I Just Hate...

[cabinetman]

clichés, know what I mean? Am I talking to a brick wall here or what? I get up at the crack of dawn, moving around slow as molasses. Being a chip off the old block, I try to do things that are easy as falling off a log. I'm usually a fountain of energy, and go out on a limb, but if it's not one thing it's another. It's not the heat here it's the humidity, so I take one day at a time.

At the end of the day I might look like what the cat dragged in, not feeling like peaches and cream, realizing that money is the root of all evil, and it can make me nutty as a fruitcake, I know it doesn't grow on trees. Around dinner time I get so hungry I could eat a horse, and eat 'til the cows come home, and then get sick as a dog. Is all this clear as mud?
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[jking]

Nothing makes me madder than a hornet's nest than a pail full of cliche's older than the hills...

I have a friend who starts almost every story with "To make a long story short...", which generally means "watch out, here comes a long story!"

[Mr__Bill]

Personally I like coining new cliche's, but they never catch on.

[germdoc]

To be honest with you, nobody uses cliches anymore. They're too overused.

[dlminehart]

I checked wikipedia about this. Here's some of what they said:

"A cliché is also a term historically used in printing, for a printing plate cast from movable type. This is also called a stereotype.[1] When letters were set one at a time it made sense to cast a phrase used over and again as one single slug of metal. That constantly repeated phrase was known as a cliché."

Fascinating that cliché is a French synonym for stereotype, and that both had their origin in shortcuts in preparing pages to be printed! Kind of like the old-time equivalent of keyboard macros!

[LinuxRandal]

So Mr. full of Malarky, are you the early bird gets the worm, or second mouse gets the cheese kind of a guy?

[Bruce Cohen]

Hey Cab,

That concept is slicker than snot on a door knob!!!

Bruce

[leehljp]

I prefer to speak metaphorically!

[crokett]

Money is NOT the root of all evil. That is one cliche that got it wrong. The Love of Money is the root of all evil.

[Richard in Smithville]

"Slicker than otter snot"
&
"Happier than a tornada in a trailer park"


Ok, so I might be a redneck. The second one is from "Mater" in the movie, "Cars"

[germdoc]

Money is NOT the root of all evil. That is one cliche that got it wrong. The Love of Money is the root of all evil.

No, according to Dr. John, WOMAN is the root of all evil--money is bad but it's legal.

[Ed62]

To be honest with you, nobody uses cliches anymore. They're too overused.

That's right. Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. (Yogi)

Ed

[Uncle Cracker]

That's right. Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. (Yogi)

God bless Yogi Berra... When he is gone, his equal will never be seen again...

[Pappy]

Seems like everytime I ride my bike to work it starts raining cats and dogs on the way home. Kinda gets a fella down in g dumps always gettin' soaked to the bone. Reading this stuff has me feeling just finer than frogs hair again!