“You’re about as useful as a goat in a cabbage patch”
collected: Pittsburgh, Polish Hill neighborhood (9-17-14)
origin: one of her dad’s sayings (Pittsburgh)
Category Archives: Pittsburgh Janks
091714029
“He looks like he’s been rode hard and put away wet”
collected: Pittsburgh, Polish Hill neighborhood (9-17-14)
origin: one of her dad’s sayings (Pittsburgh)
091714028
“You’re about as dumb as a pile of bricks”
collected: Pittsburgh, Polish Hill neighborhood (9-17-14)
origin: one of her dad’s sayings (Pittsburgh)
091714027
“You’re about as smart as a bag of hammers”
collected: Pittsburgh, Polish Hill neighborhood (9-17-14)
origin: one of her dad’s sayings (Pittsburgh)
091714026
“I’m what’s known as a P.I.P. – a previously important person”
collected: Pittsburgh, PA, Northside neighborhood (9-17-14)
origin: made it up
091714025
“You boys are dumber than a bag of hammers”
collected: Pittsburgh, PA, Northside neighborhood (9-17-14)
origin: from the film “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
091714024
“Your mom is so diesel, she does back strokes in mud”
collected: Pittsburgh, PA, Northside neighborhood (9-17-14)
origin: told to her by her Karate teacher in Philadelphia (circa 2011)
091714023
“Your mom’s so fat when she saw a school bus full of white people, she said, ‘Hey! Go catch that giant Twinkie!'”
collected: Pittsburgh, PA, Northside neighborhood (9-17-14)
origin: told to her by a grade schooler at a summer camp in Pittsburgh (circa 2010)
091714022
“You’re about as smart as a bag of bricks”
collected: Pittsburgh, PA, Northside neighborhood (9-17-14)
origin: often heard it from relatives in Pittsburgh
091714021
“your mom is so old, she’s got an autographed bible”
collected: Pittsburgh, PA, Northside neighborhood (9-17-14)
origin: heard them in Elementary School in Pittsburgh