What made you smile recently (2023)?

[caseydog]

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[karadekoolaid]

Yeah, we have enough sayings in English that don't make sense...in English, LOL.

Where on earth did we get the phrase "to catch the waiter's eye" and that other mysterious phrase " As pi***d as a coot". I've never seen the birds drunk...

 

[JAS_OH1]

Where on earth did we get the phrase "to catch the waiter's eye" and that other mysterious phrase " As pi***d as a coot". I've never seen the birds drunk...

In the US we refer to old men as coots, lol.

 

[caseydog]

For those who can see it...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1lsrNDk6j4


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[Yorky]

..... and that other mysterious phrase " As pi***d as a coot". I've never seen the birds drunk...

And I've always used "newt".

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"A possible explanation for the phrase has to do with the way a newt walks – wobbling along (much like a person who has had too much to drink and is unable to walk straight)."

 

[caseydog]

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[karadekoolaid]

Get him , Mickey. then sing that earworm "dee,dee,dee, dah,dah,dah, dee,dee,dee,dee,dee..." until he goes mad.

 

[Lullabelle]

Where on earth did we get the phrase "to catch the waiter's eye" and that other mysterious phrase " As pi***d as a coot". I've never seen the birds drunk...

Drunk as a skunk....

 

[Lullabelle]

 

[caseydog]

Drunk as a skunk....

Yup, we have that one here. Does anyone say "Three sheets to the wind" over there?

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[Lullabelle]

Yup, we have that one here. Does anyone say "Three sheets to the wind" over there?

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Yes but not so much these days.

 

[caseydog]

Yes but not so much these days.

Yeah, I don't recall hearing it lately.

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[Lullabelle]

Yeah, I don't recall hearing it lately.

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These days people use swear words as the norm so these 'old sayings' are dying out.

 

[TastyReuben]

Yup, we have that one here. Does anyone say "Three sheets to the wind" over there?

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We generally just say -faced.

These days people use swear words as the norm so these 'old sayings' are dying out.

See what I mean?

 

[caseydog]

These days people use swear words as the norm so these 'old sayings' are dying out.

Nowadays, I guess it would be "three f-ing sheets to the wind."

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