Fun with Google and Idioms

Via my referral logs, I discovered this amusing list of ways in which ‘we’re all of it’:

like ugly on a ape
like ticks on a dog
like ants on apple pie
like flies on an egg salad
like a toddler on pudding

This reminded me of the fun you can have with Google. For example, fourteen seconds of googling enabled me to assembled this list of the way folks were poor: [more]

We were so poor, we’d put a peppermint on Grandfather’s tongue and sit around
it for heat.
We were so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.
We were so poor we used to use a substitute for margarine.
We were so poor we had to eat cereal with a fork.
We were so poor we put out a note for the garbage man to–"leave two".

I know, not very funny, but a compelling distraction from actual work.