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Originally Posted by bearisgray
skedaddle - move quickly
It was always cause for celebration when one managed to get the hay in without it getting rained on. My step-dad was really big on "men's work" and "women's work" - the only time I drove (basically just steered ) the tractor - an old Allis Chalmers that had a clutch - was to pull the wagon when they loaded bales. How **** was that? An inexperienced driver pulling a wagon on hilly land. Was hay ever stacked like straw? I remember (vaguely) sort of helping shock corn - and shocking grain. There was a big stack - sort of rectangular - that had corn stalks in it - I think the corn was picked first - and I remember the men trying to pry corn stalks off it when it was frozen. This was thrown to the cows in the cow yard which was nearby. We didn't have a silo. Anyone remember threshing? I have vague memories of shocks in the field when I was a little girl, and my mom used to tell my own kids about the threshing crew coming down the road and there was still plenty of time to get a meal together because the outfit moved so slowly (I think she told me one time those old Oil Pulls moved about 2 to 5 mph). |
JoJo I use skedaddle some but I use Scoot to Boot more often. It means move! Don't know where I got it but I have used it for years. Skedaddle I've heard in the old westerns. It brings to mind the old miners leading a burro.
Gabby Hayes used to say Skeeeeedaddle out of here now ya hear? |
Anyone remember George Carlin's routine about the Seven Words That Can't be Said on TV
What a hoot! Context matters!!!!!! How about "dumber than a doorknob" |
Originally Posted by Rhonda
JoJo I use skedaddle some but I use Scoot to Boot more often. It means move! Don't know where I got it but I have used it for years. Skedaddle I've heard in the old westerns. It brings to mind the old miners leading a burro.
Gabby Hayes used to say Skeeeeedaddle out of here now ya hear? This threat is so much fun I have to check in a couple of times a day to see the comments everyone comes with! |
I think my favorite is "Never empty handed to the kitchen go." That is my mother's saying from the time I was a kid. I'm 71. She is still telling me that!!!!! She's 93.
So, when I have to go into the basement to get something, I always have something on the kitchen table to take down with me. Makes sense, right? I do it! Get the stuff put away in the basement and then stand there like I lost my noodles because now I don't remember why I was going down there in the first place. Don't tell me to write a note - I'd lose it! So then I have to come back upstairs, retrace my steps and stand there and think "Why did I have to go into the basement?" Eureka!~ I remember, so I gingerly bounce down the basement stairs saying "Toilet paper - toilet paper, toilet paper. That's how I remember - all from Never Empty Handed to the Kitchen Go!!!!! Edie |
Originally Posted by ERhausfrau
I think my favorite is "Never empty handed to the kitchen go." That is my mother's saying from the time I was a kid. I'm 71. She is still telling me that!!!!! She's 93.
So, when I have to go into the basement to get something, I always have something on the kitchen table to take down with me. Makes sense, right? I do it! Get the stuff put away in the basement and then stand there like I lost my noodles because now I don't remember why I was going down there in the first place. Don't tell me to write a note - I'd lose it! So then I have to come back upstairs, retrace my steps and stand there and think "Why did I have to go into the basement?" Eureka!~ I remember, so I gingerly bounce down the basement stairs saying "Toilet paper - toilet paper, toilet paper. That's how I remember - all from Never Empty Handed to the Kitchen Go!!!!! Edie |
My son, who is "only" 45, works as a construction manager, and he's frequently saying "don't go empty-handed" to members of his crew (and family members, too)
I do that "why am I here - what was I going to do" thing, too. |
To try to remember what I am going to the store for I number the items. I have eggs milk bread ok 3 things then when I get to the store I remember eggs and milk and then go what was number three what was that one???? Sometimes I have to call home and ask my mom if it was her list I was filling! LOL I try to write things down but I usually lose it. or forget to pick it up in the first place!
I find if I write them down tho I am more likely to remember them. I also tell DH so he can help me remember. This is asking a guy who has a memory disorder and can't tell you what he had for breakfast today to remember my list!! LOL But sometimes he remembers and jogs my memory! He is a terrible nag too when he wants to make sure we don't forget! He'll tell me over and over from time to time! |
We call it a hotdish! Edie
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We call it potluck!
DH & I grew up 40 miles from each other, But! He grew up on a farm and I'm a city girl. I still shake my head at some of his expressions. His frequent sayings include: Dumber than a box of rocks Best thing since sliced bread Older than dirt he looks like 9 miles of bad road rode hard and put away wet Let's do something even if it's wrong |
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