The Duplex by Glenn McCoy for March 19, 2017
Transcript:
eno: My grandpa was good at phrases. He taught my a lot of them. Fang: Such as? Eno: well, he used to say, "I hate to burst your ice, but a fool and his dead horse are barking up the wrong piece of cake." Fang: That's messed up. Eno: Hey, don't look a gift chicken below the belt.
CarlHeckman over 7 years ago
“Did you ever hear the expression, ‘When the going gets tough, the tough get up off their keesters and knuckle down before the journey of a thousand steps begins’?”
“No.”
“Of course not! I invented it! It wouldn’t fit on the bumper sticker …”
— Gus Melman & Harry Stone, Night Court, “Her Honor (part 4)”
GROG Premium Member over 7 years ago
If you can’t stand the heat, strip down to your shorts.
Kalkkuna over 7 years ago
These are mixed metaphors. Anyone who does them is sticking their neck out on a limb – skating on thin eggs.
Zen-of-Zinfandel over 7 years ago
Stop talking in trapezoids.
Knightman Premium Member over 7 years ago
Eno, your expressions made you, who you are today!!!
Doug Taylor Premium Member over 7 years ago
Was his grandpa Norm Crosby?
cuzinron47 over 7 years ago
I think those phrases got garbles in transmission.
chromosome Premium Member over 7 years ago
These comments are as clever as a whip.