What is your favorite old "saying"?
10-20-2013, 08:38 PM
#293
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My mom would say "We are shi**ting in tall cotton" (when something good happened) When my granny would write a letter or when we would call and ask how she was - she always said "Fat and Sassy" - I still use that one.
10-21-2013, 01:13 PM
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Some of the ones I heard often growing up are: Money doesn't grow on trees, strike the iron while it's hot, a stitch in time saves nine, Nobody gets to pick out their face.
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10-23-2013, 02:30 PM
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I remember ne from when I lived in Texas....Bless her heart. You cold make anything sound nice if you added "Bless her heart" at the end. For example...She is the homeliest person I have ever met...Bless her heart.
10-23-2013, 02:33 PM
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[QUOTE=ShowMama;6352669][QUOTE=lillybeck;3027751]..."Clean your plate because there are hungry kids overseas"
My mother said something similar...."Clean your plate because there are starving children in China!" I never understood it, but it worked.
I generously offered to send my plate to China when we had liver and onions for supper once. I had to sit there and eat every bit of it. I didn't offer again....I hope the kids didn't starve because I sure wished I could have starved that night. Yuck!
My mother said something similar...."Clean your plate because there are starving children in China!" I never understood it, but it worked.
10-23-2013, 02:44 PM
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Originally Posted by gzuslivz
"The bigger the hair, the closer to God!"
"Diarhea of the mouth and constipation of the mind"
"You're full of prunes!"
What's for dinner? "pig poop and dandilions!"
"Geez Louise!"
"He's so ugly, he has to sneak up on water to get a drink!"
"Diarhea of the mouth and constipation of the mind"
"You're full of prunes!"
What's for dinner? "pig poop and dandilions!"
"Geez Louise!"
"He's so ugly, he has to sneak up on water to get a drink!"
peace
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