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the one how doesn't have both oars in the water
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the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

(OP)
the one how doesn't have both oars in the water,is the same thing of to sail in a drought sea?


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(OP)
in the previous posting I should write

"the one who doesn´t have both oars in the water"

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

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Not the coldest beer in the fridge
Two coupons short of a pop up toaster
Any more stupid, he'd have to be watered twice a week
Doesn't have all his cornflakes in one box
The wheel's spinning but the hamster's dead
A few clowns short of a circus
A few fries short of a happy meal
An experiment in Artificial Stupidity
A few beers short of a six pack
Dumber than a box of hair
One Fruit Loop shy of a full bowl
All foam, no beer
Has an IQ of 2 but it takes 3 to grunt
Couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel
An intellect rivaled only by garden tools
Has the IQ of a house plant
As smart as bait
Chimney's clogged
Elevator doesn't go all the way to the top floor
His antenna doesn't pick up all the chanels
Proof that evolution can go in reverse
Not the sharpest tool in the shed
The lights are on but no-one's home
The light at the end of the tunnel has been extinguished
Two sticks short of a bundle
A few pints short of a quart
Cables connected, no voltage
Swimming in the shallow end of the gene pool
One neuron short of a synapse
So dumb cannot even mark a vote for Bush
If brains were dynamite he couldnt blow his nose

FOETS
"social drinker with a golfing problem"

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

(OP)
a star for you!

cheers

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

To your original post, not having both oars in the water refers to doing a lot of extra work for nothing.  If the oars aren't in the water, you won't go anywhere.  I haven't heard the phrase "to sail in (on?) a drought sea" though, so can't say if they mean the same.

To add to FOETS' list:
Not the shineyest car on the lot.
A few bricks short of a chinney.

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RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

I always thought that it meant having one oar in the water and one out, which would send you in circles.  You've got to put them both in to get somewhere...

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

"to sail in a drought sea" seems to mean that, without a breeze, you will get nowhere.  Not having both oars in the water will make you go in circles, making no real progress.  Similar in meaning, but at least with the oar you are moving, albeit around and around.

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

Swearingen, you are right, I was wrong... circles and circles.

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RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

Can you tell we're engineers?  We analyze jokes...

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

(OP)
I suppose that, in concrete sense, the phrase will mean, dumb and stupid acts which drives us nowhere.

It is the same thing as hammering his own head only for the seek of being alleviated when the hammer is up.

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

The equivalent sailing analogy would be "without a rudder."

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

a few kangaroos missing in the top paddock.

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

In Texas, two tacos short of a combination plate.... (not all there)

-The future's so bright I gotta wear shades!

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

(OP)
to swim on dry land

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One layer short of a sandwich

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

"When the still sea conspires an armour,
And its sullen and aborted currents
        breed tiny monsters
True sailing is dead"

Jim Morrison

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

FOETS,

   My personal favourite expression is

   "dumber than a sack of hammers"

   I have no idea of where it came from.  A quick Google search does not reveal anyting.

                    JHG

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Was at the back of the queue when the brains were handed out

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

I think my favourite is the dead hamster but it doesn't do to simply translate some of the expressions into other languages.

In England we might say that someone "Has bats in the belfrey" but this is more usually replaced in France by the expression "He has spiders on the ceiling"....

Does anyone have any more examples that are unique to a nationality? And why?

JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

I think with one oar, one can make a perfect straight line by paddling both side of the boat. It is not stupid at all, since people don't have much choice. So I think it's different from sailing in a drought sea.

Druought sea gives no choice at all. just floating.

Forever Young

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A sandwich short in the picnic basket.
About 0.90 cents in the dollar.
Thick as two short planks.

Naresuan University
Phitsanulok
Thailand

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

Great point, snowfire!  Use the oar as a paddle.  It works with canoes!

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

One of my favourites:

An IQ which occasionally soars into the plural .....

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

A village somewhere is missing its idiot.

Or,

He's depriving a village of its idiot.

And variation there on.

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

Quote:

  My personal favourite expression is

   "dumber than a sack of hammers"

One of my favorites now too. It was used by Ulysses Everett McGill, George Clooney's character in "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?" to describe his two companions.  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190590/quotes

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RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

re: Rowing with one oar.

In many parts of the world (including my local river estuary) you can always tell the professional inshore fishermen and oystermen from the yachtees by their respective rowing techniques. Yachtees (nb - slightly derogatory) always row with two oars, professionals will scull with one oar. I'm proud to say I learnt to scull many years ago when I lived on the river. The method is very efficient for propelling a heavy laden skiff as you can use body weight to aid propulsion.

There is a description here http://councill.home.mindspring.com/sbjournal/sculling/scull1.html

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RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

When the Lord was handing out Brains, I thought he said Trains and I said "Give me a nice slow one"
Oh Well!

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

johnwm--

Rowing:  two oars in the water, operated more or less simultaneously.  Most rowers face to the rear as they row.  A few face forward.  Old Cajuns used to face forward and stand as they rowed their heavy cypress skiffs in the bayous of Louisiana.  Large oars may be handled by one or more persons each.  Loss of an oar leaves a boat in a bad way, although a thinking boatman can use the remaining oar as a sweep for sculling.

Sculling involves one oar, actually termed a "sweep", in the stern of the boat.  This sweep is moved from side to side.

Paddling involves the use of a paddle, differently shaped from an oar, usually much shorter, operated by one person.  Boats suitable for propulsion by paddling are usually narrow, like canoes or pirogues.  More than one person may paddle a boat at a time.  Lose your paddle, and "you're up a creek without a paddle."  That's only slightly better than rowing with one oar...

I've never seen more than one person scull.

old field guy

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

In the words of the late, great Farrokh Bulsara:

I'm one card short of a full deck
I'm not quite the shilling
One wave short of a shipwreck
I'm knitting with only one needle
I'm driving only three wheels these days


RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

(OP)
The man is rude that nor one carries

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

Not the brightest bulb onn the Christmas tree.

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

As sharp as a bowling ball.

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

'As pissed as a mattress'!! I am not sure where this comes from, but have a gut feeling that it may be a quote from 'Jethro', a well known UK West Country comedian

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

He's a 286 in a Pentium world
Not enough oxygen while a fetus

Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

RE: the one how doesn't have both oars in the water

Played hockey without a helmet.

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