To: John Robertson
Speaking of put-downs and hair, when I was a teenager, my dad used to say to me "You look like you combed your hair with a wagon wheel."
Never understood that one, nor have I ever heard it anywhere else. Ah, dadisms... :)
7 posted on
03/23/2005 6:58:38 PM PST by
agrace
To: agrace
I've heard it.
You can't comb your hair with a wagon wheel. The expression means "You need to comb your hair. It's a mess."
38 posted on
03/23/2005 7:15:20 PM PST by
Samwise
(Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.)
To: agrace
Could be from the song, "Old Dan Tucker"
Old Dan Tucker was a fine old man
Washed his face in a frying pan
Combed his hair with a wagon wheel
Died of a tooth ache in his heel
90 posted on
03/23/2005 9:01:25 PM PST by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: agrace
Having to go back to 1st grade, I remember a song about "Old Dan Tucker" combing his hair with a wagon wheel. He was a mountain man that "died with a toothache in his heel"
161 posted on
03/24/2005 9:03:41 AM PST by
MilspecRob
(Most people don't act stupid, they really are.)
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