You will hear this only in Canada

He was grinnin' like a butcher's dog - [All is well]

Everything is jake.Everything is jakealoo - [All is well]

Up sh*t creek without a paddle - [All is not well]

The porch light is on, but there is no body home - [Good looking but dumb]

You smell better than a dime whore on a nickel Tuesday - [Bad Odour]

You can't grow grass on a busy street - [Baldness]

She was vaccinated with a Gramophone needle - [Blabbermouth]

Strong enough to grow hair on a wooden leg in three days - [Said of a potent home brew in Quebec]

I feel like cat had kittens in my mouth - [Hangover]

Redder than a turkey's ass during cranberry time - [Embarrassment]

You must have gotten your tan though a screen door - [Freckles]

Wired up like a Christmas Tree - [Nervousness].

So old he could have been a waiter at the last supper - [Old Age]

Patience is trying to to take a pin out of your butt with a boxing gloves - [Patience]

It was so quiet that you could hear a fish fart - [Quiet]

You didn't lick that off the ground - [Runs in the family]

He couldn't say sh*t if his mouth was full of it - [Snobbery]

He is so stingy he wouldn't pay a nickel to see Jesus go over Niagra fall on water skis - [Stinginess]

He doesn't know which fingers to scratch his nuts with - [Stupidity]

No use keepin' a dog and barkin' yourself - [Stupidity]

She is so thin, she has to run around the shower to get wet.

He is so thin, he has to stand in the same place twice, just to make a good shadow.

She looked like a professional blind date - [Ugliness]

As out of place as a brass doorknob on a pig pen.

He is always putting things off.He didn't get the birthmark till he was seven.


** Compiled from the book 'More Wacky Canadian Words & Sayings' by Bill Casselman

Feeling Nostalgic

Brit songstress Sandi Thom singing 'I wish I was a Punk Rocker'.

An Inconvenient Truth

Links to the trailer of Al Gore's 'planetary emergency' movie on Global Warming and the Movie Blog.

Say Cheeeeeeese .....

Hold your breath ....most photographed kid in the world is not Brangelina's or Gwenyth Paltrow's but it's a desi kid who takes this coveted title .

What kind of Vear is that ... ?

Nothing represents a 'kasba' like this picture.

This pic is downright hilarious at so many levels. Apparently ,the guy painting the signs didn't know hindi or english.It will be too late before he understands the difference between 'chilled ' & 'child' bear .