kerblooie

[farmer101IL]

Now there is a word you don't hear everyday. My tractor went kerblooie!!!! being this is a tractor forum. Any other wierd words from yesteryear? I'm waiting for some paint to dry on my graindrill .
How about anybody heard the saying , Till who laid the rail, my granddad used to say that all the time.Bunch of Pheasants in a field, how many pheasants, pheasants till who laid the rail. That's alot of pheasants!!!
Anybody got any other saying or wierd lost words.

Bored Farmer

 

[Nancy Howell]

When asked how he was doing, my Dad would say "fair to middlin". How about "till the cows come home" or till you"re blue in the face, once in a blue moon, tougher than wang leather, couldn"t carry a note in a bucket, spittin" into the wind, deader than a door nail and my grandmother called a hard downpour a "toad strangler".

 

[farmer101IL]

what the heck is wang leather?
Never heard of the toad strangler either.

Farmer

 

[IH2444]

There are actually "Blue Moons" and they are not too often either.

 

[old]

The term blue moon is the fact that once in a while there is 2 full moons in a month and the 2nd one is what is called a blue moon. So that it where the term comes from
Hobby farm

 

[Anonymous-0]

I see, said the blind man, as he picked up his hammer and saw.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Fine as frogs hair.

 

[Goose]

What, exactly is "whack"? Everyone talks about stuff being "out of whack", but nobody knows what "whack" is.

Has anyone else ever heard the term "goose drounder" That's what my wife calls a heavy downpour rain, and I've never heard it from any other source.

 

[Anonymous-0]

"Shines like a diamond in a goats' a$$"

 

[Roger in Iowa]

Wang or maybe Whang leather is strips of leather, about like leather shoe strings. It was used to tie things into bundles or together as I remember.

Roger in Iowa

 

[David from Kansas]

Some of those old sayings are "scarcer than hens teeth".

 

[GeneMO]

"meaner than a bearcats kitten with a barbed wire tail"

"I'll get around to it directly"

"blacker than the inside of a tire" (dark outside)

" you could see marks on their face where they'd been trying to learn to use a knive and fork" (uncouth folks)

Just a few that comes to mind.


Gene

 

[Bob]

A "WHACK" is a "finetuning adjustment" best made with a 2lb. "fitting tool"!

After that, the machine is no longer "out of whack"!

 

[Anonymous-0]

My grandfather often used the term wheeliegig
as a small cart or wagon.

 

[John M]

When my Dad was working on something, and he got aggrivated, he would tell me "Go get me that doohickey off of that thingamiger". Funny part is, I always knew what he was talking about.

 

[Mike Burton]

I knew an old boy who would say "Drunker than a peach orchard boar."

 

[730 virgil]

man i worked with would say about tight fitting bolt tighter than a bulls a$$ at fly time.
or needs a hair more.
for slippery or icy road slicker than greased glass.

 

[Aaron Ford]

In college, my very Chinese landlord was quite the tightwad. The sewer backed up and he paid a young man to dig it up. The fella was good for the digging, but confessed to knowing nothing about pipe repair. The landlord asked me what I thought and I said that with the entire line already dug up, it would be better to replace the terra cotta pipe completely. Including that I knew little to nothing of plumbing myself. He shook his head dramatically and pulled out a roll of duct tape. He says, "You fix!" I responded that I could wrap the pipe with duct tape, but it would be "P1ssing in the wind." He repeated the phrase back to me several times adjusting it to better understand what I was trying to say. He then became quite irate and yelled, "Urinating in Breeze?!!!".

After he calmed down and I got up off the ground and regained my composure, I took the broken pieces and jigsawed/duct taped them back into place and poured a few bags of quickrete over the rough patch. I moved out that semester so I never heard whether it worked or not.

I am sure there were about 50 code violations involved... Never laughed that hard in my life.

Aaron

 

[Dave from MN]

To keep this from being PG13, "just a cat hair more" Shame on me but that is the most common saying for a bit more round these parts.

 

[Aaron Ford]

We call that a RCH cause the red ones are finer...

Aaron

 

[Anonymous-0]

They say how you doing to day. I say just getting by.

 

[Anonymous-0]

"happier than a sheep eating thistles"
"men were men and the sheep were nervous"

and a whole bunch more better left unsaid

 

[landlord7012]

"Is a frogs a$$ watertight?"

 

[Tim in OR]

I see said the blind man, to his deaf dog

 

[HENRY E NC]

In south carolina its "ya aint shineing me on are ya". or instead of ya aint joshing me are ya they sa "Shine----------"
Amd here in NC we say "it poured the rain this mornin"

 

[Heat Houser]

You are so dumb you couldn't pour pi$$ out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel. (As directed at me by my father)

Another was; You don't know sheet (sp) from Shinola.
Shinola was a shoe polish.

And another; Man descended from monkeys and you didn't descend very far.
Shoe polish

 

[joe e-tx]

dad always said, nothing more useless than a teenage boy?????????????. still working on that one

 

[Crem]

I can speak said the man who was dumb as he picked up his wheel and spoke.

 

[Anonymous-0]

my favorit saying to a smart aleck "did your mother have and kids that lived".
and if they ask me how im doing i answer il live

 

[David Maddux]

When adding oil or gas to something, I have heard my dad say, [WHEN ASKED HOW MUCH WAS ADDED}Oh about eight or nine glugs.

 

[dittmerku]

like shoes on a rooster

 

[Roy in georgia]

old man I used to work with used one when talking about prices
"High as camel cock"
first time I heard it I nearly fell in the floor laughing

 

[Sam from WA]

My boss always says "goin like raped apes" when we're going "balls to the wall" on a project (demolition, land clearing).

The other one I like is the classic "bolt stretcher". The boss sometimes tells some of the new guys at work to got get the "bolt stretcher" when he wants the new employee to "get out of his hair!".

 

[Anonymous-0]

Didn't the Ram jump off the cliff because when he passed the open window of a house he heard the radio playing "There'll never be another you"
If cold you could say
"Freeze the balls off a brass monkey" not rude but old nautical.Look it up..

Tighter than a fish's a$$ [screwge]
As useless as ti?s on a bull.
Like water off a Ducks back.
Happy as a Pig in sh$$.
Pity your Mother didn't marry your Father.Polite way of saying someone is a bast$$d.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Ours was 'tougher than old boots'

As Flash as a Rat with a gold tooth.

 

[mj]

When asked if he wanted to (fill in the blank) my uncle would always say: [i:c4e10994f5]Might as well; can't dance and it's too wet to plow.'[/i:c4e10994f5]

Others were: [i:c4e10994f5]If that don't light yore fire then yore wood must be wet.[/i:c4e10994f5]
and: [i:c4e10994f5]He has a tough row to hoe.[/i:c4e10994f5] and [i:c4e10994f5]It's not good but it's better than a sharp stick in the eye.[/i:c4e10994f5] and [i:c4e10994f5]That guy is dumber than a box of rocks.[/i:c4e10994f5] ... my personal favorite [i:c4e10994f5]A deficit is what you have when you don't have as much as if you had nothing.[/i:c4e10994f5] One more [i:c4e10994f5]I may be ragged but I'm right.[/i:c4e10994f5]

 

[Old Timer in Ohio]

Hey there;
Used to work with Arnie ,he often said,
busier than a cat covering crap on a
marble floor.Spinning like the button
on the outhouse door,rotsa ruck charey.
And a lot that I can't repeat here.Bob
God Bless

 

[Bartt]

This site is busier than a one legged midget in an a$$ kicking contest.

 

[Fawteen]

"Does a goldfish got a watertight bunghole?"

(Isn't it obvious?)

 

[Richard G.]

My uncle use to say if something would not fit or was bent out of shape, the it was cattywhompused.
Funny thing is, I heard a young lady say that recently.

 

[Anonymous-0]

These have been cleaned up to get past the potty filter on this site.

When a truck or tractor would come into the shop with a lack of power, Pappy would always say it "wouldn't pull a greasy string out of a sick cat's [arse]," or it "wouldn't pull a sick [prostitute] out of bed."

For someone in a state of confusion, Pappy always said "he didn't know whether to [crap] and go blind or squint and [flatulate]." Sometimes I've heard that one shortened to "he didn't know whether to [crap] or go blind."

Grand-Pap always said a hot day would leave you "sweatin' like a [black person] on election day," and when it was bitterly cold it was "colder than a well digger's [arse]", or it was "colder than Billy blue hell." Never knew what that last one was a reference to.

 

[NEbobcat]

as granpa would say " your all crazier than a box of frogs

 

[Harry J. Case]

Dad used to say "one boy is a good worker, two boys are worth 1/2 a boy and three boys aren't worth a damn"
Harry Case, Allis, Moline nut

 

[Steven f/AZ]

Busier than a 3-legged cat trying to bury turds on a frozen pond...

"I see" said the blind man, peeing into the wind, to his deaf wife - "it's all coming back to me now."

 

[Fawteen]

Variation on one of them is one of my favorites:

So confused, he didn't know whether to scratch his watch or wind his [arse].

 

[Anonymous-0]

A few of my favorites are rainin harder than a cow pi**ing on a flat rock, dumber than a sack full of wet hair, had diahrea so bad that I could sh*t through a screen door and never touch a wire, aint worth a f*rt in a galestorm, shinier than a set of dogballs, I'll think of more, I'm sure.