h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

My parents used to say, of my luck, that I could fall in the mud and come up with pearls in my teeth. I hope that's still true.

He's a few cattle short of a stampede.

"fall in the mud and come up with pearls in my teeth"
Never heard that one. Nice




Either your nose is in it, or your toes are in it.

We (my family) have a metaphor of our own, actually. Like, if the phone is constantly going or the roads outside our house are really busy (so, in other words, if there's a lot going on in one place), we say that it's like Sauchiehall Street (a street in Glasgow City Centre). XD

Or in our house - like Sauchiehall Street on a Saturday

I always found Argyle Street much worse for congestion - but Sauchiehall's such a lovely word.

Oh hallo! You another Glasgow person? :D

Wouldn't know about Argyle Street -- I don't usually find myself down that direction, to be honest. *Chuckle*

Apologies to Hypatia for the thread hijack

I'm a sort of Weegie, having lived there longer than I actually lived in my home town.
Have you heard the city being referred to as Glas Vegas? My daughter's crowd all call it either that or The Vegas

Nope, never heard that one. XD Completely new on me.

And yes, my own apologies to Madam President for our hijacking of the thread. *Bows*

Was the thread hijacked? Or were you just explaining why that was a metaphor to the rest of us who don't know your town(s)?

I think the posts were on topic. Besides, even if they weren't, I have hijacked so many conversations over the years that it never bothers me when it happens.

I have hijacked more conversations than Carter has pills.

It's just Topic Drift. Happens all the time.

On being a bad salesman - "You couldn't sell a dollar for fifty cents"

Speaking of topic drift, I still haven't figured out why Hyp's bus fleet is going backwards. It makes me pause and ponder every time I visit Hyp's journal.

*blinks, then looks up at the buses, then looks back down at your reply*

Good heavens, so it is.

XD

On being a good salesman: "He could sell iceboxes to Eskimoes".

It's going backwards because it's funnier if it goes backwards.

I thought Glasgow was a city?I lived in Dumbarton when I was 4 years old.

It IS a city, love.

In the funnies this morning:
1st frame: A nice little table with a statue on it.
2nd frame: Cat strolls into the room.
3rd frame: Cat sweeps statue from table.
4th frame: Cat is curled up on table.
Caption: A house with a cat needs no artwork.
Gotta love those s

Hyp, you make it sound like it was intentional to have your buses going backwards (I remember where they came from )

"A man without children has the greed of seven parsons."


Pimms
Cheerfulness with an empty pocket is better than discontent with a full one.
(I admit I lifted these proverbs from a list of Manx proverbs - just ask if you want them in the Manx Gaelic)

Rats, Pimms. Busted.

Ok. I do think they're funnier going backwards, Cracked up when I found out they were going backwards. But, it was accidental to begin with. See, hillbilly that I am, I thought the front of the bus was the back of the bus. I had asked Jodes how to get busses to bounce across the top the way his black sheep did. He gave me directions and this is what I wound up with. Then someone, probably Pimmsaloonie , caught it and pointed it out to me. But I decided to leave it like that because it was just so.....right....somehow.

Pimms and Jodan and I had some most entertaining conversations. Those were the days.

Back to metaphors. We haven't done 'like a bull in a china shop'. I've always liked that one.