Standing around with your teeth in your mouth

created by mcc

(idea) by mcc (2.6 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Mon Jul 10 2000 at 2:21:01

My grandfather actually said this once. I later heard it again somewhere else, but i don't remember where. Apparently, in Oklahoma, this is actually an expression people use.

Usage was something like "Don't just stand around there with your teeth in your mouth"-- in some garbled way it was supposed to imply that by standing around with my teeth in my mouth i was being useless. I don't remember the exact wording, but it was still the coolest thing i had ever heard.

(idea) by The Custodian (13 s) (print) ? (I like it!) Wed Jul 26 2000 at 4:24:17

This is used as a lyric in a song by REM. Of course, now that I remember this, I can't remember which one. Damn it. Damn it damn it damn it. Oh, wait...I got it...yeah..

You are the Everything, off 1988's Green.

Voices talking somewhere in the house
late spring
and you're drifting off to sleep
with your teeth in your mouth
you are here with me
you are here with me
you have been here and you are the everything...

...whew. Now I can forget it.

printable version
chaos

Death eating a cracker	A guide to Mississippi porch etiquette	You Are the Everything	Whacking down pears with my prick
By the Skin of Our Teeth	Dharma Punx	Carrie Fisher	Oklahoma
Listen, we ended up ruined. I find my answers where I can.	ashtray on a motorbike	Ravenblack City	straphanger
sodriety	Everything University	Kerr Effect	Long in the tooth
Fuck you; I won't do what you tell me!	Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen	mouth	DVHS
Chemistry	air pollution	standing stone

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