FUN COMPARISONS AND DESCRIPTIVES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE...

U got that girls # Hobbit?  

I still don’t understand popcorn fart?  Am I dense?

Nope... I knew when I was out of my league. That teenaged girl was definitely too "intense" for me.  That was just a 'big bag of trouble' sitting there waiting for a place to happen.  And I didn't want it "happening" all over me. 'My momma  didn't raise any stupid children all the way to adulthood.....  Nothing good could come from that situation.

Popcorn fart.....  Well, let me say right here that some of these idiomatic speech things are not meant to be completely understood.. They're mostly local sayings that have meaning to the person involved and maybe a group of their friends or maybe a small geographic region.  So, I don't admit to understanding them all. Some of them are just too 'obtuse' for my limited brain power. However.... If you really think or imagine the situation, you can usually figure out the little "nugget" of information that's buried in those sayings.

For example, we all know that a 'fart' is directly related to foods we eat. Easy enough so far. So think about a couple of bowls of good ol' chili spiced up with a good amount of Jalapeño pepper. Sometime later your tummy starts rumbling and somehow, you just know that you better hustle to the commode and you "better not sneeze." That there is a "wet" fart. Now if you've ever been out west in an Arizona sand storm, your hair, and eyes, and ears, and clothes all full of blowing sand. You're blowing your nose, and spitting sand and grit for a week.....well, THAT's "dry". Right.??. Now imagine a big ol' bowl of popcorn, fresh out of a 'popper', no cheese, no butter, no flavor additives, nothing at all added. Food stuff don't get much drier than that. So, I GUESS, if you had to pass a little gas right then, it would be sort of a really "dry", "squeaky" fart.  Not at all like the Jalapeño Chili fart. Completely different animal.  So, something that was "Drier than a popcorn fart" would be like really, REALLY dry.!!!

THAT is my guess about a "popcorn fart". I'm sure there are some folks who could probably tell you exactly how that saying came to be. Sadly, I'm not one of those people.  So, at least some of these sayings are meant to provoke a little 'thought' or 'wonder' I guess. We may never really KNOW how they came to be, just that somewhere, sometime back, someone thought that particular few words described what they were thinking right then....

There are a LOT of descriptive sayings that I have avoided here so far. I don't know where they came from, but you can almost always imagine them and the meaning becomes VERY clear. I may post a few of them (just for clarity..).