sayings

[Homicidalheathen]

my grandma used to get excited and say...SHIT FIRE!!! i dont know why, its a southern thing...fire this...fire that...well she had a strong southern accent and so all the while i was growing up i thought she was exclaiming SHIT FAR, i never could figure out that one...

i would get a goal and people in the stands thought the ol lady needed some ass wipe...

my dad wont use the word hot. he under exagerates EVERYTHING...so he would be out working on the house....sweat pooring off him like a pig at a roast and he would say, gee its powerful warm out here, little did i know that ment he was about to keel over...

i miss grandma...she was hellarious

[brandywine0880]

Coming from a family dominated by mostly women, we tend to hear stories from the past re-told over and over again. Which is fine if you haven't heard it in years. But sometimes one of us will start telling the same story for the 10th time in a year so instead of listening to it again one of us will say, "Grandma's quilt". I actually have no idea where it came from, but it's a polite way of saying, "Oh shit not this story again."

[GothicRavenGoddess (3)]

"okie-dokie, smokie-joe" was one of my mom's favorites... my grandmother would anwer me with "jawohl!" when I'd call her by her name, when she didn't hear me calling her "Mimi" (THAT was what we all called her, instead of the traditional grandmotherly names.. lol) the woman's name is Ruby... lol

lets see... uh... dad's favorite saying was "you better run like your ass is on fire, and hair's catching" 0.o

lol

if i think of more I'll post... lol

[TomCat]

"Get back to work, before I give you a beatin'," Ahhh, mowing my grandfather's lawn as a 10 year old. I did it for 2 bucks and a glass of Countrytime lemonade...the packet mix crap. LOL

[Head Wreck]

i got you a pram for Christmas.

i'm 26 now my dad still says this on occasion

[kellygrrrrrl]

it was more or less what I was called....

Grandpa would call me Charlie Brown, and the other would call me "Boo-pah" or hannicanistanapan

[aequorea]

Let's see...

I think most of these are from northern England, that's where my parents met and married...

"between you, me and the fencepost..."

taken from women gossiping over the fence

"she's no better than she ought to be!"

?! maybe talking trash about a girl's family? definitely talking trash about the girl!

"she's neither use nor ornament!"

she doesn't do a damn thing and she doesn't even look good... LMAO... I use that one at work with other staff

"she's a right see you next tuesday!"

C U Next Tuesday. yup.

Huh... can't remember any good ones about guys...

[Soulrev]

Let's see. My dad used to spank me with his belt when I was a wee-one.. One time he said "you're gunna get an ass kissin' from my leather lips" and that was it.. After that we all laughed so hard he forgot to punish my dumb ass.

Also, when I was younger, my dad never really swore around us. But you knew if you were in trouble because he would use que words while speaking to you. Such as "Listen here, Pal" or replace that word with "My Friend" or something to that nature, and you knew you were in for it because that meant he was pissed off.

Umm what else.. I know we have a ton of them.. My family is strange.

Oh yeah, when the "Fresh Prince" (of Bel-Air) show first came out, and in the theme song when he's getting out of the cab and says "Yo homes, smell ya later!" we all thought that was funny and even to this day our farewell saying is "Smell ya!" or "Smell ya later!"

I'm sure I will think of more tomorrow, hopefully someone else here finds this shit funny cuz we seem to. Lol...

-B

[Homicidalheathen]

i got you a pram for Christmas.

i'm 26 now my dad still says this on occasion

what is a pram

[torn asunder]

my grandmother, when talking about how much snow we'd gotten, would say it's "asshole deep to a tall indian"!?

g'ma always was a bit odd!!

[Mean Salley]

give me some time to do some research that my contribution might be thorough and exhaustive.

[taysteewonderbunny]

Grandmother Trudy (if your name was Blanche Gertrude, what would you prefer to be called?) had a couple of things we still love to say:

"You hush" in her southern/western accent. It was meant to be mean, but always came out provocative.

"House guests and fish stink after six days." Her excuse for concluding a visit, whether she came to MI or we went to KS.

My brother, like all little brothers, is remembered for some mangled words. Skabetty and aminals is not all that uncommon. But he would say hagamurmer for hamburger. We still call it that in my house.

My ex-in-laws have a motto: Finleys love to fart, f**k and fight, not necessarily in that order. I can't say it was untrue in any way. (Yeah, I kept the name, not because of him, but so I would have the same last name as my daughter.)