Sayings and what they mean (22)
Must be my turn again. LOL
NO SPRING CHICKEN
Meaning- chicken farmers discovered that chickens born in the spring got a better price than those that had gone through a winter.
Farmers sometimes tried to sell the older ones as spring born chickens.
So came about the term
NO SPRING CHICKEN
NO SPRING CHICKEN
Meaning- chicken farmers discovered that chickens born in the spring got a better price than those that had gone through a winter.
Farmers sometimes tried to sell the older ones as spring born chickens.
So came about the term
NO SPRING CHICKEN
Nature123: Just as well you stopped befor you did say it, or you could have got some dark looks.
Yeah, the Viet guy was always looking for an out if he could get some money. The Ethiopian would always ask me other expressions that are now politcally incorrect.
Okay, someone else in here. Who knows "3 Dog Night?"
S H I T
Back in the old days , they used to cart manure overseas in the bellys of boats , now these boats leaks , causing the manure to ferment. When the night watchman went down into the ships belly , he has a gas/kero lamp. Now seems that when manure ferments , it makes methane , which is explosive.
Needless to say , many a ship was lost to this , so when manure was transported later on , they marked S H I T on the side , which plainly meant " Ship High In Transit ".
Not sure if actually factual , but a pretty cool story non-the-less.
Lok out.
Back in the old days , they used to cart manure overseas in the bellys of boats , now these boats leaks , causing the manure to ferment. When the night watchman went down into the ships belly , he has a gas/kero lamp. Now seems that when manure ferments , it makes methane , which is explosive.
Needless to say , many a ship was lost to this , so when manure was transported later on , they marked S H I T on the side , which plainly meant " Ship High In Transit ".
Not sure if actually factual , but a pretty cool story non-the-less.
Lok out.
wash2u: Yeah, the Viet guy was always looking for an out if he could get some money. The Ethiopian would always ask me other expressions that are now politcally incorrect.
Okay, someone else in here. Who knows "3 Dog Night?"
Okay, someone else in here. Who knows "3 Dog Night?"
Drovers used to sleep with their dogs to keep warm. If it was really cold they would judge that they needed three dogs to sleep warm.
wash2u: Yeah, the Viet guy was always looking for an out if he could get some money. The Ethiopian would always ask me other expressions that are now politcally incorrect.
Okay, someone else in here. Who knows "3 Dog Night?"
Okay, someone else in here. Who knows "3 Dog Night?"
Yes it means on really cold nights aboriginals would sleep 3 in a bed with the dogs to help keep them warm.
Obscuritan: Drovers used to sleep with their dogs to keep warm. If it was really cold they would judge that they needed three dogs to sleep warm.
Actually I have had that tail told to me as well may be they adapted it from the aboriginals.
How about Jaywalker
How did that originate
How did that originate
Nature123: How about Jaywalker
How did that originate
How did that originate
Good question that's a tough one.
Anyone heard the explanation that "pommie" comes from P.O.M.E that convicts supposedly had printed on their clothes to denote that they were "Prisoners of Mother England"? Seems a bit daft to me but are there other explantions of where the slang word for Englishman comes from?
Lok_Simpson: S H I TBack in the old days , they used to cart manure overseas in the bellys of boats , now these boats leaks , causing the manure to ferment. When the night watchman went down into the ships belly , he has a gas/kero lamp. Now seems that when manure ferments , it makes methane , which is explosive.
Needless to say , many a ship was lost to this , so when manure was transported later on , they marked S H I T on the side , which plainly meant " Ship High In Transit ".
Not sure if actually factual , but a pretty cool story non-the-less.
Lok out.
Needless to say , many a ship was lost to this , so when manure was transported later on , they marked S H I T on the side , which plainly meant " Ship High In Transit ".
Not sure if actually factual , but a pretty cool story non-the-less.
Lok out.
Not sure what you are implying? This is the origin of the word s h i t?
Definitely not as languages closely related to English have similar words, eg Sheisse (German) schijt (Dutch)....
Jaywalking is an informal term commonly used in North America to refer to illegal or reckless pedestrian crossing of a roadway.
What is the origin of the word "OK" or okay?
Or for that matter "Roger" as in "Roger, copy that."
Or for that matter "Roger" as in "Roger, copy that."
i just read lot of explanations for the origin of ok, all american i might had
but this one seems best answer
but this one seems best answer
robplum: i just read lot of explanations for the origin of ok, all american i might had
but this one seems best answerhttp://make-everything-ok.com/
but this one seems best answerhttp://make-everything-ok.com/
What happens if you press the button - I'm not trying it.
Jaywalker. Small town overseas the birds use to walk in to town and being frightened by all the commotion would walk every where on the roadway.
Hence the word jaywalker
Hence the word jaywalker
Obscuritan: What happens if you press the button - I'm not trying it.
just runs and makes everything ok
Obscuritan: Not sure what you are implying? This is the origin of the word s h i t?
Definitely not as languages closely related to English have similar words, eg Sheisse (German) schijt (Dutch)....
Definitely not as languages closely related to English have similar words, eg Sheisse (German) schijt (Dutch)....
And on the same theme, where did the word "crap" originate?
Night all you c/s people. Have fun
Obscuritan: What happens if you press the button - I'm not trying it.
You get the answer of course....LOL
Hi ah Obsi...
Great link RobP....
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Meaning- a monkey was a tray on wooden fighting ships that held stacked up cannon balls.
When the temp dropped below freezing the metal " monkey" contracted and the cannon balls would roll off.
Hence the saying. Freeze the balls off a brass monkey