Sayings that have become out of date

[Joules MM1]

"Never try to teach a pig to sing, it wastes your time and it annoys the pig. Robert Heinlein.

never too many pig adages or parables...... :luigi::luigi:

lipstick, anyone?

 

[Miss Hale]

I just came across this on another forum...
'a wigwam for a gooses bridle'
Apparently it means mind your own business http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_wigwam_for_a_goose's_bridle

Oh yes, my Dad used to say this all the time It was more code for "I'm not telling you" than "Mind your own business". Dad mainly used it if he was making something in the shed or if he and Mum were smuggling my birthday/christmas present into the house and I stumbled across them doing it. It's was said in response to the questions, "What's that?" or "What are you doing?". I used to repeatedly ask Dad what a wigwam for a goose's bridle was but he would just reply that it was... a wigwam for a goose's bridle . I wasted a lot of time as a chid trying to work out what it was

 

[burglar]

... I used to repeatedly ask Dad what a wigwam for a goose's bridle was ...

No-one in our "neck of the woods" ever said that!!

 

[Knobby22]

wigwam for a goose's bridle

My Dad used to say that, I forgot it. Nice memory.

Also when we asked him where he was going he would say "I'm going to the moon"

Now we are adults we don't get those crazy answers.

 

[wayneL]

Beaudy Newc

Rippa tune Boris

As popular as a pork pie at a Jew's wedding (not really out of date, but unPC)

 

[wayneL]

As miserable as a bastard on Father's Day.

"bastard" essentially redundant these days.

 

[wayneL]

Actually, the Aussie colloquial heritage seems to be withering away. You don't hear many colloquialisms at all these days... not like 30 years ago.

...and if you do hear one, it is likely American linguistic pollution, rather than dinky di Ozzie.

 

[Miss Hale]

No-one in our "neck of the woods" ever said that!!

That's interesting. Maybe it was a 'Victorianism' (given that Knobby remembers it too).

As popular as a pork pie at a Jew's wedding (not really out of date, but unPC)

I used to use "Carry on like a pork chop" willy nilly until someone pointed out it was derogatory towards Jewish people, I was in all honesty ignorant of that (I hadn't given a second thought to the words I was saying).

 

[robusta]

What's that to do with the price of eggs in China?


Those were the days when we did not care about China or their food inflation.

 

[robusta]

Fair crack of the whip mate.

 

[wayneL]

Commenting on someone on TV, I said "Streuth, she's fully three axe handles across the hips".

My... ahem, rather "large" Aunt, who was visiting at the time, gave me a stare that singed all the hair off that side of my head.

I've never said it since.

 

[robusta]

Commenting on someone on TV, I said "Streuth, she's fully three axe handles across the hips".

My... ahem, rather "large" Aunt, who was visiting at the time, gave me a stare that singed all the hair off that side of my head.

I've never said it since.

Gotta laugh Aussies have a beautiful turn of phrase.

 

[MrBurns]

sheila

good sort

bodgee

widgee

fair dinkum

 

[Miss Hale]

Gotta laugh Aussies have a beautiful turn of phrase.

One of my favourites (although I never use it as it's a bit rude ) is "Dry as a dead dingo's donger", I think what I really like about it is, as well as being funny, it has the added bonus of alliteration (which makes it even funnier)

 

[robusta]

Haven't heard of any one having a kangaroo loose in the top paddock or not being the sharpest tool in the shed lately.

Had to laugh the other day when a coworker was called blister because he all ways turns up after the hard work is done.

 

[JTLP]

I love these sort of sayings...makes us truly unique!

Dead horse
Going off like a frog in a sock
Going up the frog and toad
flat out like a lizard drinking
jack the dancer

 

[burglar]

... bodgee

widgee ...

At least, we still have bogans!

 

[burglar]

... a coworker was called blister because he all ways turns up after the hard work is done.

Hahaha!

We had one named Kit Bag ... always carried by his co-workers!

 

[wayneL]

I have a mate that, if not presented with a beer forthwith, used to inquire - "Did Burke and Wills die here?"

 

[Calliope]

wigwam for a goose's bridle

My Dad used to say that, I forgot it. Nice memory.

Also when we asked him where he was going he would say "I'm going to the moon"

Now we are adults we don't get those crazy answers.

"Wigwam for a goose's bridle" was my grandfather's favorite response to all our questions. (and we had many)
My father's response when asked where he was going was "I'm going to see a man about a dog."