1.	If you do that you are "dead water."
	5-6-93 	DL

2.	"That really holds him over the fire."
	5-10-93 	DL

3.	"We're not trying to pin ourselves in a corner."
	5-12-93 	QM

4.	"It's a bag of worms."
	5-17-93 	DL

5.	"They put all their ducks in one basket."
	5-24-93 	JK

6.	"That poll is skewered."
	5-27-93 	DL

7.	"I don't mean to beat a dead bush."
	6-1-93 	TS

8.	"He (sort of) beat that thru the bush."
	6-1-93 	TS

9.	"Bleeding like a stuffed pig."
	6-2-93 	DL

10.	"He was calm as a cucumber."
	6-3-93 	DL

11.	"Sharon took the ball by the horn."
	6-14-93 	SF

12.	"Whew! ... I (really) jumped a bullet there!"
	6-14-93 	TS

13.	"You will pay out an arm and a leg for that one."
	6-15-93 	Anonymous Corp Guy

14.	"It took off like a mushroom."
	6-18-93 	SR


15.	"That's going to be the boiler they order 99 out of 10
  times."
	7-6-93 	JK

16.	"You could handle two birds with one stone."
	7-6-93 	JR

17.	"We are trying to hold a breast of the situation."
	7-2-93 	TS

18.	"We are going to read this thru nut by bolt."
	6-22-93 	Wes Burns

19.	"We've got to get our ducks together."
	6-24-93 	JK

20.	"That guy tighter than a bell."
	8-4-93 	DL

21.	"That will just be icing on the gravy."
	7-28-93 	SF

22.	"I bought the bullet on that one."
	8-16-93 	Jim Rosener

23.	"Well if he can get his ax together."
	8-23-93 	DL

24.	"It's a whole New World we are treading on."
	8-24-93 	DL

25.	"It looks like the water went sour."
	8-25-93 	John Thompson

26.	"You have to stop, reverse your brakes."
	9-3-93 	DB

27.	"They were throwing out balloons to test the water."
	9-8-93 	John Wagner

28.	"You would just be whistling in the wind."
	9-8-93 	Bob

29.	"One of you guys has to get together and be the lead 	guy."
	9-2-93 	Dubina

30.	"He is putting all his balls in our corner."
	9-16-93 	JK

31.	"With all this flooding we have a land mine of opportunity."
	9-16-93 	Mark Buckley
32.	"You have got the cart below the hoe."
9-13-93	JD


33.	"You will be with a bunch of solid red necked Americans.
	9-21-93	SR
	
34.	"Do you know their number off the top of your hand."
	9-27-93 	SF

35.	"We wear 2 pants in this job."
	9-28-93 	Doug Serge

36.	"The other portion of the coin is the difficult part."
	9-29-93 	RAS

37.	"He listened to you on the other side of the coin."
	9-29-93 	RAS
	
38.	"Yes they know its coming, they have been sending up red herrings."
	10-5-93 	JF

39.	"I don't really have the wheels running yet."
	10-4-93 	QM

40.	"You need to find out what he conceives Taco to be."
	10-5-93 	RS

41.	"We just don't have a glutton of space."
	10-6-93 	RS

42.	"Fulton stepped up to the bat, I mean, stepped up to the base", I mean ..."
	10-13-93 	JR

43.	"That ... went like a piece of cake."
	10-14-93 	JK

44.	"Looks like we got ourselves a bag of worms."
	10-15-93 	DL

45.	"What I'm hearing in the ruffles in the water."
	10-19-93 	SB

46.	"We need to feel out the waters."
	10-15-93 	S. Reed

47.	"He hit the nail on the head from the hip."
	10-18-93 	PHE

48.	"Yeah, but that plan fell in our face."
	10-28-93 	QM

49.	"We shoved it down his back."
	10-29-93 	JK

50.	"His plate is full in spades."
	10-29-93 	SR

51.	"God I like selling this air rotation stuff, it's like picking your nook and marketing."
	11-12-93 	DB

52.	"That's bad water over the bridge."
	11-19-93 	M ?

53.	"Lane opened his foot and stuck his mouth in it."
	11-30-93 	PHE

54.	"Yeah, he gets his butt in a crack."
	11-17-93 	DB

55.	"Take this as a grain of salt."
	11-11-93 	Tim Swope

56.	"He smokes like a fish."
	11-24-93 	SB

57.	"Have all your apples in a row."
	12-1-93 	JF

58.	"We need to cut to the gist."
	12-1-93 	SB

59.	"We're ridin' the wrong side of the fence on this one."
	12-13-93 	SB

60.	"You've got to sit down on paper..."
	12-14-93 	SR

61.  	"I'm talking from the hip."
	12-17-93 	JF

62.	"He is hanging par."
	12-17-93 	RS

63.	"He was so frustrated he was throwing his arm up."
	12-23-93 	JK

64.	"Yeah I think he will bend in on that issue."
	1-3-94 	JK

65.	"That is an excellent strategy to put some fuel under 	their feet."
	1-4-94 	SB
66.	"We won't have to sweat those kind of bullets."
	1-17-94 	SB

67.	"Yes he's a real wild cannon."
	1-25-94 	Riscoe

68.	"He was chafing at the bit."
	1-26-94 	JR

69.	"He was walking a delicate line."
	1-26-94 	SB

70.	"That probably would have washed thru the cracks."
	2-7-94 	SB

71.	"We don't want to paint ourselves into a box."
	2-7-94 	DG - YORK

72.	"If we keep that company here in our building we can 	have our thumb under the big umbrella." 
	2-11-94 	JF

73.	"I just could not fathom that."
	2-11-94 	TB

74.	"We're barking on a tall tree here."
	2-16-94 	Ken Welch

75.	"We are tied neck and neck." 
	2-16-94 	RS

76.	"His attitude is imbrained."
	2-22-94 	JK

77.	"It was hard to take that seed and mold it."
	3-1-94 	RAS

78.	"We are leap years ahead of them."
	3-9-94 	DL

79.	"You told us to put my head together on that."
	3-9-94 	JD

80.	"Dave Gurock has his feet cut out."
	3-10-94 	DL

81.	"I've been keeping a stiff upper lift."
	3-11-94 	B.M.

82.	"He's a bird of a different color."
	3-11-94 	B.M.
83.	"I don't want to throw a cork in the deal."
	4-4-94 	SB

84.	"Dollar for dollar ours is less expensive."
	4-11-94 	KG

85.	"It's the cat, dog, ... horse before the cart."
	4-11-94 	GB

86.	"I can see Daryl's footprints on that deal."
	4-15-94 	DL

87.	"Don't throw me into those troubled water's."
	4-25-94 	Anon.

88.	"Compared with your new system ... ours is really
	antarctic."
	4-27-94 	Anon.

89.	“We go head to toe with them”.
	3-16-95 	Ron Lafferty

90.	“He left us in a leach on that”.
	9-8-94 	DL

91.	“We have a butt load of those”.
	11-3-94 	RS

92.	“Muddying the picture”.
1994		JF

93.	“We have a lot of feathers over there we need to
	settle down”. (Bartle Hall)
	9-23-94 	SF

94.	“We have our ass in a ringer”.
1994		KG

95.	“You’re blowing my thunder”.
	8-29-94 	JD

96.	“Bruce ran thru hoops”.
	8-29-94 	RS

97.	“Wipe your minds clean”.
	8-10-94 	RC

98.	“We started out on a goofy foot”.
	7-13-94 	Larry Accord

99.	“The engineer has drawn his foot in the sand”.
	8-12-94 	Paul Pfannenstiel

100.	“He is biting the chomps”.
	8-15-94 	JK

101.	“Straight Jane”
	8-3-95 	Nate Persell

102.	“They threw me a left curve on that one”.
	7-31-95 	Stan’s real estate agent

103.	“I found a Kewanee empty ball box we swing more balls”.
1995		Mike Thome

104.	“I’m really tired after 18 rounds of golf”.
1995		RS

105.	“That was the needle that broke the camel’s back”.
	12-16-95 	Debbie Slump

106.	“People ask me questions like I know, all I do is work 	here”.
	8-24-95 	Julie Porras

107.	“The wheel that greases gets squeaked”.
	8-3-95 	TB

108.	“Depends on which shoe the foot is on at the time”.
	8-21-95 	Skidmore Guy

109.	“I don’t mean to throw a monkey wrench on your parade”.
1995		Mobile Real Estate

110.	“The older I get, the more I see the more the same it 	becomes me”.
	7-6-95	 	JR

111.	“It is not written in gold”.
	8-8-95 	Mark Wizniak - Energy Masters

112.	“That is a 2” sword”.
	7-95 		Steve Mitts - B & V

113.	“Whoops I almost stumbled on myself”.
	8-23-95 	BS

114.	“He opened up an avenue of worms”.
	8-23-95 	SR

115.	“We are itching at the bit to call Neroni”.
	7-27-95 	JK

116.	“He could be our archilles tendon”.
	1995		David McCreights

117.	“That is a butt kicking suit and tie”.
	10-11-95 	JP

118.	“I want to get out of here!  I think I’m gonna pull a Forrest Bueller.
	10-11-95 	JD

119.	“The sooner the quicker”.
	9-18-95 	DJH

120.	“He pulled that catch out of his butt”.
	9-5-95 	JF

121.	“We don’t have a leg to go on”.
	9-11-95 	MJ

122.	“He made a bee hive for the food”.
	9-10-95 	SF

123.	“He was out there with his butt hanging in the wind”.
	8-27-95 	BS

124.	“He is walking on eggs”.
	8-15-95 	Kent Moe

125.	“Wow! It’s raining like a pigsty!
	8-15-95 	BS

126.	“Well I just thought about it - it just “hit my head”.
	10-23-95 	BS

127.	“Look at this, all hell went numb”.
	11-6-95 	TB

128.	“Make money hand over foot”.
	11-8-95 	Gary Koon

129.	“I hit him with a left curve ball”.
	11-1-95 	John Jones

130.	“I am hand calling everyone of my customers”.
1995		Bill Skinner

131.	“I am red with envy”.
1995		Bill Skinner

132.	“I lost my throat”.
	5-12-95 	PY

133.	“This is just the tip of the iceberg of the whole ball of wax”.
	11-6-95 	J. Cooper

134.	“He is the guy I need to break a nut with”.
	5-95 	BS

135.	“Now we’ll have enough fan wheel effect to get us through the day”.
	7-13-95 	QM

136.	“It looks like a case of hoof and mouth”.
	7-15-95 	DL

137.	“How to get B & V to bite off that”.
	5-31-95 	DL

138.	“The cupboard was dry”.
	6-6-95 	DL

139.	“We are swimming up hill”.
	3-8-95 	SR

140.	“All kinds of flags were going off”.
	3-9-95 	JF

141.	“We were doing gang busters”.
	7-5-95 	SJ

142.	“Get them out there and have them feel soft and fuzzy”.
	3-29-95 	DL

143.	“We’re batting 100”.
1995		BM

144.	“It was like an octopus, we had all these arms going 	all over, we are trying to get our hands around it”.
1995		Gary Koon

145.	“That’s just gravy in the basket”.
	6-14-95 	Larry Diehl - AIA

146.	“Big shakers”.
	2-95 		DL

147.	“Your mind is as sharp as a trap”.
	4-7-95 	Rod To Scott

148.	“When he sees this price he’s going to have a cranium”.
1995		Bill Skinner

149.	“He had that rabbit in the headlights look”.
1995		Bill Skinner

150.	“I don’t want to blow your thunder”.
1995		JR

151.	“They went out with their tails bleeding between their 	legs”.
	1-4-95		Mark Johnson

152.	“Boy you just a vast wasteland of knowledge”.
	2-6-95 	JD to SR

153.	“I’ll stay here and hold the fort up”.
5-95	Carly Manning



154.	“Mike and Dave want to go hodgepodge with the big 	heels”.
1995		JK

155.	“In regards to good business news a customer recently told he was: Burning some new bridges”.
1995		Anonymous

156. 	“They swallowed a  bullet on that one”.
	11-13-95	JF

157. 	“That’s all the projects we have on the ironing board for right now”.
	11-21-95   	Pensacola Engineer

158. 	“That throws a wrench in the monkey works”.
	4-1-96  	TB

159. 	“I’ll be here holding the fort up”.
	5-28-96  	PY

160. 	“We still have our trumpet card to play”.
	12-20-95 	B. McNellage

161. 	“I’m going to have to show him the ropes”.
	6-12-96  	Unknown

162. 	“The contractor is going to have to be the one running the ball on this one”.
	5-13-96  	BS

163. 	“We’ve taken it out of Trane’s ass”.
	12-4-95  	Mike, Jr.

164. 	“I’ll learn it by “trial by error”.
	5-30-96  	JF

165. 	“You’ve got to get your P’s and Q’s in a row”.
	1-12-96  	Real Estate Guy - Alabama

166. 	“He doesn’t know what side of the plate his bread is buttered on”. 
	3-96  		Misc. Stranger - Augusta, Georgia

167. 	“There were a lot o numbers flying around”.
	5-15-96  	S. Johnson

168. 	“She dug into it with both heels down”.
	2-18-96  	Bubba McNellage

169. 	“I’ve got a sister who lives in the sticks”.
6-17-96	Julie Porras

170.	“It’s rocky waters”.
	6-20-96  	Don Munce
171. 	“They put out their technicals like an octopus”.
	6-20-96  	Steve Montague

172. 	“I think I can alleviate your mind”.
	6-26-96  	Roy Johnson - ETS

173. 	“Selling Lochinvar is easier than baking a cake”.
	7-11-96  	Mike, Jr.

174. 	“I heard it thru the windmill”.
	7-11-96  	Jerry Drew

175. 	“With this hand, I don’t know how I’m going to swing a golf cart”.
	7-15-96  	Mike, Jr.

176.	“Let’s get down and derby on that one”.
	7-17-96  	Bill Skinner

177. 	“Hindsight is 50/50”.
	7-14-96  	Bill Skinner

178. 	Referring to McQueeny-Lock & Westport Products:
	“Currently they are their own enema”.
	7-17-96  	Ken Sapp

179. 	“They must butter their pockets”.
	7-23-96  	Bill Skinner

180. 	“We fly that fag on game days”.
	12-29-95  	Pat Y.

181. 	“Dad will you tie this in half”.
	8-5-96  	Peter McQueeny 

182. 	“Burn this in a knot”.
	8-1-96  	Chris McQueeny

183. 	“You’re a fly by the pants guy”.
	7-29-96  	BS

184. 	“I want to kick something off you”.
	8-5-96”  	BS

185. 	“I’ve got my ear on the pulse”.
	8-5-96  	SJ

186. 	“Hopefully I dropped enough little divots in there”.
	8-96	  	BS
	
187. 	“I don’t know; maybe I’m blowing wind”.
	8-96  		BS

188. 	“Is that going to be permanent for awhile”.
	8-96  		JK

189. 	“Can electricity strike a car?”
	8-7-96  	Eileen Wohlford

190.	“Patrick, come here and get this myself”.
	8-12-96  	Pete McQueeny

191.  	“I know we don’t want to beat a dead bush”.
	1996	 	John Malecki @ Kewanee

192.  	“The problem is we might step on our own feet”.
	1996  		Greg Heroux @ Kewanee

193.	“I will run that over him”.
	1996  		Diane Fowler - York Tampa

194.  	“They were spending money like water”.
	1996  		Bill Skinner

195.  	“That job has HVAC, plumbing, and the whole 10 yards”.
	1996  		Customer

196.  	“If he’s that late, he’s already fried his goose”.
	1996  		Bill Skinner

197.  	“He’s three pints into the wind by game time”.
	1996  		Bill Skinner

198.  	“That boiler is about to throw craps”.
	1996  		Customer

199.  	“It went in one eye and out the other”.
	8-12-96  	Stan Fellwock

200.  	“Tell him to go fly a cow”.
8-12-96	Carolyn Fellwock



201.  	“I can leap tall buildings at bullet speed”.
	8-26-96  	John Jones

202.  	“Are you going to order those Lochinvar farts”.
	8-1996  	Julie Porras

203.  	“Hey I’m at the bottom of the pole”.
	8-8-96  	Julie Porras

204.  	“These guys are running around with their heads cut off”.
	8-20-96  	Bill Skinner

205. 	“He’s running with his head off”.
	8-21-96  	Julie Porras

206.  	“Crown Center’s going to have to pay an arm and a half for these valves.
	9-4-96  	Bill Skinner

207.  	“That stock has been through the tubes”.  “I’ve been 	deeped in . . . 
	9-17-96  	John Jones

208.  	“I don’t think Trane is choking our chain”.
	9-25-96 	Bill Skinner

209.  	“Yes well that goes without seeing”.
	9-19-96  	Bill Skinner

210.  	“I wouldn’t even sweat a tear over it”.
	10-11-96  	Richard Smith (York International)

211.  	“I have 20 things on my head at once”.
	10-29-96  	Julie Porras

212.  	“If he wants to jerk my string unreasonably for any reason”.
	10-22-96  	Bill Jones

213.  	“I am trying to take my brain off of you”.
	10-30-96  	Julie Porras

214.  	“We’re not talking brain science here”.
	(Referring to wiring of a Lochinvar unit)
10-22-96	Bill Skinner



215.  	“I had to Jimmy rig that thing”.
	11-23-96  	Jerry Drew

216.  	“He must have had a lot of sex with his prostate”.
	11-23-96  	Dan Tallman

217.  	“She is walking on thin water by doing that”.
	11-25-96  	Bob Allen

218.  	“Your a woman on a miss you”.  (Mission)
	11-25-96  	Bill Skinner

219.  	“We’re willing to give you the benefit of the break Jere”.
	11-12-96  	Tom Burlbaw

220.  	“He is like a chicken in a hen house”.
	11-4-96  	Brenda McAllister

221.  	“They just want to “milk the cream off the top”.
	11-8-96  	Bill Skinner

222.  	“I just saved your little red wagon”.
	11-4-96  	Laura Kerns

223.  	“It was “balls cold”.
	12-15-96 	Van Hoecke

224.  	“He’s burning on both ends of the candle”.
	12-15-96  	Van Hoecke

225.  	“That’s how he’s learnin’ you how”.
	12-27-96  	Brenda McAllister

226.  	“Steady as a glove”.
	12-28-96  	TPM

227.  	“They will hold their nuts to the fire”.
	12-30-96  	Bill Skinner

228.  	“I didn’t know the answer off the seat of my pants”.
	12-27-96  	Jeff Fisher

229.  	“You had mentioned he wanted to bury the knife”.
12-16-96	Jerry Drew


230.  	“My reindeer are in the shop”.
	(Answer to our adopted children at Christmas).
	12-19-96  	Bill Skinner

231.  	“We’ve got some sticks in the fire”.
	1996 		Bill Skinner

232.  	“They are hiding behind that stick”.
	12-2-96  	Dave Hughes

234.  	“Beavis and Butthead movie on Friday?  This week will be over in a blink”.
	12-17-96 	Mike, Jr.

235. 	“Blow a gut”.  
	(Todd with Ferguson is so mad at Stockham that he is going to above).
	12-19-96  	Mike Sr.

236.  	“Open my mouth and kick myself”.
	1-8-97  	Julie Porras

237.  	“Getting the new Powers sales policy will be a ... small gate to jump through”.
	1-3-97  	Tom Hamilton - Powers

238.	“We have the inside leg on this job”.
	1-20-97  	Stan Fellwock

239. 	“My mouth is dryer than a wooden leg”.
	1-26-97  	Tom McGrill

240. 	“Oh yeah - it’s straight as a whistle”.
	2-6-97  	Bill Skinner

241.	“You’re a real dearth of information on this project”.
	2-10-97	Stan Fellwock

242.	“I’ll make a hole in my calendar”.
	1997		Dave Basquez

243.	“I’ve been marching off like a loose cannon”.
	2-21-97	Mark Ballard

244.	“That’s a political hot ball”.
2-20-97	Larry Miller



245.	“We don’t want to throw our money up a dead horses 	tail”.
	2-12-97	Dennis Jones

246.	“My chances would be “nil to none”.
	2-17-97	Greg Hayden

247.	“We need to focus in on the whole big picture”.
	2-8-97		S. Evans

248.	“That kind of throws a kink in the monkey wrench”.
	2-10-97	Jeff Fisher

249.	“Zurn/Eljer no news just rumors.  That’s what the Ouigee ball (board) tells us”.
	2-25-97	Dominic Solis

250.	“Crane availability is unpredictable ... it’s up in 	flux”.
	2-25-97	Dominic Solis

251.	“Yield was climbing lower on 3-662 product”.
	2-25-97	Dominic Solis

252.	“Black & Veatch is famous for letting the cream rise to the crop”.
	3-97		Richard Hanson

253.	“When he hit that shot the whole place went bizarre”.
	3-97		David Lock

254. 	“Pat I’m not sure if I recorded these do not duplicate”.
	3-97		Unknown

255.	“We’re caught in a tight rope”.
	3-4-97		Jeff Fisher

256.	“We could throw up a trial balloon”.
	3-4-97		Jeff Fisher

257.	“You know that V.A.R., Your know Value Added Stuff”.
	3-4-97		David Lock

258.	At Bradley Regional Sales Meeting “I want to hear peoples thoughts”.
	3-12-97	Kelly from Oklahoma City, OK

259.	“This computer is slower than Christmas”.
	3-12-97	Dave Morgan
260.	“Be careful you would break a neck”.
	3-12-97	Bill Skinner

261.	“You two should bounce heads on that”.
	3-17-97	John Jones

262.	“It appears we get along better now that we’ve had the air cleaned”.
	3-21-97	Tom Burlbaw

263.	“Our sales have pummeled (plummeted)”.  Re: Stockham
	3-20-97	Bill Skinner to Jerry Drew at Harry Cooper

264.	“One of the funniest lines I ever saw”.
	3-21-97	Dave Lock

265.	“Blowin and growin”.
	3-21-97	Bill Skinner

266.	“Rear its ugly face”.
	3-28-97	Jere Kimmel

267. 	“This is a footprint for the future”.
	2-28-96	Jeff Fisher

268. 	“The system flow change is not gradual, it’s instamatic”.
	1997		Customer

270. 	“We’ve got a couple of guys that are real crackpots on that electrical stuff”.		 
	1997		Customer

271. 	“That can be a big ball of worms”.
	1997		Fulton Guy

272. 	“I got tied up in my shorts”.
	4-4-97		Allen Sanders

273. 	“Did you branledge your weapon?”  Bill Skinner to Jerry Drew when meaning to say “did you brandish your weapon”.  Re:  The Ozark manhunt for an escaped serial killer.
	4-4-97	

274.	“When we wash everything out”.
	4-18-87	Bill Skinner

275. 	“Without being able to get into the engineers pants we can’t find out what he wants”.
	4-22-97	Pat Reynolds

276. 	“Chomping at the reins”.
	4-23-97	John Jones

277. 	“Man-made waters”.
	4-24-97	Tom Terch

278. 	“I don’t want to choke on a gnat”.
	4-28-97	Scott Johnson

279. 	“Small chat”.
	4-28-97	Bill Skinner

280.	“When he is around you better ... Hang on to your belt”.
	4-29-97	Dave Hughes

281.	“She’s on the “cutting grass” of that technology”.
	5-1-97		Bill Skinner - at Royals game

282.	“It will cost them a young fortune”.
	5-1-97		Don Onyshuk - York International

283.	“I already have enough on my plate to say grave over”.
	5-7-97		Gary Koon - Stockham

284.	“I’ll be in tomorrow ... rare-in-to-roll”.
	5-6-97		Dave Lock

285.	“I’ll be in tomorrow ... rare-in-to-roar”.
	5-7-97		Dave Lock

286.	“Sounds like there’s something in the wood pile”.
	5-8-97		Lance Smith - Kewanee

287.	“Terch ... what a piece of cake”.
	(what a piece of work).
	5-13-97	Dave Lock

288.	“All the grease are railed”.
	5-13-97	Earl - PoolPak



289. 	“The bathroom thing is so anal!”
	Talking about the ongoing battle of the women’s restroom.
5-14-97	Julie Porras

	Editors note:  Not a verbal fumble but pretty damn funny at the time.

290.	“Squish that fire”.
	5-15-97	Bill Skinner

291.	“We finally struck blood” “that’s alive and cookin”.
	5-15-97	Bill O’Conner

292.	“I used bones that I never knew I had before”
	5-18-97	Mike, Sr. after playing at Hallbrook

293.	“Whenever there was a problem he would blow off the handle”.
	5-1997	Steve Patrick

294.	“I need to get CRB to bite off on that”.
	5-19-97	Rod Slump

295.	“It’s Monday morning and I’m running around sideways”.
	5-19-97	Jeff Romine

296.	“I saw everyone’s eyes perk up when I started talking 	in the sales meeting.
	5-19-97	Bill Skinner

297.	“You need to squeeze the bushes to increase sales volume”.
	5-21-97	Mike, Sr.

298.	“Book ‘em Jocko”.
	5-97		Bill Skinner

299.	“Would I steal you wrong”.
	5-28-97	Dave Morgan

300.	“Good God ... it’s raining like a pig out there”.
	6-13-97	Bill Skinner (He believes this is on list already).

301.	“They let their hair out”.
6-16-97	Dominic Solis - Crane Plumbing – Describing the informal nature of a social/business gathering.

302.	“We were on shallow grown”.
	6-18-97	Mike, Sr.
303.	“I’m embroiled in the middle of it”.
	6-23-97	Jere Kimmel

304.	“We will be standing at their doorway on our knees”.
	6-23-97	Quentin McArthur

305.	“On bid day his prices are all over the moon”.
	Trane guy in Louisville speaking of the Carrier guy)
	6-25-97	Submitted by Stan Fellwock			

306.	“Little shit hit the wall and where it hits it hits”.
	6-1997	JVH

307.	“He won’t even stand up to the fence that cop sucker”.
	6-1997 	Unknown

308.	“He’s taking on a new leaf”.
	6-29-97	JK

309.	“We are a rock in between a hard place”.
	7-1-97		MJM

310.	“John has forgotten more about McGuire products than I will ever remember”.
7-2-97		Brian with McGuire Mfg. speaking of an inside sales guy with 30+ years at McGuire.

311.	“Pools of sweat piling up on the floor”.
	7-3-97		BS

312.	“Trane can blow us on the 900 ton machine”.
	7-8-97		John Jones

313.	“An S19-310SS in stock?  That doesn’t strike a bell”.
	7-11-97	Dave Morgan

314.	“That comment stuck in my ear”.
	7-17-97	RAS

315.	“I was a tightrope on that”.
	7-21-97	BS

316.	I’m so full of shit I need a plastic belly button to see out”.
7-17-97	Paul Elslager
7-17-98	

317.	“I’m going to put your head down here and make a water melon out of it”.
	7-17-97	Paul Elslager

318.	“This is through the gossip mill ...”
	7-18-97	Jeff Vilott 
(Jeff to Paul Karr trying to confirm if Larson Binkley is acquiring Gibbens Engineering)

319.	“We’ve got to turn this thing around 360 degrees”.
	7-18-97	Trane guy in Louisville.

320.	“I’ll leave it in your ballpark”.
	7-18-97	Stan’s Real Estate Agent (Meaning “the balls in your court”)

321.	“He’s not in but he definitely wants to pick your ear”.
	7-18-97	Bill Skinner

322.	“We will string him up on a rail”.
	7-22-97	WSU Architect

323.	“When we are done I wash with the project”.
	7-22-97	WSU Architect

324.	“Well now, I’ve fallen into the picture”.
	7-22-97	WSU Architect

325.	“I’m going out to my heck of town”.
	7-25-97	Scott Johnson

326.	“The other chunk of the spin on that one is”.
	7-28-97	Richard Hanson

327.	“Teaching him the ropes”.
	7-28-97	Bill Skinner (Sullivan to Fallon on valves)

328.	“I was running it around in my head”.
	4-25-97	Bill Skinner

329.	“He is a real spare shooter”.
	4-25-97	Mike, Jr.

330.	“He doesn’t have a common sense bone in his head”.
	4-26-97	John Barber



331.	“That Kevin Neenan ... “beats to a different drum”.
	8-1997	Dennis Creech

332.	“We could flame that fire”.
	8-15-97	Quentin McArthur

333.	“No sense breakin’ down the mule ‘cause you don’t like the color of his toenails”.
	8-19-97	Scott Kirkwood

334.	“They saw the writing on the handwall”.
	9-97		John Jones

335.	“Keep tightening the pencil”.
	9-4-97		Frank Tanner

336.	“Giving him a bunch of slack”.
	9-5-97		Gregg Edwards

337.	“Pouring fan of the fire”.
	9-17-97	Mike, Sr.

338.	“That’s the straw that broke my back”.
	9-17-97	Darrell Mitchell

339.	“I don’t want to get caught with my ass hanging out in 	the wind”.
	9-18-97	Dave Morgan

340.	“Hate to put you on the short spot”.
	9-22-97	Customer to Bill Skinner & Scott Johnson

341.	“Put your nose on the grinding wheel”.
]	9-22-97	Drew Fabin/Burns & McDonnell

342.	“That’s my opinion in a handbag”.
	9-22-97	Bill Bott

343. 	“I have an “albatross” around my neck”.
	(Millstone)
	9-24-97	Tom Burlbaw

344.	“You were out like a log”.
	9-25-97	Bill Skinner




345.	“The secret is out of the bag”.
	9-26-97	David Carrier - Armstrong

346. 	“He was snoring so loud there were logs flying out of 	his mouth”.
	9-28-97	Bill Skinner

347.	“Did you guys pull straws to wait on our table”.
	10-3-97	Said by Jerry Drew to Ann @ Harpos

348.	“I’m not trying to blow myself up”.
	10-6-97	John Ming

349.	“Is Liz falling down on her job?”.
	10-8-97	Bill Skinner to Jerry Drew when Jerry said he
	didn’t bring his lunch.

350.	“They pulled their bluff”.
	10-9-97	Reggie Caruthers

351.	“That stuff is all gone to the dinosaurs”.
	10-15-97	Bobby Bullock

352.	“What’ a duck to one guy is a goose to another”.
	10-15-97	Bobby Bullock
	
353. 	“Owning a business is not all it’s knocked up to be”.
	10-15-97	Bobby Bullock

354.	“I want to be called to the mat”.
	10-16-97	Bobby Bullock

355.	“We have to hedge the common tide”.
	10-16-97	Bobby Bullock

356.	“He’s not the kind of guy to be flying off at the mouth”.
	10-16-97	Bill Skinner

357.	“That was a good, good series ... it was like two heavy weights throwing bombs on each other”.
	10-20-97	Don Fortune regarding Cleveland/Baltimore ALCS

358.	“You guys look like you’re chewin on the meat”.
	10-21-97	Powers guy


359.	“Boy, it’s hot in here.  Must be this McQueeny-Lack jacket”.
	10-22-97	Dave Morgan	Trying to show off his new 		McQueeny-Lock sweater

360.	“From Sunday night left-overs I have a “rack of libs”.
	10-23-97	Jerry Drew

361.	“We’d like to do a blowdown of that cost for you”.
	11-97		Sam Messana - Armstrong

362.	“Even a blind pig finds an acorn”.
	11-97		Dick Klaess

363.	“It’s a save your face type of deal”.
	11-97		John Bailer @ Bredson

364.	“The workload was unanimous”.
	11-97		Sam Stacy @ Ryfam 
	Talking about the warehouse work @ Ryfam vs. Reeves Wiedeman his previous employer.

365.	“You need to put your mind together Mike”.
	11-5-97	John Jones

366.	“Maybe contractors will attend a Teledyne tech session in February when they’re not so busy and maybe they will attend for free food and givees”.
	11-6-97	Bill Skinner

367.	“Not too many rocks upstairs regarding fellow employee”.
	11-7-97	Bill Skinner

368.	“The plot twists”.
	11-7-97	Bill Skinner

369.	“My tongue and mouth don’t work together”.
	11-10-97	Bill Skinner

370.	“We need to get a head count and a body count so we can have the right amount of literature for our presentation Art”.
	11-10-97	Mike

371.	“He rang his clock”.
	11-10-97	Bill Skinner



372.	“When we are out late, by the time we take the ties down”.
	11-10-97	Sam Messana - Armstrong

373.	“His mind was smoking”
	11-10-97	Art Thorsby - Armstrong

374.	“He goes off at the nose”.
	11-11-97	Sam Messana - Armstrong

375.	“What’s her duch?”.
	11-12-97	Sam Messana - Armstrong

376.	“Sam was really giving out the factory spewism during his presentation”.
	11-12-97	Sam Messana - Armstrong

377.	“I just called to rattle someone’s page”.
	11-12-97	John Jones

378.	“It’s like I have a flat-tire in my mouth”.
	11-13-97	Bill Skinner

379.	“When I’m out, I’m drinking like a pig”.
	11-13-97	Bill Skinner

380.	“Alright, let me get off my soap wagon”.
	11-13-97	Jim Cox - Foley

381.	“Good minds think together”.
	11-13-97	Dave Lock

382.	“B & G and Armstrong converged away”.
	11-13-97	Art Thorsby - Armstrong

383.	“I thought I was the psycho in the group”.
11-16-97	Bill Grisby on Chiefs postgame after Denver game KCFX radio.

384.	“Keep in touch with yourself”.
	11-17-97	Same Messana - Armstrong

385.	“We help him out when he gets his butt in a crack”.
	11-18-97	Pat Reynolds

386.	“I’ve been rolling this over my head for too long”.
11-25-97	Tom Hamilton - Powers Sales Manager


387.	“You let the kids fly all over the wall”.
	11-29-97	Julie Porras

388.	“Don’t want to kick a gift horse in the mouth”.
	12-5-97	Bill Skinner

389.	“I can’t think off my feet”.
	12-17-97	Rick Shea

390.	“I’m racking your brain”.
	12-17-97	Debbie Slump

391.	“That horse isn’t going to fly, I mean, that dog isn’t going to fly”.
	12-97		Rush Limbaugh

392.	“Kelly wasn’t thinking on her toes”. (feet)
	1-2-98		Bill Skinner

393.	“I’ve got a stack of E-mails a mile long”.
	1-7-98		Rick Shea

394.	“It doesn’t take brain surgery to figure that out”.
	1-11-98	Debbie Slump

395.	“We’re getting down to the short rows”.
	1-12-98	Dennis Patrick

396.	“We will go over this from start to bottom”.
	1-13-98	Randy Fisher

397.	“He might has just been blowin’ steam”.
	1-14-98	Jere Kimmel

398.	“Hand walk them the invitation”.
	1-14-98	Fred Hoff - Teledyne Laars

399.	”That just proves the pudding”.
	1-15-98	Dave Lucas

400.	“Get your door in the first one”.
	1-16-98	Curtis Priest

401.	“At the drop of a dime”.
	1-17-98	John Karamonos

402.	“That Maui Maui was pretty good”.
	1-18-98	Gary Kasitz

403.	I want to keep my finger in that pie”.
1-19-98	Bob Wilcox - Gladstone Winnelson

404.	“They are all jumping at the bit”.
2-4-98	Gary Kasitz

405.	“This is the guy you need to call when the shit blows up”. (Hits the fan)
2-9-98	Art Thorsby

406.	“Sounds like a hot dog”. (Hot deal)
2-18-98	Jerry Potter

407.	“If I was doing it from head to bottom”.
2-19-98	Debbie Slump

408.	“Our competition is up on the rope at this time”.
2-22-98	Phil Jagelski – Bradley

409.	“She has pulled my butt out of the ditch many times”.
2-22-98	Steve Zingsheim – Bradley

410.	“I’m going to send my dog out there to hunt this up”.
2-22-98	Dominic Solis

411.	“This isn’t like a rumor . . . it’s like drums beating”.
2-22-98	Unknown

412.	“Our business has picked up.  New homes are flying right now”.
2-22-98	Dominic Solis

413.	“He’s the guy following in Dering’s shoes”. (footsteps)
2-23-98	Quentin McArthur

414.	“I’m just running with my head cutoff”.
2-25-98	Julie Porras

415.	“I laid that chair on your order the other day”.
3-4-98	Kendal Springer

416.	“They have their own rendiction of that story”.
3-4-98	Fred Hoff – Teledyne


417.	“We need to pull the “zip”-cord to bail out on that”.
3-5-98	Fred Hoff – Teledyne

418.	“Sun’s out and the heat is risin’”.  
3-25-98	David Lock

419.	“I think you should get on the phone with York and suck some ass”.
3-30-98	Chris Ebert

420.	He had someone “breathing down his throat”.
3-31-98	Gary Kasitz

421.	“We don’t want to put our foots in our mouths”.
4-14-98	Denise Phillips

422.	“That was throwing a straw in a haystack”.
4-15-98	George Lindsay – Harry Cooper

423.	“We’ve got to get the baby out of the bun”.
4-24-98	Jerry Drew

424.	“The turning point was Felix’s error,” Muser said.  “It kind of let the air out of our bags”.
5-98	Royals Manager – Tony Muser

425.	“He can wing by his ass”.
5-5-98	J. Van Hoecke

426.	“We respectfully recline to bid”.
5-13-98	Bill Skinner

427.	“I can sixtuplet fisted it”. …
5-16-98	Bill Skinner

428.	 “He is as useless as tits on a whore”.
5-27-98	J. Van Hoecke

429.	“He is a real pussy cake”. (Pussy cat – piece of cake).
5-27-98	Mike McQueeny

430.	“Everyone is running in fits”.
5-28-98	Keith Williams

431.	“That controls guy screwed the golden goat”.
6/98		Mark Toburen

432.	“We went over our bid tooth and comb”.
6/98		Florida Contractor

433.	“This is huge – this is like Titanic being dropped on your door’>
6-11-98	Dominic Solis – Crane

434.	“Go straight across caddy wampus to here”.
6-15-98	Fred Hoff – Teledyne Laars

435.	“He’s overselling his mouth with his ass”.
6-16-98	Jim Megerson

436.	“That hashes it good pretty through”.
6-17-98	Scott Kirkwood

437.	“I pulled out all the strings I could on this one”.
6-19-98	Trane Service Manager, San Antonio

438.	“Those guys are as busy as tar”.
6-22-98	Lynn Stump

439.	“No mad rush, don’t let it drop off the back of the stove”.
6-26-98	Mike McQueeny

440.	“3 rocks to the wind”.
7-9-98	Bill Skinner

441.	 “My life flashed before my hands”.
7-9-98	Anonymous

442.	“Let’s not get caught up in our panties”.
7-10-98	Ed Wiggins – York/Houston

443.	“That place was empty ‘like a bee bee rolling around in a cannon ball”.
7-10-98	Gary Poole – Houston/Engineer

444.	“That girl is really cute “she could stop a brick shithouse”.
7-13-98	VHC

445.	“I sometimes walk into an engineer’s office with the premonition that I’m going to talk about Pluberex”.
7-15-98	Jeff Vilott (premise)

446.	“You could cut a knife”.
7-23-98	Jeff Vilott (Deaton)

447.	“They are taking money out of my mouth”
7-27-98	Dave Lock

448.	“Quentin’s out there just flaking off”.
7-28-98	Bill Skinner

449.	“It looks like a tornado threw up in here”.
7-29-98	Miracle Carter

450.	“She has to keep her nose straight”. (clean)
7-29-98	Richard Hansen

451.	“Her legs were decapitated at the Harley-Festival by a street cleaner”.
7-29-98	Zinger

452.	“Lets get our balls together”.
7-30-98	D. Deitz

453.	“I wouldn’t put my neck out on a limb there”.
7-30-98	D. Deitz

454.	“I don’t know if you story holds salt”.
7-30-98	D. Deitz

455.	“Rodman was flipping around like a dead fish”.
7-30-98	Bill Skinner

456.	“We had to bait our own fish”.
8-3-98	David Lock on Destin fishing trip

457.	“One of those little things that stick out of your brain”.
8-5-98	John Jones

458.	“You know the fruit at the end of the rainbow”.
8-5-98	John Jones

459.	“We’re working two sides of the game”.
8-6-98	To Hamilton – Powers

460.	“Your quicker than a heart attack”.
8-7-98	John Jones

461.	“Us pondscum will keep the fort under while you are gone”.
8-13-98	Bill Skinner


462.	“They just want you to jump over hoops for them”.
8-19-98	Brenda McCallister

463.	“I don’t know if we want to “muddy the equasion”.
9-4-98	Denny Dietz

464.	“When Guys have an attitude like that, makes me want to put my ass in molasses”.
9-9-98	Bill Skinner

465.	“They didn’t “foo-foo” em’.
(not poo, poo)
9-11-98	Edwards

466.	“My wife had me humping the whole time on our trip”.
Re:	An activity filled vacation.
9-21-98	Matt Robb

467.	“He’s the kind of guy that like his ego stroked and his ass kicked”.
9-28-98	Quentin McArthur

468.	“Usually has his nut in a ringer”.
9-30-98	Bill Skinner

469.	“Kneel down on your feet”.
10-4-98	Chris Enterprises

470.	“I’m bored as toast”.
10-4-98	Chris Enterprises

471.	“Get the show on the stick”.
10-13-98	Mark Toburen – Eng. Air

472.	“Old eagle ears”.
10-14-98	Bill Skinner

473.	“You’re like a bull monkey in a Chinese closet”.
10-16-98	Austin Contractor

474.	“Well, that’s the size and low of it”.
10-21-98	Phil Griffith

475.	“I’m just talking out loud now”.
10-21-98	Frank Tanner


476.	“Maybe it has been grounded into her”.
10-22-98	Bill Skinner (pounded or ground)

477.	“You know you are dancing on the line”.
10-22-98	Bill Skinner (30 seconds later)

478.	“The whole banana”.
10-26-98	David Lock (enchilada)

479.	“Shut up so I can hear you”.
10-28-98	Denise Phillips

480.	“We’re all lit to the gills”.
10-28-98	Mike Grzesiak – Bradley

481.	David calling into the office – “Oh, you recognized my name (voice)”.
11-98	David Lock

482.	“1 – 2 beers and I’m hanging like an elephant”.
11-2-98	Bill Skinner

483.	“If we knew the whole truth it would scare the death out of us”.
11-3-98	Pat Yearsley

484.	“He works his brains off”.
11-11-98	Jere Kimmel

485.	“She will blow your socks off”.
11-10-98	John Colburn

486.	“We are not familiar with that right off the top of the bat”.
11-11-98	Phil Griffith

487.	“My price for the whole shootin’ kaboodle” is $36,333.
(kit and kaboodle or whole shootin’ match)
11-24-98	Bill Skinner

488.	“You were lying out of your teeth”.
11-28-98	Dick Klaess

489.	“You don’t have to preach to the preacher (choir)”.    
12-98		Jeff Vilott

490.	“We don’t want to show them the “kinks in our armour”.
12-7-98	Mark Ballard

491.	“Kent Best is a easy (happy) go lucky guy”.
12-14-98	Jerry Drew

492.	“Sir, I’m sorry, but Kevin’s still in the air”.
12-14-98	Miracle Carter (on the phone)

493.	“I don’t expect my people to work their fingers to the grindstone”.
12-15-98	Sandy Thomas – Bradley

494.	“I really ripped him over the coals”.
12-17-98	VHC

495.	“Don’t chew with you mouth full”.
12-18-98	Roxanne Bruce

496.	“I’m an unknown, that’s all we know”.
12-20-98	David Lock

497.	“Patty’s going to quit and go work at the opposite end of the rectum”. (should be spectrum)
12-30-98	Miracle Carter

498.	“He’s going to have bun molded lips”.
1-1999	Bill Skinner (who else)

499.	“Don’t the pumps come with CG’s on them?
1-4-99	Bill Skinner

500.	“Watch with kid gloves”.
1-5-99	Dick Klaess

501.	“The more fingers we can put on them…”.
(feelers)	
1-5-99	Jeff Vilott

502.	“I think the news conference for Marty is to quill all the rumors”.
(quell)
1-11-99	Sarah @ Harpo’s

503.	“It’s like your counting your chickens before their laid”.
1-12-99	Bill Skinner

504.	“She went under the needle today”.
1-13-99	Lisa LeBow Turner


505.	“I was scratching my ass on that one”.
(head)
1-18-99	Phil Griffith

506.	“Is Quentin still running around in the phone system”.
1-20-99	Denise Phillips

507.	“Talk about cutting a bridge”.
(burning)
1-28-99	Bill Skinner

508.	“How do you spell that?”  (right after I spelled the name).
2-1-99	Jeff Vilott

509.	“Shoved the tank down my ass”.
2-1-99	Bill Skinner

510.	“That threw a kink in the armour”.
2-2-99	Mr. Slawood (Drivers Ed Teacher)

511.	“I’m already over my ass”.	(about being really busy)
2-2-99		Phil Griffith

512.	“We’ve got that corner marketed”.
2-3-99	Jeff Vilott (at Bradley)

513.	“Pitched a bitch”.
2-7-99	Carla Lindsay (Crane Employee)

514.	“Flying on the seat of my pants”.
2-7-99	Dick Klaess

515.	“Hopefully it will transpire into other territories”.
2-7-99	Dick Klaess

516.	“I got my ass yelled at the plant”.
2-7-99	Dick Klaess

517.	“I couldn’t get my shoe in my foot”.
2-9-99	Lisa LeBow-Turner

518.	“That put his armor in a chink”.
2-10-99	Mr. Christianson (English Teacher)

519.	“Yeah, that’s a good idea.  My neck is too tight”.
2-10-99	David Lock loosening his necktie.

520.	“The cash is going to check”.
2-11-99	Owen Barlow

521.	“He’s been there since dirt”.
2-14-99	Julie Porras

522.	“You could hear a light bulb go off in his head”.
2-25-99	Carolyn Fellwock

523.	“We had to dance thru hoops”.
2-25-99	Tom Burlbaw

524.	“The ark wasn’t built in a day”.
3-99		Truin Mehl

525.	“A well oiled plan”.
3-99	Herford House Waiter

526.	“We have jumped through our tail”.
3-3-99	Mike Yarbrough – Cates

527.	“Pulling it by ear”.
3-8-99	Paul McConnel – Harry Cooper

528.	“We went into this with our heads open”.
3-9-99	Chuck O’Neal

529.	“I am surprised he hasn’t called, just swimming down my ass”.
3-25-99	Bill Skinner

530.	“I don’t know, I just pulled that off the cuff”.
3-30-99	Bulldog to DL voice mail overheard by JD

531.	“ I ripped him over the coals”.
3-99	Jim Van Hoecke

532.	“That job went down hill like a torpedo”.
4-99	Denver Engineer

533.	“Some people like to feel comfortable with a home office that “sprouts their wings in a new territory”.  (sprouts up spreads their wings not both).
4-16-99	Jeff Fisher

534.	“Noting a wall mounted unit that has a “small footprint””.
4-18-99	Paul @ Bradley

535.	Commenting on a bad installation of equipment “we don’t need to get a “sore eye on this”.
4-19-99	Carl Beebe – U.S. Engineering

536.	“Ah, now I’m smelling a snake here”.
4-20-99	Jim Megerson – Larson-Gibbens

537.	“They broke the last straw”.
4-27-99	Jim Megerson – Larson-Gibbens

538.	“Unfortunately, we don’t have a foot to stand on”.  (leg)
4-30-99	Jeff Vilott (on his last day, kind of a parting gift)

539.	“You will have to eat their butts out”.
5-3-99	Jeff Fisher

540.	“I guess your in the corner on that one”.  (In the dark)
5-4-99	Lisa LeBow-Turner

541.	“A dog can’t change it’s stripes”.
5-5-99	Jason Whitlock – KCTE Radio

542.	“They failed to sweep behind the car”.
5-7-99	Jim Megerson

543.	“The way you drive it’s like Mr. Marionetti”.  (Mario Andretti)
5-7-99	Jodie McPherson – Albuq.

544.	While we anticipate this situation to be short-lived, you should work with your customers to plan for SHORTLY LONGER lead times.
5-11-99	Leonard Garron – Crane Plumbing

545.	“Let sleeping dogs die”.
5-10-99	Malcom Lee

546.	“He should have that info on the tip of his brain”.
5-14-99	Dan Morrison

547.	“Before I get torpedoed out of the sky”.
5-16-99	Julie Porras

548.	“She was hotter than a box of rocks”.
5-19-99	Bill Skinner


549.	“They are not the sharpest bulbs in the bag”.
5-26-99	MG called on Zinger in Bradley meeting.

550.	“Muser took out Suppar cause he ran out of steam”.
5 – 99		Boeger – KCTR 1510 AM

551.	“I will tell them enough without showing my brains”.
6-8-99		Dennis Resz – Temperature Controls Co.

552.	“Versey – Versey”.  (Vice-Versa)
6-8-99		D. Loveall

553.	“Our preference would to be out in front of the same”.  (What?)
6-8-99		Leonard Garron

554.	“ Honey, I think it is time to mamoose”.  (Vamoose)
6-8-99		Gregg Edwards

555.	“I hear you are mad at me, when I didn’t issue you the P.O. you were crying like a sow’s ear”.
6-10-99	Action Jackson Familian NW – Bulldog

556.	“I told you once before, maybe it didn’t soak into you”.  (sink-in)
6-10-99	Ed Nelson	Reeves Wiedeman

557.	“Rack our heads”.	(brains)
	6-10-99	Jerry Drew	Jeff Vilott called me on it.

558.	58.“I need to stop in later this week to put a bug under you and discuss the air conditioning”. (put a bug in your ear)
6-14-99	Andy Cooper with IBS

559.	Otherwise I would have to “walk in there naked with just hands and ass”/
6-21-99	Terry Slattery

560.	“He’s not even a pimple on my ass”.
6-21-99	Jim Megerson	Larson Gibbens

561.	“It’s no skin off my teeth”.
6-24-99	Orville Dupree

562.	“That’s right down our ball of wax”.
6-24-99	John Jones

563.	“I have 5 hats I’m holding”.
6-29-99	Jim Van Hoecke

564.	“It’s kind of a wash wash thing”.
7-1-99	Jim Van Hoecke

565.	“I’ll pass on that seat because I have really long knees”.
7-99	SW Passenger

566.	“I can’t jump through my ass to do the repair during air conditioning season”.
7-2-99	Samco’s Service Manager

567.	“Started at my persistence”.
7-7-99	Greg Roberts

568.	“I’m not the sharpest tack in the bundle”.
7-9-99	Greg Roberts

569.	“Makes me feel like a bowl (bull) in a china cabinet”.
7-9-99	Greg Roberts

570.	“It took him 3 lessons to get it through my thick brain”.
7-12-99	Jim Megerson

571.	“Get off my ass and get my shit going”.
7-12-99	Jim Megerson

572.	“I’m a pure bleed (blood).”
7-13-99	Gregg Edwards

573.	“Rules with an iron hand”.
7-15-99	Bill Skinner

574.	“You have to have the intestinal fortitude of granite”.
7-15-99	CL

575.	“You’ve got yourself caught in a catch 20-20 situation”.
7-15-99	JM

576.	“He’s got the kid in the cookie jar look”.
7-15-99	MM

577.	“She’s got you by the ball and chain”.
7-15-99	CL

578.	“Nightmare waiting to explode”.
	7-28-99	JM

578.	“They are cut from the same mold”.
7-99	Pat McQueeny

579.	“They have had us under the 8 ball”.
7-99	Bob Bean

580.	“I’ve lived on the other side of the ball park”.
7-99	Chuck O’Neal

581.	“She was not going to take the bull by the balls”.
7-30-99	D. Alires

582.	“Dollar late, dollar short”.
8-2-99	Bill Skinner

583.	“Puffing you some Kudos”.
8-3-99	Bill Skinner

584.	“Your new in town you should be “pulling on some doors”.
8-3-1999	Tom Thigpin

585.	“You need to look at it from the other end of the fence”.
8-3-1999	Tom Thigpin

586.	“I’m going to relax my guard”.
8-4-1999	Keith Williams

587.	“Keep you up to breast”.
8-4-1999	Keith Williams

588.	“The ball is moving”.
8-4-1999	David Lock

589.	“After you jump thru your ass”.
8-9-1999	Tim Frailey

590.	“Pulling the pin” instead of “pulling the trigger”.
8-10-1999	Fred Haar

591.	“That is splitting hairs pretty tight”.
8-13-99	Keith Williams

592.	“He won’t leave me until the dog goes away”.
8-17-1999	Jim Van Hoecke

593.	“Grace has about as much class as a glass of flat beer”.
8-17-1999	David Lock

594.	“Like today, I had a 20 HP boiler walk right into me”.
8-18-1999	Keith Williams

595.	This has been a day of chasing down forest fires”.
8-18-1999	Keith Williams

596.	“You sidestepped a bullet on that one”.  (dodged)
8-19-1999	Kathy W. – Harry Cooper

597.	“Go over there and calm her wheels down”.
8-26-1999	John Alkire

598.	“I should have said calm her jets”.
8-26-1999	John Alkire

599.	“God knows Phil could float a coffee ship”.
8-26-1999	Brenda McCallister

600.	“I think we’re pissing up the wind here”.
8-1999	Carl Minino – Rodriquez Mechanical

601.	“Bill Peace at Raytown Winnelson is so busy, he’s flandering in the wind”.
8-1999	Unknown

602.	I don’t care about K-State’s schedule strength as long as they can pad their wins!”
8-1999	Bill Skinner (of course)  (you pad your schedule)

603.	“I’m busier that a one legged racer”.
8-31-1999	Bill Skinner

604.	“You owe my ass big time”.  (Sounds kinky)
9-2-1999	Lori Campbell to Bob in STL

605.	“You gotta score to put points on the board”.
9-99	Joe Theismann ESPN Analyst

606.	“My shoulders came down to my arms”.
9-2-99	Kevin Barbier

607.	“Who is YoKo Homo”.
9-2-99	Kevin Barbier

608.	“Well hung Express lavs”.
9-4-99	Bill Skinner (Wall hung)

609.	“Brilco pads”.
9-4-100	Unknown (Brillo pads)

610.	“Keeping  a big group together is like watching molasses run down a mountain”.
9-4-99	Tom Burlbaw

611.	“Mr. Bounce around the edges”.
9-4-99	Matt Robb (referring to Kimmel)

612.	“We don’t want to pad our numbers, we want results”.
9-4-99	Kickass reply to Matt Robb – JF

613.	“Open up your brain to new thinking”
9-4-99	David Lock (mind)

614.	“How much longer will we be able to retain Chris; services before we lose him to Nassau?”
9-4-99	Kevin Barbier (NASA)

615.	“I gave him the presumption of doubt”.
9-5-99	Mike McQueeny

616.	“Nobody remembers what you told them at bid time when the shit starts to fly”.
9-10-99	Pat Reynolds

617.	“You’ve drunken eight days in a row”.
9-11-99	Heather Alkire

618.	“I am getting ready to shit the kick”.
9-11-99	HA

619.	“I find golf boredom”.
9-11-99	HA

620	“Doesn’t it take three balls to get a strike?”
9-11-99	HA

621.	“Dustin, please give me a quote on the following, I need a handicap petition in each restroom”.
	9-13-99	Skip – Plumbers Supply

622.	“Apologized all over myself”.
	9-13-99	Keith Williams

623.	“Powers would make the Pope fussy”.
9-14-99	Mike – Plumber’s Friend

624.	“We just need to submit and run it “thru the loops”.
9-14-99	Anthony Casaus

625.	“That’s our “Drop the Twinkie” number on that job”.
	9-16-99	Keith Williams

626.	“We can “build our nest egg” on that job”.
	9-16-99	Quentin McArthur

627.	“I got out with my skin on”.
	9-16-99	Jim Van Hoecke

628.	My defectives are over running me”.
	9-16-99	Lisa – Ferguson - Omaha

629.	“We’ll have that baby hummin’ like a buzzard”.
9-17-99	Brad – Computer Consultant (Des Moines)

630.	“A white shoe, slap on the back salesman”.
9-21-99	Jon Feind

631.	“Black magic and mirrors”.
9-23-99	Keith Williams

632.	“Remember in your own mind …”.
9-24-99	Bill Skinner

633.	“It’s fun to put you foot in a Harley”.
9-22-99	Knowles Smith

634.	“Tighter that a tick – cheapy ass”.
9-22-99	Keith Williams

635.	“She was bouncing in the wind”.
9-22-99	Bill Skinner

636.	“Our manager is home with ammonia”.
9-22-99	Dixi Chicks (CMA)


637.	“You are sitting all crockide”.
	9-22-99	H. Alkire

638.	“Dude, I was 6’ 4”, thin and bones”.  
9-23-99	John Alkire
 
639.	“They were flappin’ in the wind”.
9-24-99	Bill Skinner

640.	“He could beat us with both brains tied behind our back”.
9-24-99	Quentin McArthur

641.	“I’m having trouble wrapping my brain around that”.
9-24-99	Bill Stewart

642.	“The one in there is growing like a chimney”.
	9-25-99	J. Alkire

643.	“Going over his toes”.
	9-27-99	J. Alkire

644.	“You can hit 2 with one bird”.
9-29-99	Jim Megerson

645.	“Could have it, all in one shoot”.
9-29-99	J. Alkire

646.	“I’m under tall for my height”.
10-1-99	Kevin Barbier

647.	“It was laid up there like a birthday cake”.
10-1-99	Tom McGreal

648.	“We are running aroung here with our heads cut-off like chickens”.
10-1-99	Heather Alkire

649.	“He is caught between a crack and a hard place”.
10-6-99	Jeff Fisher

650.	“Up to my ears in alligators”.
10-11-99	Scott Mitchell (Scott Process Systems)

651.	“Everyone has those crosses they have to bury”.
10-18-99	Vito (STL)


652.	“Stuff drips down the totem pole”.
10-21-99	Judy Bacoubrie – B & V

653.	“I need to get on top of her”.
10-22-99	John Alkire (meant to say I need to get on top of it)

653.	“You are whining like a titty baby”.
10-22-99	Charlotte Anielak

654.	“That’s small peanuts”.
	10-27-99	Jim Megerson

655.	“A bird in the hand is worth two in the foot”.
	11-8-99	Bill Stewart

656.	“Check with your customer and then I will jump on Jan”.  That did not sound good.
	11-9-99	John Alkire

657.	“You are going to need your weather lip”.
	11-15-99	Heather Alkire

658.	“Then their eyes all rosed over”.
11-19-99	Keith Williams

659.	“He could still have a bad taste in his mind”.
	11-24-99	Bill Skinner

660.	“Don’t have to answer right off the top of your tongue”.
11-29-99	Greg Roberts

661.	“I need to get on top of her (it)”.
11-99	John Alkire

662.	He was laying there limp as a log”.
11-99		Jack Gracida

663.	“Thanks for letting me chew on your ear for a second”.
11-99	           Steve Rouff – B & V

664.	“If you don’t want to speak in the box … press *0 now”
11-99             David Lock on hold message

665.	“I’m losing my nut on that one”.
12-1-99	Jim Megerson

666.	“Got my spurs on now.  We’re ready to roll”.	
	12-2-99	Warren West

667.	“Upsetting the fruit basket” (apple cart)
12-99	Tim Schoenecker

668.	“10 lbs. of crap in a 5 lb. bucket”.
	12-99		Mike Grzesiak

669.	“Snyder said.  “I was a little green behind the ears”.
	12-7-99	Quin Snyder – MU Basketball Coach

670.	“That’s how they conceal the dogs”.
	12-11-99	Brad Dickson

671.	“Did your Mother teach you how to eat with your mouth full”.
	12-11-99	Brad Dickson

672.	“It’s been a tough ho”. (a tough road to hoe)
	12-11-99	Brad Dickson

673.	“He’s got his shit in a row”.
	12-13-99	Phil Griffith

674.	“Yes, because my boss is up my ass”.
	12-20-99	Heather Alkire

675.	“We had it working like a greased glove in a whorehouse”.
12-22-99	Nashville Trane guy

676.	“I told him that wouldn’t be prudinent”.  (prudent or pertinent)
1-00		John Alkire

677.	“I think I can flubber my way around”.
	1-3-00		Darryl Marks

678.	“Internet sales won’t have any effect on us”.
	1-6-00		Jere Kimmel

679.	“Steve at Crane knows all the “horns and whistles” on their faucet line.
	1-7-00		John Alkire

680.	“The contractor feels he blew the ball here by not reading the specs”.
	1-10-00	CEC Engineer

681.	“It’s like shooting ducks in a barrel”. (Easy as fishing in a barrel, or shooting a sitting duck) not both.
	1-16-00	Pat Summerall – Fox announcer

682.	“That threw another monkey wrench in the fire”.
	1-17-00	Debbie Slump

683.	“I used a .50 multiplier, I just blew my mouth out on that one”.
	1-17-00	John Alkire

684.	“I had my head down in my ass working”.
	1-18-00	Keith Williams

685.	“I have a rule of thumb in my brain”.
	1-26-00	Quentin McArthur
	
686.	“It’s colder than a mother bear”.
	1-27-00	Service guy in Wichita

687.	“Hey, listen to your e-mail”. 
1-28-2000          Bill Skinner to Quentin McArthur

688.	“Hold the ground longest”.
2-1-2000	Tom Burlbaw

688.	“Put egg in my face”.
2-1-2000	Jere Kimmel

690.	“You can work both edges of the sword”.	
2-2-2000	Keith Williams

691.	“No sense in reinventing the world”.
2-3-2000	Nashville Carrier guy

692.	“They were trying to throw it down my throat”
2-4-2000	Bill Skinner

693.	“There is a huge hole that could come back and bite you”.
2-5-2000	Allen Sanders

693.	“They were making making money hand over fist”.
2-8-2000	Chad Johnson

694.	“He was on a soap dish”.  (soapbox)
2-9-2000	John Alkire 

695.	“We have passed you in the dust”.
2-11-2000	Dale Holle

696.	“What are you doing trying to quit smoking your chew?”
2-15-2000	Roxanne Bruce

697.	On fax from John Alkire –
Instead of putting equipment as specified he put as spected.
2-16-2000	John Alkire

698.	“Trane is pulling magic rabbits out of their ass”.
2-18-2000	Quentin McArthur

699.	“For some reason it rings a bell in my head”.
2-23-2000	Florida Contractor

700.	“We need to let Leonard work his butt into a crack”.
	2-24-2000	Jeff Fisher

701.	“I’ve got you foaming at the mitt”.
3-1-2000	Dan Tallman

702.	“Architect I do not know from apple”.
3-8-2000	Jim Megerson

703.	“Landmines we have to duck”.
3-8-2000	Tony Lewis

703.	“This thing is kickin’ off with gangbusters”.
3-10-2000	Jim Megerson

704.	“I just fly by the skin of my teeth”.
3-16-2000	Matt Robb

705.	“Her failure to sign the document was the ice that broke the camel’s back”.
3-20-2000	Stan Hammack - Plumberex

706.	“I’m just going to leave with my head between my legs”.
3-23-2000	Jim Sadler – Mason

707.	“Skinner spent a lot of blood and guts”.
2000	Quentin McArthur

708.	“The flags starter going off in my head”.
3-2000	Pat McMahon

709.	“Lori had to get a shot in her arm for corporal tunnel”.
3-30-0	Tom Burlbaw

710.	“If Trane finds out they will drop the floor out of it”.
3-30-0	Keith Williams

711.	“Give us a week to iron the bugs out”.
4-3-0	Greg Roberts

712.	“To make a long story longer”.
4-3-0	Greg Roberts

713.	“Follow it like a hawk”.
4-4-0	Bill Skinner

714.	“It’s nothing in granite yet”.
4-12-0	Jim Van Hoecke

715.	“We can keep the floor going”.
4-13-0	Bill Skinner

716.	“Straightest egg there ever was”.
4-17-0	David Lock

717.	“That’s small peanuts”.
4-24-0	Jim Megerson

718.	“Are you ready oh mighty one, the ground that I kiss”.
4-24-0	Darryl Marks

719.	“ I need to keep on his ass to see if I can penetrate it for more business”.
4-25-0	John Alkire

720.	“Give me a submersable pump and we will sell them like cats and dogs”.
4-0	Bryan Bessignamo – Armstrong

721.	“Almost as bald as the day is long”.
5/2/00		Greg Roberts

722.	“I want some “shish ka boobs”.
5/8/00		Susana Amaya

723.	“Keep your ear to the grindstone”.
	5/9/00		Parker Zimmerman


724.	“It’s 5:30 here at the old treadmill”.
5/11/00	Warren West

725.	“They won’t bend over the extra mile like we will”.
5/17/00	Bob Sutero

726.	“The light bulb went off”.
5/31/00	Quentin McArthur

727.	“Harry Cooper will tell us to go suck wind when they see the new steel program”.
6/1/00		Leonard Garron - Crane

728.	“Maybe you can answer this question … I just pulled it out of my butt”.
6/1/00		Mike Dudgeon – Ferguson Salesman

729.	“I may be totally in deep water here”.
6/6/00		William Price

730.	“I didn’t want to talk out of my butt and get burned”.
6/13/00	John Alkire

731.	“Do you have a lathorus?”  (Thesaurus)
6/15/00	Denise Phillips

732.	“I’m going to hand walk those submittals thru the engineer”.
6/19/00	Keith Williams

733.	“I’ve got them breathing down my throat”.
6/26/00	Quentin McArthur

734.	“What is the lowest multiplier we can go?  I don’t want to shoot my mouth off”.
6/27/00	John Alkire

735.	“Get with the ball”.
6/27/00		Steve Zingshiem

736.	“I like to think of the other side of the coin”.
6-27-00	Keith Williams

737.	“I didn’t mean to chew your ear off”.
7-6-0	Pat Yearsley

738.	“Jump on the fire and iron it out”.
7-12-0	Anthony Casaus

739.	“He will need to hand walk it thru”.
7-12-0	Greg Roberts

740.	“It was like he was skating on a thin rope”.
7-31-0	Jeff Vilott

741.	“Furthest burner back”.
8-4-0	Kwekeboom???

742.	“It’s not too fancy but it beats a stick”.
8-4-0	Mark Ballard

743.	“You want to gather your stuff and come on in to my orifice”.
8-18-0	Keith Williams

744.	“I think you have someone that can meet your match”.
8-18-0	Roxanne Bruce

745.	“Biting at the chomp”.
8-23-0	Keith Williams

746.	“Put the honus on her”.   (onus)
8-23-0	Jeff Vilott

747.	“Pissing a blue streak in their pants”.
8-0	Jeff Fisher

748.	“He is laughing in your face under his breath”.
8-0	Julie Porras

749.	“He’s not a brain scientist”.
9-1-0	Bill Skinner

750.	“We still have heat of the passion”.
9-5-0	Jim Van Hoecke

751.	“You never gave me a breath of space”.
9-5-0	Jim Van Hoecke

752.	“Don’t you turn coat on me”.
9-5-0	Jim Van Hoecke

753.	“Wake up and smell the hot dog”.
9-7-0	Dan Cherney (Powers Reg. Mgr.)

754.	“Hotter than a box of rocks”.
9-28-0	Bill Skinner

755.	“I go thru hats like water”.
9-0	Jim M.

756.	“We are not just flying off the seat of our pants”.
10-18-0	David Lock

757.	“Have enough ammo to hang yourself with”.
10-24 		Phil Griffith

758.	“He walks the fence pretty good”.  (straddles)
11-0	Bulldog

759.	“With the onvent of Willoueby plumbing’s … (advent)
11-00		Tom Tann	(Bradley)

760.	“Squeezing blood out of a stone”.
11-0	            Walter Krywucki (Hydro-Pure Systems)

761.	“They tried to “wool the pull” over our eyes”.
11-3-0	Stan F. pastor

762.	“We got raped over the coals”.
11-17-0	Bill Skinner

763.	“Katherine Harris is kind of good looking for a secretary of state …
DC replies
“I agree, she has nice gonads”.
11-17-00

764.	“We have been send money to that company to use up the “S.O.L.”  (NOL)
11-00

765.	“Burn him at the torch”.
11-29-0	Julie Porras

766.	“They will be climbing all out you car”.
11-29-0	Bill Davis

767.	“Hey, wait your line”.
12-1-0	Darryl Marks

768.	“Who has been sucking butt at Fulton because I have been getting screwed here”.
12-1-0	Phil Griffith

769.	“Hey Dick – have you had any more problems with staining?”
Carnoali to Dick Klaess Crane National Sales Meeting – brought quite an array of humorous replies from the 70 or so in attendance.
12-6-0	Mark Carnoali

770.	“That phrase was an augie-berra-ism”. (Yogi).
12-8-00	Mike McQueeny

771.	Lebanese cab driver in San Antonio when he saw Carnoali leaning out .the back window to yak.  (Must have been the rooster fries)
12-11-00

772.	“That’s a tall drop (drink) of water”.
12-21-0	Anthony Casaus

773.	“I am sitting here just grabbing for straws”.
12-21-0	Jim Van Hoecke

774.	“Starting off on a bad foot”.
12-28-0	Jim Megerson

775.	“You’re leaving me sitting here with my teeth in my mouth”.
12-0	Mary Ann DeSanto (York)

776.	“It’s the cats “pajamas”.
1-4-01	Gregg Edwards

777.	“Scott will have to swallow the bullets”.
1-2-01	Mary Delaet – Corps of Engineers

778.	“ Nick is the one who stirred up the whole can of worms”.
1-10-01	Jim Vestal

779.	“I’m doing this off my head”.
1-12-01	David Lock

780.	“We are not just flying off the seat of our pants”.
1-12-01	David Lock

781.	“We are just learning to crawl (walk)”.  (Regarding Missouri basketball).
2-15-01	David Lock

782.	“That’s a load of my mind”.  (E-mail reply to a problem).
2-21-01	Dustin Guinn

783.	“We are under the hot seat”.
7-0	Bob Miles

783.	“Obnoxious Iowa State fan is a couple of beers “into the wind”.
3/10/00	Bill Skinner

784.	“I don’t want to steal your wind”.
3/13/01	Mike Grant

785.	Part of an Irish blessing by Father Brian:
“May the wind at your back always be your own”.
3-18-01	

786.	“Instead of dropping a dead rat on the floor put it up on the table and start talking about it”.
3-20-01	Bryan Bessignano

787.	“I don’t want to put my ass out on a limb”.
3-30-01	Jim Megerson

788.	“I am here to catch the ball when you hand it to me.”
4-6-01	Keith Williams

789.	“I’m back to square “A”.
4-7-01	???

790.	“That Tiger Woods has Ice Blood”. (Ice water in his veins)
4-9-01	David Lock

791.	“I was looking at the world through star-colored glasses.
4-20-01	David Lock

792.	“He doesn’t fly to anybody else’s drum”.  (He beats to his own drum)
4-15-01	Gary Walstrom

793.	You are good at driving crazy people”.
5-2-01	Lori Saunders

794.	“ You can’t get any more money out of a dead turnip”.  (Blood out of a turnip)
5-10-01	Tom Terch


795.	“Dustin, you will get nothing but straight, honest bullshit from me”.
5-16-01	Jim Nahin	

796.	“She looks rode wet and put up hard”.  (Speaking of an employee of a favorite customer)
5-17-01	Jim Nahin

797.	“In Des Moines, Iowa.  When asked if he was left handed or right handed Dustin Guinn replied … “amphibious”.
5-23-01

798.	“Throw my nuts in the wind”.
5-23-01	Jay Goss 

799.	“It rained like a dog out at our place”.
6-4-01	Quentin McArthur

800.	“Pissing and moaning in the wind”.
6-14-01	Keith Williams

801.	“Let your fingers do the walking on the internet”.
6-21-01	Keith Williams

802.	“I’ve been busier that a cat covering shit on a tin roof”.
6-22-01	Chuck Burton – Thermal Comfort

803.	“Here I am salavitating”. (While reviewing the KCI airport project dollar amount).
7-7-01		Keith Williams

804.	“He must of heard his ears burning”.
7-10-01	Bill Skinner

805.	“We have a lot bigger fish to cut their heads off with now”.
7-19-01	Brad Larkins

806.	“His ass is on the bubble”.
7-23-01	Bill Skinner

807.	“The state is a hard-F… cookie to crack”.
7-27-01	Jim Megerson

808.	“You don’t need a person like me when you already have me”.
7-27-01	Jim Megerson

809.	“Tom … yells down the hall … were you the one calling for me Lori?  I thought I heard my voice”.
7-30-01	Tom Burlbaw

810.	“Hey we don’t want to milk a dry bone here”.
7-01-01	Julie McQueeny

811.	“I was snoring like a pig”.
8-1-01	Frankie Skinner

812.	“Like leading a horse to food”.
8-2-01	Bill Skinner

813.	“The earth isn’t going to destroy itself if that doesn’t get done”.
(world not going to come to an end)
8-16-01	Leonard – Crane

814.	“I bruise at the drop of a hat”.
8-29-01	Julie McQueeny

815.	“Milkin’ a dry bone”.
8-29-01	Julie McQueeny

816.	“The owners are making money hand over foot”.
8-31-01	Bill Maas

817.	“McQueeny-Lock, how may I help you”.  Response: “Gently”.
9-19-01	Ericka (Des Moines)

818.	“they thought they were the best thing since sliced butter”.
9-21-01	Nathan Biddle

819.	“ That puts the ball back in their pocket”.
9-22-01	George Lindsay

820.	“That was the knife in the coffin”.
9-23-01	Debbie Slump

821.	“It came at me like a heat stinking missle”.
(the golf ball hit by Mike).
9-27-01	David Lock

822.	“All small caps” (talking about alphabet letters)
10-8-01	Darryl Marks


823.	“Do we have a horse we can “play with” (ride).
10-11-01	Rod Slump

824.	“I want to get into his face”. (In)
10-19-01	David Lock

825.	“I am going to the bathroom.  I have to help Bill with something”.
10-19-01	Quentin McArthur

826.	“There’s no point in going in hap hazard.  Let’s jump in with both feet up to our neck.
10-23-01	Doug Langham

827.	“Mr. _____ is a “pagan of virtue”.
10-24-01	Julie McQueeny 

828.	“He is not the brightest stick in the pile”.
10-2001	E.J. White – Dixie Tank

829.	“Dust the dust off your head”.
11-2-01	Richard Hanson

830.	“He was very on the ball”.
11-2-01	Mike McQueeny 

831.	“He really wanted to rake me over the coits (coals)”.
11-14-01	Bill Skinner

832.	“He was waiting for the phone to call”.
11-15-01	Mike Maphies

833.	“There’s just no two questions about it, and then some”.
?		Corpus Christi, TX politician.

834.	“He is hitting two fish with one barrel”.
12-20-01	Misc 8th Grader

835.	“He’s got his ass in a vice”.
12-26-01	Bill Skinner

836.	“Beating them like they are standing still”.
1-02	Quentin McArthur

837.	“Does he have a hat to hang on?”.
1-7-02	Keith Williams

838.	“Dave is getting raked over the coils”.
1-11-02	Bill Skinner

839.	“I’m really not trying to throw a wrench in your soup here”.
1-18-02	Doug Langham

840.	“Stan has the shortest flue of anybody out there”.
1-29-02	Bill Skinner

841.	“He saw the handwriting on the fence”.
2-02	Dennis Creech

842.	“I knew my ears were ringing”.   (burning)
2-7-02	Dick Klaess

843.	“All court press” in lieu of “full court press”.
2-13-02	Mark Carnoali

844.	“Hopefully we can match everything up donuts to donuts”.
2-28-02	Tracy Ridgeway – Young’s

845.	“It it’s working, don’t break it”.
3-7-02		Darryl Marks

846.	“It slipped my tongue”.
3-02	Reggie Caruthers

847.	“Get your head out of the gutter”.
3-02	Reggie Caruthers

848.	“That’s baggage under the bridge”.
3-2-02	Nancy Hale

849.	“We are not out of the water yet”.
3-4-02	Dan McElroy

850.	“No sense counting all your eggs before they hatch in one basket”.
3-6-02	Anonymous Engineer

851.	“The water temperature is climbing like a rock”.
3-7-02	Mark @ U.S. Engineering

852.	“Could you quote me a price off the top of my head?”
3-13-02	New Orleans Plant Ops Guy


853.	“We just need to remember to dot our P’s and Q’s”.
3-18-02	Kevin Barbier

885.	“It drove everyone up the ceiling”.
3-18-02	Dan Checri - Powers

886.	“He is being “closed-lipped” about the pricing”.
3-21-02	Jere Kimmel

887.	“Pete is playing both sides of the coin”.
4-1-02	Keith Williams

888.	“I’m off in left hand field”.
4-2-02	Wayne Garrett

889.	“When we first stepped into bed with … 
4-2-02	Jack Goernic

890.	“I’m really sticking myself out”.
4-2-02	Dwight Wardlow

891.	“Your ready to tatoo me against the wall”.
4-3-02	Mike Anderson

892.	“He’s not the brightest stick in the pile”.
4-11-02	E.J. White – Dixie Tank

893.	“The weaves we weave”.
4-12-02	Jim Megerson

894.	“The bunkers here are our achiles tendon”.  (heel)
5-2-02	Grand National Bag Boy

895.	“I kind of hate to change streams at this time”.
5-9-02	Keith Williams

896.	“Close, but no banana”.
5-22-02	Jim Van Hoecke

897.	“Spin a little fat with Kimmel”.
5-22-02	Warren Jurgens

898.	“The room in my empty brain”.
5-22-02	Julie McQueeny



899.	“At this point in my life I cry on a dime”.
5-22-02	Julie McQueeny

900.	“ Stick the pin in those while they are still hot”.
5-30-02	Knowles Smith

901.	“Blowin smoke up Warren’s (West) pants”.
5-31-02	Warren Jurgens

902.	“Jason, your skin is a little too thin”.
6-3-02		Caller to Jason Whitlock’s sport show

903.	“Once we got all of our eggs in a row”.
6-13-02	Steve Partick

904.	“A drop in the ocean”.
6-26-02	Warren Jurgens

905.	“Throw out a fish to see what’s out there”.
	7-15-02	Bill Skinner

906.	“I took it to the bare balls”.
	7-17-02	Jim VanHoecke

907.	“The piper is on the other foot”.
	7-17-02	Brian Coon

908.	“There’s going to be days like today, and today’s one of ‘em”.
7-21-02	KC Royals baseball announcer

909.	“We’ll keep our legs crossed”. (on waiting to hear if the got the job)
8-13-02	Phil @ Westside Mechanical 

910.	“We don’t want to put the horse ahead of the cart”.
8-20-02	Greg Hughes @ Burnham

911.	“I’m off in left-hand field.
9-2002	Wayne Garrett

912.	“When we first stepped into bed together”.
9-2002	Jack Goernik

913.	“I’m really sticking myself out”.
	9-2002	Dwight Wardlow

914.	“Your ready to tattoo me against the wall”.
	9-2002	Mike Anderson

915.	“Judge, jury and police”.	(Should be executioner)
10-3-02	E.J. White

916.	“They have been dragging their leg” on signing the lease.  I mean “dragging their legs” – I mean … Oh boy, I bet I’m in “The Book”.
10-28-02	Bob McGannon

917.	“They are just a cog in the wheels”.
10-31-02	Paul –  CFM

918.	“He couldn’t sell his ass out of a wet paper bag”.
11-13-02	Keith Williams

919.	“Jack Daniels kicked my butt in a hand beat”.
11-15-02	Mike Maphies

920.	“You lose you snooze”.
11-15-02	Mike Maphies.

921.	“We need to keep the Watts guys from getting a handhold (foothold) in the territory.”
11-27-02	Kevin Barbier