Please Scroll Down to See Forums Below
Silly Sayings Where Did they Come From Lets Analyze...
- Thread starter curling
- Start date
"shit eating grin" is in the Bible. It's 1 Corinthians 13:6
And Jesus appeared to the disciples, who were overcome with joy. He commanded them to wipe off their shit eating grins.
This phrase is actually a mistranslation fom Hebrew, and refers to the facial expressions evidenced by pigs who have eaten their fill of slop.
And Jesus appeared to the disciples, who were overcome with joy. He commanded them to wipe off their shit eating grins.
This phrase is actually a mistranslation fom Hebrew, and refers to the facial expressions evidenced by pigs who have eaten their fill of slop.
MattTheSkywalker said:
Matt matt matt, IF you are going to misquote the Bible you should at least know that Jesus never talked in Corinthians. Paul addresses the people of Corinth in Corinthians.
! Corinthians 13:6
Actually says
"Love does not delight in evil but rejoices in Truth."
Which you didn't exactly do on your post btw.
curling said:
You like that verse? It's one of my favorites. I knew you'd know it.
That Paul was so shady. He was a good propaganda guy. He would do well in North Korea.
wet behind the ears.
ew.
ew.
trailseeker said:
childbirth. behind the ears is a tough to reach spot to dry off a new baby. They were often still wet as passed around to family members.
Also in the Koran: "Woe to you infidels. It is the will of Allah that a sword be driven through your skull until you are wet behind the ears with your own heathen blood".
But then again, my Arabic is rusty.
MattTheSkywalker said:
Sweet. Thanks.
morph60 said:
You must be military. Hogan's Alley was a newspaper cartoon 100 years ago. There was a goat in it, and the saying took off around WW1.
Also in the Torah, Genesis 12:19-21
And the Lord laid hands upon the goat of Hogan, casting at once the sins of the tribe upon this creature, which was summarily cast into the pit of despair.
Three sheets to the wind
It’s a sailor’s expression, from the days of sailing ships. The terminology of sailing ships is excessively complicated and every time I refer to it people write in to say I’ve got it wrong, usually contradicting each other. So treat what follows as a broad-brush treatment, open to dispute on fine points.
We ignorant landlubbers might think that a sheet is a sail, but in traditional sailing-ship days, a sheet was actually a rope, particularly one attached to the bottom corner of a sail (it actually comes from an Old English term for the corner of a sail). The sheets were vital, since they trimmed the sail to the wind. If they ran loose, the sail would flutter about in the wind and the ship would wallow off its course out of control.
Extend this idea to sailors on shore leave, staggering back to the ship after a good night on the town, well tanked up. The irregular and uncertain locomotion of these jolly tars must have reminded onlookers of the way a ship moved in which the sheets were loose. Perhaps one loose sheet might not have been enough to get the image across, so the speakers borrowed the idea of a three-masted sailing ship with three sheets loose, so the saying became three sheets in the wind.
It’s a sailor’s expression, from the days of sailing ships. The terminology of sailing ships is excessively complicated and every time I refer to it people write in to say I’ve got it wrong, usually contradicting each other. So treat what follows as a broad-brush treatment, open to dispute on fine points.
We ignorant landlubbers might think that a sheet is a sail, but in traditional sailing-ship days, a sheet was actually a rope, particularly one attached to the bottom corner of a sail (it actually comes from an Old English term for the corner of a sail). The sheets were vital, since they trimmed the sail to the wind. If they ran loose, the sail would flutter about in the wind and the ship would wallow off its course out of control.
Extend this idea to sailors on shore leave, staggering back to the ship after a good night on the town, well tanked up. The irregular and uncertain locomotion of these jolly tars must have reminded onlookers of the way a ship moved in which the sheets were loose. Perhaps one loose sheet might not have been enough to get the image across, so the speakers borrowed the idea of a three-masted sailing ship with three sheets loose, so the saying became three sheets in the wind.
S
Spartacus
Guest
I had a GF whose pekinese would raid the turds in my cat box any chance he gotMattTheSkywalker said:
those tootsie rolls required some chewing and he would grin as he chewed
thye were a delicacy for him
she hated it when I let him have access
less litter chores for me
S
Spartacus
Guest
I suppose in his case shit eating grin was litterally correct
