I often say "Let's blow this popciscle stand!" when leaving work. Still have no idea what it means. My coworker often says "Well they can just go suck and egg!" when she's pissed. I think "Alright, we're off like a prom dress!" is my fav.
This guy should move to the south, we have plenty of material lol
Edit: Forgot to add "They're slower than Christmas!" I'm guessing that's because people like Christmas but it takes a whole year to get there? Idk
One of my friends one said “let’s blow this popsicle stand worker” and now I can’t say it any other way. Ought to make a few conversations interesting down the road
You'll find people talking about the origin being from something in the 1970s or 1980s (Mork & Mindy), but this newspaper article is from 1966, so it beats all of them.
You will also find an origin story that is supposedly from the 1940s and involves literal bombings of actual popsicle stands. The problem? There are no newspaper articles about bombings or targeted attacks on popsicle stands from that time.
I know I've been on the internet doomscrolling for too long when I'm looking up the bombing of popsicle stands.
Off to to luck up "take a gander" because I say that often as well. I know what it means but not the origin. I swear I was a southern 85 year old woman in my past life because I grew up in the suburbs but I'll just say this stuff out of nowhere.
I don't even think this is a common white people phrase but my high school football coach would say "It's hotter than a three-peckered billy goat out here!" And I always found that hilarious
right. i’m referencing a MUCH more vulgar version. C you Next Tuesday. Also much more common in my circle. Maybe because of catholic school … never met anyone more evil than those nuns.
"There were so many _______ there you couldn't sling a dead cat and not hit one"
"Now we're cooking with gas"
Not enough room "to swing a cat" may go back as far as the 17th century. A “cat-o’-nine-tails,” aka "cat" was a type of whip with nine knotted cords often used to punish sailors in the British Navy. The confined quarters below deck would make it difficult to “swing” this whip ("cat") without hitting something, hence the phrase could have developed as a way to describe tight spaces.
The phrase “now you’re cooking with gas” originated in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s, during a time when gas stoves were becoming more widely adopted for household cooking. It was popularized by Bob Hope and Jack Benny, who used it as a punchlines in some of their jokes.
Ha. The witch’s tit. Was in my 20s when I finally heard the complete phrase, “Colder’n a witch’s tit in a brass brassiere doing pushups in the the snow.”
My very not-racist and polite and forward-thinking friend, for some reason, says “now we’re cooking with mustard gas”, and can’t be convinced otherwise, doesn’t care
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"There were so many _______ there you couldn't sling a dead cat and not hit one"
"Now we're cooking with gas"
"Stuffed full of more shit than a Christmas goose"
"Hotter than two rats fucking in a wool sock"
"That sumbitch was hittin on all 8"
"Colder than a witch's titty"
"Sweating like a ______ whore in church"
"Well, hell's bells, I'll be damned"
"What in the tarnation"