Phrases that puzzle you so...

Salukulady · Post by **Salukulady** » June 28, 2008 2:50 am

bbqmonster wrote:"Meglamodern" puzzles me??

BBQMonster

Ultra Modern.......

ScarletB · Post by **ScarletB** » June 28, 2008 8:38 am

seaswirl3 wrote:
krusin1 wrote:
ScarletB wrote:Barometer's my soup.

Love the song but never got this .
It's from Mark Twain... "A Tramp Abroad."

(Jimmy throws literary allusions into a LOT of his stuff. The man is seriously well read. )

Here's the quote:

"I knew, by my scientific reading, that either thermometers or barometers ought to be boiled, to make them accurate; I did not know which it was, so I boiled both. There was still no result, so I examined these instruments and discovered that they possessed radical blemishes: the barometer had no hand but the brass pointer, and the ball of the thermometer was stuffed with tin foil. I might have boiled those things to rags and never found out anything.

Frémont, July 1842--repair of his barometer.
This I boiled and stretched on a piece of wood to the requisite diameter, and scraped it very thin, in order to increase its transparency. I then secured it firmly on the instrument with strong glue made from a buffalo and filled it with mercury properly heated.

I hunted up another barometer: it was new and perfect. I boiled it half an hour in a pot of bean soup which the cooks were making. The result was unexpected: the instrument was not affected at all, but there was such a strong barometer taste to the soup that the head cook, who was a most conscientious person, changed its name in the bill of fare. The dish was so greatly liked by all, that I ordered the cook to have barometer soup every day. It was believed that the barometer might eventually be injured, but I did not care for that."

Here's a link:

http://www.longcamp.com/twain.html
There is a recipe for Barometer soup on Recipezaar...thankfully it doesn't use barometers. It has a weird group of ingredients, but it is actually very good.

Wow, thanks so much. I haven't read any Twain since High School when they MADE us read it. I do sometimes get his literary references but this has always escaped me. Cool

Harbour Shark · Post by **Harbour Shark** » June 30, 2008 1:10 am

I used to be mildly perplexed by the somewhat disquieting reference to "rubber thongs" in Quietly Making Noise, until I realized that he meant the kind you wear on your feet!

FINSUPinIdaho · Post by **FINSUPinIdaho** » June 30, 2008 3:15 pm

Yes, those were actually known as thongs, before the , uh other "thong" got popular.

PIA · Post by **PIA** » June 30, 2008 3:19 pm

you're a$$ is itchy...

doesnt make sense

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » June 30, 2008 3:37 pm

I guess I was wrong, I don't know everything.

ScarletB · Post by **ScarletB** » June 30, 2008 5:23 pm

LIPH wrote:I guess I was wrong, I don't know everything.

*thud*

krusin1 · Post by **krusin1** » July 1, 2008 11:55 am

Tequila Revenge wrote:
krusin1 wrote:
ScarletB wrote:Barometer's my soup.

Love the song but never got this .
It's from Mark Twain... "A Tramp Abroad."

(Jimmy throws literary allusions into a LOT of his stuff. The man is seriously well read. )

Here's the quote:

"I knew, by my scientific reading, that either thermometers or barometers ought to be boiled, to make them accurate; I did not know which it was, so I boiled both. There was still no result, so I examined these instruments and discovered that they possessed radical blemishes: the barometer had no hand but the brass pointer, and the ball of the thermometer was stuffed with tin foil. I might have boiled those things to rags and never found out anything.

Frémont, July 1842--repair of his barometer.
This I boiled and stretched on a piece of wood to the requisite diameter, and scraped it very thin, in order to increase its transparency. I then secured it firmly on the instrument with strong glue made from a buffalo and filled it with mercury properly heated.

I hunted up another barometer: it was new and perfect. I boiled it half an hour in a pot of bean soup which the cooks were making. The result was unexpected: the instrument was not affected at all, but there was such a strong barometer taste to the soup that the head cook, who was a most conscientious person, changed its name in the bill of fare. The dish was so greatly liked by all, that I ordered the cook to have barometer soup every day. It was believed that the barometer might eventually be injured, but I did not care for that."

Here's a link:

http://www.longcamp.com/twain.html

OK.... You MUST have an alias... are you AKA CONCHED!!!!

Don't mess with us

Uh, sorry no.

It's just little ol' me. 'Course, I live within rock-throwing distance of the Missouri river, and just a couple of hours from Mr. Twain's home town (Hannibal, MO.) Even got a poster of Twain quotes on my office wall. That guy was awesome - I can see why Jimmy borrows from him.

A few of my favorite Twainisms...

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." (Jimmy's used this one a couple of times!)

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."

and...

"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."

pleiades03 · Post by **pleiades03** » July 1, 2008 12:21 pm

ScarletB wrote:
LIPH wrote:I guess I was wrong, I don't know everything.

*thud*

SNORT!

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » July 1, 2008 12:21 pm

Even the librarian is a smart a$$ today.

aeroparrot · Post by **aeroparrot** » July 1, 2008 12:28 pm

There is an old south Indian expression when someone is doing nothing important, another person will ask, "Are you trying to pull the hair off of an egg?"

conched · Post by **conched** » July 1, 2008 1:01 pm

krusin1 wrote:
Tequila Revenge wrote:
krusin1 wrote:
ScarletB wrote:Barometer's my soup.

Love the song but never got this .
It's from Mark Twain... "A Tramp Abroad."

(Jimmy throws literary allusions into a LOT of his stuff. The man is seriously well read. )

Here's the quote:

"I knew, by my scientific reading, that either thermometers or barometers ought to be boiled, to make them accurate; I did not know which it was, so I boiled both. There was still no result, so I examined these instruments and discovered that they possessed radical blemishes: the barometer had no hand but the brass pointer, and the ball of the thermometer was stuffed with tin foil. I might have boiled those things to rags and never found out anything.

Frémont, July 1842--repair of his barometer.
This I boiled and stretched on a piece of wood to the requisite diameter, and scraped it very thin, in order to increase its transparency. I then secured it firmly on the instrument with strong glue made from a buffalo and filled it with mercury properly heated.

I hunted up another barometer: it was new and perfect. I boiled it half an hour in a pot of bean soup which the cooks were making. The result was unexpected: the instrument was not affected at all, but there was such a strong barometer taste to the soup that the head cook, who was a most conscientious person, changed its name in the bill of fare. The dish was so greatly liked by all, that I ordered the cook to have barometer soup every day. It was believed that the barometer might eventually be injured, but I did not care for that."

Here's a link:

http://www.longcamp.com/twain.html

OK.... You MUST have an alias... are you AKA CONCHED!!!!

Don't mess with us
Uh, sorry no.

It's just little ol' me. 'Course, I live within rock-throwing distance of the Missouri river, and just a couple of hours from Mr. Twain's home town (Hannibal, MO.) Even got a poster of Twain quotes on my office wall. That guy was awesome - I can see why Jimmy borrows from him.

A few of my favorite Twainisms...

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." (Jimmy's used this one a couple of times!)

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."

and...

"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."

good job, krusin!

I also like this one that appears often on discussion boards:

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover

citcat · Post by **citcat** » July 1, 2008 1:29 pm

"Hotter'n a french-fu**ed fox in a forest fire." what the heck ?

"Drunker'n Cooter Brown"

"Madder than a wet hen"

Hockey Mon · Post by **Hockey Mon** » July 1, 2008 3:08 pm

From the movie Cars, "you need to turn left to go right". I don't get it.

Tequila Revenge · Post by **Tequila Revenge** » July 2, 2008 2:10 am

krusin1 wrote:
Tequila Revenge wrote:
krusin1 wrote:
ScarletB wrote:Barometer's my soup.

Love the song but never got this .
It's from Mark Twain... "A Tramp Abroad."

(Jimmy throws literary allusions into a LOT of his stuff. The man is seriously well read. )

Here's the quote:

"I knew, by my scientific reading, that either thermometers or barometers ought to be boiled, to make them accurate; I did not know which it was, so I boiled both. There was still no result, so I examined these instruments and discovered that they possessed radical blemishes: the barometer had no hand but the brass pointer, and the ball of the thermometer was stuffed with tin foil. I might have boiled those things to rags and never found out anything.

Frémont, July 1842--repair of his barometer.
This I boiled and stretched on a piece of wood to the requisite diameter, and scraped it very thin, in order to increase its transparency. I then secured it firmly on the instrument with strong glue made from a buffalo and filled it with mercury properly heated.

I hunted up another barometer: it was new and perfect. I boiled it half an hour in a pot of bean soup which the cooks were making. The result was unexpected: the instrument was not affected at all, but there was such a strong barometer taste to the soup that the head cook, who was a most conscientious person, changed its name in the bill of fare. The dish was so greatly liked by all, that I ordered the cook to have barometer soup every day. It was believed that the barometer might eventually be injured, but I did not care for that."

Here's a link:

http://www.longcamp.com/twain.html

OK.... You MUST have an alias... are you AKA CONCHED!!!!

Don't mess with us
Uh, sorry no.

It's just little ol' me. 'Course, I live within rock-throwing distance of the Missouri river, and just a couple of hours from Mr. Twain's home town (Hannibal, MO.) Even got a poster of Twain quotes on my office wall. That guy was awesome - I can see why Jimmy borrows from him.

A few of my favorite Twainisms...

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." (Jimmy's used this one a couple of times!)

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."

and...

"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."

Just to make sure, I meant that as a compliment

krusin1 · Post by **krusin1** » July 2, 2008 9:19 am

Tequila Revenge wrote:
krusin1 wrote:
Tequila Revenge wrote:
krusin1 wrote:
ScarletB wrote:Barometer's my soup.

Love the song but never got this .
It's from Mark Twain... "A Tramp Abroad."

(Jimmy throws literary allusions into a LOT of his stuff. The man is seriously well read. )

Here's the quote:

"I knew, by my scientific reading, that either thermometers or barometers ought to be boiled, to make them accurate; I did not know which it was, so I boiled both. There was still no result, so I examined these instruments and discovered that they possessed radical blemishes: the barometer had no hand but the brass pointer, and the ball of the thermometer was stuffed with tin foil. I might have boiled those things to rags and never found out anything.

Frémont, July 1842--repair of his barometer.
This I boiled and stretched on a piece of wood to the requisite diameter, and scraped it very thin, in order to increase its transparency. I then secured it firmly on the instrument with strong glue made from a buffalo and filled it with mercury properly heated.

I hunted up another barometer: it was new and perfect. I boiled it half an hour in a pot of bean soup which the cooks were making. The result was unexpected: the instrument was not affected at all, but there was such a strong barometer taste to the soup that the head cook, who was a most conscientious person, changed its name in the bill of fare. The dish was so greatly liked by all, that I ordered the cook to have barometer soup every day. It was believed that the barometer might eventually be injured, but I did not care for that."

Here's a link:

http://www.longcamp.com/twain.html

OK.... You MUST have an alias... are you AKA CONCHED!!!!

Don't mess with us
Uh, sorry no.

It's just little ol' me. 'Course, I live within rock-throwing distance of the Missouri river, and just a couple of hours from Mr. Twain's home town (Hannibal, MO.) Even got a poster of Twain quotes on my office wall. That guy was awesome - I can see why Jimmy borrows from him.

A few of my favorite Twainisms...

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." (Jimmy's used this one a couple of times!)

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."

and...

"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."
Just to make sure, I meant that as a compliment

No worries mon!

green1 · Post by **green1** » July 2, 2008 9:49 am

citcat wrote:"Hotter'n a french-fu**ed fox in a forest fire." what the heck ?

"Drunker'n Cooter Brown"

"Madder than a wet hen"

Hotter'n a three peckered billy goat.

Hotter'n two rats fornicating in wool sock.

pair8head · Post by **pair8head** » July 2, 2008 10:15 am

We're from the Government, we're here to help.

krusin1 · Post by **krusin1** » July 2, 2008 10:29 am

pair8head wrote:We're from the Government, we're here to help.

Nothing puzzling about that one. Those are some of the scariest words in the english language.

pair8head · Post by **pair8head** » July 2, 2008 10:38 am

krusin1 wrote:
pair8head wrote:We're from the Government, we're here to help.
Nothing puzzling about that one. Those are some of the scariest words in the english language.

The puzzling part is how someone from the Government can Help.