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Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Friday, May 28, 2004 - 2:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes, but in your mind picture the applebutter and then picture shinola - it just ain't the same!


Draheid
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09-09-2001

Friday, May 28, 2004 - 3:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL Gracie, not to mention the ultimate application of each product, huh? I'm just sayin'...

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Friday, May 28, 2004 - 5:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I remember almost all of these in our house,too!!

We still play, Silent Monkey, in the car. It's a great way to have complete silence for a while..LOL

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Friday, May 28, 2004 - 5:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
my great aunt would say 'piss on the fire and put out the cat, let's go!'...I was little and tried to copy her and it came out 'comeon, let's go piss on the cat and put out the fire!'

They teased me for years

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Friday, May 28, 2004 - 7:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ok, here goes, my grandmother used to say 'purdy is as purdy does', 'go git me a switch' I'm gonna tear uns from limb to limb, 'your face is gonna freeze like that some day', 'hell fire and brimstone', 'I'll slap you silly, 'I'll whop you where the sun don't shine'. I think granny would have done all this if she coulda caught one of us.LOL

Mom, 'put on some makeup you look worse than Pos Hos Hill', 'Don't you tell me what you'll do', 'you better sucker those tomatoes', 'I'd have to die to get better', 'Don't cut off your nose to spite your face'.

There are many many more but heck I haven't figured out half of these yet. Mom has been gone over ten years now and we sisters still laugh our heads off at the the things she used to say.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Friday, May 28, 2004 - 7:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL! I wish I could remember all the ones that my Grandma and her sister used to say, they are from MO and they came up with the funniest sayings!

Kristylovesbb
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09-14-2000

Friday, May 28, 2004 - 7:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
One of my grandfathers used to say 'everythings done gone damn democrat', 'don't let me git my hands on you missy', 'I don't give a rats ass','don't make me haveta smack you', 'you better swallow that caster oil for your mammy', 'don't be such a smarty pants, 'you better shut that mouth or a flys gonna land in it.LOL

Vee
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02-23-2004

Friday, May 28, 2004 - 8:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Whenever driving and the car would hit a bump or we'd have to speed up, my grandfather would say, "Hold on, Nellie, we're heading for the rhubarb." I always wondered if he'd had some crazy experience learning to drive.

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Friday, May 28, 2004 - 8:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL. Not a parent, but an elderly friend of mine will respond to someone honking their horn behind him when he's driving with, "oh blow your nose, you'll get more!"

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Friday, May 28, 2004 - 8:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kristy and Vee, I'm really laughing hard! Wish I could remember some of the good ones.

One time my mother scared herself. She was often telling my oldest sister to behave or she "would beat her bloody". Mom did smack us, and one day she said that and got sis. My sister's nose started bleeding. I don't think my mother ever used that particular phrase again!

Another one that had me in stitches was the day Mom said somebody needed a new "butt hut".

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Friday, May 28, 2004 - 9:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here's a scary thought - what would our children be posting in a thread like this???

Babyruth
Member

07-19-2001

Friday, May 28, 2004 - 9:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
They'll be saying, "my grandpa and gramma used to sit in front of the computer for hours every day, and get frustrated and say, 'Damned FOTH!'".

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Friday, May 28, 2004 - 9:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My kid won't be able to post in a thread like this with out these

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Friday, May 28, 2004 - 9:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Our DS or DD will have to decode all the dh's and tvch and foth in order to tell somebody what we said!

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Sunday, May 30, 2004 - 7:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My dad was checking the oil in my lawn mower today. He asked when the it had last been changed. I was pretty vague about it, but he wasn't. He said, "Vee, this damn oil hasn't been changed since God made corporal."

Sanfranjoshfan
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09-17-2000

Sunday, May 30, 2004 - 7:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My mother (to us kids acting up)- "You kids SHUT-UP or I'm gonna have a wall-eyed hissy fit!"

Texasdeb
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05-23-2003

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 11:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
"shit or get off the pot" "time will tell" "I puked my guts up" diarhea - "hershey squirts"

Gidget
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07-28-2002

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 11:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What a fun thread... I use this Dad'ism a lot... "when in doubt punt"

Kristylovesbb
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09-14-2000

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 4:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
mom- "I'm madder than a wet settin hen"

grandpa- "don't let em get your goat"

grandpa- "it's colder than a witches ti@@y"

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 5:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My Dad always used to say to me,"Darlin' don't ever hold your head up in a rainstorm cause you'll drown". I have a turned up nose. LOL

Sanfranjoshfan
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09-17-2000

Monday, May 31, 2004 - 5:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My dad used to tell us kids "If a snappin' turtle bites you, it won't let go til it thunders!"

Bandit
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07-29-2001

Thursday, June 03, 2004 - 8:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My MIL says "It's hotter than 700 indians."

Kaykay
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01-21-2004

Thursday, June 03, 2004 - 8:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My older sister always said: "Man, it is Congo hot out there today."

My GG said when I would ask where somthing was she would say " if it was up your A$$ picking peaches you would know where it was"

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Thursday, June 03, 2004 - 8:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My grandma always told me to keep my tailgate up. Sage advice that applies to almost any circumstance, I think. Grandpa always said "Hold 'er, Newt" when things were getting out of control. My aunt misunderstood what he was saying all those years ago, and cropped up with "grab your Newt" a few years back - after a few questions, my mom figured out what my aunt was trying to say and almost whizzed herself on the spot, she was laughing so hard. So now we all say "grab your Newt." They also called us "slop-hannis" and "hon-yock" (phonetic) when we were messing up (I think those are German words that jumped the pond with the family). I know what they mean, but there's no English translation I can equate them to - regardless, they were always used affectionately, not when you were really in trouble. If you ask my younger sister where she's been, 90% of the time she will respond "up a pig's butt looking for a pork sandwich." Oy. She didn't get that from my grandparents, I can assure you.

Jbean
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01-05-2002

Friday, June 18, 2004 - 4:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
lol at this. what about the old "we can't have anything nice around here". about any possible accidental break or spill there may have been. oh, and any time we did something to piss her off, my mom always used to say she was going to kick our teeth down our throats. (oh yeah, we were so scared.)

this lady i work with was telling me today that her mom used to tell her brother that he was so lazy he wouldn't breathe if he didn't have to. rofl!

pamy, i have some friends from your grandma's neck of the woods (aurora, mo). is one of the phrases "i'm gonna snatch you bald"? or how about "my dogs are barking"? lol i had never heard these until i met this girl from marionville (a hop skip and a jump away from aurora)


Escapee
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06-15-2004

Friday, June 18, 2004 - 4:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
JBean, those are good ones.

Here's one my Grampa still says...
My litte girl was playing with a balloon, helium filled, and it was starting to lose what he calls "it's upsadaisy" and it wouldn't stay up in the air so good.

I hadn't heard him say that in about 20 years, I cracked up laughing, it brought back so many memories of him hoisting us up on his shoulders or into the car and saying "upsadaisy"