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Get the How's business? mug.A grammatically incorrect phrase used as the second line of an internet conversation. It originated as dialect from the Shropshire area of England but has become more widespread over the past 10 years. How's you is an abbreviated version of "how is you". This is how a poorly educated person would ask "How are you"
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Person 2: hi
Person 1: How's you
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Person 1: How's you
Person 2: I am still capable of forming grammatically correct sentences. How are you?
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It's a British sort of joke phrase such that when asked the reply or answer is:
Bean, bean, bean and a half, half a bean and a bean.
My father used to ask me this when I was young and it was told to me as,
"Two beans, a bean and a half, half a bean and a bean."
After looking at various sources trying to figure out why anyone started saying this at all, I came across many versions. They all seem to contain most of the following parts in some arrangement: two beans, a bean, bean and a half and half a bean. I decided on this version because if listen you can hear the rhythm like a poem.
"Bean, bean, bean and a half, half a bean and a bean."
Oddly about 1 in 5 of the answers didn't actually add up to 5 beans.
Bean, bean, bean and a half, half a bean and a bean.
My father used to ask me this when I was young and it was told to me as,
"Two beans, a bean and a half, half a bean and a bean."
After looking at various sources trying to figure out why anyone started saying this at all, I came across many versions. They all seem to contain most of the following parts in some arrangement: two beans, a bean, bean and a half and half a bean. I decided on this version because if listen you can hear the rhythm like a poem.
"Bean, bean, bean and a half, half a bean and a bean."
Oddly about 1 in 5 of the answers didn't actually add up to 5 beans.
The father turned to his little boy and asked, "How many beans make 5?" To which his son replied with great enthusiasm,
"Bean, bean, bean and a half, half a bean and a bean!"
"Bean, bean, bean and a half, half a bean and a bean!"
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According to Michael Kelly, a writer and historian in New Zealand, "the origin of the expression 'how's your father' can be traced back to Victorian times. In those days any man with a daughter was so protective of her virtue that he would take extraordinary measures to safeguard it. Unmarried girls would be kept within the bosom of their family as much as possible, chaperoned on excursions, and on those occasions when they were let out of bounds for social events, their fathers would often accompany them discreetly by hiding underneath their voluminous skirts ready to pounce on any man who transgressed the bounds of propriety.
However, a father with more than one daughter couldn't be everywhere at once. Thus, a suitor having a discreet vis-a-vis with his beloved would cautiously ascertain her father's whereabouts by asking, 'And how is your father?' If her father was currently under her skirts, she would glance downwards and reply, 'My father is very well, thank you, and as alert and vigorous as ever, and maintains his interest in rusty castrating implements.' Her beau would then say, 'I have always had the greatest respect for your father, and of course for you. Let us hold hands and think about the Queen for a while.' If, on the other hand, her father was elsewhere, she would reply, 'The mad old bastard is currently stationed between my sister Constance's thighs. Let us go into the garden and rut like stoats.'
Hence, 'How's your father' became a euphemism for you-know-what."
However, a father with more than one daughter couldn't be everywhere at once. Thus, a suitor having a discreet vis-a-vis with his beloved would cautiously ascertain her father's whereabouts by asking, 'And how is your father?' If her father was currently under her skirts, she would glance downwards and reply, 'My father is very well, thank you, and as alert and vigorous as ever, and maintains his interest in rusty castrating implements.' Her beau would then say, 'I have always had the greatest respect for your father, and of course for you. Let us hold hands and think about the Queen for a while.' If, on the other hand, her father was elsewhere, she would reply, 'The mad old bastard is currently stationed between my sister Constance's thighs. Let us go into the garden and rut like stoats.'
Hence, 'How's your father' became a euphemism for you-know-what."
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Person #1: "You ran out of gas in your car again?"
Person #2: 'Yes, can you believe it? I don't understand. I always wait until the last minute to fill up my gas tank."
Person #1: "How's that working for you?"
Person #2: 'Yes, can you believe it? I don't understand. I always wait until the last minute to fill up my gas tank."
Person #1: "How's that working for you?"
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