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Old 07-15-2012, 10:09 AM
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You better straighten out and fly right.
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Old 07-15-2012, 10:17 AM
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You can't push a string
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Old 07-15-2012, 10:48 AM
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So poor they don't have a pot to pi$$ in nor a window to throw it out.

If his brain was put in a matchbox, it would roll around like a BB in a Box Car.
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Old 07-15-2012, 10:50 AM
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You want your head handed to you on a platter?
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Let's burn that bridge when we get to it.
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Slower than molasses in January.
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The old man like this one when we were going somewhere. "Don't act like you were just shot out of a cannon."
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"If we had ham we'd have ham and eggs-If we had eggs."
From the time of the Great depresssion.(1929ish)
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If he had a brain he'd be dangerous.
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If his brain was dynamite, he wouldn't have enough to blow his nose.
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- too many cooks in the kitchen

- Beggers can't be choosers (or choosey)

- if wishes were horses then beggars could ride

- now that's a horse of a different color

-I wasn't born yesterday....I've been around the block you know

-You're Cruisin for a bruisin....(my family would add...-Susan= my given name)

-She's got bats in her belfry...but oh what a staircase (but only when referring to a well built ditsy girl)

-Built like a Sherman tank

-well...now that's a deep subject....for a shallow mind like mine

-Now that went over like a pregnant pole vaulter

-Don't burn your bridges behind you

-Oh for cryin out loud (my mom always said it)

-Judas H Priest (my friends mom always said it)

-See ya later alligator...afterwhile crocadile...see ya soon big baboon

-She's a Dusey (meaning something special but began by referring to the Dusenberg car....BTW I was dubbed Doozer when born...my nickname)

-Well I'll be a monkey's uncle

- he was 2 sheets to the wind (drunk)

- drunker than a skunk

- naked as a jay bird
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