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Besides, we weren't discussing how to thaw one out. I haven't lost one to frostbite yet  !
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Tom Waits, one of my favorite references for clever turns of phrase, describes being "colder than a well-digger's ass."
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> I know a cold damp one in the small of my back is damn uncomfortable and hard to find
My woodie's outside, covered with snow
New York's a lonely town
When you're the only surfer boy around.
But, Consuelo, always remember it's the thawed that counts.
There was a young man named Dickel,
Whose tool was a little icicle,
His wife was so frigid
It always stayed rigid,
and as cold and hard as a nickel.
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His younger brother Todd is even better than he is as a solo, but together they have done a great album called "For No Man"
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Taters.
Usage: "Eee, it's right taters out there".
Derivation: (Yokel accent) "Arrrrr, there'll be a frost on yer taters tonight".
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Hung like a Tic Tac hey consuelo?
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Where's Bean when you need her? There's gotta be some great Newfie sayings on this subject.
Bean.....Oh Bean.......??
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Cold as a cast-iron commode on the shady side of an iceberg.
Editing previous post, on newly-found authority:
Colder than a witch's tit in a cast-iron bra.
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"Eee, it's right taters out there".
Derivation: (Yokel accent) "Arrrrr, there'll be a frost on yer taters tonight".I always understood that "taters" came from Cockney rhyming slang "taters in the mold"=cold. "'taters"= Hippo*potatoes and "mold"= (in this context) soil or a heaped bank of soil, good for growing and pulling new potatoes, but before this descends (or ascends depending on your life view) into a food thread I move on to: Last night's Who Wants to be a Millionaire had a question on "Which biblical character is the name of a shark in Australia?". I worked out it was probably Noah from rhyming slang - Noah's Ark = Shark which was correct. Which in turn leads to: The same program started with a recall. A few months previously, a guy had been on £32,000 (GBP) which is a guarantee point in UK. His £64,000 question was: "What was Richard Sheridan's middle name?" and from (for example) Brinsley, Burroughs, Barnaby, Butler he guessed (nothing to lose) Butler. The computer said incorrect, should have chosen Brinsley and he went away happy with 32K. But, (as WE all know, right?) Sheridan also had a middle name of Butler. Several viewers pointed this out so he was recalled, starting at 64K. He then refused to answer the next question and went home with 64K. *To follow up on paulb's mention of Flanders and Swann (on which I was raised) you might like to look at: http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/lookup.cgi?ti=GLORIMUD&tt=GLORIMUD
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