Odd things family members say...
01-08-2012, 10:42 PM
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My Mom was from Canada and when I was young, her English was not very good. She would call eggs..heggs, onions were hunions and there were quite a few other "funny" words or sayings she said. She would even write them the way she said them. I have some "journals" and notes she had written and everytime I come across them and read them it's always a good laugh and cry. She passed away 10 years ago and we still get a laugh about it. My youngest will always correct me when I say eggs to heggs. My oldest son used to have this ritual when he was going to bed. As he was going upstairs to bed he would say "goodnight and I love you and I love you a lot, see you in the morning"...if we didn't say it back he would stop on the stairs until we did. LOL Also, my brother in law says, sangwich instead of sandwich.
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01-09-2012, 12:13 AM
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My mother told me that I do not quilt. Funny, I have almost 100 quilts under my belt. She didn't consider it quilting, if it wasn't done by hand. I did a pillow by hand, swore i'd never do another, and 40 years later...I haven't
Well, Mother if you are looking down from above.....well, duh. You are wrong.
I think really my mother was jealous of my talent, that was what was at the bottom of her comment. Oh well, shes gone, and I am still quilting.
Well, Mother if you are looking down from above.....well, duh. You are wrong.
I think really my mother was jealous of my talent, that was what was at the bottom of her comment. Oh well, shes gone, and I am still quilting.
01-09-2012, 03:52 AM
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My favorite is one my Mom would say to my two sisters and I when we were going from Point A to Point B or wherever - "Never empty handed to the kitchen go". I say that one to the grandkids now - remembering to take back what you brought out or if you see something that doesn't belong where it is, take it to where it does belong. It works!!!!! Happy Day!!! Edie
01-09-2012, 04:55 AM
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Originally Posted by MadQuilter
My Grandpa would mix up sayings and I have a hard time remembering how they really are. (Unfortunately they are in German and don't translate).
DH suggested that we should put a crouton in the guest room when we were remodeling. I asked him if plain was good enough or if the cheese and herb type would be better. Since then we put foutons on our salad and sleep on croutons. He also got really confused when the waiter at a nice restaurant asked him if he should bring a caraffe of wine. I answered the waiter no. When the waiter left Pat asked me why the waiter wanted to bring him a giraffe. We still laugh about that one too.
I learned English as a second language so I had some confusion with words. I kept telling people that I douched twice a day (thinking that "douche" equals "duschen/to shower") There were many pink faces and NOBODY told me.
In the same vein, I got up one night when the neighbor's rooster was crowing under our window at 2 in the morning to go over there and get that rooster sorted out. What I told my DH when he asked where I was going was "I'm gonna tell that neighbor that I'm going to choke his chicken. Pat did explain why that wasn't a good idea. lol
DH suggested that we should put a crouton in the guest room when we were remodeling. I asked him if plain was good enough or if the cheese and herb type would be better. Since then we put foutons on our salad and sleep on croutons. He also got really confused when the waiter at a nice restaurant asked him if he should bring a caraffe of wine. I answered the waiter no. When the waiter left Pat asked me why the waiter wanted to bring him a giraffe. We still laugh about that one too.
I learned English as a second language so I had some confusion with words. I kept telling people that I douched twice a day (thinking that "douche" equals "duschen/to shower") There were many pink faces and NOBODY told me.
In the same vein, I got up one night when the neighbor's rooster was crowing under our window at 2 in the morning to go over there and get that rooster sorted out. What I told my DH when he asked where I was going was "I'm gonna tell that neighbor that I'm going to choke his chicken. Pat did explain why that wasn't a good idea. lol
01-09-2012, 05:51 AM
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When a friend of mine gets excited about something, she says "Couldn't you just slap your mamma?" Or about babies, "You could just pinch those cheeks." Around here the saying is "I ain't broke, just feeling low."
01-09-2012, 06:46 AM
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These are sooo funny. If I pouted when I was little, my dad would say, "stick that lip out any further and a crow will come along and built a nest on it." Mom would alway say, "get your shoes on Lucy". Not sure who Lucy was or where it come from but I still use this one today.
Our son had trouble saying refrigerator, instead it was "fragator". Daughter still says "samich" for sandwich. Our son is 23 now and says "well, if that don't skin your 'possums" when he is amazed. Not sure where that came from.
Our son had trouble saying refrigerator, instead it was "fragator". Daughter still says "samich" for sandwich. Our son is 23 now and says "well, if that don't skin your 'possums" when he is amazed. Not sure where that came from.
01-09-2012, 09:49 AM
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I forgot one that my deceased first husband said and did in the early 60's on the way home from TX to ME. We stopped at a roadside diner in MA where we ordered hamburgers. Larry wanted that ground beef dead, dead, dead. He took a bite of it and the blood squished out....he dropped it on his plate and announced to the world "If I had some salve and a bandaid, I could save this critter".....I thought I'd just die. You could have heard a pin drop. Course we laughed about it for years after.
01-09-2012, 10:19 AM
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My youngest used to tell her daddy to "stop being hatful" when he was grumpy. The first time she said that he looked at me funny and I told him I guessed he wore too many hats!!!. So now I always tell her not to be "hatful". Also my aunt used to tell her that her feet were nasty (trying to aggervate her) and she would say "my feets not nazzy".
01-09-2012, 10:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Ellen
I forgot one that my deceased first husband said and did in the early 60's on the way home from TX to ME. We stopped at a roadside diner in MA where we ordered hamburgers. Larry wanted that ground beef dead, dead, dead. He took a bite of it and the blood squished out....he dropped it on his plate and announced to the world "If I had some salve and a bandaid, I could save this critter".....I thought I'd just die. You could have heard a pin drop. Course we laughed about it for years after.
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