[Osx-nutters] "As mad as cheese"

[Roger Howard]

On Mon, October 30, 2006 10:18 pm, Google Kreme wrote:
> On 29 Oct 2006, at 12:13 , Jared ''Danger'' Earle wrote:
>> On 29 Oct 2006, at 20:00, Matt Johnston wrote:
>>> Mad as a stick I use a lot. I never really worried about how it
>>> sounded. Similarly a battlecry from a 1990s superhero game,
>>> cribbed from some TV program, "you're going home in a fucking
>>> ambulance" is now used as a term of endearment.
>>
>> "Three sheets to the wind" is one of my favourites.
>
> That is a good one.
>
> I use "Alright, everybody into the bag" on occasions.
>
> Trouble is, the quote's not exactly right and I can't remember what
> movie it was from. (the line is from a robbery scene where the robber
> gets confused).
>
> It's still funny.
>
> OK, there are some "British-isms" that I use on a daily or near-daily
> basis.
>
> Pear Shaped might be my favorite, and I am waging a one man campaign
> to force it into the daily lexicon of the US.

Pear shaped is a UK-ism? As in, "boy everyone in this godforsaken country
is pear shaped"?