Llkoolaid | Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:23 pm     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     daddy always said: girl, sometimes you gotta eat the Preparation H for it to work right. |
Ericzj | Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:28 pm     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     "Don't eat yellow snow" |
Punkin | Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:31 pm     "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     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     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     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     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     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     Blossumtree - You gave me my biggest laugh of the day with that one! |
Lori31 | Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:38 pm     If you sleep with dogs....you wake up with fleas. |
Avery | Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:42 pm     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     "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     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     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     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     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     My Daddy never told me anything but my momma told me "you'd better shop around" |
Puck1021 | Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 08:37 pm     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     Awesome, Puck. You have a great Dad! |
Bigfan | Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 09:31 pm     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     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     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     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! |