Funny Expressions From Your Neck of the Woods

[Rel]

So I'm sitting here eating my lunch (boiled egg sandwiches, mango and a Corona) and enjoying it so much that I said out loud, "It'd make a hound dog hug a whale!"

This is a saying that I picked up from an old coworker of mine and I've always thought it was funny (and bizarre). It got me thinking about other funny sayings that I've heard and adopted and I wanted to hear some of yours. Two others that sprang to mind were:

"I'd run up a hog's ass for a ham sandwich!" (used when you are very hungry)

and

"Two axe handles and a long squirrel jump." (a unit of measurement used to describe the width of a particularly large ass)


So what funny things do they say where you come from?

 

[Jdvn1]

"That is off the chain!"

 

[diaglo]

1) fine as frog's hair

2) teets on a bull

3) aching plates of meat

4) why you throw chip?
edit: for Rel...

1. the existance of such a thing could not be believed. so the expression is usually in response to "How Y'all doin'?"

2. usually goes with, "Son, you are about as useless as..."

3. or my dawgs are killing me.

4. you had to be there.

 

[Rel]

I can guess the context of some of these but can you provide explanations for the situations in which they are used? I'd hate to scream "That is off the chain!" in outrage when I should be using it as a compliment.

 

[Jdvn1]

I can guess the context of some of these but can you provide explanations for the situations in which they are used? I'd hate to scream "That is off the chain!" in outrage when I should be using it as a compliment.

I'm not sure where it comes from or why it is, but it's used to compliment something or someone. It's kind of... I don't use the term that much, though. I learned it when I worked in a not-so-great part of town.

"Girl, you lookin' off the chain!"

 

[Len]

"Neck of the woods"

 

[EricNoah]

I am apparently not the only one around here who says, "Crap on a stick."

 

[JimAde]

"Wicked"

An intensifier. As in "Wicked good" or "Wicked ugly" or even just plain "Wicked" (which is generally good but can just be extreme).

 

[diaglo]

5. Favorite Turd

6. Sh*t on a Shingle


5... usually associated with "I wouldn't Sh*t you. You are my ..." or "You were Sh*t on a fence post and Hatched by the Sun"

6. something you can get in the mess hall of most barracks.

 

[Psionicist]

A popular swedish comedian once mixed up several old swedish proverbs (on purpose). THey are _weird_ if you translate them to english:

"He who makes his own bed often knocks over a small tussock, over and over again."

"He who yells over the mad bird won't see the trees for the legs."