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Hello Chaps
I have been wax injecting a Triumph Stag over the weekend and got pretty covered in the stuff. While talking to my dearest friend about the job I quipped that I was as 'Greasy as an Italian car salesman'. Which she found quite amusing.
And this got me thinking of other silly 'As..., as a ...' which have come into parlance or just pop up in conversation.
My current fave is used to illustrate my harmonica playing..'I am as musical as sand-paper'
So without getting too offensive.. lets have yours. Daft as a brush, Silly as a box of frogs, organised as a tossed salad..
Regards Martin.
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His tastes are more catholic than a drunk Mel Gibson in a synagogue.
And I've been cheated on more times than Bilko's card table.
I blame me deodorant.
my favourite is
as useful as chocolate fireguard
Dunno why.
About as sharp as a pound of wet liver.
[quote=thaddeus]Daft as a brush[/quote]
I know an extended version of that one:
As daft as a brush and twice as thick as the handle.
About as useful as a glass hammer and rubber nails
[quote=dorothyd]as useful as chocolate fireguard [/quote]
I've heard the fireguard one but I also like 'as useful as a chocolate teapot'.
As useful as a chocolate insulin syringe.
Black as a badger's tadger.
As welcome as a fart in a spacesuit
As Camp as Liberace's Christmas
Yes the Italian one might be seen as a tad racist, but if you heard it on a telly in a drama you would complain would you?
In Captain Correlli there is a great line ...' A brave Italian, is a freak of nature' These are comments on the perceived ethos or character, rather than any physiological trait. As I understand it Italians are a nation not a race.
P***ed as a newt.
Cool as a cucumber.
Very nice. :)
I'm busy ripping loads of nonPC stuff out of a novel I want to put out ... changing it so it is more acceptable and still keeping the author's intent - not easy.
If something had a fault in it my mother used to say, 'a blind man would be glad to see it'
With all due respect, I am of very mixed race and find the whole notion of racism so absurd that I cant take it seriously. Which is not to say that I don't respect that many people do. And I wont pretend that this can be a serious issue which has caused great suffering to a great many people.
I will start another thread on the subject of when some words are acceptable in one context but not in another.
Why do you feel it necessary to remove material? Please explain further.
Those of mixed race may not see the problem as others do... but when you meet someone in the street who you think you know reasonably well and find them going on about Pakis and all the rest, and how much he hates and despises them, you soon realise there are a lot of racially inclined people out there, an awful lot. It is always best to err on the side of not offending anyone, if at all possible, with racist comments of any kind, slurs on their national character, whatever. It can cause serious offence.