New takes on old phrases

Try using some of these in a business meeting, or with a customer this week.

  1. Shit or get off the Pope
  2. It’s not pocket science
  3. It is what it was
  4. A jack of all maids
  5. Like white on color
  6. Familiarity breeds mice
  7. Don’t rock the goat
  8. The show must grow lawns
  9. Caught with his pants brown
  10. Sharp as a stack
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28 comments:

  1. Sammy, 17, June 2009, 1:25 |  

    Yeah! Sure, Thanks!!

     
  2. chainstay, 17, June 2009, 4:45 |  

    Have a nice flay.
    Don’t look a ghost horse in the south.
    Home is where your house is.
    ’tis better to live than recede.
    Been bare, loved that.
    A turd in the hand is worse than poo on your tush.

     
  3. Lung the Younger, 17, June 2009, 5:22 |  

    You can’t make an omelette without laying eggs.

    The button line.

    Thinking outside the pox.

    We’re all on the same pager here.

    A level playing fiend.

    At the end of the daze.

    Core combatency.

    Steamlining

     
  4. hoatzin, 17, June 2009, 6:18 |  
    hoatzin

    Out of the frying pan and into the friar

    It’s an ill wind that blows your body odor in my direction

    I depend on the kindness of stranglers…

    I hate to Monday morning tight end, but…

    That really threw a wench in the works

    I’m Irish, born in bread

     
  5. StevieC, 17, June 2009, 6:23 |  
    StevieC

    Don’t lick a gift whore in the mouse

    A favourite of mine (and I use it to see if anyone is paying attention) – half of one, six dozen of the other.

     
  6. fruf, 17, June 2009, 7:50 |  

    kill two stones with one bird

     
  7. junkman, 17, June 2009, 8:32 |  
    junkman

    -a watched boil never pops
    -it was a bitter pole to swallow
    -he had an ass up his sleeve
    -she was born with a saliva spoon in her mouth
    -burning the midnight url
    -the pen is writier than the sword
    -loose lips drink sips
    -he was lying by the seat of his pants
    -straight from the whores mouth
    -we are scraping the bottom of will farrell

     
  8. Bigwavdave, 17, June 2009, 11:13 |  
    Bigwavdave

    Familiarity breeds mice

    I always thought it was Familiarity Breeds ;-)

     
  9. chainstay, 17, June 2009, 11:25 |  

    If you can’t somthing nice about someone, shut the fuck up.

     
  10. chainstay, 17, June 2009, 11:45 |  

    One bad apple doesn’t spoli the whole benchmark.

     
  11. fruf, 17, June 2009, 11:49 |  

    if you can’t stand the heat….go fry your arse

     
  12. Mandy's Kidding, 17, June 2009, 12:11 |  

    Though it’s not a cliche, it was one of my favorite lines to ever come out of someone’s mouth during a company-wide meeting:

    “I don’t know how to get my hands around this because there’s so much of it!”

     
  13. Davezilla, 17, June 2009, 12:26 |  
    Davezilla

    [quote comment="633356"]Though it’s not a cliche, it was one of my favorite lines to ever come out of someone’s mouth during a company-wide meeting:
    “I don’t know how to get my hands around this because there’s so much of it!”[/quote]

    Mandy, please don’t leak your private IMs into meetings anymore. :P

     
  14. Meagan, 17, June 2009, 18:33 |  
    Meagan

    Bread men sell no stales.

    The girly nerd gets the bookworm.

     
  15. chainstay, 17, June 2009, 19:26 |  

    Judge not unless ye be Judge Dredd.

     
  16. StevieC, 17, June 2009, 20:24 |  
    StevieC

    Fool me once, shame on … … … shame on you. Fool me — I can’t get fooled again.

     
  17. junkman, 18, June 2009, 7:40 |  

    [quote comment="633369"]Fool me once, shame on … … … shame on you. Fool me — I can’t get fooled again.[/quote]
    two bushes aren’t worth a bird in the hand!

     
  18. YankeeRose32, 18, June 2009, 9:09 |  

    Just try to pull this one off smoothly and with a straight face sometime:

    I hope when you go home tonight your momma runs out from under the porch and bites you!

    and of course: I have places to see and people to do.

     
  19. J, 18, June 2009, 11:39 |  

    Don’t pet the sweaty things

     
  20. junkman, 18, June 2009, 13:56 |  

    [quote comment="633383"]Don’t pet the sweaty things[/quote]
    nice!

     
  21. StevieC, 18, June 2009, 14:21 |  
    StevieC

    I actually heard this one being used in a meeting today:

    “Get two birds stoned at once”

    I asked the guy afterwards if he was a Davezilla fan and all I got back was a blank stare.

     
  22. Doug B, 18, June 2009, 19:22 |  

    Doe’s the pope shit in the woods?

     
  23. Doug B, 18, June 2009, 19:24 |  

    Sorry. Does the pope shit in the woods?

     
  24. Spud, 18, June 2009, 20:46 |  

    “I believe in milko’s, you sexy thang…”

     
  25. chainstay, 19, June 2009, 13:17 |  

    Waste a lot, get subsidized a lot.

     
  26. Craigaroonie, 20, June 2009, 0:15 |  

    never mind the quality, feel the child labour
    don’t talk with your mouth fool
    leave no tone unsterned
    every cloud has a silver nitrate component
    find a penny, pick it up and all that day you’ll have one percent of a buck
    the dog is mandy’s best friend
    - i made that last one up

     
  27. rem1967, 20, June 2009, 21:22 |  

    It is better to have stalked a blonde than never to have stalked at all.

     
  28. Timm, 22, June 2009, 13:35 |  

    Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can pass off onto someone else.

    or

    Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can get someone else to do.