Old family expressions--

[Raven]

"quit leaning back on your chair....."

only fate awaited you until their predictions
came true.....after you tested the balance until
that one final night the chair slipped under the table with
you still on it.... ..

[Slingah]

Originally Posted by Raven

"quit leaning back on your chair....."

only fate awaited you until their predictions
came true.....after you tested the balance until
that one final night the chair slipped under the table with
you still on it.... ..

yup...that was another one or........."stop shakin' your leg"

[justplugit]

#^&#^&#^&#^&ey Demarest was the brain in the neighborhood. When i would bring

home my usual less than stellar report card,

my Dad would compare my study habits with his, point across the

street at #^&#^&#^&#^&eys lighted window and say

-"you see, there's #^&#^&#^&#^&ey, burnin the midnight oil"

[Clammer]

ya #^&#^&#^&#^&ey burned the midnight oil //all right

[Flaptail]

my Mom, "when your father gets home he is gonna kick your ass".

[Sluggoslinger]

I always got "You can wish in one hand and $hit in the other and see which one fills up first" when asking for stuff.

[ThrowingTimber]

He did????? what Sister Mary Laurita?? I’ll speak with him.. “Wait til your father gets home!!!”

My old man don’t do soup “This is sick people food, how about a steak?”

My mom god bless her all 4’7” of her was trained like a Navy seal, wooden spoons, sandals, pretty much everything within reach…

My mom god bless her, as she walked up to me with her hands behind her back..” Come here I have something for you” That worked til about age 7… Then it was cut and run from there on out…

“There are children starving in Africa, finish your pea soup!”

“Finish your liver!”

“Drink your milk”

More of an anecdote really” My mom used to collect porcelain clowns. I remember putting my sister on her trike and tying a rope to the cabinet then standing on the back of the trike then pushing away from the cabinet… She was’nt angry. I was scared. No wait til your father comes home.. months later.. Matts birthday invite comes in the mail.. OH COOL mom mom mom mom can I go “remember the clowns” shes says calm as can be…

“Go to confession, we saw you”

“keep it up and I’m telling the priest you want to be an altar boy” was one til I was 16…

My poor mother “who’s car is that?”

My old man “where’d those girls come from?”

Shop class “ The fasterer I go, the behinderer I get.”

My old man fishing on a party boat with my buddy, “ Lip the effin thing mikeyor you’re swimming, kid I know your old man I can take him”

[Tagger]

Dad,,"pull my finger"

[Raven]

to put one over on me all the time
especially when i was real little....
........talkin ....tellen me about sky hooks
that ya throw up and hook a cloud
just in case you fell out of an
airplane... or sumthin... you could
swing down to the ground
like a monkey
with the most serious face
he had....

[justplugit]

It would start snowing in the afternoon and you were all pschyed about no school the next day.

You could always tell the intensity of the storm by lookin at the street light across the street.

About 9 pm my Dad would walk over to the window, look at the street light, and say "Looks like it's lettin up."

No, No, No.

---- "Ya can't make a silk purse out of a Sows Ear"

----- " Scarcer than Hen's teeth"

----- "She was all dressed up like Astor's pet horse"

----- "He's got the life of Reilly"

[BigFish]

"Get your finger out of your ear...you don't know where thats been"!!!!

[BasicPatrick]

My
Father to any of us when we were leaving the house....
..................................."Watch your fingers"

My mother when one of us was complaining......."Pitty about ya, ya cat won't drink milk".....I guess this was from her mom back in Ireland


My brothers and myself are known for a few but the most prevelent is the old standard......."It Is What It Is"

[luds]

A certain member here grew a goatee when we were in high school. His mom told him he looked like "an @sshole w/ dentures."

That was a good one.

[CANAL RAT]

"cut the god damn %$%$%$%$" was allways one of my grandfather's fav and so was "Jesus jumping christ"

[Flaptail]

A woman who was known to be "loose" and easy of virtue, who, as time progressed started to show the wear and tear was known as "Rode hard and put away wet"

[Slick Moedee]

"Is there anything you want to tell us?"

[reelecstasy]

"If wishes were horses, beggers would ride"

[Swimmer]

If I had my way I would be all over her like a sun tan at a nude beach!

[blue oyster]

my dad , upon seeing a new tatoo " you should get flames tatooed coming up from your butt because you are a flaming arse hole "

[justplugit]

"Time to Buckle Down and study"

[ThrowingTimber]

my old man lookin at a chik with nice legs " If those are the train tracks, imagine the train station"

[Bigcat]

You want a backhander

[Raven]

talk like that will get your mouth washed out with soap

[justplugit]

Ivory wasn't too bad, it was the brown soap or lifebouy.

[Backbeach Jake]

"I'll slap the taste right outa your mouth"
" I'll slap you bald headed"
"You don't know sheit from shinola" What the hell is shinola?
" Get some gumption" Who wants to be like Gump!?
"You'd better burn the Midnight oil" followed by;
"Don't play with fire"... WTH!

[Vectorfisher]

"As long as I owe you I will never cheat you out of it"
(whack)" thats for nothing wait until you do something"
"if brains were dynamite you couldn't blow your nose"
Mom

Wait until your father gets home

[Tagger]

Gramps ,,,when he caught you with your finger up your nose ..

"You'll Pick Your Eye Out !!!"

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake

"You don't know sheit from shinola" What the hell is shinola?

Fred, ya don't remember Shinola Shoe Polish.

[Jigman]

As you are heading out Friday night: Be careful, and if you can't be careful, name it after me.

one of Grandpa's favorites: I see said the blind mute as he picked up a wheel and spoke.

Jigman

[justplugit]

"oh, i see said the blind man".