The Western Folklore Journal of 1976 gives us such romantic phrases as “kisses like a cold fish,” “kisses like your brother through a screen,” and “kisses like a wet brick.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Kiss Like a Wet Brick”
I’ve got a discovery. I’ve been trolling the folklore journals again.
So there are these people who their job, I guess they’ve given it to themselves, some of them are paid to do it, collect folklore. This is rhymes and poems and stories and tales and things that kind of represent culture, right?
And they put it in journals and it kind of sits there and it waits for somebody like me to come along and find it.
This document is called Folk Comparisons from Colorado. It is in the Western Folklore Journal. It’s from 1976. It’s all comparisons.
Like X is like Y. Okay. All right? I love these.
And the section I want to share with you is kisses. Kisses like a cold fish. Kisses like a dead frog. Kisses like a dishrag. Kisses like a wet brick.
I mean, if somebody’s a bad kisser, you’ve got to have a way to describe it. You could just say, oh, he’s a bad kisser, but it’s far more effective to say that he kisses like a wet noodle.
Yeah. I like a wet brick. A wet brick. What does that mean? I’m imagining the closed lips.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don’t know. Like kids sometimes kiss like that, right? Right, right.
Kisses like your brother through a screen. Oh. I don’t know. It’s funny. That happens only once.
Yes. Yeah. And it takes a while for the black eye to heal. Kiss is like a slimy toe. Kiss is like a vacuum cleaner.
I know that one. Oh, yeah. And I’m not going to mention her name. We’ll share a few more of these on the website.
Give us a call. If you’ve got some folklore, some kisses-like expressions, 877-929-9673. Email words@waywordradio.org.
