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Cronos69 wrote:Did you know that a popular German swear was "Heilig Splechle(sp)"?

Loosely translated it meant "Holy Sheetmetal". No joke, a foreign exchange student told us this. I think that's awesome.
Sounds like something from the old Batman TV show.
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A couple of my friends always say "cheese 'n rice" when they don't want to take the lords name in vain.

When talking about someone who is stupid I'll say they are "dumber than a bag of hammers". Don't know where I got it from and it's kinda stupid itself but I still do it.

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Hudler wrote:When talking about someone who is stupid I'll say they are "dumber than a bag of hammers".
Our neighbor uses the phrase "dumb as a stump" a lot.

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Radbird wrote:
Hudler wrote:When talking about someone who is stupid I'll say they are "dumber than a bag of hammers".
Our neighbor uses the phrase "dumb as a stump" a lot.
I wonder who they are referring to when they say that. :P

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Leroy wrote:
Radbird wrote:
Hudler wrote:When talking about someone who is stupid I'll say they are "dumber than a bag of hammers".
Our neighbor uses the phrase "dumb as a stump" a lot.
I wonder who they are referring to when they say that. :P
I've never been able to figure that out. They're very cryptic people. :-s

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ghostrunner wrote:"S__ on a stick."
One of my college buddies used to say that all the time. It was twice as funny because he had a high pitched country accent. I'd never heard it before I met him. I'm guessing he inherited that one from his parents. And yes, I made fun of him for it.

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Leroy wrote:
Radbird wrote:
Hudler wrote:When talking about someone who is stupid I'll say they are "dumber than a bag of hammers".
Our neighbor uses the phrase "dumb as a stump" a lot.
I wonder who they are referring to when they say that. :P
We used that phrase so much on one guy that I work with, so that eventually his nickname became "stump". To this day, people call him "stump", and most people don't even know why.

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Cronos69 wrote:I will often say "Shiitake" (as in the japanese mushroom) in place of the other word it closely resembles.
But how often does George Pataki actually come up in your conversations?? :?
Hudler wrote:A couple of my friends always say "cheese 'n rice" when they don't want to take the lords name in vain.
Are you from Indiana? I had a college roommate who would constantly say cheese 'n' rice. Drove me nuts.

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sighyoung wrote:I had a friend in college who, whenever he saw a beautiful woman, would say, "I'd eat the corn out of her s&^%."
That is vile.

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jim wrote:
sighyoung wrote:I had a friend in college who, whenever he saw a beautiful woman, would say, "I'd eat the corn out of her s&^%."
That is vile.
He was vile, believe me.

He had another nugget of wisdom: "Everybody needs a friend who's an *sshole, and I'm yours."

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