Kicked the Bucket and Gunfights.
@RichardMeister (5328)
Otis Orchards, Washington
February 3, 2016 1:41pm CST
Sometimes my mind wanders to funny places. I was just thinking about how many phrases we use when referring to death when we are not serious.
Kicked the bucket.
Pushing up daisies (or flowers).
Breasts up (or the many versions of this such as TU and NN).
Bought the farm.
Worm food.
Bit the big one.
Eight feet under.
That’s all I can think of right now. But now my mind has wandered to the movies.
I’m thinking about the gunfights in Westerns. Did the moviemakers speed up the film for gunfights to make the actors appear to be drawing faster than they really were? I’m thinking about the movie where the character is carrying something when he comes across someone who wants to shoot him. He dropped the stuff and shot the guy before the guy could get a shot off. The actor carrying the stuff could have been as slow as molasses but if they sped up the film at that point he would have appeared faster than lightning.
Does you mind ever wander off to goofy thoughts?
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
4 Feb 16
Wow, you are thinking goofy thoughts today! 
Bite the dust, meet your maker, checked out . . . how about those?
Surely they did some movie tricks/effects to make the gunfights look more more amazing. Those guys in old Hollywood would be flipping in their grave if they could see how special effects have developed since then!
Yah, my mind is wandering off all the time . . . why are party favors called favors? It doesn't do anyone any favors - just more useless stuff to take home and then throw out.
Bite the dust, meet your maker, checked out . . . how about those?
Surely they did some movie tricks/effects to make the gunfights look more more amazing. Those guys in old Hollywood would be flipping in their grave if they could see how special effects have developed since then!
Yah, my mind is wandering off all the time . . . why are party favors called favors? It doesn't do anyone any favors - just more useless stuff to take home and then throw out.2 people like this
Boy we know where your mind is! @RichardMeister (5328)
• Otis Orchards, Washington
5 Feb 16
@much2say Well you can tell by what that guy said to me after my visit to the basement bedroom why I got the idea about party favors. And, yes, it was embarrassing.
The people 
at the party knew they were down there doing that, but I had gotten to the party later than they did and had no idea what was happening.
The people at the party knew they were down there doing that, but I had gotten to the party later than they did and had no idea what was happening.1 person likes this
@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
5 Feb 16
@RichardMeister "Party favors" has a whole 'nother meaning in my mind now - thanks to you! . Don't you hate that when you're the last to know and people know that - so they take full advantage of it?!
. Don't you hate that when you're the last to know and people know that - so they take full advantage of it?!2 people like this
@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
6 Feb 16
@RichardMeister I don't think I've heard "bought the farm" . . . maybe that's an "older" saying?
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@RichardMeister (5328)
• Otis Orchards, Washington
6 Feb 16
@much2say I don't think I heard it until the late 1980s or early 1990s.
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@RichardMeister (5328)
• Otis Orchards, Washington
4 Feb 16
I have no idea were "bought the farm" came from. It probably was something someone said to be funny and it caught on.
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