delayed and Bad Company beat it to the punch.
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Smackie wrote:The wooden frame that was used to hang animals up by their feet for slaughter was called a bucket. The beasts were likely to struggle or spasm after death and hence kick the bucket.
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Hell in a bucket
"Going to hell in a handbasket", "going to hell in a handcart", "going to hell in a handbag", "go to hell in a bucket",[1] "sending something to hell in a handbasket" and "something being like hell in a handbasket" are variations on an American allegorical locution of unclear origin, which describes a situation headed for disaster inescapably or precipitately.
I. Windslow Ayer's 1865 polemic[2] alleges, "Judge Morris of the Circuit Court of Illinois at an August meeting of Order of the Sons of Liberty said: "Thousands of our best men were prisoners in Camp Douglas, and if once at liberty would 'send abolitionists to hell in a hand basket.
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You imagine me sipping champagne from your boot
For taste of your elegant pride
I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe
But at least I'm enjoying the ride, at least I'll enjoy the ride.
(Thanks John Perry Barlow)
"Going to hell in a handbasket", "going to hell in a handcart", "going to hell in a handbag", "go to hell in a bucket",[1] "sending something to hell in a handbasket" and "something being like hell in a handbasket" are variations on an American allegorical locution of unclear origin, which describes a situation headed for disaster inescapably or precipitately.
I. Windslow Ayer's 1865 polemic[2] alleges, "Judge Morris of the Circuit Court of Illinois at an August meeting of Order of the Sons of Liberty said: "Thousands of our best men were prisoners in Camp Douglas, and if once at liberty would 'send abolitionists to hell in a hand basket.
or
You imagine me sipping champagne from your boot
For taste of your elegant pride
I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe
But at least I'm enjoying the ride, at least I'll enjoy the ride.
(Thanks John Perry Barlow)
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Left hand monkey wrench
A monkey wrench is a type of wrench most often used by plumbers. It is symmetrical so there is no such thing as a left-handed (or right-handed) one. You can play a practical joke on someone who doesn't know much about tools by sending them in search of a left-handed monkey wrench.
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Abraham and Isaac
sitting on a fence
You'd get right to work
if you had any sense
Y'know the one thing we need
is a left-hand monkey wrench
(Thanks Robert Hunter)
A monkey wrench is a type of wrench most often used by plumbers. It is symmetrical so there is no such thing as a left-handed (or right-handed) one. You can play a practical joke on someone who doesn't know much about tools by sending them in search of a left-handed monkey wrench.
or
Abraham and Isaac
sitting on a fence
You'd get right to work
if you had any sense
Y'know the one thing we need
is a left-hand monkey wrench
(Thanks Robert Hunter)
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Mikey
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“Well regulated militia”
A well regulated militia is one the runs well. This is similar to a well regulated carburetor. It is NOT a militia with “good” or voluminous regulations.
A well regulated militia is one the runs well. This is similar to a well regulated carburetor. It is NOT a militia with “good” or voluminous regulations.
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So, Queerland -- if we get the gorilla to apologize for throwing all those barrels down the scaffolding at you back in the 80's, will you stop being such a whiny douche?
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I'll wait for mvscal to drive by and educate us on this.Mikey wrote:I. Windslow Ayer's 1865 polemic[2] alleges, "Judge Morris of the Circuit Court of Illinois at an August meeting of Order of the Sons of Liberty said: "Thousands of our best men were prisoners in Camp Douglas, and if once at liberty would 'send abolitionists to hell in a hand basket.
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