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Llkoolaid

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Avery, I had to laugh when I read your post, before I was married my last name was Avery and my mother always used to tell us to 'go get me a switch". The funny part is, we did.

Blossumtree

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
daddy always said: girl, sometimes you gotta eat the Preparation H for it to work right.

Ericzj

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My Daddy always said, "If it's raining in a pool nobody can tell if you're peeing." ;)

Punkin

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
"Don't eat yellow snow"

Punkin

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
"Don't eat yellow snow";
"Don't spit into the wind"...which upset my mother because she said her little girls shouldn't be spitting anyway. And on a more serious note:
"Always keep your word, whether it be a secret or a promise"

Bbfreak

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My Daddy always Said " No one can walk all over you unless you lay out the welcome mat."

Realtvfan

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My Daddy always told me I had "verbal diarrhea",

He almost never spoke at the dinner table. That is a quote from him.

The only other things my daddy said were:

"Honey, did you buy beer today?", and

"Give me three three damn good concrete reasons why I should let you do what you want to do, and 'everyone else in school is doing it' is never ever going to be reason number 1."

My daddy also said to me "95% of the decisions in this world are emotional decisions. So if you don't think you are going to like that decision, fight it with emotion, not logic."

Tobor7

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
To be fair to Mom...
One of hers...

"Never flaunt your cigarettes in front of dis-approvers."

(I never smoked. She did.)

Blossumtree

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
my daddy always said: don't kiss your grandma on the lips, you don't know where she's been.

Curlyq

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Mine always said "In the words of Johnny Arbuckle (?) 'You only get what you pay for.'" I remember wondering who this Johnny Arbuckle was, because I'm sure he didn't mean that guy from the Garfield comics.

Braveheart61901

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Blossumtree - You gave me my biggest laugh of the day with that one!

Lori31

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
If you sleep with dogs....you wake up with fleas.

Avery

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL llkoolaid, what a coincidence on the name and the switch! I have since called two more sons and they both agreed with their brothers. I think it is a conspiracy, but I am going to call them all and remind them that how funny it is that they all brought me what I asked for! Except for the one time I remember that Tucker brought me a handful of leaves claiming it was all he could reach and another time Tobias was getting a lecture for something he did at school and his brothers came by and asked him what he did and he replied, that it was real bad, when they asked how bad, he said so bad that there isn't a forest big enough for the switches he will need.

Efilon

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
"When someone is all the way to the bottom of a hole barely holding on the easy thing to do is step on the fingers and let them fall, the right thing to do is put out your hand and help them up."

This said whenever we kids might start gossiping about someone who had gone against the prevailing societal niceties. In particular when a gal we knew who had five kids and was divorced became pregnant again. She was the talk of the town but my mom and dad took her in and made her and her kids a part of our family. She's a wonderful woman who made a mistake and whenever I see someone who is down and out I always think of Dad telling us this. That's also why I always give a couple of bucks, if I have it, to anyone asking for a handout.

Csnog

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My daughter reminded me of what she thought when she was in a singles bar with friends. I always told her

"Don't pick that up you don't know where it's been"

Mine was told to me by my Gran
Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them.

Efilon

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Now one from Mom: "You kids are enough to drive a wooden woman to drink."
This from the woman who never had an alcoholic drink in her life. I miss her so much.

Blossumtree

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
my momma used to say: you gotta clean yourself down there if you wanna catch a good, god-fearin' man.

Kapow

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 08:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My dad once told me to NEVER marry a man unless he was my best friend and knew all of my secrets. Needless to say - I ain't married! LOL I keep my secrets....lol

Neokat

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 08:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My Daddy never told me anything but my momma told me "you'd better shop around"

Puck1021

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 08:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My dad told me this when I turned 13, and to this day I have honored it.

"If you have to prove your a man by beating on a woman, then you were never a man to begin with and you never will be."

I have passed it on to both my sons and I hope they will continue to pass it to theirs when they have children.

Cricket

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 08:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Awesome, Puck. You have a great Dad!

Bigfan

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 09:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My Dad would say almost daily:
"Have I told you lately that I love ya?"

I still miss him and I'm proud to say that I did know it!

Braveheart61901

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 09:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Blossumtree - Your family sounds like it was bunch of laughs. You're crackin' me up with your one-liners.

Bohawkins

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 09:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
You keep playin' with that bb gun... you'll shoot an eye out!

Actually, I was (am) an orphan, and was raised in an orphanage, but it seems like something a dad might say.

Marcellasfan

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 10:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This is what my Mom said to me when I was going on and on about how some "difficulties" I was having....

"you should read Butler's Lives of the Saints to see what suffering is really about"

It sure put things into perspective!