What does that mean ? I know others on here will wonder if i swam in barton springs too long. No i have not been over there in a while. Get back to the main diatribe ok . Its highly important that mr retarted slob in some unit feed those cats from the dumbster no madder if they have fleas all over them. God said for me to tell the world its ok to feed cats from the dumpster, after a hurrican and 2 screw drivers i can think better.

Clues to the origin of "going to hell in a handbasket," meaning "deteriorating rapidly or utterly," are, unfortunately, scarce as hens' teeth. The eminent slang historian Eric Partridge, in his "Dictionary of Catchphrases," dates the term to the early 1920's. Christine Ammer, in her "Have A Nice Day -- No Problem," a dictionary of cliches, agrees that the phrase probably dates to the early 20th century, and notes that the alliteration of "hell" and "handbasket" probably contributed to the popularity of the saying. Ms. Ammer goes a bit further and ventures that, since handbaskets are "light and easily conveyed," the term "means going to hell easily and rapidly." That seems a bit of a stretch to me, but I do think the addition of "in a handbasket" (or "in a bucket," as one variant puts it) does sound more dire and hopeless than simply "going to hell." http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/2/messages/126.html


I have always heard it "Going to hell in a hen basket", anyhow, same meaning.

did I miss something?

Hand baskets are made of straw.....hell is on fire....you figger it out!!!!!!!

....you present a very valid point, Ghost.......

I do adore alliteration.

Hold on..the question is Heil in a heandbasket...maybe he is asking why Hitler's cat eats out of a dumpster that is on fire?

Hell in a hand basket...
Open pandoras box.

here, pithy, pithy,pithy!!!


If I asked you to follow me and do as I say and say as I do, then you could say that I would be sending you to hell in a handbasket!!

Wasn't that a song by The Grateful Dead? Before it became known that they were NSA, of course. The headwaters are unguarded. Pat O'Brien's makes the best Hurricanes, bar none.

6 different barcodes on my new Pearl 8130. They know I did it.

is it "off my meds" night??

Twisted mines speak freely in here when swimming in barton springs all day . They have a brain freeze and going to hell in a hand basket. Or the basket is burning in hell. O Glen Beck says twisted sick freak so i added some thing. Im not smoking nothing or drinking ever clear and cool aid, the brain is normal.

No excuse me its "sick twisted freak" Einstine said that when he found a dark hole.

I'll drink to that!!

Ever clear and home made wine so i can find my tail o yea.

WHEW! Everclear and homemade wine......I think everyone has a tail after consuming that combo........