THE WINNER

I mostly based this on how hard it made me laugh when I heard it

Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit!

It has everything one looks for in a folk saying — humor, homey imagery and a touch of confusion about its meaning.

I'd never heard it before, but the saying is apparently common in the South. Joni Curl wins a T-shirt with the phrase on it. Thanks Joni.

Thanks also to everybody who participated. Several folks said they had a lot of fun with it — I know I did. A few people submitted nearly 20 or more sayings.

Colloquialisms tap into a universal sense of wisdom and are just plain fun. Even though the contest is over, feel free to send in more and I'll post them here.

For a full list of the sayings readers and viewers submitted, check out my column on arkcity.net. Here are a few from Patrick McDonald that I forgot to include in the written column: There’s No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Finer than frog’s hair. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. The straw that broke the camel’s back. A penny saved is a penny earned. You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. Funnier than a one legged man in a butt kicking contest. 2 bricks shy of a load. And the one I wish I could hear more around here: Only in Ark City!

So thanks again everybody. All in all, the contest was better than a sharp stick in the eye and even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then