Country sayings

[bandit80]

My son is now 8, and I am coaching basketball to him and some boys from a larger town at the local YMCA. This evening at practice, a couple of them were running around wild and not paying attention. So I raised my voice and told them to quit running around like a chicken with its head cut off. The looks of confusion on their faces was priceless. They had obviously never heard that, and one boy asked "how can a chicken run around with mo head?"

At least I got their attention. :lol2:

 

[Jogeephus]

Now you went and done it. I hope there aren't any chickens around cause I got a feeling that boy might try an experiment and in today's times he will be in counselling and forced to take a bunch of pills the rest of his life.

 

[greybeard]

peta will giving you a call and there will be some additional questions on your next Ag Census form..

 

[Jogeephus]

Yes, you are on THE LIST now. :lol2: :lol2:

 

[Kingfisher]

You "raised your voice?". Oh my....that AG census will be your least of worries.....

 

[Ryder]

You "raised your voice?". Oh my....that AG census will be your least of worries.....

Is that sort of like hollerin' real loud?

 

[bandit80]

Nah, if I would have hollered, the whole Y would have known it.

 

[Tom in TN]

Bandit,

Some years ago I was managing a major project for a nationwide company. This particular time, the project activity was in San Francisco. The customer's project manager was a lady of obvious Oriental descent. The project involved bringing in a workforce of about 20 people to work simultaneously on tasks that would be done overnight.

I was talking to the customer's project manager and I was describing the tasks that would be done that night. I caught myself in mid-sentence telling her that when the crew arrived and started their tasks that it would look like a "Chinese fire drill". The moment I realized what I was saying, I immediately stopped in mid-sentence and hurried away to handle a "crisis".

Sometimes our familiar sayings don't work out as well as we want them to.

Tom in TN

 

[dun]

Bandit,

Some years ago I was managing a major project for a nationwide company. This particular time, the project activity was in San Francisco. The customer's project manager was a lady of obvious Oriental descent. The project involved bringing in a workforce of about 20 people to work simultaneously on tasks that would be done overnight.

I was talking to the customer's project manager and I was describing the tasks that would be done that night. I caught myself in mid-sentence telling her that when the crew arrived and started their tasks that it would look like a "Chinese fire drill". The moment I realized what I was saying, I immediately stopped in mid-sentence and hurried away to handle a "crisis".

Sometimes our familiar sayings don't work out as well as we want them to.

Tom in TN

When I was just a kid we had a girl move down from Canada, she was very well endowed for her age and embarassed by it but also stuck up as could be. I once referred to her as acting like a stuffed shirt. She got really mad until one of the nuns exlained the saying to her.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

Bandit,

Some years ago I was managing a major project for a nationwide company. This particular time, the project activity was in San Francisco. The customer's project manager was a lady of obvious Oriental descent. The project involved bringing in a workforce of about 20 people to work simultaneously on tasks that would be done overnight.

I was talking to the customer's project manager and I was describing the tasks that would be done that night. I caught myself in mid-sentence telling her that when the crew arrived and started their tasks that it would look like a "Chinese fire drill". The moment I realized what I was saying, I immediately stopped in mid-sentence and hurried away to handle a "crisis".

Sometimes our familiar sayings don't work out as well as we want them to.
Tom in TN

you never know... she could have been korean ,and thought it was funny... :cowboy:

 

[TexasBred]

Depending on where you are it's always "A fly in the buttermilk" instead of a ^&%&^ n the woodpile.

 

[DavisBeefmasters]

Just pull those boys together and

...tell them how the cow ate the cabbage

OR

...tell them not to worry about the mule going blind, just load the wagon if they get lippy about something they've been asked to do..

 

[TexasBred]

You look like a bug under a cabbage leaf. (Talking about a small feller wearing a big hat)

 

[Ryder]

Just pull those boys together and

...tell them how the cow ate the cabbage

OR

...tell them not to worry about the mule going blind, just load the wagon if they get lippy about something they've been asked to do..

Reminds me of a guy I used to work with. When it was getting late in the afternoon and we had a lot yet to do, he would say,"Don't worry about the mule. Just load the wagon".
It sounded good but he always left at quitting time and we had to stay and finish the work.

When he finally left we found everything he had done for months was wrong. Somebody else re- did the whole thing in a couple of weeks.
Pardon my interupting, but this struck a nerve and brought back strong memories.

 

[DavisBeefmasters]

When he finally left we found everything he had done for months was wrong. Somebody else re- did the whole thing in a couple of weeks.
Pardon my interupting, but this struck a nerve and brought back strong memories.

No worries... it's a saying from my dad anytime I got up the nerve to question why...

...and at the end of lunch time

"off your arse and on your feet! Out of the shade and into the heat!"

I have some strong memories of him of a few particular days where the sayings didn't quite sit so well...

 

[kenny thomas]

Pizz on the fire and call the dogs.
I suspect it came from the day the fox hunters at night sat around a fire drinking shine while the hounds ran the fox.

 

[CKC1586]

Now you went and done it. I hope there aren't any chickens around cause I got a feeling that boy might try an experiment and in today's times he will be in counselling and forced to take a bunch of pills the rest of his life.

:nod: :nod: