Inspired by the Legend's "This and That"...have you ever just sat and wondered...?

Have you ever wondered where or how some "old sayings" get started....?1. He's tighter than Dick's hat band.Well...for sure Dick must have worn hats...and tight ones at that...and several folks must have noticed this and started gossipin about it.2. Colder than a well diggers butt.Did someone actually check....or did some dude say, " Dang my butt's cold"...while he was diggin a well.....?3.Slicker than owl s---/poop.Did this start because somebody stepped in it...or did they pick it up to analyze it to come this conclusion?4. Heres another "cold" one.....colder than a witch's....well you know what.( I'm not going to write that word on here twice in one week.) Were there thermometer's involved....?5. How about this one...."never look a gift horse in the mouth" I've heard this had something to do with that trojan horse deal waaaaay back in the day. But for years I've wondered....


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updated by @jeff-gilder: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM

Redder than a goat's ass in poke berry season.

Also why do drive up ATM's have braile? Why do you drive on parkways and park on driveways?

im wondering as to how such cold thoughts evolves on a site as hot as this one == surly someone done put an ice cube down where some ones thoughts arise from time to time but we will let that settle and maybe melt away

I've been doing this and that, and at this moment I find myself wondering... "shoot fire and save the matches." Can someone tell me what this means, exactly.

lol Devin said:

I've been doing this and that, and at this moment I find myself wondering... "shoot fire and save the matches." Can someone tell me what this means, exactly.

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hey, Devin, That one just doesn't EVEN make any sense, huh? through a little redneck research, the best answer that I could come up with is another question..."who would want to be the firefighter to put that kinda fire out?" Devin said:

I've been doing this and that, and at this moment I find myself wondering... "shoot fire and save the matches." Can someone tell me what this means, exactly.

how 'bout these? "Now that's slicker than whalesh*t on an iceberg!" or "It's rainin' like a cow p*ssin' on a flat rock" or my mom's favorite cliche when she saw some approaching bad weather, "Looks like it's comin' up a cloud" I actually love that one

We used to say that all the time when I was a kid, and I still don't know what it means. Devin said:

I've been doing this and that, and at this moment I find myself wondering... "shoot fire and save the matches." Can someone tell me what this means, exactly.

How 'bout you were born when a bird sh..(pooped) you on a post and the sun hatched you out. My mom always told me that. No remarks, Johnny!!Pete

I got one for you all. My grandma says this. This can pertain in an example to basketball. If your throwing up bricks at the basket, my grandma would say this. He couldnt hit a bear in the ass with a bass fiddle. Thats only of many, my grandma got from my great grandma. I think she could have wrote a book on those sayings.

Or you cant hit the broad side of a barn. Or that person is so ugly they would stop a crow in mid-air. Yeah it goes on-on with those sayings.

that makes you kissin cousin to a tic turd right Pete Banchoff said:

How 'bout you were born when a bird sh..(pooped) you on a post and the sun hatched you out. My mom always told me that. No remarks, Johnny!!
Pete

You beat me to the punch on this one. They used to say he couldn't hit a bears ass with a banjo in Spartanburg. Thomas K. Craig said:

I got one for you all. My grandma says this. This can pertain in an example to basketball. If your throwing up bricks at the basket, my grandma would say this. He couldnt hit a bear in the ass with a bass fiddle. Thats only of many, my grandma got from my great grandma. I think she could have wrote a book on those sayings.

are we country or what!

Yeah we are Jay. But I think we are all proud of it.

How about you draw a line about as straight as the bull pi$#*s. My Grandma always said that to me. No wonder I turned out like I did.LOLPete

That it does, Johnny!!!LOL johnny mallonee said:

that makes you kissin cousin to a tic turd right

Pete Banchoff said:

How 'bout you were born when a bird sh..(pooped) you on a post and the sun hatched you out. My mom always told me that. No remarks, Johnny!!
Pete

I like that, "looks like it's comin' up a cloud." greg minter said:

how 'bout these? "Now that's slicker than whalesh*t on an iceberg!" or "It's rainin' like a cow p*ssin' on a flat rock" or my mom's favorite cliche when she saw some approaching bad weather, "Looks like it's comin' up a cloud" I actually love that one

I don't know if this little phrase is 'region-specific', I heard it alot growin up in Va. Actually it's a complementary pick-up line for women, "Girl, I wish God would turn you into some seeds so I can plant a whole field of you!!"

Well i guess its time to tell ya-- If you substitute one word as you did you clean it up enough to say in front of your elders and people of importance ---but it really was a southern slang if you say " sh-t fire and save the matches" you have expressed a quote of W O W nothing else was a 60's saying look it up southern style Devin said:

I've been doing this and that, and at this moment I find myself wondering... "shoot fire and save the matches." Can someone tell me what this means, exactly.

Thanks, Johnny. Now I know. Makes sense. I'll stick with "shoot fire," as I first heard it. I guess someone was protecting my ears years ago. lol. johnny mallonee said:

Well i guess its time to tell ya-- If you substitute one word as you did you clean it up enough to say in front of your elders and people of importance ---but it really was a southern slang if you say " sh-t fire and save the matches" you have expressed a quote of W O W nothing else was a 60's saying look it up southern style

Devin said:

I've been doing this and that, and at this moment I find myself wondering... "shoot fire and save the matches." Can someone tell me what this means, exactly.

1.In the old world poor folks built their roofs out of straw and grass...when it rained the grass would become moldy, rotten and slick. Cats that crawled up on the roof would slip and fall through the rotten grass hence" It's raining cats and dogs.2. During this period folks used a big bath tub and all the family would bath in the same water, starting with the men, the boys, girls, mother and finally the babies. By the time the baby was washed the water would be so dirty that the baby would be the color of the water hence: Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.3. Folks would get so drunk drinking ale out of lead based cups that the alcohol would disolve enough lead that it would poison the person and put the person in a drunken coma. The towns folk would pick them up and deliver the body to the family where they would lie on the kitchen table for 3 days to see if the person awoke: Hence the word "Wake" as in modern day viewing of the body.Sometimes the person was presumed dead and would be buried alive. In times of floods coffins would occasionally wash out and when the coffin was opened there would be scratch marks on the inside where the person was buried alive. To solve the problem of burying someone alive the grave digger would attach a a bell on a pole above the buried coffin. On the bell a string was attached and was inserted into the coffin, if the presumed dead awoke they could pull the string and ring the bell where the person on watch would dig them up, hence "Saved by the bell" and "Graveyard shift". If the person was in fact dead the bell would not ring, hence "Dead ringer"These are true facts and now you know the rest of the story

That's pretty wild... so when u hear someone say that girl's a 'dead ringer' for marilyn monroe,we all know that it means a look-a-like, but how did they look upon a person like that in ...say...the time of the witchhunts, w/ fear? or even anger, thinking that the person rose from the dead? ...Hmmmn... cool info, Jim...kinda like the 'Book of Lists' type stuff, keep 'em comin' Jim Wilmore said:

1.In the old world poor folks built their roofs out of straw and grass...when it rained the grass would become moldy, rotten and slick. Cats that crawled up on the roof would slip and fall through the rotten grass hence" It's raining cats and dogs.
2. During this period folks used a big bath tub and all the family would bath in the same water, starting with the men, the boys, girls, mother and finally the babies. By the time the baby was washed the water would be so dirty that the baby would be the color of the water hence: Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
3. Folks would get so drunk drinking ale out of lead based cups that the alcohol would disolve enough lead that it would poison the person and put the person in a drunken coma. The towns folk would pick them up and deliver the body to the family where they would lie on the kitchen table for 3 days to see if the person awoke: Hence the word "Wake" as in modern day viewing of the body.
Sometimes the person was presumed dead and would be buried alive. In times of floods coffins would occasionally wash out and when the coffin was opened there would be scratch marks on the inside where the person was buried alive. To solve the problem of burying someone alive the grave digger would attach a a bell on a pole above the buried coffin. On the bell a string was attached and was inserted into the coffin, if the presumed dead awoke they could pull the string and ring the bell where the person on watch would dig them up, hence "Saved by the bell" and "Graveyard shift". If the person was in fact dead the bell would not ring, hence "Dead ringer"
These are true facts and now you know the rest of the story