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Originally posted by tatortodd:
^^^
Take The Kids to the Pool, Take the Browns to the Super Bowl, Code brown, bake some brownies, make a deposit at the porcelain bank, baptize a Baby Ruth, etc. are all euphemisms for having a bowel movement.

Never came across any of these. It was always the simple but direct "pitch a loaf."

In construction, we used "FITWE" and "FARK".

Fucking In The Way Electrician and Fucking Asshole Redneck Carpenter, although, those are both acronyms, not phrases or slang.

As always, there is "Bless your heart".

I'll be right back... I have to go shake hands with the Governor...

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Originally posted by lyman:
'Hey Cobbler, go get a bigger hammer'

I've got to remember that one!

As it goes, the machinists and toolmakers I've worked with are some of the coolest guys I know. A little crusty (little C) when you first meet them, but great fun once they get to know you.

The toolmaker I work with now is an absolute wealth of knowledge, and always willing to share. And my machinist pal is the same -- I've learned more from him in a year or so than from several years of occasional hands-on work.

“Gotta deploy the swimmer” = go take a dump

Squeeze a deuce or el deuche

A buddy of mine would use "gotta go give birth to another Democrat".

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Originally posted by bald1:

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
^^^
Take The Kids to the Pool, Take the Browns to the Super Bowl, Code brown, bake some brownies, make a deposit at the porcelain bank, baptize a Baby Ruth, etc. are all euphemisms for having a bowel movement.

Never came across any of these. It was always the simple but direct "pitch a loaf."

Most people "pinch a loaf" but I guess you're firing for effect

Leak the Lizard,
Drain the Dragon, and
See a man about a dog were all used for urinating.

See a man about a horse was used for defecating where I grew up. However a new one was developed about 15 years ago around here…. Drop the Obamas off at the Whitehouse”

tighter than dick's hatband

my MIL was trying to open a jar of pickles in church and said this, i had to have my wife go and tell her what she was actually saying

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Originally posted by Mr. Peteroniman:
tighter than dick's hatband

my MIL was trying to open a jar of pickles in church and said this, i had to have my wife go and tell her what she was actually saying

What was she saying - I seem to need a translation, as based on a quick google I’m not seeing anything inappropriate for church.

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Originally posted by cyanide357:

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Originally posted by Mr. Peteroniman:
tighter than dick's hatband

my MIL was trying to open a jar of pickles in church and said this, i had to have my wife go and tell her what she was actually saying

What was she saying - I seem to need a translation, as based on a quick google I’m not seeing anything inappropriate for church.

as it was explained to me, when i was a wee lad, it has to do with the helmet on the end of your pecker

The turtle's head

Touching cloth

In urgent need of a cackatorium.

I will on occasion ask my wife if she's interested in servicing the account.

Here's an interesting read, regarding Dick's hatband: link

And perhaps a more modern take.

Excuse me if I missed turtling, prairie dogging and, my go to, pinch a loaf.

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Originally posted by vthoky:
Here's an interesting read, regarding Dick's hatband: link

And perhaps a more modern take.

well, that's something to hang your hat on

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Originally posted by Mr. Peteroniman:
well, that's something to hang your hat on

I'll mess in my own thread a bit and say, this seems an entirely appropriate time for someone to say "that's what she said!"

You “left me swinging in the wind.” Meaning failing to come to my aid when needed. Heard this when young and first working. A group of employees wanted to voice a common complaint to the boss and elected a spokesman to speak up at a meeting. They assured the spokesman they would speak up at the meeting and support him. They didn’t leaving him the only one to speak up making it appear that he was the only one complaining, leaving the spokesman “swinging in the wind.”

One origin places the source in medieval England. When sentenced to death by hanging, one did not drop from a distance to break the neck and near instantaneous death. Instead they had a stool kicked out from under their feet or were hoisted to slowly suffocate, a process that could take a long time on a strong neck. The condemned could ask his friends to gather around and grab his legs when the stool was kicked and hoist themselves up adding their combined weight to the hanging condemned thereby quickening his death by quick rather than prolonged strangulation.

If your friends din’t show up or didn’t participate you were left “swinging in the wind” slowly being choked and experienced a long torturous death.

My father used to say "I'm out of film for my Brownie".