Last weekend, while we were at dinner with Mama and Papa Shakes, I began a discussion about which movie, if forced to watch over and over on a loop, would constitute our personal Hells. (That is not, by the way, the QotD, but it will make a good one some other day, probably tomorrow.) I said Barry Lyndon, which Mama Shakes said she hadn't seen, although she had seen Paper Moon, the connective thread being Ryan O'Neil. "I haven't seen Paper Moon," I said, "but I do know you're like a doll with a paper ass!" which sent us both into fits of giggles.
(The nonsensical phrase is one that one of my childhood friend's grandfathers would use—without, evidently, any notion that the phrase was not in common usage—to describe an unreliable woman: "Well, you know how Delores is—she's like a doll with a paper ass!" He was a rather colorful fellow, to put it politely, who would also describe a real fury as being "so mad I was shittin' little green buttons!")
Anyway, recalling that her granddad used to threaten: "I'll hit you so hard, your shirt will roll up your back like a shade," Mama Shakes then suggested that a good QotD would be What weird or funny expressions did your family use that you'd never heard anywhere else?
Earlier in comments, Grumpy Old Man made a point by quoting his granddad: "If bullshit was music this guy would be a one man brass band." That's a good one.
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