Where did it come from?

[Tin Halo]

The post-hipster habit of saying "perfect" during any transaction or ordering of food or shit like that.

"What would you like to have this morning..?"
"I'll have the 3-egg omelet with cheddar, tomatoes, mushrooms, and spinach..."
"Perfect... and what toast...?"
"..ummm... sourdou--"
"perfect. Anything else?"


"umm... yeah... maybe something imperfect, sweetheart?"

[Thecatman]

Birds carry plant seeds and drop them in various places where they germinate and grow into new plants. Bees pollinate the flowers by carrying the pollen from one blooms anther to another blooms pistil, thus fertilization. When a young girl reaches puberty she," blooms into a fertile woman". The male plants his seed and it, "pollinates" the females egg and a child begins to form in her womb. Didn't you learn this in the," special", meeting in Jr. high?

Guess I needed a refresher course

[FIGJAM]

"Pleased as Punch."

Punch was overjoyed that he had killed his wife Judy.

Enjoy the show kids!!!

[theCryptofishist]

Punch was the original serial killer, for puppets at least.

[unjonharley]

Punch was the original serial killer, for puppets if you please.

Adjusted that a little..

[theCryptofishist]

I could still go back and edit the original...

[FIGJAM]

The phrase 'hoist with one's own petar[d]' is often cited as 'hoist by one's own petar[d]'. The two forms mean the same, although the former is strictly a more accurate version of the original source. A petard is, or rather was, as they have long since fallen out of use, a small engine of war used to blow breaches in gates or walls. They were originally metallic and bell-shaped but later cubical wooden boxes. Whatever the shape, the significant feature was that they were full of gunpowder - basically what we would now call a bomb.

The device was used by the military forces of all the major European fighting nations by the 16th century. In French and English - petar or petard, and in Spanish and Italian - petardo.

Sometimes they would explode prematurely, hence the saying "Hoisted by his own petard."

[Aurelia]

Jeez Figgy, And I always thought it meant dick

xoA.

[lucky420]

Me too^^^

[theCryptofishist]

I knew that one...

[caro.]

"DIRT POOR" - Dates back to the 1930's Depression era where there was extreme poverty and many people lived in dirty conditions. Some people say it dates back to England in the 1500's where finished floors were rare, but this origin has not been proven.

"PISS POOR" - They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in the same pot to collect as much urine as possible. Why? Because once a day, someone from the family took the pot to the tannery and sold the urine. If a family had to do this to survive financially, they were called "Piss poor."

awesome elderberry. i didn't know the origin of either of those and think your post rocked. now i've learned my one for the day. holiday quota met. haha.