[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Silly comebacks was pronunciation

[Iggy McSnurd]

> 
> My father's standard reply to (my ubiquitous) "What's that (or
> this)?" was, "It's a trap to catch meddlers; and see, it worked!"
> 
> A common lament of my mother's: "Getting you to do anything is just
> like trying to push a piece of string!"
> 
> Sandy

Iggy here:

My three favorites along those lines are...

When trying to catch someone at something, you say "it's like trying to
nail Jell-O to a tree."

When trying to deal with a stupid person it's "like trying to teach a
pig to sing.  Frustrates you and confuses the pig."

When trying to do the impossible (like trying to get my wife to listen
to me half the time) it's "like trying to pull teeth from a chicken."


And then there's one I picked up from the book "Belgarath the Sorceror"
and is now one of my favorites for an expression about 20/20 hindsight
and re-hashing the "could have been's."  The expression is "Well, it's
no use chewing old soup."



Iggy McSnurd
(Who never knew how much of a font of odd expressions he is...)