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salmon
Joined: 03 Mar 2004
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 Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:42 pm Post subject: Re: Poles apart |
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| johnslat wrote: |
Dear senor boogie woogie,
Hola yourself, but no way am I touching that one - not with a ten foot Pole. Not even with a twelve foot Lithuanian.
Regards,
John |
Dear John, Seems you've gotten tired of the Proverbs thread or maybe you've been out for a few drinks, like myself, anyway ... thanks for all the information about the Dave's Cafe website: I've seen what you've said but then realised that it's already there on the official page as in Advice, course I should have looked there first. But that's the thing about 'manuals'; personally I hate them, they seem to complicate everything. What do you think? |
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003
Posts: 13859
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 11:04 pm Post subject: We don' need no stinkin' manuals |
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Dear salmon,
I can't speak for the ladies, but I have seldom met a guy who would even glance at the directions, manuals or anything else of that ilk. Nope, I suppose most of us - certainly I'm guilty - consider such folderol as an implied insult to our innate acumen (and you'll notice that it's acuMEN, not acuWOMEN). The usual result is that we/I screw up things royally and eventually, when all else fails, have to go back and actually READ the darn things.
" . . . maybe you've been out for a few drinks"
Nope, not me. To parphase a proverb:
You can lead this John to booze, but you can't make him drink (anymore).
I've been "on the wagon" for 2 1/2 years now and in AA ever since I got back to the States, last July. Talk about irony - for so many years in Saudi Arabia, where alcohol is illegal, I drank like, well, like a drunken sailor. Now that I'm back in the USA, where there's a booze shop on almost every corner, I'm dry as the Rub' al Khali (the Empty Quarter).
http://66.218.71.225/search/cache?p=The+Empty+Quarter+in+Saudi+Arabia&ei=UTF-8&cop=mss&u=asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/gallery.htm%3Fname%3DSaudi&w=the+empty+quarter+in+saudi+arabia&d=FB01C0940A&c=482&yc=36963&icp=1
It's a funny old life, isn't it?
Regards,
John |
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Capergirl
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
Posts: 1232
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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| leeroy wrote: |
"You look like death warmed up!"
"You're dicing with death!"
"He was at death's door..."
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I've heard "you look like death warmed over" and the third one, but not the second one.
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Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. |
I've heard both of these. I was going to correct Khmerhit on the brass monkey one, but you beat me to it, Shaman.  It's a popular phrase here in Eastern Canada in the wintertime.
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| Full of piss and vinegar. |
Isn't that more of an idiomatic expression than a proverb?  |
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khmerhit
Joined: 31 May 2003
Posts: 1874
Location: Reverse Culture Shock Unit
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a trite maxim; a similitude; a parable. The Hebrew word thus rendered (mashal) has a wide signification. It comes from a root meaning "to be like," "parable." Rendered "proverb" in Isa. 14:4; Hab. 2:6; "dark saying" in Ps. 49:4, Num. 12:8. Ahab's defiant words in answer to the insolent demands of Benhadad, "Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off," is a well known instance of a proverbial saying (1 Kings 20:11). |
By Jove, you're right! OK...
How about ---
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| As full of piss and vinegar as a Cape Breton.....puffin. |
I stand corrected. Again.
KH |
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