Old Adages

[destinie21]

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

wait am I reading this wrong the clerk just got off the phone with her girlfriend? That's great but I think somebody has some explaining to do if the phamacist is pregnant.

Anyway heres some old wives things

If you dream of fish someone is pregnant
if you dream of a wedding someones bound to die
if you shiver without cause someone just walked over where your grave will be.
If your ear is burning someone is talking about you.

 

[oggbashan]

HMS Pinafore

Duet (Captain Corcoran and Little Buttercup):

But: Things are seldom what they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream:
Highbrows pass as patent leathers;
Jackdaws strut in peacock feathers.
Cap: Very true,
So they do.
But: Black sheep dwell in every fold;
All that glisters is not gold;
Storks turn out to be but logs;
Bulls are but inflated frogs.
Cap: So they be,
Frequentlee.
But: Drops the wind and stops the mill:
Turbot is ambitious brill
Gild the farthing if you will,
Yet it is a farthing still.
Cap: Yes, I know,
That is so.
Though to catch your drift I'm striving,
It is shady - it is shady;
I don't see at what you're driving,
Mystic Lady - Mystic Lady.
(Aside): Stern conviction o'er me stealing,
That the mystic lady's dealing
In oracular revealing.
But (Aside)
Stern conviction's o'er him stealing,
That the mystic lady's dealing,
In oracular revealing.
Both: Yes, I know,
That is so.
Cap: Though I'm anything but clever,
I could talk like that for ever:
Once a cat was killed by care;
Only brave deserve the fair.
But: Very true,
So they do.

And so on.

Og

 

[Weird Harold]

Itchy Palm - you will get money you did not expect

the version I learned was "If your right palm itches, you've got unexpected money coming; If your left palm itches, yo've got an unexpected expense coming."

Also ears burn, not itch when someone is talking about you -- right ear if it's compliments, left ear if it's complaints.

 

[minsue]

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

I've never heard that. If so, then she's getting the shit kicked out of her regularly in AZ.

 

[Boota]

I had always heard that when your ears were burning it meant someone was talking about you. So, when my penis was burning, I just assumed that someone was talking about it. Fortunately, I wised up and got to the doctor in time.