Sit-ups involve lying down, and this has been used in jokes. "Just got halfway to 1000 sit-ups! OK, FINE, the lying down half" was posted on Twitter on November 21, 2010. "Do the sit…
"Sitting is the new smoking" is a popular expression showing just how bad sitting is for the body -- sitting can be as bad as smoking. A headline in the Daily Mail (UK) in 2007 was,…
To be "sitting in a gold mine" is to be in possession of something of great value, often without knowledge or understanding of that value. The American idiom usually does not require…
The expression "same shit, different day" is not meant to be taken literally. A joke was posted on the newsgroup alt.tasteless on September 11, 1999: "Y'know, it just occurs to…
"Six allowed at Thanksgiving/Christmas but 30 for a funeral. I will be holding a funeral for my pet turkey" is a jocular Covid-regulation saying that has been printed on many images.…
"Six allowed at Thanksgiving/Christmas but 30 for a funeral. I will be holding a funeral for my pet turkey" is a jocular Covid-regulation saying that has been printed on many images.…
New York (NY) Times columnist Russell Baker (1925-2019) wrote on August 6, 1968, about the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida: "MIAMI BEACH, August 5. -- Every political…
Wine tasting involves several steps, almost all beginning with the letter "S": see (sight), swirl, sniff (smell), sip, swish, savor, spit (or swallow) and score. Three S's"See,…
Most hotels are rated on a five-star system, with five stars being the highest rating. A joke is that a 6-star hotel or a 7-star hotel is "overrated." "6-star hotels are…
The candies Smarties (introduced in the United Kingdom in 1937), M&M's (introduced in the United States in 1941) and Sixlets (introduced in Canada by 1960) have been compared to each…
"A guy walks into a bar..." is a typical form of what has been called the "bar joke." An unusual variation of the joke is: "Sixteen sodium atoms walk into a bar, followed…
"For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer" is part of a Christian marriage vow. A popular riddle/joke is: Q: How many wives can a man have?A: Sixteen. Four better, four worse, four…
"Sixty might be the new forty, but 9:00 is the new midnight" is a jocular saying about aging that has been printed on many images. "If 50 is the new 40 then 9 o'clock is the new…
"Skate to where the puck's going to be, not to where it has been" is advice that Walter Gretzky said (in January 1982) that he gave to his son, hockey great Wayne Gretzky. In 1983,…
"Ski hair, don't care" (or "Jet ski hair, don't care) is a saying that has been printed on many images. The speaker doesn't care about hair while skiing on snow or jet…
"Skiers are made in the summer" is a popular skiing adage, especially for cross country skiers. Skiers can work on physical exercises in the summer to prepare for the ski season.…
"I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill" is a jocular anti-skiing saying that has been printed on many images. The quote was made by American humorist…
"Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads" (or "Skiing is the ultimate dance, and/but the mountain always leads") is a popular skiing saying. Jim Bowden, of Colorado,…
"Skiing is probably the most expensive way to fall down a mountain" is a jocular line that was posted by Andy Mac on Twitter on June 26, 2015. "The first time I went skiing it was an…
"Skiing is the only sport where you can spend an arm and a leg to break an arm and a leg" is a jocular saying about skiing that has been cited in print since at least 1990 and that has…