Comments on: A few X short of a Y http://snowclones.org/2007/10/03/a-few-x-short-of-a-y/ Snowclones are the new eggcorns. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:51:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Filtering for my Punchline « Anthony Strang http://snowclones.org/2007/10/03/a-few-x-short-of-a-y/#comment-4214 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:31:45 +0000 http://snowclones.org/2007/10/03/a-few-x-short-of-a-y/#comment-4214 [...] a couple lists of one line jokes I tried to write a Perl script to filter it down to the “X short of a Y” style ones. The idea being that I’d just open up the file and pick one at random every [...]

]]> By: Tiago http://snowclones.org/2007/10/03/a-few-x-short-of-a-y/#comment-2948 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:22:42 +0000 http://snowclones.org/2007/10/03/a-few-x-short-of-a-y/#comment-2948 i forgot the context, but this is one i came up with a while ago

“A few balls short of a Bravia ad”

(in reference to that ad for the Bravia TVs from Sony where lots of colored bouncy balls were dropped down a San Francisco street)

]]> By: Bill Ward http://snowclones.org/2007/10/03/a-few-x-short-of-a-y/#comment-2406 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:27:50 +0000 http://snowclones.org/2007/10/03/a-few-x-short-of-a-y/#comment-2406 I always thought it was “a few cards short of a full deck” originally.

]]> By: zhoen http://snowclones.org/2007/10/03/a-few-x-short-of-a-y/#comment-1471 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:05:36 +0000 http://snowclones.org/2007/10/03/a-few-x-short-of-a-y/#comment-1471 A few bricks short of a load. Seems like the one I’ve heard most, as well as earliest.

]]> By: mollymooly http://snowclones.org/2007/10/03/a-few-x-short-of-a-y/#comment-1197 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:07:21 +0000 http://snowclones.org/2007/10/03/a-few-x-short-of-a-y/#comment-1197 The OED’s wordhunt appeal tried to antedate “one sandwich short of a picnic” to before 1993, and got it back to 1985. Similar phrases seem to be of Australian origin. In Ireland “one X short of a Y” seems to me to be a good deal more common than “a few X short of a Y”.

]]> By: David Craig http://snowclones.org/2007/10/03/a-few-x-short-of-a-y/#comment-977 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:31:21 +0000 http://snowclones.org/2007/10/03/a-few-x-short-of-a-y/#comment-977 Then there’s:

Not the sharpest bulb in the six-pack.

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