Sayings gone wild

BB_TX · Jun 1, 2005

Want a coke?
Yeah. 
What kind?
 Got any Dr Pepper? 
Nope.
 How bout Pepsi? 
Yep.
 That'll do. 
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getut · Jun 1, 2005

Speaking of mixed up saying.... I'll have to self censor this one because it is based on a semi-vulgar saying..

My best friend once repeated the old saying to me "Its colder than a witches <slang for breast> in a brass BALL".. after rolling around laughing for 10 minutes I explained what he was supposed to say... ""Its colder than a witches <slang for breast> in a brass BRA". He couldn't help but laugh himself and even said.. "you know it DOES make more sense that way". To this day, both of us purposely say it the WRONG way when we are around each other on a cold day (usually one that is cold and rainy when we mistakenly chose to go squirrel hunting).

GeneD14 · Jun 1, 2005

I am originally from Indiana and one of the words used in Western Michigan drives me nuts. Instead of saying"hamburger" they say "hamburg". I have even seen it spelled in menus that way.

GeneD14 · Jun 1, 2005

I read a while back that on the deck of old war ships they used to stack cannon balls on a cast iron plate called a "monkey" with dimples in it so they wouldn't roll around. The problem was that after a few months of salt water spray the balls would rust to the monkey. So they began making the monkeys out of other metals like brass to solve the rust problem. Now the problem was in cold weather the brass would contract more than the cast iron balls and it would cause the balls to roll off of the monkey. Hence the old Naval saying: "it is cold enough to freeze the balls off of a brass monkey" for years people have heard this and read more into it than there really was. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

PitbullMidwest · Jun 1, 2005

A popular saying around here is "It's colder than a well digger's butt".

dberg · Jun 1, 2005

My grandpa from southern Indiana had all kinds of funny sayings, my favorite was when he would tell someone " You don't know Sh#$ from shinola" I guess shinola was a kind of brown shoe polish.

isucrazy · Jun 1, 2005

A good ol friend of mine floored me with this one when I asked him if he missed me after not seeing him for awhile, Lo Bob ,hey Bud. Did ya miss me Bob?, Ya know I did Bud bout like a poot in a diving helmet! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I love that fella!

coveredbridge · Jun 1, 2005

I'm not positive about this, but I seem to recall seeing a TV program where they said that the origin of hamburger in this country was actually from a German immigrant who learned to make it in Hamburg, Germany. It was originally called Hamburg-style steak, and it wasn't until after several years passed that it came to be served on a roll (I believe at a World's Fair?) so it could be conveniently carried about.

Hopefully someone more knowledgable than I can confirm some of this. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

So, I believe the term "hamburger" is actually a variant of "hamburg" which was the original term.

I also occasionally see it called "hamburg" or "hamburg steak" here in PA. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

getut · Jun 1, 2005

Around these parts... served on a plate with no bun = hamburgER steak.

With the bun = just hamburger

Now.. as for for what goes ON a hamburger or hotdog....
can you believe in some places they actually put mayonnaise or milk instead of vinegar and tomatoes in their slaw??? In some places they don't don't even put chile and ANY kind of slaw on their burgers or hot dogs .... GASP, THE HORROR
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