**** Over Teakettle Kilt Test

**GMan** · 28th March 06, 10:01 PM

Glad that you are OK Ron, that is one funny story.

**Southern Breeze** · 28th March 06, 10:05 PM

I'm sure you created some memories that time! Good to hear your o.k.

**Yaish** · 28th March 06, 10:12 PM

And I am sure there are some very disappointed office ladies too.

I have done combat rolls in my kilts, but I never had anyone nearby to tell me if they could see anything. I would think not, as the movement is so fast that it seems like it stays near my legs.

**Andrew Breecher** · 28th March 06, 10:27 PM

I'm glad your kilt stayed in place. You wouldn't want to admit that you wear boxers beneath your kilt (though you did that the day you "mis-tucked" your kilt walking in the door!).

My own ***-over-teakettle story is a little different. I was trucking along with a backpack on, heading into town after being rained and snowed on for a week straight. I was really booking, the trail was flat, and my head was down as I steamed ahead. I didn't see the fallen tree across the trail at head height. I hit it full speed (about four miles an hour) right on the crown of my head, and I literally bounced backwards, and onto my ***, legs in the air. My backpack cushioned the blow, but I lay there, kilt around my waist, for about five full minutes, laughing at myself (after I determined the stars were going away). Good thing no one else was around, because I definitely showed what was under my kilt!

Andrew.

**longshadows** · 29th March 06, 06:45 AM

Originally Posted by Andrew Breecher

My own ***-over-teakettle story is a little different.

Sorry, guys, I'm a little late on this one. What is the story behind "the ****/*** over the teakettle"?

Anyone care to relate it?

**mbhandy** · 29th March 06, 07:43 AM

Good to hear your OK. How is the chair??? :rolleyes:

MrBill

**ozmeath** · 29th March 06, 01:02 PM

Turn of phrase longshadows, no biggie. Hey Ron, I hope they sponsered YOU for your Launchathon. That's gotta be worth $10.
erin.

**ronstew** · 29th March 06, 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by longshadows

Sorry, guys, I'm a little late on this one. What is the story behind "the ****/*** over the teakettle"?

The things that you can learn online! From http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/inde...?date=19960517 :

....first found in a 1946 book about fighter pilots in WWII, in a euphemized form: "He displayed a rump-over-tea-kettle aggressiveness in seeking dog-fights."

It's a variation of a saying that goes back to the late 19th century.