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  • GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    Make like a tree, and get the fuck out

    • AJMaxwell@lemmy.world
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      People in glass houses sink ships

    • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io
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      Whatever bursts your boat.

    • Denjin@lemmings.world
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      Make like a banana and leave.

    • DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      😂 best one so far

      • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
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        Check out Boondock Saints, from which this is a quote. Hilarious movies

        • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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          Surely it’s a riff on BTTF’s Biff Tannen right?

          • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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            That’s about as funny as a screen door on a battleship.

            Have a nice trip! See you next winter!

          • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
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            Ya know it might be. I never realized on account of only seeing bttf once when I was young, and never any of the sequels.

            In any case, the character that delivers the line in Boondock Saints delivers quite a few malaphors throughout the movie. It’s part of his thing

  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    That’s a really tough nut to swallow

    • FreshLight@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Lmao

      You won.

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    Does the pope shit in the woods?

    • marlowe221@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Are bears Catholic?

      • Klear@lemmy.world
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        And which one would you rather meet in the middle of a forest?

    • LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      But nobody is around to smell it, does it have an odor?

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.net
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    A bird in the hand is worth its weight in gold.

    Icarus flew too close to the man in the moon.

    Find a penny, pick it up. Would you like some making fuck?

    • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      BERSERKER!

      Outstanding, friend. Got a laugh out of me.

  • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
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    Daffy Duck one said, “You buttered your bread, now sleep in it.” And 10 year old me couldn’t stop laughing.

  • Cris@lemmy.world
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    This makes me so happy, thanks for teaching me a word

  • badcodecat@lemux.minnix.dev
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    i’n not the brightest bulb in the shed, but i sure am the sharpest!

  • Mnem667@sh.itjust.works
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    I had a boss who said:
    “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t suck his ass to make him drink.”
    I… I just… Can’t.

    • over_clox@lemmy.world
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      Okay, you win the internet for the day. 👍

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    I used to say “we’ll burn that bridge when we get to it.” all the time! People didn’t like it though.

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    Those that live in glass houses can throw the first stone.

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      Don’t throw glasses in a stone house.

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    Malaphors? I call these Rickyisms.

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      It’s all water under the fridge.

      • Orbituary@lemmy.world
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        Exactly. Making these things up ain’t rocket appliances.

        • kautau@lemmy.world
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          And there’s so many out there already you can use the existing ones and teach others; get two birds stoned at once

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      Rickyisms are modern day malapropisms, named for Mrs Malaprop from the 1775 play The Rivals by Sheridan, rather than malaphors.

      The difference being a malaphor is a mixed up idiom like the examples in the post and a malapropism is substituting a word in a common saying or idiom for a similar sounding one. For example, “finding an escape goat” or “I resemble that remark”.

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        “Why don’t you make like tree and fuck off, Lahey!” -Ricky

        (I know the difference, I was just attempting to be silly with it all.)

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      Worse case Ontario I get to tell you I toad a so, I fuckin a toad a so.

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        A toad a sow.

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    Those who dig others a grave shouldn’t throw rocks.

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    It’s like finding a needle in a camel’s back

    • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
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      Which is to say: a whole hell of a lot easier than a camel going through the eye of a needle, to quote JC.

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    I’ve made my omelette, now I’ve got to sleep in it. If you lead a horse to water, you can make it fish.

    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOP
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      The fish one is making me laugh

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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        Glad to hear it. You know what they say, you miss 100% of the shots you take

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      I’d rather “if you lead a horse to water, teach it to fish”

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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        We could workshop it, but if you’re bad at something, never do it for free

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      WONT SOMEBODY PLEASE, COME OVERE HERE AND…

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        Fuck

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          ME UP THE…

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