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strange "as" sayings that make no sense.

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  • #32
    Long Onion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Long Onion


    "As infuriating as a woman who nags you over no putting the toilet seat back down when the only reason that the issue arose in the first place is the fact that they are too lazy to do it themselves and have decided to use the outdated and mercurial concept known as etiquette to try to avoid doing yet another mediocre and everyday task for themselves"


  • #33
    El Siglo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    As fat as Harney.


  • #34
    chakotha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭chakotha


    P1ssed as arseholed

    Um, it don't compute.


  • #35
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    As sick as a parrot


    WTF? I've never saw a parrot with even a slight stomach upset


  • #36
    Adamcp898
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,475 ✭✭✭Adamcp898


    As rare as a fish


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  • #37
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    brummytom wrote: »
    As sick as a parrot


    WTF? I've never saw a parrot with even a slight stomach upset

    Really?


  • #38
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    As sweet as a nut.


  • #39
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Long Onion wrote: »
    The stickiest situation since sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun.




    Insert "AS" in place of your choice.

    You cant beat a bit of the auld blackadder.


  • #40
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    '' Bobs your uncle ''

    no he isin't , who the hell is this Bob anyway ?


  • #41
    mp22
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 6,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭mp22


    As sick as a chocolate frog


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  • #42
    netwhizkid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭netwhizkid


    as ugly as the arse end of an elephant


  • #43
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Turd Ferguson wrote: »
    Really?

    Is that where that phrase comes from?! :o


  • #44
    Shacklebolt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Shacklebolt


    "Sweating like a pig."

    Pigs don't sweat :confused:


  • #45
    meditraitor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,207 ✭✭✭meditraitor


    As sick as a small hospital,
    As full as a train to calcutta
    As full as an egg


    all perfectly sensible


  • #46
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    brummytom wrote: »
    Is that where that phrase comes from?! :o

    I'm going to assume that's a joke and you get the reference....

    (This thread was built for Blackadder btw)


  • #47
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    ShooterSF wrote: »
    I'm going to assume that's a joke and you get the reference....

    (This thread was built for Blackadder btw)

    Yeah I get the reference, but I was asking seriously whether that saying stemmed from that sketch? It happened with the word 'flange' in Not The Nine O'Clock News.. I just wondered if Monty Python had anything to do with the nonsensical 'sick as a parrot'. :p

    I'm a bit thick, yes


  • #48
    Irish Trinity
    Closed Accounts Posts: 589 ✭✭✭Irish Trinity


    sweating like a knacker trying to read...insert 'as' somewhere?:confused:


  • #49
    pebbles21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,816 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    If my auntie had balls she'd be my uncle


  • #50
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    As rough as a badger's arse.

    [edit] Parrots are notorious for getting ill (and usually dying) when kept as pets...pretty sure it stems from that and not the dead parrot sketch...


  • #51
    tara666
    Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭tara666


    ........he doesnt have his ducks all in a row....i think it mean he is stupid or something like that lol


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  • #52
    luder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭luder


    as usefull as tits on a bull


  • #53
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    As artistic as a cluster of colourblind hedgehogs.........in a bag.

    As pissed as a lord(do lords get pissed regularly)
    As daft as a brush(anyone ever do an IQ test on a brush)


  • #54
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,565 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    'It's raining cats and dogs
    'happy as larry'
    'drunk as a skunk'


  • #55
    barakus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭barakus


    Heres a few from the classic movie kenny:

    As silly as a bum full of smarties

    as mad as a clowns cock

    as busy as a one armed bricklayer in bagdhad


  • #56
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    As tight as a gnat's chuff.


  • #57
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    "Similes" is the word you are looking for.

    A lot of them posted on this thread are fairly self-explanatory really. A lot of them aren't similes at all.

    My particular favourite: Gay as a window.


  • #58
    barakus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭barakus


    el_weirdo wrote: »
    "Similes" is the word you are looking for.

    A lot of them posted on this thread are fairly self-explanatory really. A lot of them aren't similes at all.

    My particular favourite: Gay as a window.

    as bent as an 's' hook

    (as heard on a limerick building site)


  • #59
    Thundercats Ho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,588 ✭✭✭Thundercats Ho


    As drunk as a man who went into work this morning, still drunk from the night before, and called his boss a bald (unt.


  • #60
    OK-Cancel-Apply
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,528 ✭✭✭OK-Cancel-Apply


    Sweating like Joe Fritzl on Cribs. Oh wait... I get it


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  • #61
    Irish Trinity
    Closed Accounts Posts: 589 ✭✭✭Irish Trinity


    as straight as a roundabout (i think you can guess what term it supposed to be used in)


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