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05-31-2010, 08:03 PM

#141

mrsdralshhadeh

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Join Date: May 2010

Location: Puerto Rico

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"if you do not have anything nice to say,, then say nothing at all"
" behind ever good man,,, is an even better woman,,"

" you can only be you,, someone else is already taken,,,,"

06-01-2010, 05:59 AM

#142

sue in NH

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Join Date: Apr 2010

Posts: 47

My husband likes to say "That's what she/he said, then the bed broke!". It gets many a laugh when interjected at just the right time.

06-01-2010, 06:45 AM

#143

Jingle

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Join Date: Dec 2009

Location: Outside St. Louis

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Can't never did anything, until he married can. You made your own bed now, lay in it. Lots more just can't think of them now.

06-01-2010, 06:45 AM

#144

Jingle

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Join Date: Dec 2009

Location: Outside St. Louis

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Can't never did anything, until he married can. You made your own bed now, lay in it. Lots more just can't think of them now.

06-02-2010, 06:46 AM

#145

Pzazz

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Join Date: Sep 2009

Location: NW Minnesota

Posts: 1,245

My dad's favourite was "you don't have to be crazy to get along in this world...but it helps".

My children are carrying on the tradition. :D

"there are only two kinds of problems....my problems, and NOT my problems".

06-02-2010, 04:12 PM

#146

GrammaO

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Join Date: Mar 2010

Location: Arizona

Posts: 527

Quote:

Originally Posted by Baren*eh*ked_canadian

Quote:

Originally Posted by 2wheelwoman

I just remembered one I heard often from grandma as a kid, but never understood at the time: A stitch in time saves nine. I always wondered, nine what?

Another was: You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Huh? Now, with some life experience, they make sense.

I don't understand either of those...

I'm not clear on the stitch in time one, but the other means that silk is soft, elegant and refined. A pig's ear is tough, leathery, rough. It can't be silk no matter how had you try.

06-05-2010, 06:57 PM

#147

Ladymurphy

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Join Date: May 2010

Location: Georgia/Alabama

Posts: 235

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quilter2B

Quote:

Originally Posted by Up North

Don't put the cart before the horse.

I used this one the other day to my husband. :wink:

My daughter uses this to describe her brother: Not the brightest crayon in the box.

Here's a few more for your daughter to use on her brother:
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
One fry short of a happy meal.
One brick short of a full load.
Elevator doesn't go all the way to the top.
Over his head in a parking lot puddle.
Couldn't lead a pack of hungry wolves to fresh meat.

06-06-2010, 05:00 AM

#148

dljennings

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Join Date: Jan 2010

Location: North Oxford MA

Posts: 943

my husband's favorite when talking about not so bright folks "he couldn't poor piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel" military thing i guess