Phrases/terms for things that make you chuckle

[Milo]

The pink oboe.

 

[col]

The beetles bonnet

 

[Keith Oates]

He/She has a face like the North end of a South bound bus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[longers]

My Uncle after borrowing my dog for the weekend said "she runs like a bag of sticks"

 

[Abitrary]

I've been straining to contribute to this thread, but I can't find a single phrase that people might might amusing, that I don't find some sort of lexical coherence in.

 

[Keith Oates]

Don't worry something will come soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Abitrary]

Don't worry something will come soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nope. I can make something up like 'a belly like a butcher's bracket', but unless that enters common parlance, and I can giggle at the fact that I invented it, then no. I don't find flip little phrases amusing.

 

[just jim]

A nice Bill Hicks one:

"You look like a dog that's been shown a card trick."

 

[Hilldodger]

You've got more chance of poking a pound of butter up a hamsters arse with a red hot needle.

 

[bonj2]

Nope. I can make something up like 'a belly like a butcher's bracket', but unless that enters common parlance, and I can giggle at the fact that I invented it, then no. I don't find flip little phrases amusing.

that's good how do you think phrases come about if not bypeople inventing them...

I think we should all make an effort to use that in order to bring it into common parlence, and I think that you should invent more like it

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I like Stephen Fry's "I've got a body like a bin liner full of yoghurt". If my beer and chips intake stays as it is now, I'll have to start using it myself.

 

[Speicher]

"I wouldn't start from here if I was you."

"I am not as green as I am cabbage-looking".

 

[Horace Goes Skiing]

arse like a cloon's mooth

One often experiences a touch of "the cloon's mooth" the morning after a powerful curry.

 

[vbc]

'e's no egg box.

My father's way of describing a clever chap.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

arse like a cloon's mooth

One often experiences a touch of "the cloon's mooth" the morning after a powerful curry.

... at the same time as you might be attacked by arse wasps (see earlier post).