Odd things family members say...
01-07-2012, 10:37 PM
#21
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Federal Way, Washington
Posts: 1,460
Too many to count! My family is full of crazy sayings and even crazier songs.
1) When someone would say, "What for?", the response is. "Cat fur to make kitten britches".
2) If someone is holding you up, say "Well "poop" or get off the pot!"
3) If something is close, it's pertnear.
The list goes on and on.......
1) When someone would say, "What for?", the response is. "Cat fur to make kitten britches".
2) If someone is holding you up, say "Well "poop" or get off the pot!"
3) If something is close, it's pertnear.
The list goes on and on.......
01-08-2012, 04:19 AM
#22
Super Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Petersburg, WV
Posts: 1,512
My mother would always call it an amblance for ambulance. I would always mispronounce aluminum by throwing an extra 'in' sound in there. I have to slow down and think the word through to pronounce it right.
01-08-2012, 04:34 AM
#24
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Australia
Posts: 4,116
I still get ragged about one that I did when computers were quite new. I had to give a presentation to fellow workers about how to operate the system and all the way through, I referred to the "sloppy disc" that one had to store the data on....my 'rotten' workmates could barely contain themselves. It took me a long time to stop laughing after they enlightened me as well.
01-08-2012, 04:48 AM
#25
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Australia
Posts: 4,116
More on the topic: I use two expressions which a lot of people laugh at but shouldn't, because I am usually pretty cheesed-off when I say them. They are,"leaping lizards" and "Well, that's enough to rot your socks!" - picked 'em up from my granny, along with "He's as mean as dammit!"
01-08-2012, 07:11 AM
#26
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Barnesville GA
Posts: 3,181
When my eldest was around 2 her father was grousing about something , she looked at him a said. "Don't be a grape." Of course she meant grump. But it stuck the whole time we were married for both of us.
My second pronounce animals , aminals and she and I say it that way to this day. I have to be careful speaking to someone else I say it right
My second pronounce animals , aminals and she and I say it that way to this day. I have to be careful speaking to someone else I say it right
01-08-2012, 07:14 AM
#28
Super Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Lebanon Missouri
Posts: 2,668
When my youngest daughter was about 18 months, she greeted her Daddy when he returned home from work,
"Hi"
Pause.
"More hi."
She's 28 now and we still laugh about it.
I often have trouble sleeping at night. On one of "those" nights, I rolled over toward my sleeping DH. He opened his eyes very wide and yelled "rawr" into my face. Then he started to "rawr" a second time, but woke himself up. I asked him why he was roaring at me - his answer was - "There's an alien under the crib."
We both cracked up.
"Hi"
Pause.
"More hi."
She's 28 now and we still laugh about it.
I often have trouble sleeping at night. On one of "those" nights, I rolled over toward my sleeping DH. He opened his eyes very wide and yelled "rawr" into my face. Then he started to "rawr" a second time, but woke himself up. I asked him why he was roaring at me - his answer was - "There's an alien under the crib."
We both cracked up.
01-08-2012, 08:30 AM
#29
Super Member
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Bosque County, Texas
Posts: 2,709
My Mom used to say that when ever we asked "What's this?" My Grandmother used to say "If wishes were horses then beggars could ride".
This is from the 16th Century English Mother Goose Nursery Tales. I'm not sure if all the later versions included it.
This is from the 16th Century English Mother Goose Nursery Tales. I'm not sure if all the later versions included it.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
ShowMama
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
59
05-23-2012 07:52 PM
damaquilts
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
29
01-10-2012 07:09 PM
bearisgray
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
162
10-09-2011 07:41 AM
sandpat
Main
116
05-10-2011 05:37 PM
