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Some popular sayings make no sense or are just plain lies!
For instance, I slept with a dog but I didn't get fleas.
I heard it as "he who lies with dogs, rises with fleas." Your statement, I believe, is a play off this. It is known as a figure of speech, or metaphor. It is one way to communicate thought and isn't meant to be taken literally. Dogs are a common theme in this type of language.
Hair of the dog
Dog tired
Barking up the wrong tree
Raining cats and dogs
Every dog has its day
Who let the dogs out?
Hahaha! I've never thought about "barking up the wrong tree", but now that you've mentioned it, I've got the image of a wannabe Gangster Tree. Yo, you iz barkin up the wrong tree, you iz, bruv! Gangster 4 leaf!
Um, sorry about that.:P Anyway, I'm the same OP. I never get it when people end a sentence with "...as the day is long". Is the day long?:S
Hehehe! "Gangster 4 leaf"! :D Although now *that* has given me the image of a wannabe gangster four-leaf... clover :P Which in turn makes me think of the brand of butter... stop it brain, stop it!
OP: For some reason these sort of metaphors have always made sense to me, and I've never been bothered by the fact that they don't always make sense literally. And they don't have to make sense literally because they're not meant to be taken that way - it just makes them more poetic if they do. "As the day is long" is a bit of a weird one though, as is "I turned around and said". Why were you facing the wrong way in the first place?
Haha! We all love Clover, it's the way that it's churned...blah, those are the only words I know to the Clover butter song!
I'm sort of the opposite to you, I've always had a problem with taking things literally. It was much worse when I was a kid, and I'm getting better at not doing it, but it still happens. It mainly just amuses me now.
And you're one to talk about people turning around, Mr 180!:P Hmm, actually, I've never thought about it before, but why do you have a 180 in your username?:S Are you actually doing 180 degree turns all the time? You're not 180 years old are you?:O Or were the 179 other doms and you had to settle for being the 180th? Or just a big darts fan?:D
Edit: nice new colour! You look like an ice cube. Although that was *obviously* the look you were going for.:P
It's not a very interesting story :P My first email account, which I created when I was eleven and I've since abandoned, was called [email protected] which I chose because "dom" was already taken but 180 is a nice, round, geometrically interesting number and "dom180" was still unoccupied territory. 11 year old dom180 was also obsessed with FMX and BMX and skateboarding, which all include all sorts of talk about 360s and 720s and 1080s, yes, 180s. If I remember correctly I actually tried dom360 first, but that was taken too so I went for 180 instead. Because I quite liked it (something about the first half being letters and the second half numbers appealed to me) I let it stick and started using it not just as an email address but everywhere, including IIN. 180 is also my highest score in bowling, but that's a coincidence :D The darts thing is a happy coincidence too (180 is a good sporting number, apparently) because I like darts even though I'm not nearly good enough to warrant christening myself "180" on that basis alone :P
I guess that means everything I say is proceeded by turning around :/ But to think, if I went for 360 instead I would have to do a full pirouette before saying anything (and 720 or 1080 would have been a dizzying nightmare) so I guess I should count my blessings :S
I've often wondered how you came by bananaface though, because I always imagine that you've literally had a banana lodged horizontally in your mouth (with the ends facing upwards putting you into a permanent smile) due to some freak accident thus inhibiting your ability to speak, which is why you come on the internet; because you can't actually talk in real life. Something tells me parts of that story are a bit too fanciful to be true, although I suppose that's a good thing :P
Ah, cool.:D I like it! My name doesn't have any meaning whatsoever. I can't come up with names *at all*, so just have to start throwing words around until I get a combination I like. Apparently I liked bananaface:P! I don't know why I chose that one, although it seems a bit strange given that it could have easily been something else. I really dislike having names with any meaning, I find it very embarrassing for some reason. Also, I just can't do it.:P They have to be silly and just daft, which suits me well enough.:P Your story is a lot funnier than the actual one.:( Especially since now I'm seeing the ) & ( in my emoticons as being bananas!:)
One I use alot I always wondrred about, is: I just have to grab my tool from around back, then "I should be out of ur hair" I say that once a day at least
And gansta for leaf?! Ur so manly, I want to have all ur babies
"Lies with" means have sex, doesn't it? I gave that dog his day, had some hair of the dog too and was dog tired afterwards. Don't tell me I did this experiment for nothing!
Who says "I slept with the dog but didn't get fleas"? I think I made the a similar post. Things like "Making your cake and eating it too". I mean if you made it why should everyone get a piece aside from you? If you are not at a restaurant or something this makes no sense. Also you would only get fleas if the dog had fleas.
Lol, I think you've been reading too many dog sex stories on here.
"Lies with dogs" means he is behaving poorly (perhaps hanging out with bad influences) and has picked up some bad habits.
The way you phrased it makes it sound like someone who has bad friends, but didn't pick up those negative traits.
I've always despised, "make like a tree and bark".... I mean, seriously.. Is that supposed to sound like 'embark'? It's a brain cell killer.