The Letterville BullBoard: OT: I'm goink to *pick* your *brain*!!

This is topic OT: I'm goink to *pick* your *brain*!! - Ah-ah-ah! in forum Letterhead/Pinstriper Talk at The Letterville BullBoard.

To visit this topic, use this URL:
http://www.letterville.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/1/33860.html

Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :

<End Sesame Street flashbacks>

Awlright.. I gotta know where some of these weird phrases come from..

Twice this week, I used the phrase "pick your brain"... sounds kinda gross, I imagine someone poking into somebody else's brain kinda like picking at a festering scab, which we all know does not have a pleasant result (aside from the immediate relief that follows the sharp pain as the flesh rips open)..

[Smile]

Posted by Harris Kohen (Member # 2139) on :

What in the Sam Hill are you talking about?

Posted by Jane Diaz (Member # 595) on :

I don't give a flying fig! [Wink]

Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :

Poor Mike.....he's been alone too long in the hot Sun!

Quick....eat some fattening foods....before it's too late!

[Eek!]

[ March 16, 2005, 06:14 PM: Message edited by: Si Allen ]

Posted by Peter Schuttinga (Member # 2821) on :

Substitute the word 'choose' for the word 'pick'. i.e. I 'choose (pick) your brain' to help me solve this problem.

That's my guess, anyone else?

I'm with Si on this one, get out of the sun and into a box of twinkies, you are dilerious...lol

Posted by Kissymatina (Member # 2028) on :

I think it comes from the redneck definition of brain surgery, ala Jeff Foxworthy...

"what we's gonna do is cut off the top of your head with a saw, root around in there with a stick & see if we can't get that dog gone clot out."

[Wink]

Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :

Twinkies suck. Ho Ho's are beter but the apple pies are the best.

Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :

yes I think I need some sugar in the form of a chocolate covered rabbit

Posted by Dean McGray (Member # 4954) on :

Geeze! don't start with its head.

Posted by Jon Butterworth (Member # 227) on :

Think Sticker has "Cherry-ripe" withdrawals!

I'll send you a pack of mini bites.

Melt one on a spoon and shoot straight into vein!!!!

[Rolling On The Floor]

Posted by David Fisher (Member # 107) on :

I dunno about the root of the expression, but it sure would have made a good line in The Shining when Jack Nicholson had his face squeezed into the partially opened doorway.
Then again Anthony Hopkins could probably have slipped it in with greater ease in Silence of the Lambs and got away with it.

Posted by KARYN BUSH (Member # 1948) on :

raspberry pepperidge farm turnovers...cause pepperidge farm 'membas.

Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :

I think that saying sounds gross too Pimp . . .it's a saying I never use and always makes me feel like I need be scared when someone says that to me . . .I think the saying 'jump your bones' is from the same person and is gross too and creates a very un-appealing image of someone who want's to screw a skeleton . . .

I think all the sayings like this originated from Dr. Frankenstien or somethin' . . . . [Roll Eyes]

UBB.classic™ 6.7.2