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Today's mangled metaphor
#1
Heard on NFL Network, referring to Kurt Warner:

"Everyone realized that the gem in the rough had come home to roost."


(Context: Warner steps in for Trent Green and the rest is history. Rams go from pitiful one season to champs the next.)
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#2
A real prodigal someone, he was.
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#3
Gem. Rooster. It's all six and one-half dozen of the other. I guess you need to go with the lesser of two boll weevils.
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#4
I heard the roosters this morning *(:>*
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#5
It's like shooting fish in a barrel of monkeys.
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#6
I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me, you can’t get fooled again.”
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#7
Ammo wrote:
It's like shooting fish in a barrel of monkeys.

But that's a whole 'nuther barrel of worms.
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#8
That metaphor is worth two in the bush.
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#9
Fine kettle of fish you got us in this time monkey breath
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