Everybody loves a good prank — as long as they’re the prankster and not the pranked. That said, we can all find the humor in a good-natured prank between buddies. However, die-hard pranksters sometimes decide it’s not enough to prank friends and family. No, they’re determined to turn the entire public into the butt of a …
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Have you read American Sayings And Where They Come From? Because this is basically part two about all the American phrases. The Tail Wagging The Dog A smaller version of this is “wag the dog” meaning to divert attention to less important issues to get away with bigger issues. A “tail wagging the dog” situation …
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Have you ever used these funky British sayings, phrases like “pop your clogs” or “bee’s knees?” Here are more things to say if you want to expand your verbiage. Cack-handed If you did something “cack-handed,” it means you did it in an uncomfortable, clumsy or awkward way. The word ‘cack’ is old-fashioned slang for feces …
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These sayings are funny and pretty common. Do you use sayings like “belly up” and “burst at the seams”? A Hot Potato The idea is that “no one wants to touch a hot potato,” and this saying means that there’s a topic that no one wants to touch, a “hot potato” topic, if you will. …
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Some of these things could be a very embarrassing thing but most of them seem more like common occurrences than something truly embarrassing. For British people, If they… Spill their coffee on a fresh white shirt, first thing in the morning. This isn’t the best way to start a day but if it’s first thing …
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It’s not the time when summer is over and fall is here but it’s about that time. Which of these activities will you get into before the end of the summer? Go see small town America Make tomato recipes-because they’re in season and they taste great right now! You could use them for canning as …
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These fun summer activities don’t have to happen right away, there’s still some summer left! Have you hiked or watched a movie outside yet this summer? Have An Ice Cream Party If there’s anything sweeter about summer than ice cream, I don’t know what it is. Buy vanilla, strawberry, cookie dough and chocolate ice cream …
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What really is better than random fun facts? Nothing, that’s the answer. “Prunes!” Doesn’t really have the same ring to it, does it? In the case of pictures that is, saying ‘prunes’ instead of ‘cheese’ was common in the 1840s. You can sit, lie, stand or dance on the Four Corners monument while being in …
It’s all over! The world is coming to an end, any minute now! Any minute now… Well, we’re all still here, despite the probably thousands of predictions of the imminent end times. While you might think anyone prophesizing about doomsday is a looney, some predictions are decidedly more bizarre than others. Well, we at Oddee …
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These monkey fun facts may surprise you! What do you already know about monkeys? The Golden Snub-nosed Monkeys are the furriest and they live in the cold snowy mountains of China. The loudest monkeys are Howler monkeys, they are also the loudest land animal with howls so loud they are heard up to three miles …
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