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#11190 11/30/00 10:23 PM
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Didn't know his ass from a hole in the ground

I prefer the world-famous doesn't know his arse from his elbow.
Whilst less "in your face", it wins easily on surreality points.

Give us this day our Dali bread (TEd)..



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Does that make an ayleur a really ancient grandfather?

Yes, Max - so ancient that we thought him dead already, and may have buried him prematurely




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here's a whole site full of phrases http://www.shu.ac.uk/web-admin/phrases/list/

Hell's teeth, tsuwm, you've done it again!




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if B...s..t was music, he'd be a brass band

Similarly "If wit were sh*t you'd be constipated"

...which reminds me of another expression that the chefs used to apply to us waiters in bygone days

"If you had a brain you'd be dangerous"



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"A woman needs a man like a fish..." oh, never mind

How about we switch over to the expression "as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike"?

Then tsuwm finds ashtrayonamotorbike.com and you, dear Annatie, invite the site's creator/creatrix aBoard.

And (to cut a very long story short) we all live even more happily ever after.




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A common expression we say (French Québecois)when someone is complaining about having to do something that is not really all that difficult: écoute, c'est pas la mer à boire / listen up, it's not the sea to drink

Does anyone have anything similar? I seem to recall some English expression about not crying in oatmeal (or some other food).



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Ichthys says: "...which reminds me of another expression that the chefs used to apply to us waiters in bygone days ..." I am put in mind of the delightful English television comedy "Chef" in which the conversation between the chef and the waiters was a model of abuse.



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bel,

Are you, peut-être, thinking of the expression "It's no use crying over spilt milk" (it's no use regretting something that is done, especially if it's trivial and easily fixed)?


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>as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike

shona, this reminds me of that great philosophical question: what's the difference between a duck?


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>that great philosophical question: what's the difference between a duck?

My initial reaction was "It's just a matter of a pinion", but I believe the traditional response is "One of its legs are both the same". Makes as much sense as many of our postings.

My father was fond of asking "How long is a piece of string?"



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