Because the Devil skips like a nancy, when he’s not nancing around that is, and everyone knows the only way to carry things while skipping is in a handbasket.
Usage of the phrase, “Going to Hell in a handbasket”, may originally relate to the baskets used to catch guillotined heads in the eighteenth century. Hence, one should avoid this mode of transport.
Cuz footbaskets are too cumbersome
Why a handbasket? Why a no footbasket? ~ Chico Marx
If you are traveling by hand basket you should be less concerned about your conveyance and more concerned about your destination.
Where you’re going and how you get there are not meant for comfort…
Obviously it’s a fashion statement…
It’s the ideal tote for Toto, just ask the Wicked Witch…
Bah. “Handbasket” is what they call it in Europe. Here in America, we call it “Soccasket”.
We call it a bucket
Well, they do come in handy.
Because the Highway To Hell is too big a traffic jam?
I knew IMAO was going to hell in a handbasket but this is ridiculous.
Because the contract for the Highway was managed by Democrats.
One little piece at a time…
Cheap foreign labor beats jet fuel prices for delivering a bunker buster to the Ayatollah. “Thees look like bunker, Akmedulla, let’s drop it here.”
Because the Devil skips like a nancy, when he’s not nancing around that is, and everyone knows the only way to carry things while skipping is in a handbasket.
Usage of the phrase, “Going to Hell in a handbasket”, may originally relate to the baskets used to catch guillotined heads in the eighteenth century. Hence, one should avoid this mode of transport.