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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:24 PM
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What "old fart-ish" things do you find yourself saying?
"It's better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it."

I generally trot that one out when Mrs R notices the freezer or the pantry getting crowded, or when the Little Guy doesn't want to bring his jacket when we go to the park on a cool day.

Yours?

Redstone
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:25 PM
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1. "You kids git outta my lawn!"
"Why, I oughtta..."
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:25 PM
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2. Sometimes I say
"I DON'T CARE WHAT FUCKING COLLEGE HE WENT TO!!!"















I couldn't help myself. :evilgrin:
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:37 PM
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3. You just made me laugh out loud. Excellent.
Redstone
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:44 PM
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5. Then my work here is accomplished.
:)
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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:39 PM
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4. Dag nabbit - the priemer articulatation of old age anghst.
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:55 PM
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9. I used to say that as a teen!
(back in the 80's)...then again, I was born old. :D
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Lannes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:53 PM
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6. Your "and 1" moves dont mean shit
N/T
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:57 PM
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11. Can you explain that phrase?
(Must be another thing that has slithered under my cultural radar).

Redstone
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Lannes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:10 PM
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17. And 1 is a sports apparel company
They also have a traveling bball tour akin to the Harlem Globetrotters.Kids on the playground like to imitate their moves which are for the most part useless in a real basketball game.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:59 PM
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19. Aha. Thanks for the info.
Redstone
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:53 PM
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7. Damn kids! n/t
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:54 PM
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8. "When I was a kid..."
Everyone ends up saying that, I think.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:59 PM
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12. Boy, don't we! Unfortunately, I can't trot out the one about walking seven
miles to school each day. I did walk to school, but both of my kids have seen the house where I grew up, and the school I went to, and know that the two are only a quarter-mile apart.

Redstone
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 10:56 PM
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10. by cracky
measure twice; cut once.

if a job is worth doing, it's worth doing right.
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:03 PM
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13. "I remember when..." and then some lame observation
usually involving the value of money.
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:06 PM
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14. you call that music?
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:07 PM
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15. "Because I'm the mom and I said so."
"I'm not everyone else's mother."

"If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you want to do that too?"

"I don't care if my jacket doesn't match - I want to be warm."



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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:08 PM
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16. "Because I'm your mother, that's why!"
Yikes, I've become my mother! (It's not that bad though, 'cause she's pretty cool.)
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 11:20 PM
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18. Hey - check your PM!
I find myself saying "I am your mother, that's why!" a lot.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 12:02 AM
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20. And that other parent's standby: "Because I said so."
I've been using that one on my kids when they say "how come I have to go to college when you didn't?"

Redstone
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 12:03 AM
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21. This country is going to hell in a handbasket
unfortunately it's true :cry:
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 12:11 AM
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22. "I can dig it."
"Dig on this, baby"

I miss the '70's
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Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 12:15 AM
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26. Sheeit, mon, I miss the 40's!!!!
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Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 12:14 AM
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23. "Groovy"
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Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 12:14 AM
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24. "Cool"
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Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 12:15 AM
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25. "I'm hip!"
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Chicago Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 12:16 AM
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27. These are jokes...
okay?

I have old white folks all around, like they say things like...



"That nice colored boy.."

"Nigger Toes" when refering to Brazil Nuts! ( I swear to god I am not kidding!)

Amazing things sometimes... I always carefully coreect them. "We don't call them 'niggers' anymore dear, its 'black folks' or "Afro-Americans". Life in America.
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Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 12:16 AM
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28. "Far out, dude!"
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Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 12:17 AM
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29. "That's so far out it's in!"
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 12:24 AM
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30. back in the day
is one.
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Dances with Cats Donating Member (545 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 12:42 AM
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31. "I can remember back when...."
n/t (46 yrs old)
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mykpart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 01:06 AM
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32. I can't understand the words to that song!
I kid you not.
Cool and a half.
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Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 01:26 AM
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33. One thing I'll never repeat: "I'm doing this for your own good!"
Fucking sadistic asshole father!
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nemo137 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 01:43 AM
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34. I'm a 19 year old guy, and I call people "skipper."
I don't know why, but it's my favoite apellation.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 01:50 AM
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35. Complaining about my arthritis
Oh how it aches sometimes, particularly in the cold weather.
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