thanks, Frank, for the great giggle =D

Edit (hang on, apparently, i need to resize :P )

Here's one for you.  "Finer than frog's hair."

LOL - thats a good one, and close to another Frank said that i was TEMPTED to try... i do believe it went something like this... "Madder than a box of frogs" - all i could picture was a shoebox stuffed full of croaking frogs armed with baseball bats, brass knuckles, and machine guns....

but got distracted by a contortionist kitty in my runtime (will post that one soon)

giggles

Anyone wanna join in this thread and come up with unusual images to fit even more unusual statements?  grins

Oh boy, what have I started this time !!! eggcelent render there Meli :)

Slightly OT, but one simile that has amused me since I found out its "true" origin is:

"It's cold enough to freeze the b*lls off a brass monkey"

The immediate picture that arises is, ermmm.. somewhat risque, but the origin (if true) is somewhat more mundane.

It's from the days of cannons, when the (iron) cannon-balls where stacked on a frame (often made of brass), called a "monkey" (why, I don't know).
When the weather got really cold, the (brass) monkey would shrink more than the (iron) cannon balls (due to the different response of the two metals to temperature) and so the balls would fall off.

At least, that's what I was told...

Cheers,
Diolma

(PS - either picture, or possibly a combination of the two might provoke an idea for a render)

giggles - oh, my....

mmmmm, do i have a monkey?  (goes to check)   ummmmm.. does a gorilla count?

think i may have to save this one for someone with a monkey...

i coulda sworn i had one.

i may.... i havent reinstalled everything for poser yet.  still hunting up all those blasted backup CDs i tossed into storage.

starts singing the beastie boys song Brass monkey, brass monkey funky....

great explanation for such a common expression, diolma =D

i always liked the expression "you're the bees knees" - i was told this is a good thing.... but ive yet to see how being a bee's knee can be good.... they're awfully close to the stinger.

Erm, I think you'd need an anatomically correct monkey...

There's a joke up here in Ottawa (the coldest capital city in the world!) when it's very cold that it's cold enough to freeze the nuts off a Jeep. You must get weather that cold, Melikia. (Actually I used to live further north, and inland. We'd get -45C still air temperature, which was okay as long as there wasn't much wind. Back when car door handles were zinc castings my father snapped one off one morning!  When metal gets very cold it gets very brittle. We don't actually get it that cold here in Ottawa, fortunately.)

yep, it gets pretty darn nip... errr.... cold here =D  lowest i've gone through was about -70F - i dunno if it dropped below that, my thermometer broke.  it was a week of (hello) - cars weren't starting, and your skin froze if you were stupid enough to expose it.  I've broken metal (granted, it was cheap really thin metal) in the cold (oh, and vehicles...) and pondered why the heck i was outside.  this winter it got downright cold, too - with the wind.  all my house windows froze up with about 6 inches of ice on the INSIDE.  what a mess when it thawed!  (i have mold on my walls - am waiting for summer to solve the problem - or at least until i can open the windows.  no wonder i'm always sick =(  )

jeeps have ......?  oh wait, im thinking dirty again - sorry.  giggles

and why would the monkey have to be anatomically correct?  i can see a brass monkey holding up two brass balls... ok, spheres so it doesnt sound so dirty.. and its a shot from the waist up.  heck, it could be a FEMALE monkey looking puzzled cus she broke her partner's.... you know =D

oh my.... sorry, just got distracted - hubby's watching pretty woman - i just LOVE those black boots she has on when she tries to go shopping....

"i always liked the expression "you're the bees knees" - i was told this is a good thing.... but ive yet to see how being a bee's knee can be good.... they're awfully close to the stinger."

Not at all sure about this, but I've always assumed it's a pun - "the bees knees" = "the business"...

Cheers,
Diolma