What is your favorite Quote or Saying?

[weldermike]

'Obama wins in 2012'..............................:thumbsup:

BOOOOOOO! Double thumbsdown!

 

[Short Game]

I just thought about one I penned myself.

When ya goes ta sea, ya takes yer chances.​

Credit for the inspiration goes to a submarine.

 

[tallyho8]

'Obama wins in 2012'..............................:thumbsup:

Triple thumbsdown.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

one and done

it's not change, it's destruction

 

[Jim Shooz]

As busy as a one armed paperhanger with an itch.

 

[hosspuller]

Tanstafl

There Ain't No Such Thing As Free Lunch ...

Though our Gov't tries to convince the 51% there is.

 

[GUS FINK]

as useful as a screen door on a submarine

 

[Bigfoot62]

I always thought that went Fair to "Middlin" as in inbetween.

"Fair to Middling" was a grade of cotton. It's a "Southern Thang!"
Which reminds me of another two of my most favorite quotes:
"If you ain't from the South, you just don't understand."
"You ain't from here, are you?"


The commonly used cotton grades were something like: (as best I can recall. My grandpa was a cotton farmer, not me)
Fine
Good
Fair
Middling
Ordinary
Poor

So "Fair to Middling" was about average.

"Middling" is still a term used to grade cotton. Look at the chart on the bottom of this page: The Classification of Cotton

 

[k0ua]

"Fair to Middling" was a grade of cotton. It's a "Southern Thang!"
Which reminds me of another two of my most favorite quotes:
"If you ain't from the South, you just don't understand."
"You ain't from here, are you?"


The commonly used cotton grades were something like: (as best I can recall. My grandpa was a cotton farmer, not me)
Fine
Good
Fair
Middling
Ordinary
Poor

So "Fair to Middling" was about average.

"Middling" is still a term used to grade cotton. Look at the chart on the bottom of this page: The Classification of Cotton

Wow! learned something this morning, I have heard Fair to Middling all my life, but never knew the cotton connection..

James K0UA

 

[Bigfoot62]

Wow! learned something this morning, I have heard Fair to Middling all my life, but never knew the cotton connection..

James K0UA

Glad someone enjoyed that. A buddy of mine often tells me that I am a "plethora of useless knowledge." :laughing:

I am also reminded of another old Southern farm saying:
"That won't Gee-Haw." (Gee and Haw were Right and Left commands for the plow animals)
So something that didn't Gee-Haw, wouldn't go right or left. (or just didn't make sense, wouldn't work, etc)