Subject: Miscellaneous (Page 73)

You can put a porcupine in a wood chipper, but you will not make maple syrup.

Go piss up a rope.

Mr. Ruskin is about to begin a work of great importance and therefore begs that in reference to calls and correspondence you will consider him dead for the next two months.

(1819 – 1900) English art critic, social thinker, poet & artist

We always go to bed with the chickens.

I quit my job at the helium gas factory – I didn’t like being spoken to in that voice.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

A whistling woman and a crowing hen never comes to a very good end.

It’s cold enough to freeze a turkey off the roost.

He don’t know daylight from dark.

I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they’ll know this is someone else’s territory.

He's busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kickin' contest.

The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother… they’ll settle for a puppy every time.

You couldn't hit a bull in the butt with a bass fiddle.

In my next life, I hope I come back as a parrot, because I already know quite a few words.

Lost as a goose in a snowstorm

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.


Within a lash

You want to get three feet up a bull’s ass, just listen to the whisperings of sweethearts.

(1954 – 2008) British film director, playwright & screenwriter

Children need encouragement: if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling.

Going to hell in a handbasket

You might as well play Hob with the hoe-handle!

Like a buzzard roosted in it