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Floyd R. Turbo

(26,548 posts) Tue Dec 11, 2018, 05:43 PM Dec 2018

I hate it when people get sayings wrong! After all, it's not

rocket surgery!

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I hate it when people get sayings wrong! After all, it's not (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Dec 2018 OP

Argh! Mixed metaphors really rub me up the wrong tree! unblock Dec 2018 #1

Hahahaha! 👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Dec 2018 #2

A bird in the hand is worth two doggy dogs! (nt) klook Dec 2018 #3

You really hit the head on the nail with this one, Floyd Bradshaw3 Dec 2018 #4

No need to put him on a pedal stool. Ron Obvious Dec 2018 #8

Good one! Bradshaw3 Dec 2018 #16

Yes. Turbineguy Dec 2018 #5

Mixing metaphors is like... coolsimo Dec 2018 #6

You know what they say TlalocW Dec 2018 #7

Let me write that down True Dough Dec 2018 #11

What is a Katzen dog? Generic Brad Dec 2018 #9

Argh. I worked with someone who kept saying "Prove it to the pudding." Liberal Veteran Dec 2018 #10

I've never had anyone TlalocW Dec 2018 #12

No, it was just her. Liberal Veteran Dec 2018 #13

Well, that's how the ball crumbles... zanana1 Dec 2018 #14

The exception 'proves' the rule. sarge43 Dec 2018 #15

It was a case of two sheep that passed in the night Ron Obvious Dec 2018 #17

One meat is a Frenchman's poisson struggle4progress Dec 2018 #18

Trying to jump into conclusions with both feet, he fell off the bandwagon struggle4progress Dec 2018 #19

Knock a chip off the old blockhead! struggle4progress Dec 2018 #20

You can hide but you can't run if the shoe fits on the other foot struggle4progress Dec 2018 #21

The thorn in the ointment unc70 Dec 2018 #22

unblock

(52,243 posts)

1. Argh! Mixed metaphors really rub me up the wrong tree!

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Dec 11, 2018, 05:47 PM

Dec 2018

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,548 posts)

2. Hahahaha! 👍🏻

Reply to unblock (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 11, 2018, 05:48 PM

Dec 2018

klook

(12,155 posts)

3. A bird in the hand is worth two doggy dogs! (nt)

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Dec 11, 2018, 05:49 PM

Dec 2018

Bradshaw3

(7,522 posts)

4. You really hit the head on the nail with this one, Floyd

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Dec 11, 2018, 05:53 PM

Dec 2018

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

8. No need to put him on a pedal stool.

Reply to Bradshaw3 (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 11, 2018, 09:57 PM

Dec 2018

Bradshaw3

(7,522 posts)

16. Good one!

Reply to Ron Obvious (Reply #8)

Wed Dec 12, 2018, 11:50 AM

Dec 2018

Turbineguy

(37,337 posts)

5. Yes.

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Dec 11, 2018, 05:55 PM

Dec 2018

They snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

coolsimo

(26 posts)

6. Mixing metaphors is like...

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Dec 11, 2018, 05:57 PM

Dec 2018

... getting two birds stoned at once.

TlalocW

(15,383 posts)

7. You know what they say

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Dec 11, 2018, 07:44 PM

Dec 2018

You can drag a horse to water, but you can't throw pearls at him to make him sew a silk purse out of a pig in a poke even after the cat has been let out of the whole nine yards of its bag.

TlalocW

True Dough

(17,305 posts)

11. Let me write that down

Reply to TlalocW (Reply #7)

Tue Dec 11, 2018, 10:56 PM

Dec 2018

GENIUS!

Generic Brad

(14,275 posts)

9. What is a Katzen dog?

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Dec 11, 2018, 10:04 PM

Dec 2018

How can it possibly ever rain Katzen dogs when we don't even know what they are?

Liberal Veteran

(22,239 posts)

10. Argh. I worked with someone who kept saying "Prove it to the pudding."

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Dec 11, 2018, 10:29 PM

Dec 2018

The first couple of times, I thought I just had a stroke and misheard her.

About the fifth time, I had to resist the overwhelming urge to scream at the top of my lungs "THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING IS IN THE EATING! or if you must THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING! You aren't proving anything to the god-damned pudding!"