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What is your favorite old "saying"?

Old 04-15-2011, 01:50 PM
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'finer than frog's hair'

Fancier than socks on a rooster!

Cool beans!

He worked me like a borrowed mule!

Time to get up, before all the good air is used up.

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Old 04-15-2011, 01:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Summer Spice
Our elderly aunt from Maine would say
"I haven't had that since Christ wore knee highs"!
My dad "Niether a borrower nor a lender be".
My grandmother who also lived in Maine, when she was startled would say: "My stars and garters!" and this was considered slightly scandalous!
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Old 04-15-2011, 01:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Summer Spice
Our elderly aunt from Maine would say
"I haven't had that since Christ wore knee highs"!
My dad "Niether a borrower nor a lender be".
My grandmother who also lived in Maine, when she was startled would say: "My stars and garters!" and this was considered slightly scandalous!
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Old 04-15-2011, 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Jan in VA
Mother to arguing siblings......"Never argue with a pig. You'll just get dirty and the pig likes it."

Jan in VA
i have something similar above my desk... never argue with a truck driver, you'll just get agrivated & the driver loves it.
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Old 04-15-2011, 04:37 PM
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I absolutely know what a slop bucket is!!! I carried many of them in my childhood whenever my brother and I spent the summer at Grandma's house!! :D Grandma also had a pee pot (hope it's okay that I said that :? ). I'm sure you can guess what that was!!!! :shock: It was only used late at night if you didn't want to go out in the dark to the outhouse. I had to empty that out several times, too in my childhood!!! YUCK!!!! :thumbdown:

Hmmm.....one saying that comes to mind is, "Like water off a duck's back."
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Old 04-15-2011, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Joanie2
My favorite has always been "Patience is a Virtue".
Last year I found myself often saying "It is what it is."
My mom made a verse of the Patience:
Patience is a virtue; possess it if you can.
Seldom found in women -- never in a man!
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Old 04-15-2011, 05:33 PM
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How many heard my grandma's frequent comment, "Oh piffle!"?
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Old 04-15-2011, 05:45 PM
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Originally Posted by ljorange
How many heard my grandma's frequent comment, "Oh piffle!"?
I just remembered another one - Oh fiddlesticks
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" if you are looking for sympathy , Look in the dictionary between sh-t and suicide."
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