Funny Terms and Names!

ERNIEB · Apr 8, 2001

"Ice House" In this part of Texas a convience store is called an "Ice House". I've noticed that for some reason this seems to amuse visitors to this area.
When I was in the Army I worked with an old sargeant, who was often asked how long he had been in. He had two standard replies. One was " I've been in so long I was DRO at the last supper." (DRO is dining room orderly, a task assigned to KP's back when they had them.)
The other, "I've been in so long I was road guard for Mosses when he crossed the Red Sea."(when a unit on the march approaches an intersection, soldiers are sent ahead to stop cross traffic. They are called road guards.)
Finally, from the TexMex in this area there is an expression that I get a kick out of. It refers to a conspiracy, mainly when corruption is involved " Se tampon con el mismo fresada"
Translation "They cover themselves with the same blanket"

Ernie
"Thermopylae had its messenger of defeat; the Alamo has none." - graffito found on a wall of the Alamo, 1836

toddler · Apr 8, 2001

Hey DaveNH,
Whenever somebody around here says, "He's not the sharpest tool in the shed." Somebody else seems to chime in, "Nor the brightest."

Here's an expression I learned from my wife, I'm sure Pete's heard it. It actually comes in three parts, you can use part 1, 1and2, or 1,2,and3, depending on how cold it is, but usually one person starts it, and someone else finishes it. I guess it's how we commisserate over how cold our sorry buts are mid winter./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

It's colder than a witches tit.

Wearing a cast iron bra.

Doing push-ups in the snow.

You warm climate types must have a few choice expressions for the hot weather.?? Let me know and maybe I'll try one out if we get any "smoking"/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif 80° days this summer./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Todd

Boondox · Apr 8, 2001

Speaking of cold, I was on a nuke sub that surfaced near the North Pole. Bitterly cold up there. Dry cold. Not sure who first figured it out, but if you peed off the sail it froze before hitting the hull with a light tinkle sound. Gave new meaning to the phrase, "I've gotta tinkle."

Pete

www.GatewayToVermont.com

TraderMark · Apr 9, 2001

"Grinnin like a mule eatin briars"
or
"Grinnin like a possum with a mouthful of bumblebees"

"tighter than Dick's hatband"
"dry as a snuffmaker's fart"
"That won't last as long as Pat stayed in the Army."

MarkV · Apr 9, 2001

"Not the brightest bulb in the hall"

"Walk'en alone" (not married)

"What ever trips your trigger"

Anonymous Poster · Apr 9, 2001

To express cold weather:

"Colder than a welldigger's toe."

And for someone who is doing something that is not very bright:

"He appears to be suffering from a rectal-cranial inversion."

RobS · Apr 9, 2001

Doesn't have both oars in the water.

Driveway doesn't go all the way to the street.

A dime shy of making change.

GlueGuy · Apr 9, 2001

I've heard dozens of those types of expressions. Here are a few:

A couple sandwiches short of a picnic.

Lights are on, but nobody's home.

Elevator doesn't go to the top floor.

Shaking his head sounds like a mustard seed in a railcar.

If his IQ were 3 points higher, he'd be classified as a geranium.

A few buckets short of a load.

The GlueGuy

Anonymous Poster · Apr 9, 2001

"You could wrap his brain in tinfoil , shove it up a gnats' butt and it would rattle like a BB in a box car".

Roy · Apr 9, 2001

'He suffers from optical rectumitus.' Medical term for when the optic nerve crosses the rectum nerve, causing a sh*tty outlook on life! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Roy

DaveNH · Apr 9, 2001

Between "INSERT NAME HERE" and me, we know everything in the world. "NAME" knows everything except that he's an ass...., and I know that!

We're all in this together! (3)
Executive Yuppie Tractor Owner
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Roy · Apr 9, 2001

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Roy

Boondox · Apr 9, 2001

Another medical term: cranio-rectal inversion

Pete

www.GatewayToVermont.com

Roy · Apr 10, 2001

Pete; Is that a 'swapping' of the head and buttock?

Roy

toddler · Apr 10, 2001

There's always,
"Bats in his bellfry" (sp?)
"Brain Fart",
and one that I'm learning to love,
the old, "Senior Moment"!
I seem to be having a lot of those lately.
Todd

GlueGuy · Apr 10, 2001

The "Senior Moment" reminds me of one I got last year:

There's nothing wrong with my memory. I just don't always get same day service.

The GlueGuy

PapaRoakes · Jun 15, 2001

Up here in the one syllable state (that would be Maine) they say there's only two types of folks. "Them that was bawn heah, and them that's "from away".

PapaRoakes

Hawgee · Jun 15, 2001

Before baseball cards it would have been, "Sharp as a marble".
If this thread was any shorter I'd say it was so flat it's only got one side.
I'm close to Microsoft and am aware of the many nationalities that contribute to the software industry. But up on the Canadian border where some don't use the computer, the new non native that sells the American beer back to the weekend Canadian is know as the towel head. Wonder how long that one will last???
I'll remind you haw_gee is for left and right when driving draft horses. I'm right handed and the docs say that means I think in my left brain lobe. Proof positive I'm not in my right mind. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif But the coffee keeps me @ a good frequency.

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

jdkid · Jun 15, 2001

Hi ya's
my grandfather used to come up with a few

colder than a stepmothers smile
sleepin in the star motel (camping out)
were ya born in a tent (shut the door ya lettin the heat out)
ya make a better door than a window(ya blockin my view)
ya can't fatten thoroghbreads (why i'm skinny) the come back is "or stray cats!!"
wouldn't know s#!t from clay (dumb)
5/8's of f#$k all (as in "i got 5/8's of F#$k all when i traded my tractor!!"
catch ya's
JD Kid