View Full Version : Phrases that don't make snse.
Basil Elks
03/07/2003, 16:09
Here's one
"You're/that's, the cat's @ss."
What the HELL is that supposed to mean?!?!?!?!, & why a cat?, Don't even get me started on the rat.
rabbidgerbal
03/08/2003, 03:16
More than one way to skin a cat...
Who needs to have one way to start with?
same difference.
that's an old obvious one. they can't be both.
People selling a car list it as "clean"
is taking it to the car wash worth like another grand?
No money down
just the aquisition fee? :eek: what's that "hay down" ;)
Free
Plus shipping and handling? when you buy three ? Free almost always costs too much. :rolleyes:
Like a bull in a china shop
Well the image is easy, but who was the dude who thought it was a good idea keeping one there to start that quote? :p
WHat's cooler than the cat's meow?
What's the neatest thing before sliced bread?
why does the old man play nick Knack on my thumb? what is nick nack? can't he play one then play nick nack on his own thumb? Then he goes "rolling" home? what's up with that whole song?
newhorizon
03/08/2003, 09:20
"It's always in the last place you look!"
Well, obviously since once I find the object, I'm going to stop searching.
Basil Elks
03/08/2003, 14:56
Same 5H1T, different pile.
How can it be the same 5H1T then?
raging_madboy
03/08/2003, 15:06
Brittney spears claims she's a virgin.
skeevo666
03/08/2003, 15:09
but it always struck me as odd that we park on a driveway & drive on a parkway :D
SonOfAres
03/08/2003, 20:07
"School is cool"
"Get a job, bum!"
What's up with these phrases?
Spiritual_Ex
03/08/2003, 21:51
If you thaw meat when defronsting it...shouldn't unthaw mean that you're freezing it? Yet we use thaw and unthaw interchangably? wierd
yah but that's the same as flamable and inflamable, shouldn't they be oposite
I also never understood "a bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush" Now I'm just confused
Spiritual_Ex
03/08/2003, 23:32
Originally posted by Magnito
yah but that's the same as flamable and inflamable, shouldn't they be oposite
Uhmmm, they are opposite. Arn't they? Maybe not, too tired to think about it :)
michael carl
03/09/2003, 00:15
heres an old one that isnt used anymore........
he/she/it is the bees knees.......
:confused: :confused: :confused:
Billy Jack
03/09/2003, 00:24
what the heck does dag nabbit mean anyway?
And if it's neither here nor there than where the heck is it?
de4dp00l
03/09/2003, 00:53
Originally posted by Spiritual_Ex
Uhmmm, they are opposite. Arn't they? Maybe not, too tired to think about it :)
Flammable and inflammable mean exactly the same thing, which is keep them away from fire.
Dag Nabbit is just a toned down version of god "bless" it, if you catch my drift. sort of like "oh fudge" for another word that starts with F.
And the phrase "a bird in hand is worth two in the bush" just means that its better to already have something than to risk trying for something thats twice as good but risk not getting either. Sort of like be happy with what you have, not what you could have.
Or at least thats the way i thought it was
Jervis_Tetch
03/09/2003, 03:57
Dunno if these expressions belong in this area, but im gonna post em anyways. I hear these alot, has ANYONE ELSE heard these expressions:
Example: Suddenly u hear the sound of breaking glass, my parents have been known to say either:
Jumpin Judas Priest.....Im not even touchin that one....and:
Jesus Murphy!....was Jesus' middle name Murphy or what?
Just my thoughts :D
Basil Elks
03/09/2003, 16:15
here's some to think about.
"don't look a gift horse in the mouth." why not?
"It's raining cats & dogs." are you in a hurricane?
Basil Elks
03/09/2003, 18:05
"like shooting fish in a barrel." Why?
de4dp00l
03/09/2003, 18:27
"Don't look a gift horse in mouth."
As horses age, their gums recede from their teeth, and the easiest way to check their age is to check how much of their teeth are exposed. The phrase means that you shouldn't question the quality of the gift, just accept and be glad that it was given to you. See also, "It's the thought that counts."
"It's raining cats and dogs."
I didn't understand this one for the longest time, but a couple of years ago, it was raining really hard, and I stepped in a poodle.:D
Basil Elks
03/10/2003, 17:26
"By the skin of my/your teeth?" Eww, brush.
Basil Elks
03/11/2003, 11:53
"Shat don't stink" of course it does.
"birds & the bees." lemme guess, when they're combined, they make a stinging scat bomb, please, if you talk to your kids about sex, say sex, not birds & bees, 'cause you might confuse your child & make them think that you're taking them to the park or something.
Skinning cats is tough work, I had to do it for a biology lab. If there wasn't more than one way to do it, my group might not have ever managed to get it done in time. ;)
Basil Elks
03/12/2003, 15:41
" Well pin a rose on my/your nose." Why a rose, why not a tulip, or a snap-dragon?
"Your as old/young as you feel/act." If that's the case, then I nevver left the diaper stage.
rabbidgerbal
03/12/2003, 18:17
THe ad goes on about how people are busy and all they need to do is preheat their oven to 0 degrees... hense let them (Boston market) do the cooking, which may be a good idea if your really busy but...
but truely preheating your oven to 0 would be precooling it wouldn't it? unless your an eskimo in an igloo shouldn't your oven be around room tempature of 65-70 degrees to start with?
Basil Elks
03/14/2003, 15:48
"catch 22"
"the whole 9 yards"
"the whole 9 yards" refers to a bolt of cloth.
A full bolt is 9 yards.
Billy Jack
03/14/2003, 15:58
Okay here's a question,
for pete's sake, heaven's to betsy, and for the love of mike, Who the heck are these people?
Basil Elks
03/14/2003, 16:00
What about "Murphy's law" who's he, & why's it his law?
Funky Jett
03/14/2003, 16:09
"Out of sight, out of mind"
&
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder"
Well, which is it?
"Penny for your thoughts"
&
"I'll put my two cents in"
Someone's making a penny there
F***IN A!! (http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/m####ina.html)
"Come he11 or high water"
WTH?
Lofcutus
03/14/2003, 17:19
"Jumpin Jesus on a Pogo Stick!"
where's a 1st century AD carpenter going to get a pogo stick, I ask you???
"Hella [anything]"
and
"In the Hizzie!"
SniperCyclops
03/18/2003, 00:14
Originally posted by Lofcutus
"Jumpin Jesus on a Pogo Stick!"
where's a 1st century AD carpenter going to get a pogo stick, I ask you???
They only time I've ever heard that used was in the song "Stuart" by the Dead Milkmen :)
Anyway, 10:30, the other night, I go out in my yard, and there's
the Wurster kid, looking up in the tree. I say, "What are
you looking for?" He says "I'm looking for my burrow owl."
I say, "Jumping Jesus on a Pogo Stick. Everybody knows
the burrow owl lives. In a hole. In the ground. Why the hell do you
think they call it a burrow owl, anyway?"
KaiserSelroc
03/18/2003, 00:16
Breakfast and lunch are different because you can't eat steak for dinner. - Howdy Doody
I'm not sure how universal this one is. it might only be found in Canada... or maybe even Atlantic Canada (we've got alot of our own sayings) but I hate the use of "chuck" instead of throw.
As in, "He chucked a rock at me", or "Chuck it to third base!" etc.
Why? I've never understood it.
Basil Elks
03/18/2003, 11:59
"Jumpin' Jehosafat" Who's Jehosafat, & why's he jumping?
Chuck is used in the UK and Australia as well. I can't quote my source but if I remember correctly it was one of those terms that entered the English language after the British took over India.
Originally posted by Basil Elks
"By the skin of my/your teeth?" Eww, brush.
Teeth don't have skin. Thus, it means "by the narrowest of margins".
Originally posted by Basil Elks
"Jumpin' Jehosafat" Who's Jehosafat, & why's he jumping?
Actually, it's spelled Jehoshaphat. He was a king that brought Judah into an alliance with the northern kingdom of Israel in the 9th century B.C.
As for why he was jumpin'? Couldn't tell ya ...
melchaih
03/18/2003, 12:28
In the immortal words of Jed Clampet "weeeellllll doggie!"
And then there's always...."Well I'll be dipped in dog$hit!"
Basil Elks
03/18/2003, 12:35
"who pee'd in your cornflakes" why pee in someones cornflakes, when you can scat in them, or even worse. ;)
NickCarraway
03/18/2003, 12:50
Way Overpriced
If you've tried to get any Unique on E-Bay, ya know this one.
rabidroadkill
03/18/2003, 12:56
One of my favorites I use often is "You can't polish a turd." Which goes along the same lines as "You can't make chicken salad out of chicken $hit"
Basically they both mean, no matter how much you try to improve something that was horrible to begin with, it is still horrible. Or something like that :D
Alright. Anyone know where "lock, stock and barrel" came from? I do.:p
DS-00-0, FSD
03/18/2003, 13:15
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
vs
Better safe than sorry
You know, all this really brings back momories of a little play on words my grandfsther used to use. Every time we'd visit, he'd ask me in the morning, "You up for all day?"
and I'd reply, "Unless I fall down."
CyberVenom
03/18/2003, 13:22
Here's one from the 90's: That was da bomb!
Maybe it's just me, but last I checked, something being a bomb isn't a good thing.
ok
raining cats an dogs means:
somewhere (dont ask me where or when) cats and dogs sat on the roof to get more sun, then storms came and the cats/ dogs couldnt get off the roof, the roof fell, it rained cats and dogs
and bat fink is wrong, the whole nine yards means:
in nam to now the cargo planees set aside 9 yards to keep guns bombs missiles, the whole nine yards usualy ment that the war was starting because all 9 yards were full, that means troops are heading in
no what elese dosnt make sense, why you spelled sense wrong on the title of the thread lol
brendanbrown
03/20/2003, 21:04
cant fit 6 gallons of $h!t in a 5 gallon bucket.....?
no pain no gain.....ok, so if i dont gain, i wont be in pain right?, ok fine...
holy $h!t....where has anyone ever seen religious fecies?
broken....stupid clix, takin up all the room in my brain...but its sooo adictive...anyone wanna play a game?:)
f you....now, who started this widly used phrase, and for god's sake why???
and heres a little food for thought, who discovered that we could get milk from a cow, and what did he think he was doing when he discovered this???
Basil Elks
03/21/2003, 11:50
"Plead the 5th"....? why the 5th, why not the 1st?
"dressed to the nines." ...? why nines, why not thirteens?
"Would you still love me if I had a mullet?" ok not many people say this, but I just wanted to know if you would still love me, if I had one.
How about "put on airs".... What the heck is that supposed to mean? everone breaths air!
How about "put on airs".... What the heck is that supposed to mean? everone breaths air!
Plede the 5th means "I refuse to awnser on the grounds that it may incriminate me", I always liked that one!
My Dad used to say "It's pissin out rain" I try not to think about it too much
Last one "Tit for tat" What the he!!
bullseye100
03/22/2003, 20:38
murphy was the one who said--anything can happen will happen...
>"Plead the 5th"
To invoke your 5th amendment right (in the United States) against self-incrimination
rabbidgerbal
03/23/2003, 01:25
How about "SHOCK AND AWE"?
If your in shock can you be in Awe at the same time?
Perhaps some are in Shock while others are in Awe?
So perhaps the new title should be Some in Shock and some in Awe?
Is that the only two choices?
Basil Elks
03/24/2003, 11:48
"women don't fart." Yeah who ever said that hasn't met my wife, oh sure she may say mine are bad, but I'M not the one who made the dog puke.
the Nabocleese
03/26/2003, 03:00
How about these two:
I should hope to smile and kiss a pig
or
I should hope to pi$$ in your hat
Perhaps you've heard one of these...
How's yer belly where the pig bit ya?
Hell bent for leather.
or my least favorite:
Strapped for cash. (ouch)
The whole nine yards comes from the fact that in World War 2 fighter planes carried nine yards of ammo in belt form, thus some pilots would fire all of this ammo at a particular target there by giving it "the whole nine yards", though I'm sure it has carried itself up through different wars.
Ramplate
03/26/2003, 04:20
Lock Stock and Barrel - are parts of a gun. It originally meant you wanted to buy the whole gun and not just the parts thereof.
my two cents - referrs to poker. It is an ante (originally two bits, which was equal to a quarter) and it allows you to join a hand of poker. And so putting your two bits into a conversation allows one to join in on the topic.
The whole nine yards - Has also been attributed to W.W.II fighter planes. Nine yards was the exact length of a belt of 50-caliber ammunition for the Corsair fighter. If a target was shot at with the entire band, it was said to have been given "the whole nine yards".
Raining cats and dogs - When the bubonic plague was rampant in London, humans where apparently not the only victims of the plague. Cats and dogs were also afflicted, many died in the streets. After a particularly hard rain, street gutters could be awash in the bodies of cats and dogs.
Anyone ever hear that "Three on a Match" is unlucky? Do you know why?
How about "Balls to the wall" That has an interesting explaination.
While I'm on the subject "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey"
"Bought the farm" that one's logical.
Here's one from George Carlin - Hot water heater, Hot water doesn't need heating
Basil Elks
03/26/2003, 11:50
"Eat sh:t & die!" yes, you probably would, with all the dieases in feces. Oh, & I apologize for my last one, if I've offended anyone with it.
BudPalmer
03/26/2003, 11:58
Don't forget to never finger anything you are not going to eat!
Originally posted by brendanbrown
and heres a little food for thought, who discovered that we could get milk from a cow, and what did he think he was doing when he discovered this???
I wonder the same thing....who thought to suckle a cow's nipple and drink the #### inside...and thought it a WISE idea?!?! or to churn it and make butter?
Mind you I abstain from dairy ;0-)
Originally posted by Ramplate
How about "Balls to the wall" That has an interesting explaination.
While I'm on the subject "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey"
If I remember, a brass monkey is a pile of cannonballs, and if it was cold enough, the balls would freeze togther...something along those lines.
Basil Elks
03/26/2003, 14:10
as to who would suckle a cow's nipple, the answer is Tom Green :laugh: , the rest I don't know. Most likely a drunken red neck.
Archer176
03/26/2003, 14:34
Isn't good to drive wrecklessly?
Minding your P(int)s and Q(uart)s was a good idea at bars in the old days.
How did peter piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
Don't they have to be picked before pickled?
"Come hades or high water" is a assertion of defiance against the elemets, in this case large amounts of fire or water.
de4dp00l
03/26/2003, 14:45
Originally posted by Ramplate
Anyone ever hear that "Three on a Match" is unlucky? Do you know why?
It's another phrase coined during war - if you left the match burning too long at, it made it easy for a sniper to target the light source. Drawing a sniper's attention is the very definition of bad luck.
kid muscle
03/26/2003, 16:11
Here's one that doesn't make sense. "There no chance in heck." Is that a good or bad thing? sense heck is a bad place. Shouldn't it be "no chance in heaven."??:rolleyes:
Originally posted by Basil Elks
"catch 22"
"the whole 9 yards"
When making a proper kilt, it was often 9 yards of cloth that was used to make it
Originally posted by gelf13
"Come he11 or high water"
WTH?
reffering that no matter how sinful something is, he will attempt to do it
Hell, where you go if you sin
High water, reffering to the flooding that that guy noah built his ark for that washed away all the sinners
(These are of course to be taken as you will depending on your belief structure)
Originally posted by Thor453
How about "put on airs".... What the heck is that supposed to mean? everone breaths air!
I belive this is in reference to when people used perfume instead of bathing. (You know, if you bathed, it washed all the health off of you and it made you sick) but anyhow, perfume was a luxury of the rich. So to put on airs meant to act snobbish or better than the other person because they were lower than you.
Could also mean to "put on Hiers" meaning to reffer to your liniage, but I think it is more the first one
In reference to the phrase "In the hizzy"
It is an 'ethnic' term(i.e. stupid ebonics) that works by replacing the letters of a word(for example, house) with 'izzy', 'izzle', or anything like that. Therefore, 'In the house' becomes 'In the hizzy'. It is foolish because you have to rely on context clues to understand anything.
Fo' shizzle my nizzle!
Originally posted by XocgX
I wonder the same thing....who thought to suckle a cow's nipple and drink the #### inside...and thought it a WISE idea?!?! or to churn it and make butter?
Mind you I abstain from dairy ;0-)
It's cheese that bothers me.
"Hmmm, we traveled the desert with this milk in a sheeps stomach, hmmm, seems to have curdled" "Well, everyones hungry, eat up"
Ramplate
03/26/2003, 17:18
Originally posted by de4dp00l
It's another phrase coined during war - if you left the match burning too long at, it made it easy for a sniper to target the light source. Drawing a sniper's attention is the very definition of bad luck.
Yep, that's basically it. Three soldiers lighting their cigaretts with one match was pretty much equal to the phrase "Ready, Aim, Fire" - the third person usually was a gonner.
Good job!:cool:
Basil Elks
03/26/2003, 17:18
"3 sheets to the wind." also available in the 4 sheet variety, either way, it confuses me.
Ramplate
03/26/2003, 17:25
Originally posted by XocgX
If I remember, a brass monkey is a pile of cannonballs, and if it was cold enough, the balls would freeze togther...something along those lines.
Close, in very cold weather the cannon balls would actually shrink a little in size due to their composition. Being stacked in a pyramid, they would topple over when their size changed.
Balls to the wall - this means going all out. The throttle of a plane has little knobs, or balls, on the tops and when you push them all the way forward they hit the "wall" of the cockpit.
this is a nautical phrase.Paradoxically,sheets on a masted ship actually refer to the ropes that control the sails, not the sails themselves. each sail was tethered to four ropes(sheets).If one or more of the sheets was not secured, the sail would become useless or unmanageable.if you were three sheets to the wind,you only had one left.this was quite a precarious situation.Four sheets to the wind and you were most probably going to lose the sail and shhets.I found this in both books that I own on terms that have come from the maritime world.thanks,jim cookn.sa
Ramplate
03/26/2003, 17:32
Originally posted by Basil Elks
"3 sheets to the wind." also available in the 4 sheet variety, either way, it confuses me.
The "Sheets" referrs to the ropes that hold a sail in place.
If the ropes on a sail are loose, then the ship tends to wander aimlessly, much like a stumbling drunken sailor.:p
rabbidgerbal
03/26/2003, 17:48
Did someone mention how McDonalds has the words
"brail and picture menus available upon request"
ON their menu sign. Perhaps it's all right if your with a friend who can "read" and "see" to tell you? :cross-eye :cool:
Ramplate
03/26/2003, 17:53
Saying someone bought the farm has its origins in war.
The compensation to family members for someone who died in battle was usually enough to actually buy a farm.
Ramplate,
buying the farm came from pilots crashing into barns. If they died that way it was said they "bought the farm", now it just means when anyone dies.
Ramplate
03/26/2003, 22:54
Originally posted by KRoc
Ramplate,
buying the farm came from pilots crashing into barns. If they died that way it was said they "bought the farm", now it just means when anyone dies.
Sorry, I dissagree with that explaination.
Just think of How many crashed airplanes there have been, compared to the number of planes that have actually hit barns.
I seriously doubt that such a common phrase would come from such an extremely small comparative number of occurances.
I'd like to know where you got your info on that.
Here's where I got mine:
http://members.aol.com/MorelandC/HaveOrigins.htm
Bought the farm
Meaning: To die.
Example: Oscar's bungee jumping experience came to an abrupt stop when he bought the farm on his first try.
Origin: It comes from W.W.I. When a US soldier was killed in combat his family was given a "death benefit" that amounted to a enough money to buy a parcel of farm land in the mid west.
Thanks to Geoff Knowlton
Some might consider this just compensation to the surviving family. Personally I would prefer a minor wound with the lesser compensation of "renting the farm".
Edit: I found a reference of pilots of the Barn Storming era of aviation sometimes having to ditch their planes in farmer's fields - ruining their crops - and having to pay the farmer for the damages.
lastnight i/he/she/it slept like a baby. does that maen they woke up every couple hours crying and screaming?
summer sausage, that bothers me. why is it found primarily in the winter? measuring time in "shakes of a lambs tail"
my bad? bad what can i get a noun?
brendanbrown
03/27/2003, 14:35
anyone else curious as to why a 'ship'ment is sent by road and a 'car'go sent by sea?
Ramplate
03/27/2003, 15:24
Summer Sausage Explained!!
The warm climate of the Mediterranean, most notably in Italy, influenced the development of the dry or summer sausage, which was made in cooler weather to keep during summer. This type of sausage was preserved by using a great deal of salt and spices, then drying, generally without smoking. .
Taa-daa!:)
the first person to give me a reasonable answer EVER thank you
Basil Elks
03/27/2003, 17:46
"Son of a b:tch" who's that an insult to?, the person, or his mom?
Basil Elks
03/28/2003, 12:00
"May contain nut meat/nut sauce." Um, ew, they could have worded it different.
Originally posted by Puuka
When making a proper kilt, it was often 9 yards of cloth that was used to make it
This is correct. The saying predates any references to ammunition and deals with the amount of cloth required to make the garment. I don't remember if it was a kilt but I'll take Puuka's word for it.
Basil Elks
03/31/2003, 11:47
"don't give a rats @ss" there, I said it.
"blue balls" what are you, a smurf?
"You bet you bippy" what's a bippy?
"happy as a pig in $hit." does that mean your excited?
"happy as a clam" how can you tell if they're happy?
"does this make my @ss look fat?" there is no correct way to answer this.
"eager as a beaver" huh?
"cute as a button" they're not cute
"snug as a bug in a rug" huh?
"sly as a fox" is that good?
"bob' your uncle" no he's not
Basil Elks
03/31/2003, 11:55
"straight as the crow flies"
"green around the hills" last I checked, I didn't have gills
"mind you beeswax"
"bees knees"
"dog eat dog world", ooooo, cannibalistic doggies, count me in.
Basil Elks
03/31/2003, 11:57
oops, I meant gills, not hills. :noid: :eek: :nervous: :tired: :speechles
Basil Elks
03/31/2003, 12:20
one last one, I swear
"je ne c'est quoi" or however you spell it, can someone translate this for me, then tell me what it means.
Roughly translated it means "I don't know what."
Basil Elks
03/31/2003, 13:52
"to coin a phrase" ooo rich phrases
"who beefed" why beef, why not turkey, or pork
Basil Elks
03/31/2003, 15:40
Geez, I'm just full of them today.
"catch 22"
"catch as catch can"
"dogs day afternoon"
"hold your own" not in public
"two in the hand, is worth one in the bush." is this some kind of sexual innuendo?
ShadowRaven
03/31/2003, 15:42
Originally posted by CyberVenom
Here's one from the 90's: That was da bomb!
Maybe it's just me, but last I checked, something being a bomb isn't a good thing.
and it went from bad to worse.
now it's ''the sh1t'' if you ask me, I'd say all sentences useing that word should mean somethings gone horribly wrong........so I guess our language is ''the sh1t''
Basil Elks
03/31/2003, 15:44
howabout
"you da man!" why man, why not woman?, or alien?, or creature? or duck?
rabbidgerbal
03/31/2003, 23:35
"Hotter than (you know where)." Who here actually knows by any experience how hot that really is? maybe it's really hot and hard to beat?
"to (you know where) in a handbasket"? If you going is that the perfered mode of transport?
"the Cat's meow" how cool is that? frankly their purr is pretty cool. maybe cooler than their meow.
"balls to the wall" Why? How about balls on the ground. wouldn't that be more serious?
"you'll poke your eye out" is this warning warrented to such a possibility that it's really viable and needed so often?
Basil Elks
04/01/2003, 11:49
"Don't poke fun." hey fun, come here. Yeah what do you want?, poke poke.
"mother of pearl" isn't that an oyster?
Basil Elks
04/01/2003, 15:48
"Cruisin' for a bruisin'!" where's the car?, where are we cruising to?
Basil Elks
05/16/2003, 15:48
"You have good taste in clothes." I'm eating clothes now?, I was wondering where I got my fiber.
The Puppeteer
05/16/2003, 15:57
Basil Elks, "Catch-22" is a book [read it because its a great book, a little slow but great] but the phrase [which does come from the book] basically means "dead if you do; dead if you don't", or "no win situation".
Basil Elks
05/16/2003, 16:09
Do you know any of the other explanations?
darius_dax1
05/16/2003, 16:14
I don't even want to think about "Nuts to butts" or "A-holes and elbows!"
DaLuvster89
05/16/2003, 16:49
Lincoln wrote:
"lastnight i/he/she/it slept like a baby. does that maen they woke up every couple hours crying and screaming?"
That had me cracking up, man. I've got a 4 month old who still doesn't sleep through the night...
How about, "Hell on wheels" - hell has a taxi, now?
rabbidgerbal
05/17/2003, 16:35
Hmmm.....
What's with Rolling?
"Rolling in money" wouldn't it be more fun to spend it? couldn't you get some freak paper cuts on it or something.
"a roll in the hay" isn't there a better place to roll than in the hay? Roll on the soft grass or roll in your bed? There is no roll in the hay anyway... if you want a roll go to a baker.
"rolling in laughter" :laugh: don't more people sit and laugh, if you want extreme laughing maybe try something new and fresh like "running with scissors laughter" or "Licking lollypops laughter"?
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