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It’s getting hot out there, like “seven inches from the midday sun” hot, and people are saying the craziest things about the temperature.

Some of our favorites are…

“The chickens are laying hard-boiled eggs” or “It’s so hot the farmers are feeding chickens crushed ice to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs.”

“I just baked some cookies on my dashboard.”

“It’s hotter than blue blazes.”

“You could fry an egg on the sidewalk.”

“I went outside for a smoke and the cigarette lit itself.”

“It’s hotter than Satan’s house cat.”

“The birds are using oven mitts to pull worms out of the ground.”

“It’s so hot the trees are whistling at dogs.”

With the heat index — and possibly actual temperatures — expected to top 100 for the next few days, we want to know what some of your favorite sayings are.

Share your favorite colloquialisms to describe this heat with us on Twitter, Facebook or through email, news@tylerpaper.com.