Subject: Miscellaneous (Page 56)

Strong as a new well rope

With every new sunrise, there is a new chance; but with every sunset, you blew it.

Talk the legs off a dead mule – or – talk the hind leg off a donkey

This ain’t the first time I’ve brought chicken to a fish fry.

Mites don’t fly this time of the year.

When I saw the old bum pushing his grocery cart down the street, at first I felt sorry for him; but then when I saw what was in his cart I thought, well, no wonder you’re a bum, look at the dumb things you bought.

She’d make a freight train take a dirt road.

Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit!

Acupuncture: Waiting for a cure on pins and needles.

Since smoking might injure your health, let’s be careful not to smoke too much.

Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you’re coming home, his face might burn up.

I wish everybody would have to have an electric thing implanted in our heads that gave us a shock whenever we did something to disobey the president; then somehow I get myself elected president.

That kid could break an anvil.

Meaner 'n a rattlesnake.

He can get glad the same way he got mad, or else he's gon' die unhappy.

Doesn’t know his ass from his elbow.

Held his hind leg

That gumbo will make a Chihuahua break a chain.

You’re trying to push a rope.

Unfortunately, all Coach Carter taught me was that I can actually scratch the first four verses of Revelations into the back of a theater chair with my fingernail in a little under two hours.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)

Broken Groin, South Carolina