Not so “quaint” sayings

december 17, 2016 by rugby843

Was texting my daughter and said,

It’s colder than a cob
out there, 15 degrees, snow, low of -10.

I added, your dad used to say
Colder than a witch’s tit
She replied yes, it’s

Slicker than snot
Hope the kids are careful driving.

Then she added yes, he also said
Off like a prom dress
And we laughed, remembering my husband’s humor.
Of course he also taught the grandkids how to light matches 🙄

My own dad used
Nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

Great jumping toady frogs, Leaping Lizards, If it pleases you, it tickles me all to hell, and Great Jeosophat

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http://fivedotoh.com/2023/08/18/fandangos-flashback-friday-august-18th/

Tomtom entered the estate slowly. It looked like someone decided to bash in the vegetable garden! Who would take their frustrations out on a spud, he uttered, and as he stopped to think about it, laughed at the ridiculous inquiry. Tomtom looked around for missing parts of the garden gate that had a strict “no trespassing” policy clearly stated. The gate had been locked but now the lock was broken and the gate stood open. Noticing other vegetables missing, or smashed, his demeanor was not spurious, but one of genuine concern. The garden was his family’s livelihood.

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http://fivedotoh.com/2023/08/17/fowc-with-fandango-estate/

Your Daily Word Prompt – #Spurious- #YDWordPrompt August 17, 2023

policy

https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/08/17/three-things-challenge-m423/#more-99068 Your three words today are: SPUD TOMTOM BASH

Ragtag Daily Prompt Thursday: Missing Part

http://cyranny.com/2023/08/17/inquiry-word-of-the-day-challenge/

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Natural English, or: Sidespin

🧡Me!🧡

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For visually challenged writers, the image shows a red door in a narrow alleyway surrounded by white stone walls.

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A long walk to the end

Traveled far to achieve this end

Lessons learned and now redemption

Funny they never mentioned

The secret door would be red

Think they’re messing with my head!

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#WRITEPHOTO – Red

Simply 6 Minutes – Welcome to the Challenge: 08/15/2023

One-Liner Wednesday – That feeling when…

Mogadishu, Kalamazoo 

Pacific Grove California too

Wherever you go around in a whirl 

It’s all the same, the same old world 

Conflicts,  protests, sickness and cures, 

Haters, and lovers all think they allure

The future depends on the survival of all 

Every tint, every color feel fate’s rise and fall

The world keeps turning, but for how long

When we just keep playing the same old song

How long shall we sit in our safe comfy rooms

Watching, never acting, to change this doom?

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This week’s Story Starter teaser is:

I didn’t see her when I opened the door, but I knew she was there. I could smell her perfume, “Night in Zambia”, we called it. When we were in Africa the life was simple and sweet with cooling lazy nights around a fire and hot sweaty days of watching wildlife. A perfume of sorts including all the scents of day and night and closeness were only between us. It had been ten years since she left me, but I can still feel and smell her presence.

Fandango’s Story Starter #110

Tanka Tuesday: I’ve asked my friend, and photographer, Terri Webster Schrandt, from secondwindleisure.com.

http://wordcraftpoetry.com/2023/08/15/2023-photo-prompt-template-tankatuesday-weekly-poetry-challenge-no-333-8-15-23/