re: Lumber prices are through the roof!!!

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Was high as giraffe pussy before the storms

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One of the best similes I’ve ever heard. Always appreciate that one.

My deceased dad used to deploy a simile that was more obscure and is my all time favorite. By way of explanation, a block and tackle is two blocks of pulleys with rope. When lifting a load with a block and tackle you run out of lift when the blocks meet. This is called “Two-blocked”.

When it was especially cold my dad would say, “It’s cold enough to two-block the balls on a brass monkey.” Seventeen years after his death I still giggle whenever I think of that one.