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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDo you know any old "sayings" or phrases that are humorous or interesting?
This morning I replied to a thread and I was reminded of an old phrase my Great Grandpa used. I have always been fascinated by our language and how it has evolved. I enjoy watching old shows like Twilight Zone and notice subtle changes from as little as 50 years ago.
Anyway, my Great Grandpa had alot of "sayings." The one I used in my reply was, "Go to hell and pump thunder." I will not pretend to know exactly how this phrase came into existence, but I can see how thunder and hell could both be considered bad things.
Do any of you have any phrases from your past that have fallen out of use? I would really like to hear them, even if they are still used but possibly not known to younger generations. I can remember other things my Great Grandpa said, but not all of them would be suitable for the forum.
Dustlawyer
(10,510 posts)in a rocking chair factory!
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Thanks!
Arkansas Granny
(31,726 posts)"Live and learn. Some people only live."
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Iggo
(48,068 posts)Iggo
(48,068 posts)Yesiree, Bob.
-- and --
Bob's your uncle.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Thanks for the reply.
I am at work, so I may not be able to get back to every reply until tonight!
trof
(54,270 posts)No idea what that means except I guess it means you absolutely agree with whatever was said?
Floyd R. Turbo
(28,608 posts)shithouse rat!
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)I have personally changed it to a "meth lab rat" on occasion.
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)It's a waste of time and annoys the pig.
Slower than molasses going uphill (to which I've always added, on a icy cold Winter day, or such)
As useless as tits on a boar hog.
I love using older sayings when opportunity knocks but these are prob the ones I use the most often.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)I never heard the teach a pig to sing saying!!!
Useless as tits on a boar hog is one I love and have heard many times! These are great!
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)I just remembered one my dad used to use a lot when I'd ask him what time it was...
Half-passed kissing time.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)I have heard half-passed a monkey's ass. LOL, I think my grand dad just made stuff up to be honest.
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)who's 95 and still 'forked end down' (there's another oldie), has never been one to use 'cuss' words not even a rather blasé one like ass. He's very old school in some ways.
Marthe48
(18,384 posts)heard my brothers (who got it from my Dad) say it many timess
trof
(54,270 posts)As in after?
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)Except that I'm not as perfect as some.
trof
(54,270 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)trof
(54,270 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)although I'm sure pigs are smart enough that they can be taught to 'sing' like my Westie is, I'm not sure we'd want to listen to it.
Anyway, I was quoting my late MIL and that's exactly how she said it. I think might have been because it flowed off the tongue easier.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)brewens
(15,023 posts)LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)say it in Yiddish.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Donald trump is an alter cocker and he can kish mein tuchas aran!
I probably screwed up the kish mein tuchas spelling.
trof
(54,270 posts)Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)Frogs hair
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)littlemissmartypants
(23,746 posts)Bayard
(23,568 posts)Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)I think we all have made this mistake out of anger or frustration.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)TlalocW
(15,565 posts)It was kind of a private joke, but it always made me laugh
My best friend's grandma liked to tell his grandpa, "Ferme la bouche," which is French for shut your mouth, to which he would invariably reply, "Hash-ka on the pah-hah," which he said translates to, "The cat pissed on the pump handle."
We don't see each other that much anymore, but when we do, one of us will normally trot it out at inappropriate times in the conversation. "My kid had mumps last month." "Well, you know what they say - hashka on the pah-hah."
TlalocW
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)A songwriter friend once had a bet with another songwriter about which one could be the first to issue a recording using the bullfrog line. My friend won with his song, 'I'd Run Red Lights for You,' which incuded the lines:
You ask me if I love you babe
Is a bullfrog waterproof?
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)OxQQme
(2,550 posts)Grammy23
(5,873 posts)Is the pope Catholic?
Is a pork chop greasy?
frogmarch
(12,214 posts)is what my mom used to say she was when she was busier than a one-armed paper hanger.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Good one!
One of my dad's favorites, although I think it may have been "unluckier than....(said unfortunate man)'
trof
(54,270 posts)I like to mix metaphors.
amerikat
(4,979 posts)frogmarch
(12,214 posts)skinny rump strap when I was a wiry young kid too busy to eat. I had no idea what a rump strap was. Mom was born in 1903, so she did. I still have no idea what being thin had to do with a rump strap.
Picture showing a rump strap:
https://tile.loc.gov/image-services/jp2.py?data=/service/afc/afc1991021/afc1991021_43636.jp2&res=2#h=672&w=985
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)TeapotInATempest
(804 posts)She'd threaten to knock us into next Tuesday, lol.
Also, my father didn't swear (weird as he was an ex-sailor), but when he was really angry he'd exclaim, "Hell's bells!".
Dustlawyer
(10,510 posts)He didn't know that we took him literally a few times, our street ended at a new highway.
TeapotInATempest
(804 posts)appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)"Sit down and give your butt a surprise"
VOX
(22,976 posts)And I've been around! (Creak, creak)
yellowdogintexas
(22,643 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)My ex had a way of mangling sayings to amusing effect. That was the most memorable.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Caught in "Catch 22."
brush
(56,341 posts)Also: Happy as a fat rat in a cheese factory.
Faux pas
(15,080 posts)favorites is our family 'motto', and we still use it. "When in danger and in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!"
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Also:
"No one ever misses a slice from a cut loaf"
Skittles
(157,038 posts)yes indeed
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)FakeNoose
(34,774 posts)... he'd say "People are dying to get in there."
He thought it was hilarious, and all the grandkids did too.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)GP6971
(32,278 posts)to get in to a locked cemetery all you need is skeleton key
japple
(10,227 posts)All the cemeteries are full of people who drank it."
JCinNYC
(366 posts)As a father & son pass a cemetery...
Son:
"Hey Dad, How many dead people do you think are in there"
Father:
"All of em"
My father used to pull that one out every single time we drove passed one.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)OxQQme
(2,550 posts)Haven't heard that one, but it sure is a good clean version!!!
appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)I learned a couple years ago that a brass monkey was what they called the metal holder for cannon balls. When it was really cold, the balls could start rolling off the holder. That is where that saying came to be.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Thank you for the explanation!
oldcynic
(385 posts)appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)the cannon balls. In extremely cold weather the brass would contract just enough that the cannon balls could roll off with the roll of the ship. Hence the phrase.
GoneOffShore
(17,539 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(119,273 posts)"He couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel."
(About something that smells bad): "That would stink a dog off a gut wagon."
"He's as useless as tits on a boar hog."
"It's colder'n a witch's tit."
The above courtesy of my dad, who got them from his dad.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)I also heard a version of the gut wagon..."Gag a maggot off the gut wagon."
lastlib
(24,396 posts)said it was "colder than Kellyanne Conway's tits"! I about fell off a truck laughing at that one!
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)TuxedoKat
(3,821 posts)That's one a former supervisor used to often use. Here's one from I learned from friends in Spain (Barcelona) that I've never used but have been tempted to (!):
"Who the hell gave birth to you!?"
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)This one isn't old but yours reminded me of it, "Did your parents have any children that lived?"
Something you would ask a dumb person (brain dead) or any republican.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)SwissTony
(2,560 posts)Get the ice cream REALLY cold, then coat it with layers of breadcrumbs. Stick it in a pot of hot oil, cook it, pour on a bit of syrup.
Warning: I did this many years ago for a girlfriend and she married me (35 years).
In Glasgow, Scotland, you can get deep-fried Mars Bars!
Turbineguy
(38,098 posts)fucked up as a soup sandwich.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Marthe48
(18,384 posts)doc03
(36,243 posts)a pig in a poke"
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)So I had to look it up....
To basically buy something without examining it carefully. "a pig in a sack"
Thanks! I love learning about the history behind our language!
doc03
(36,243 posts)a "Pig in a Poke" but since dogs and cats were plentiful you could get dog or cat meat instead.
FakeNoose
(34,774 posts)We actually have some slang words in the Pittsburgh area and western PA that other people never hear.
Poke is one of them - it means bag or sack
Gumband - it means rubberband
Yinz - you, or the plural of you (as a southerner would say y'all)
Pop - the word for any brand of soft drink (we never say soda)
There are others, but these are the most well known.
dchill
(39,724 posts)Down on the Nor-side.
You?
dchill
(39,724 posts)But I've been to all the best hospitals!
Nac Mac Feegle
(976 posts)Was that the phrases "Buying a pig in a poke" and "Let the cat out of the bag" were related.
"Poke" is an old term, I've heard it from Southern and Eastern people, for a cloth sack, such as a flour sack or gunny sack. When buying piglets, an unscrupulous seller might short you a few piglets and substitute a few cats. Opening the 'poke' let the cat out of the bag, revealing that you'd been cheated.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)By checking the poke and "Letting the cat out of the bag " you expose the seller was tricking you before getting ripped off
So don't buy a pig in a poke. Open the bag then you are really buying a piglet not any pig in a poke
Never buy a piginapoke
You'll be half way home
And find it has a furry cloak!
dinger130
(199 posts)Trot Mama,
Trot Daddy,
How can you expect the colt to pace?
Kinda like the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)mercuryblues
(14,786 posts)Hustle your bustle....hurry up
Go fly a kite
appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)doc03
(36,243 posts)horse is by how much his teeth are worn down.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)If it's free you shouldn't be picky!
dubyadiprecession
(6,133 posts)He would say, "lets strike a blow for liberty".
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)cos dem
(911 posts)One of my favorites from my Grandad.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)I learned it from my Dad and have used it many times. I used to be terrible about second guessing myself, and this has served me well. You truly can screw things up by trying to fix them.
TEB
(13,525 posts)Boys there are those who can and do and that is us then there are those who think they can and can't and there the assholes running the show.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)madamesilverspurs
(15,980 posts)when I used one of my grandmother's sayings to describe my complaint: I've got a hitch in my getalong.
.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Any idea how it originated? It must have some meaning derived from horses?
rurallib
(62,948 posts)'he was so ugly as a kid his parents had to tie a porkchop around his neck so the dog would play with him'
just remembered a couple more:
Slower than molasses in January
Slower than my grandma and she's been dead for 20 years
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)I have heard another version of the pork chop one...So ugly his parent's won't let him play in the sandbox because the cat keeps trying to cover him up.
Marthe48
(18,384 posts)used the porkchop bit in his routine. So funny!
Laffy Kat
(16,488 posts)But we would talk about something being "scattered from hell to breakfast". I have NO IDEA how it came about.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)"scattered to hell and back"
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)I am somewhat familiar with both. My aunt had a rooster that roamed in her yard when I was very young. I remember having to wait in the car when we went to her house because the rooster was so mean! It must have met an untimely end. It didn't hang around for very long!
Doodley
(9,959 posts)LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Thanks Doodley!
applegrove
(121,675 posts)loves). It was usually geography. She was such a science nerd.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Your mom sounds like a special person.
applegrove
(121,675 posts)1898. She was old world. A good friend. Generous. Naive about the world. I have that same scientific brain. I owe her so much for that.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)although I have heard that still used nowadays.
Or, "more useless than tits on a bull"
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)"Tough titty said the kitty, but the milks still good!"
Usually I would just her the "Tough titty!" part when I complained about something, usually not getting my way.
3catwoman3
(25,033 posts)If he was really annoyed, he would say, "That really burns my cork."
He grew up in the south side of Chicago. I've never heard anyone else say it.
The men in my family were not always as polite as your dad. When they were really annoyed or outright angry it would be something like, "That really burns my ass!" or "That really chaps my ass!"
Panich52
(5,829 posts)One was to correct grammar:
In answer to kid's question "Where's my ___ at?"
"It's behind the at on Preposition Street"
Next would only be amusing to those w/ Southern accent:
"What's that fer?"
"Cat fur to make kitten britches."
My family probably has a bunch of these you might think amusing but I'm having a senior moment & above are all I can think of right now.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Please post if you happen to remember them. Thank you!
Panich52
(5,829 posts)Kid trying to put 2 pieces together, close lid, etc & failing. Mom comes along & SNAP! goes right together. "You weren't holding your mouth right."
"Aw. Come here and I'll help you up"
From Dad: "Slicker than cat shit on a linoleum floor"
Have you ever heard, "you have to re-lick your calf?" It was used in response to having to redo something?
Panich52
(5,829 posts)pnwest
(3,280 posts)He's "look up a chickens ass for a chicken salad sandwich" stupid.
That is some kind of stupid!
Laffy Kat
(16,488 posts)This was from a grandparent: "He's not worth the powder it'd take to blow 'em to hell."
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,488 posts)And I didn't even realize it at the time. Good catch.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)The older I get the more I fall back on this one.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)I would bake cookies and take to him and his wife regularly. They were such a sweet old couple. Every time I asked him how he was doing, he would reply, "Well I checked the obituaries this morning and didn't see my name, so it's a good day!"
Rollo
(2,559 posts)and a rat bit my sister Nell...
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Drumpf "doesn't know shit from shinola." I have no clue what shinola means.
Trailrider1951
(3,436 posts)LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)That makes perfect sense!
Wolf Frankula
(3,651 posts)that had the line, "Don't know camembert from gorgonzola, don't know shit from Shinola"?
Wolf
VOX
(22,976 posts)https://www.shinola.com/mens/watches.html?source_campaign=PT17%20%2D%20Brand%20%2D%20Watch%20%28Exact%29%20%232&gclid=CL6I1Ne_mNMCFQt3fgodOVYC3Q
"Quality Timepieces Hand Assembled In Detroit." They also make bicycles, leather goods, etc.
Lebam in LA
(1,353 posts)tie a knot and hang on
missingthebigdog
(1,233 posts)If a cat has kittens in the oven, that don't make 'em biscuits.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)are a warm bath and helping others.
wishstar
(5,475 posts)She was a politically astute liberal and if she was still alive she would have said the first about lyin' Trump and the second about crooked Paul Manafort . She always warned women in our family about untrustworthy men and handsome "devils in disguise"
Edited to say posted by mistake, not as reply about cure for Depression
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Hamlette
(15,482 posts)LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)sl8
(16,139 posts)... like a dog shittin' a peach pit.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)I can actually see a poor old coonhound trying to poop but nothing happening.
Wolf Frankula
(3,651 posts)"Shit or get off the pot!"
Wolf
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)That one still goes around in my family too! Good one!
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)if you eat regular.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Also, if a frog had wings he would bust his ass every time he jumped.
Used when someone replied to you with an answer containing if. "I will cook dinner IF I have time."
Cairycat
(1,738 posts)A favorite from my dad, "My tired aches"
Colder than piss on a plate/a well digger's ass
Good Lord willin' and the creek don't rise (of course it has to be pronounced crick)
It's all fun and games until somebody pokes an eye out
Better than a poke in the eye
In a hurry to go home and lay on the bed and read comic books
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Colder than piss on a plate is new to me. I love that one.
Thanks.
VOX
(22,976 posts)But he's cold piss on a paper plate.
Nice imagery!
hunter
(38,717 posts)For my family the old California definition fit. They used "out in the tules" as a derogatory term. The white dairy farmers and ranchers who got to California first and claimed the best land had a much higher social status than more recent immigrants to California, many who were draining the tule marshes of California's Central Valley. My grandma and her sister were born in San Francisco which clearly made them a higher class of people than the various misfits, Portuguese, and later Okie immigrants to the Central Valley.
It's ironic because my grandma and her sister were both misfits in their own way, leaving the cows behind as teens to run wild in Hollywood. They were both classic Hollywood Liberals and they had a rainbow of friends -- homosexual, black, white, Jewish, "Spanish" (their word for Mexican-American), "Oriental," Italian -- but their internalized white privilege and racism went entirely unexamined and they could say the most cringe-worthy things.
mikeargo
(679 posts)Referring to people like Trump.
Might be a New England thing.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)However I spent 2 summers in NY recently so that is probably where I heard it. Regional differences and accents are another fascination of mine. We are all the same but truly different at the same time. That's what makes us great imho.
retread
(3,794 posts)he just closed one eye and farted."
Behind the Aegis
(54,671 posts)Last edited Sat Mar 25, 2017, 03:14 PM - Edit history (1)
My mom had us say, "It's snowing in the South." to indicate if her slip was showing when she wore a dress.
"Don't be a nervous Pervis."
"Don't let the door hit ya, where the good Lord split ya."
"Crawl up a ladder and kiss my ass."
"I'll kick you ass so far up between your shoulder blades, you'll have to roll down your socks to take a shit (or, unbutton your collar to take a piss)."
"I'll smack you into next week looking both ways for Tuesday."
"You are a mental case." (from Bugs Bunny)
My personal favorite, "Fuck you (while flipping the finger), the horse you rode in on (middle finger still extended, palm up), and the little dog that followed (pinkie finger extended)." Sometimes I change it to, fuck you with the horse you rode in on while I make the little dog that followed watch!"
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)...and the little dog that followed! Lmao, never heard that addition!
redstatebluegirl
(12,407 posts)I can take you out and make another one who looks just like ya! Obviously they had issues .
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)"I brought you into this world and I can take you out!" Lol, your version is much better, thanks for sharing.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Good senses of humor and no Social Services to report folksy sayings to
mikeargo
(679 posts)Go piss up a rope!
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Lol, that reminded me of a couple more.
Never piss into the wind.
Don't eat the yellow snow.
I wouldn't piss on you even if you were on fire!
lunasun
(21,646 posts)No clue
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Crazy as a loon.
"Red or yellow, black or white, they are precious in his sight."
My grandmother used to singsong that tune if we saw people who looked different from us.
So tight, she sqeeks.
Don't try to swallow the whole orange at once. Break it apart, and take it a piece at a time.
A stich in time, saves nine.
Penny wise and pound foolish.
radical noodle
(8,116 posts)Is a Sunday School/Bible School song
Jesus loves the little children,
All the children of the world.
Red or yellow, black or white,
they are precious in his sight...
Jesus loves the little children of the world.
The tune is going through my head now. It's an earworm.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)radical noodle
(8,116 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)PS I do hope your earworm went away.
Nac Mac Feegle
(976 posts)Silicone.
It's magical stuff.
Just ask any stripper.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)My Grandmother would say "Eat it, or you will get it in an enema."
ailsagirl
(23,388 posts)Last edited Mon Mar 27, 2017, 12:44 PM - Edit history (1)
and
You don't have enough sense to come in out of the rain
fNord
(1,756 posts)Instead of buddy, or dude, or whatever I call everyone Jackson. I can't remember for certain, but I think I picked that up as a kid from an old Daffy Duck cartoon, back before Bugs was around.
In reruns.....
I'm not cool enough to be in my 80's yet, but I'm working on it, one minute at a time........
It's fun to say.....
Hey Jackson what's up?
Jackson. Really?
Look Jackson.....
Jackson check it out! A parking spot!
Multiple applications, and completely replaces "Dude" or whatever
Best of luck Jackson
Callmecrazy
(3,066 posts)You're as useful as tits on a nun.
To someone who's slow on the uptake:
Millions of sperm and you were the fastest?
Recursion
(56,582 posts)At my wedding, the Bengali dude assigned to stand in as my grandfather pointed at the hat and said "e bari na, ha?" ("It's not heavy, right?"
He scowled and said "Bachare shot, torumoj logo parinot" ("with years, pith becomes iron" -- this is traditionally told to all Bengali grooms)
Dakotacrat
(40 posts)"Too dumb to pound sand into a rat hole." Whose administration does THAT sound like?
"As graceful as a hog on ice." Sounding a bit like every bit of news from the WH since Cheeto took office.
Thanks, Grandpa!
brewens
(15,023 posts)LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)That's something my grandma on my mother's side would always say.
Metsie Casey
(208 posts)And bullshit walks.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Also, she talks the talk, but she doesn't walk the walk.
amerikat
(4,979 posts)wyldwolf
(43,891 posts)rurallib
(62,948 posts)'don't piss on an electric fence.' Seemed like great advice
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Is he dead?
rurallib
(62,948 posts)go to youtube and search for 'pissing on an electric fence.'
There are some stunners in there
Wolf Frankula
(3,651 posts)Dumb as a sack of hammers.
Couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery.
Bumfuq, Egypt. Someplace in the middle of nowhere.
AEON. 'Arse End of Nowhere'. Not far from the previous. I heard AEON in Southern Africa years ago.
Wolf
Marthe48
(18,384 posts)My kindergarten teacher said that and I thought she said 'lamb shakes.'
All cats are gray in the dark, referring to men having affairs (my Dad)
So mad I thought he'd shit a meat axe. (My mom)
Nutty as a fruitcake (Gram(
Got her tit caught in a wringer (got in a mess) (Dad)
She made her bed and now she can lay in it (Mom)
Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer (kids)
Beggars can't be choosers (Mom)
If the shoe fits, wear it (my Mom)
It takes two to tango (extramarital affairs) (Mom)
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)We might be related!
Jane Austin
(9,199 posts)Fish or cut bait.
VOX
(22,976 posts)I have no idea about it's origin, but it flows nicely (so to speak).
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,540 posts)..."You're as good as half a dozen dead ones."
Don't remember the source but "Your breath is so bad you could knock a buzzard off an outhouse."
Panich52
(5,829 posts)"He's not much bigger than a popcorn fart"
I love that! I remembered a few more last week. When I get a day off I want to update the OP with all the additions. Thanks Panich52!
Panich52
(5,829 posts)mattvermont
(646 posts)Still Blue in PDX
(1,999 posts)My momma asked me that a time or two.
During a thunderstorm: "The devil's beating his wife."
My husband's dad said this to the kids: "Eat every bean and pea on your plate." I had to think about it for a minute.
Jack-o-Lantern
(1,008 posts)Fuck with the bull you get the horns.
Anger is one letter short of danger.
Red sky at night, sailor's delight; red sky in the morning, sailors take warning.
All's well that ends well
If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.
And just for kicks, heres one my old granddad used to say:
When I was young and had no sense
I tried to climb an electric fence
It curled my hair and tickled my balls
And made me shit in my overalls
VOX
(22,976 posts)My dad, who hailed from West Texas, used to say: "I'm gonna (insert task here) if it harelips the governor." Or, "Damn it, we're going out to dinner tonight and I don't care if it harelips the governor."
Notable use of the phrase by Slim Pickens as Major Kong in "Dr. Strangelove":
"Stay on the bomb run, boys! I'm gonna get them doors open if it harelips everybody on Bear Creek."
OrwellwasRight
(5,209 posts)They look like Mutt and Jeff.
And when my day got mad "Criminently!"
oldcynic
(385 posts)Mom's favorite curse: "shit and molasses!"
"Each to his own said the old woman as she kissed the calf".
"Shit in one hand and wish in the other. See which one gets full first". (in polite company "spit"
When pig killing you use "everything but the squeal".
"Don't leave food on your plate. Remember the starving Armenians."
"Knock wood"...while doing so.
Oh..."hitch in your getalong" means something went wrong, doesn't it?
How about "I wouldn't touch him with a ten foot pole?
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)like with a cramp in the leg. They used to say it about football players, who got up from a pile on, and seemed to be walking funny.
Texasgal
(17,136 posts)"Shoot fire, save matches"
From what I understand it's an old southern saying and some times people added "shit" instead of "shoot" . The saying is used when you are frustrated.
steve2470
(37,461 posts)"I want cash on the barrelhead" (my dad, both from the south)
applegrove
(121,675 posts)to pronounce 'food' as 'fod' when I was a small child. Later I had a job at a lunch counter in NS and heard one of the women pronounce it the same way. I was thrilled to hear it again. Asked her where she was from. NG too.
lost-in-nj
(18,339 posts)the hurrier I go, the behinder I get and another one was Jesus , Mary and Emma
Leith
(7,850 posts)She wouldn't say "shit" if her mouth was full of it.
Heard in a Weavers' song:
My get-up-and-go has got up and went.
littlemissmartypants
(23,746 posts)"Mark my words," yet?
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)"God willing and the creek don't rise," in response to following through with plans.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)DFW
(55,942 posts)"Men over 30 are like public toilets: they are either taken or they are full of shit."
I disagree, but as a man who has been "taken" since I was 22, I can't credibly contribute to the argument one way or the other.