I don't know if any one else has heard the above phrase much but it has always interested me, mainly because I have no idea what the hell it means. How uncomfortable is it to shake a stick? Does it depend on the size of the stick and what it's made of? Why would you want to shake a stick at anything anyway? Just exactly how many is 'MORE' than you can comfortably shake this stick at and why does it become uncomfortable to do the shaking at this amount and not at any lower amount?
I ask these questions because I heard this phrase (not for the first time) on the television today and it started me thinking (always a dangerous thing), mainly about phrases of this type that I was subjected to as a youth. My parents said some very strange things, like my mother telling me once (when I had finished the last of the sliced ham she had in the fridge) "I don't buy that food for you to eat", I never figured out exactly what it was for.
On a similar note I noticed with interest today that the bag of salted peanuts that I opened earlier had a notice printed on it that the contents "May contain nuts", well I bloody hope so, that's why I bought them. It reminded me of the badges that you used to get on childrens birthday cards (the ones with proper pins to hold them on, not the odd plastic clips that they now put on them), I remember that for some reason I once looked at the edge of one of these badges that had on it's front in big letters "I AM 2", and around the edge it said "Not suitable for children under the age of 3", that confused me.
MUSIC
Todays mp3's are a bit of an Elvis fest.
Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army
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Elvis Presley - Blue Moon Of Kentucky
Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock
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Ya'll have a nice day now, y'here
See ya'll later
29/01/06 @ 06:51