[Ssf] Dictionaries are wonderful sources of fun.

[robin&amparo]

Some friends are creating a language site for fun, including metaphors 
in spoken or common everyday English usage (and other languages), 
phrases which sound funny to a foreign ear 'cos they appear to show 
double meanings. Obviously for sex, but also, look at these ones:

To be someone's spitting image
(imagine your image spitting at you from mirrors or ponds)

Or even better:
To be someone's dead spit

These might include proverbs and sayings like "killing two birds with 
the same stone" (something efficient), to kill the hen that lays the 
eggs has quite a reasonable double or metaphorical meaning so it would 
not be suitable...
..Or small "fictional" etymologies and word histories: how "spitting" 
derives from "splitting" (which might be the truth in fact, not only 
witty brainstorming)...

...How old papers where made from rags, that's they were called the Rag, 
because it was poor quality paper: The Rag and Boneman would come down 
on horse and cart calling on the householders to bring out their rags 
and bones for the knackers yard (to boil the bones down for glue).

..There would be thus a space for testing creative ideas such as 
suggested elsewhere by people.

.. If the leftie rag would include funny stuff and quotations from dead 
celebrities (such as Adam Smith, Marx and their families) I would be 
glad to give a hand in the project. Has this issue been included in the 
agenda? It is important. You might get closer ties with persons by 
having them or their URLs quoted on the rag, if it gets any wide 
readership.

Marketing and sales ideas could also be tested: are we addressing "the 
working classes" (then add  the description of a pub's night meeting by 
mozaz, say), are we addressing children and penniless youth? (??) are we 
addressing parents?"
or just politically organizing minds? Or aren't readers made up of all 
these parts?

R&A
(The Sun entering Aquarius)