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as corny as Kansas in August
as high as the sky in July
(not referring to you dodyskin)
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as slow as molasses in January
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As dumb as a box of rocks.
Which are dumber, ignious, sedementary, or metamorphic?
Geoff, curious as a cat
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Which are dumber, ignious, sedementary, or metamorphic?I would guess ignorantious are dumber....unless maybe metamoronphic are..... 
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Which are dumber, ignious, sedementary, or metamorphic?Igneous is the closest sounding to ignoramus, so that must be the one  my last post for the day, so goodnight, Geoff
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these may have already been posted
as bright as a button
as dull as dishwater
as dead as a doornail (Dickens)
as mad as toast
as cunning as a very cunning fox that has just become professor of cunning at cunning university (off 'Blackadder' the telly programme)
as cheap as chips
as sound as a pound
as safe as houses
as pretty as a picture
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Well, MG and WC, I assumed Igneous to be the most hot-headed, sedementary the laziest, metamorphic the most amenable to change. Still dunno about dumbth, though.
Yesterday was 97 Farenheit (36.5 C) here, so I'm hot as a fox in a forest fire.
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Yo alexis, as happy as a sandboy is one of my favourites - a very common English/British phrase (apparently led to some confusion in the US when used in Bridget Jones's Diary**). I recently discovered the origin of the phrase. Thought I'd already posted the link on AWAD but can't find it now, so here it is again: http://www.briggs13.fsnet.co.uk/book/s.htm Capital Kiwi referred to another of my favourites, in a thread containing lots of happiness : http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=68894Oh, and yet another favourite (is this used anywhere other than England?): as camp as a row of tentsAnd here's a good one for rumination: as thick as thievesI checked and "thick" has no less than 6 meanings. This phrase uses one of the least common, I think. Fisk** Though not as much as "I'm dying for a fag"
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From dodyskin:
as mad as tost
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Where did that come from?
Robert
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as mad as toast
a mancunian saying, god knows where or how it originated, variations include "as mad as cheese" and "as mad as eggs".
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