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| Diane B Carter |
Posted - May 26 2009 : 11:31:29 AM
Remember mom always saying "If your friends jumped of a bridge would you?" or "It's only funny until someone gets hurt?". I would tell my kids "It's going to be ok as long as no one gets hurt" and " when you die, you only take your name with you, so make it a good one. and their favorite, the 3 words all kids need to hear "Keep it covered" Usually followed with "I Love You".
So, do you have any favorite family saying's??
Hope all your days are Sunnydays.
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| harmonyfarm |
Posted - Jun 03 2009 : 09:45:38 AM
I find myself saying to my teenage son...."What do ya think, I was born old and stupid?"
My favorite is the line under my name below and another my Gma used to say was, "Don't put it down, put it away".
My mom used to tell me when I was sad, "Keep your dobber up!"...what's a dobber anyway?
Debbie
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| urpedonmommy |
Posted - May 29 2009 : 5:47:05 PM
My Grandma always threatened to "beat you with a wet noodle" and would ask "And do you throw Papa down the stairs his pajamas?" when our grammar was bad. (she was also vehement about answering "this is she" instead of "this is her" when speaking on the phone. She was a schoolteacher ) |
| Diane B Carter |
Posted - May 29 2009 : 09:21:47 AM
I used to say "You better be home before the street lights come on". I think I sound like my dad.
Hope all your days are Sunnydays.
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| Bellepepper |
Posted - May 29 2009 : 07:41:58 AM
when we were kids and get into trouble, Daddy would say, "I'm going to slap you silly". he never did slap us but just the thought straitened us right up.
The very last thing I said to Momma when I left the nursing home the day before she died was, "write if you find work". That is a saying that the Okies said as friends or family left for CA during the depression. I always said it to her as I left. She would always answer back that she was not looking for work.
"Need to get home before dark" was one that my grandparents and then my parents always said. I always wondered why, didn't they have headlights? Guess who says it now? We are out after dark so seldom that we have a hard time finding the lights on the car. But then, we have to shut the chicken house door before the coons show up. So home before dark makes sence. |
| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - May 29 2009 : 07:30:42 AM
My boss calls people (who he can't remember their names) "whogifudgit". Now, unfortunately, I do the same!
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| Diane B Carter |
Posted - May 29 2009 : 07:26:40 AM
My gramma used to say Whichicallit and Thingamanging.
I always told my son one day I'm going to drive all over your lawn. He would drive to grampa's (who lives next door) by driving on the lawn between our houses.
He just brought a new house with 6 acres of land and he said I could drive anywhere I wanted to.
Hope all your days are Sunnydays.
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| kissmekate |
Posted - May 28 2009 : 6:35:55 PM
My Dad always says "Were you born in the basement and never brought up?"
(where's your manners???????)
If found standing in front of the boob tube (my Grandma's saying for the tv) my Grandpa (Stormin' Norman) would tell us "You make a better door, than a window."
Oh, and my Great Grandma used to call people "Whatchicallit" if she couldn't remember someone's name.
And Jessie, my Mom always said she was going to come over to my house and spit toothpaste on my mirrors. Turns out she doesn't have to, my bratty kids do it for her. 
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| C.W. |
Posted - May 28 2009 : 5:44:12 PM
Ditto with the I was not born yesterday.
Seems as though all my mom's sayings came from me try to slip something by her.
Another one was I have eyes in the back of my head
So true she always found out about everything..... well almost everything:) |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - May 28 2009 : 3:03:32 PM
In our house, we always had a davenport, an icebox, paper sacks, pop, and chester drawers.....
Mom would always say I was not born yesterday, and I did not just fall of the turnip truck....and you can't squeeze blood out of a turnip. What is the dfeal with turnips? :)
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| Farmtopia |
Posted - May 28 2009 : 10:35:09 AM
Haha, this is a good thread...
The ones I like best:
"Put your big girl panties on and deal with it!"
And the one I made up--of course, because I live in the big bad city:
"Life is like a box of chocolates--you never know where the nuts are!"
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - May 28 2009 : 09:41:53 AM
C.W., that's so funny that your gran calls the sofa a davenport, too! I remember thinking to myself, "What the heck is she talking about????" I'd never known it by any other name than couch!
My daddy also said "Hard Times will make a monkey eat red pepper" meaning: desperate times call for desperate measures.
"like water off a ducks back"
"Don't get your nose bent out of shape". Don't get offended
My grandma Helen always said, "I didn't come down with yesterday's rain!" meaning, you can't fool me!
My mom always said (because she did not and does not swear) "I'm so mad I could spit!" That's when you knew to go to your room and stay there....allllll day!
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| ranchmama |
Posted - May 28 2009 : 09:15:32 AM
I love the Folks in hell want ice water one.. I hadn't heard that one till about a year ago.. It's nicer to say to the kids then s**t in one hand and wish in the other..
I tell my children to "get your nose back" if they poke into my mixing bowl with dirty fingers or just generally get under foot.
I told one of them to 'take a seat Peat' and they told me their name wasn't Pete! or 'that's the plan Stan'
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - May 27 2009 : 7:18:47 PM
My mom had a lot of good ones...sometimes they sounded cruel, but they really were funny. She would say.....
you are smarter than you look and it is a darn good thing.
Folks in hell want ice water
That is not worth a plug nickel in my book ( I always wondered what a plug nickel is)
Pretty is as pretty does
You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar
Blood is thicker than water
That went through her like physic through a duck.... (this she said about a gossip)
I could go on and on......but I always loved her sayings......they came down from her family.
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| C.W. |
Posted - May 27 2009 : 6:38:05 PM
Melanie~ I just noticed your tag line. My girlfriend emailed me something with that statement, I thought it was great! |
| C.W. |
Posted - May 27 2009 : 6:36:39 PM
Dawn, your family has very creative sayings...hilarious.
Jonni, my grandma still calls a couch a davenport.
The main thing I heard from my mamma was 'if so and so jumps off a cliff, will you'
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| deeredawn |
Posted - May 27 2009 : 11:05:41 AM
Oh yeah!! one more:
"You sound like a 'crap' salesman with a mouthful of samples."
Thats when you were mumbling and needed to speak up and enunciate better.
Dawn #279
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| melanie47601 |
Posted - May 27 2009 : 08:08:48 AM
A few I grew up with-
Cop a squat-- find a seat
You're not holding your mouth right-- something's not going the way it should
Too many hands in the pot-- usually used when there's too many women in the kitchen
Melanie
Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says "Oh Crap, She's up!"
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - May 27 2009 : 07:49:11 AM
That reminds me, too, Jessie, of my father who said, "I don't care what the other kids are doing, I only care about what YOU'RE doing and you aren't going to do that!"
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| JessieMae |
Posted - May 27 2009 : 07:31:02 AM
Grandaddy had one reply whenever I complained about school: "Don't you listen to them other damn kids. They don't want to learn. You listen to the teacher. She won't tell you wrong."
Jessie Mae
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - May 27 2009 : 05:33:02 AM
Joy, I love those stories about your Gran...I could listen all day!
It got me thinking of how my Great Gran, Theodocia, called her couch a "davenport". She lived in a shotgun house that was 80 years old in 1918 when they bought it, and it creaked and swayed with harsh winds. Davenport was a real "lofty" word for sofa, and it always cracked me up that she used it. "Jon-Carol (me), don't put your dirty feet on the davenport!".
She also used to say "your neck is so dirty you could grow a potato on it!"
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| CherryMeDarlin |
Posted - May 26 2009 : 5:53:43 PM
Teresa Sue, I received a "lecture" once in the Winn-Dixie from this little ol' lady for saying that to my then 4 yo baby girl!! The baby girl just laughed at me. 
~~Cherry~~
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| Sitnalta |
Posted - May 26 2009 : 5:00:48 PM
lol...I love the knickers one Dawn...I used to hear that from time to time..lol
hugs
Jessie
Farmgirl Sister #235
"You are my strength when I am weak. You are the treasure that I seek. You are my all in all. Seeking You as a precious jewel; Lord, to give up I'd be a fool. You are my all in all."
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| deeredawn |
Posted - May 26 2009 : 4:56:24 PM
Oh I remember "sayings" well...
"those who live in glass house shan't throw stones"
"keep yer skirt down" (have fun, but not too much)
"cuter than a freckled pup"
"dont get yer knickers in a knot"
And my personal favorite "that smells like the south end of a dead skunk" HAHAHAHA!
Dawn #279
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| downbranchroad |
Posted - May 26 2009 : 4:42:51 PM
I had a "mountain granny" that lived in the mountains of southern KY. Even though she lived in a log house with no indoor plumming (I can remember 1966 when she got electric on the mountian) she was very picky about some things.
She would always make us brush our teeth, brush our hair and wash our face as soon as we got out of bed in the mornings. She would always say "youngn' yore head looks like a stump full of grand-daddies" go brash yore hair.
She also always used the word "poke" for a paper sack.
the word "fetch" to go get something
The word "grip" for a tote or suitcase
Dreckley - in a little while
Girls, I find myself using these words more and more! Does that mean I am getting old?
Appalachian Girl
Jem
*If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got.
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| Contrary Wife |
Posted - May 26 2009 : 2:02:56 PM
When we were doing something my mom didn't like she would yell at us, " I'm going to rip off your arm and beat you with it." Good grief. :~*
Teresa Sue
Farmgirl Sister #316
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