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[dakegra]

[Poll #1258013]

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[isihac.livejournal.com]

I'd go for 'mad as a bag of spanners' mostly.

[anonymous-greg.livejournal.com]

I know what a spanner is. I just can't see why a bag of spanners would be considered daft.

[chebutykin.livejournal.com]

I only know what a "spanner" is because I've seen an episode of Top Gear on BBC America.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

it's more the fact that you'd consider using the term 'daft as a bag of spanners', which is daft.

Sort of like telling someone about the Cheese Sketch - essentially John Cleese reciting a long long list of various forms of cheese. Doesn't sound funny, but is.

spanners - not inherently daft, unless referred to as such. It's all a bit meta.

[anonymous-greg.livejournal.com]

well, that's just daft.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

... as a bag of spanners.

*thwaps you with large fish*

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

only one?

*boggles*

[anonymous-greg.livejournal.com]

Und now...Ze hammer danze.

[anonymous-greg.livejournal.com]

I haven't even seen BBC America!

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

ooh! ooh! did I tell you about LB's new favourite thing to do at hometime from nursery? She runs off and attempts to hide, usually under a chair, which leaves most of her sticking out.

I have to try very very hard not to lapse into the 'How Not To Be Seen' sketch.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

you *do* have TV, don't you?

[redatt.livejournal.com]

I've never heard the phrase before and I can't say it conveys much to me, either. I think it's as daft as a bag of polo mint holes.

[anonymous-greg.livejournal.com]

I *don't* have cable channels.

[anonymous-greg.livejournal.com]

*BAHAHAHAHA!*

LB R00LZ!

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

that wasn't my question.

:-P

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

tastiest bit, I reckon

[anonymous-greg.livejournal.com]

They don't show BBC America on broadcast TV. *grabs your tongue*

Wait.

EEEWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!

*holds fingertips over open flames*

Wait.

AAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

*thud*

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

*crosses anonymous_greg's name off list*

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

It's quite astonishingly cute

"Now, where *did* LB go?" we all say, to the sound of a small cute person giggling madly from under her chair, failing quite spectacularly Not To Be Seen.

[kaiserdad.livejournal.com]

Where I come from it's "She's got a face like a bag of spanners" and "As daft as a brush"

[anonymous-greg.livejournal.com]

Daft as George Bush?

[thebabynancy.livejournal.com]

growing up, I believe I heard my nana say it once or twice... :)

[myfirstkitchen.livejournal.com]

Tend to say mad as a bag of cats. 'Cause a spanner is, well, a total spanner. You spanner.

[tachs.livejournal.com]

No, daft as Basil Brush
Boom!Boom!
(you probably don't have Basil Brush on that side of the pond, do you? Not on network TV anyway:-) Have a clicky link

[anonymous-greg.livejournal.com]

¿Qué?


Oh, wait. That's Manuel to Basil Fawlty.

:)

[anonymous-greg.livejournal.com]

That would be a non-daft kind of mad, though, wouldn't it?? (poor kitties!)

[elaby.livejournal.com]

You know, come to think of it, I've heard "dumb as a bag of hammers" over here. I don't know why I didn't make the connection! Hammers, wrenches, they all go in the toolbelt. And they're daft, apparently.

[missprinty.livejournal.com]

I concur, the phrase should be "as dumb as a bag of hammers" but I've heard the spanners version too, and used it, particularly when I was rootling about in the hall cupboard, and was clonked on the head by my socket set, then I really was a dumb as a bag of spanners. It hurt less than I thought it might, but still quite a lot. I saw spanner shaped stars. And cursed like a navvy.

BTW, I get bonus dyke points for having a socket set, don't I? But minus points for only having used it once.

[elaby.livejournal.com]

You totally get bonus points! Hahaha XD

Man, though, getting clocked with a socket wrench must have been pretty bad!

[missprinty.livejournal.com]

I think my noggin is quite tough, plus I know I have a high pain threshold (due to previous DIY related klutzing - e.g. drill through the thumb nail).

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

come on. No-one is *that* daft.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

hmm. A bag of cats *would* be mad. Like it.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

I don't even have a socket set. I'm not entirely sure what I'd do with one if I did.

[paula-abroad.livejournal.com]

are spanners daft, cos they ain´t the sharpest tool in the shed?



and yes, i know i´m late.

[missprinty.livejournal.com]

'Tis alright, your secret is safe with me, plus, you don't really need the dyke points, do you?

[magda-vogelsang.livejournal.com]

I've heard spanners more often used in terms of throwing one into the works, rather than bagged. But I get the gist of it, and I do know what a spanner is.