Old Adages

[Lord DragonsWing]

I found this amusing yesterday when I stopped by the pharmacy. The cleck behind the counter had just gotten off the phone with her girlfriend and she was upset. Her friend had called to tell her that she had seen a duck walking backwards and that it meant someone was going to be pregneant. Needless to say the clerk had a Dr.'s appointment the next day and was worried that she was going to be the one.

She was asking everyone if they had heard of the adage about the duck. All of us in line said no, but then we started throwing out old sayings we'd heard.

Do any of you have any that make you laugh? I thought this would be fun. lol

 

[OldnotDead]

Itchy Palm - you will get money you did not expect

 

[cloudy]

If your nose itches, someone's coming to see you.

Heard it all my life, but have no idea where it comes from.

 

[Guest]

 

[BlackShanglan]

Ears itching mean someone's talking about you.

Shanglan

 

[ezlay_2nite]

Playing cards with my Grandma, when one would drop she would always say. "Falls to the floor comes to the door"

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Three on a match is unlucky.

Three on a mattress is often interesting.

 

[cantdog]

When you're in a crowded room and everyone falls silent at once, it's always 20 minutes of the hour or twenty minutes after the hour.

 

[R. Richard]

"Never play cards with a man named Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never draw to an inside straight. Never piss into the wind, Never buy anything that has to be fed or painted. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own."

 

[minsue]

Ears itching mean someone's talking about you.

Shanglan

I was always told that ears ringing means that.

Three on a match is unlucky.

That one came from soldiers once upon a time, didn't it? If a match is burning long enough to light three, it makes you a good target. (Or so I've read.)

 

[shereads]

If you kiss it, it'll get better.



Are there any new adages?

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I was always told that ears ringing means that.



That one came from soldiers once upon a time, didn't it? If a match is burning long enough to light three, it makes you a good target. (Or so I've read.)

You are correct on three on a match. by the time the third man lit up someone would shoot the match holder.

-Colly

 

[minsue]

You are correct on three on a match. by the time the third man lit up someone would shoot the match holder.

-Colly

I never liked lighting 3 cigarettes from one flame after I heard that. I don't know why, but somehow it seemed oddly disrespectful to do so. (my moral compass just kind of spins freely and the oddest things will bother me)

 

[shereads]

(my moral compass just kind of spins freely and the oddest things will bother me)

Min, your free-spinning moral compass is going in my virtual file of favorite phrases along with this one from Hunter Thompson that Seattle Zack posted yesterday: "he'll sink like a like punctured fish."

I think it's important to keep your moral compass from getting stuck. A moral sundial would be steady, but not much use.

 

[doormouse]

He who waits, masturbates.


















Okay, I made that up

 

[snooper]

... Are there any new adages?

Touch plastic for luck.

And what doormouse just said.

 

[minsue]

Min, your free-spinning moral compass is going in my virtual file of favorite phrases along with this one from Hunter Thompson that Seattle Zack posted yesterday: "he'll sink like a like punctured fish."

 

[OldnotDead]

. . .
That one came from soldiers once upon a time, didn't it? If a match is burning long enough to light three, it makes you a good target. (Or so I've read.)

We sidetracked our history professor for an entire class on this subject. I had heard that it came from WWI in the trenches. First person, you're seen, second match a sniper can set, third person becomes the target. We got corrected and told that it actually started in the Boer War in south africa.

Here's one I read last night, that perhaps Perdita has heard . . .

El Diablo sabe mas por viejo por que diablo.

(The Devil knows more because he is old than because he is the Devil)

 

[tolyk]

Ears ringing = someone is talking about you
Ears burning/itching = someone is thinking about you

Those are what I heard from my ex, who was raised in Louisiana..

Also the one about the fool, itchy nose.. I stopped having an itchy nose after her and I broke up.. how odd is that?

When you shiver, "someone stepped over your grave" (very old one, and most of ya probably know it)

Goosebumps has something too, but I don't remember what.. same with those feelings where your hair is standing up at the back of your neck.. I don't remember the adages for them though..

There are so many.. but I never really paid attention to things like that.. always tossed htem into the same mental category as superstitions, and seeing as how I have a bad memory for things I _want_ to remember... those ones kind of sifted out eventually..

 

[minsue]

Ears ringing = someone is talking about you
Ears burning/itching = someone is thinking about you

Those are what I heard from my ex, who was raised in Louisiana..

Also the one about the fool, itchy nose.. I stopped having an itchy nose after her and I broke up.. how odd is that?

When you shiver, "someone stepped over your grave" (very old one, and most of ya probably know it)

Goosebumps has something too, but I don't remember what.. same with those feelings where your hair is standing up at the back of your neck.. I don't remember the adages for them though..

There are so many.. but I never really paid attention to things like that.. always tossed htem into the same mental category as superstitions, and seeing as how I have a bad memory for things I _want_ to remember... those ones kind of sifted out eventually..

Goosebumps are the same as your adage for shivers. At least, they are as I've heard it.

 

[minsue]

I've always thought this one is the oddest of the old adages I've heard:

If you dream about teeth, someone you know is going to get married soon.

 

[tolyk]

Goosebumps are the same as your adage for shivers. At least, they are as I've heard it.

*shake* If they were the same, I'd remember it.. I think it had something to do about more supersiticious things.. Like a ghost or something..

A sudden unexpected shiver is someone stepping over your grave..

There is one about an angel that is at the front of my mind, but I cannot grasp it..

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

I've always thought this one is the oddest of the old adages I've heard:

If you dream about teeth, someone you know is going to get married soon.

minsue,

I'd never heard that one, and I agree with you.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[cantdog]

Rumply is himself one of the oddest old adages. I frequently agree with him, myself.

How's tricks, Mr. F?

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Rumply is himself one of the oddest old adages. I frequently agree with him, myself.

How's tricks, Mr. F?

CD,

I was better, but I got over it. And you? I don't think it was your missive that finally jogged what passes for my brain, but now I remember one adage.

If there's thunder, but it's still sunny, the devil is beating his wife.

Rumple Foreskin