Local sayings

Local color, regionalisms, aphorisms, pithy sayings, maxims, puns -- you gotta love language. I like to collect saying from places I've been. Sometimes they are funny, sometimes profound; I even like multi-lingual mash-ups.

Here are some phrases I've collected; some of them are slightly earthy:

• Garbage rolls down-hill.
• That's slicker than snot on a door-knob.
• Well, tie me to a hog and smear my ears with jam!
• You're just a lost ball in the high weeds.
• Never piss up-wind.
• Soda: pop, soda pop, coke (for everything), fizz, RC, sugar-water
• gâvur-kebab: a Turkish/Muslim mash-up meaning ham on a stick (gâvur means "unbeliever", kebab is like shish-kebab).
  
• Slainte (Irish "cheers") pronounced: It's a lawn chair!
• Auf Wiedersehen (German "goodbye") pronounced: Our feet are stained!
• Do itashi mashite (Japanese "you're welcome") pronounced: Don't touch my mustache!
• Turkish tongue twister- bu duvarı badanalamalı mı yoksa badanalamamalı mı?
  Should we whitewash this wall or should we not whitewash it?
• Ridicilis!
• Chinese story: Tikki-Tikki Tembo no sa rembo, chari-bari, rucci-pip perri-pembo
• Same story, different name: Tikki-Tukki Timbo, no si-nimbo, bui-hui bushi-fui pom-pom nikki-nomi echo fui-o
• California: boffo, gnarly, tubular
• Donde esta Juan? Yo soy Juan! Ai!
• That which does not kill us makes us stronger -- Nietzsche (eww!)
• Bumper sticker: God is Dead -- Nietzsche; Nietzsche is Dead -- God.

Add some of your own ...