Author Topic: euphemisms (Read 1962 times)

TheSmilingSheep · « **on:** March 21, 2017, 03:17:45 pm »

(I couldn't bring myself to raise this in the sheep forum due to idyllic lambing time of year.... felt a bit insensitive!)
But...
when the time comes for your precious boys and/or girls to be slaughtered [

] what phrases do you use to describe the day/event....?

DartmoorLiz · « **Reply #1 on:** March 21, 2017, 04:00:15 pm »

I've heard people talk about "going down the rainbow road" and I have been known to threaten my ponies with the glue factory but they don't take me seriously and seem to know that doesn't happen any more.

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #2 on:** March 21, 2017, 04:04:08 pm »

'Send him/her/them away/down the road'

Eve · « **Reply #3 on:** March 21, 2017, 04:58:41 pm »

Going to the big farm in the sky
Coming for dinner

Fleecewife · « **Reply #4 on:** March 21, 2017, 05:12:19 pm »

Mint sauce time lads

as they get in the trailer.

See you for dinner lads as we leave them behind

Womble · « **Reply #5 on:** March 22, 2017, 08:05:20 am »

I tell ours they're going for a day out at the seaside.

That sounds terrible when you see it written down!

TheSmilingSheep · « **Reply #6 on:** March 22, 2017, 09:38:49 am »

I also promise a trip to the seaside!
I quite like the invitation to dinner.... in a cruel, heartless, morbid sort of way!!!!!

Any chance of a slaughterhouse icon, Dan?

devonlady · « **Reply #7 on:** March 22, 2017, 04:31:56 pm »

"Going to Somerset" for the sake of young children or just "going" for the rest of us.

Piggerswiggers · « **Reply #8 on:** March 22, 2017, 06:49:24 pm »

Trip to the departure lounge.

Hairybathplug · « **Reply #9 on:** March 23, 2017, 07:57:47 am »

Freezer pets

Marches Farmer · « **Reply #10 on:** March 27, 2017, 12:26:05 pm »

Guests staying in the farm holiday cottage often like to look around the pig pens and ask me what their names are. I point to one and say "Porky" then the next and say "Porky" and .....