Acording to my Daddy.. "If you wanted to run with the big dawgs ya had to get off the porch!"
and of course, "Beauty is as Beauty does" but that does make sense...
My mom would threaten us that if we didn't behave "she'd reach down our throat and jerk us inside out" We always straightened up pretty quickly..
or if we didn't stop she was going to "jerk our arm off and beat us with the bloody stump" Pretty horrifying, but it always made us laugh... then she'd start laughing and whatever was wrong was okay again.
I wonder if you'd get hauled off to the pokey for saying those sorts of things now?