Things people have said that have stuck with you.

[Bouncy Ball]

What are some things people have said that have stuck in your memory?

I DON'T mean profound things. I don't mean anything meaningful. And I don't mean anything abusive or mean.

But those absurd, silly things that for no good reason are taking up part of your long-term memory.

Here are two of mine:

Whenever my stepfather was going somewhere we'd yell out "where are you going?" and he'd always, ALWAYS say "I'm going crazy, wanna come along?" We'd yell "YEAH!" and he'd say "Sorry, 'crazy' is only for daddies!"

(Later, I discovered "crazy" is a place called "Red Coleman's Liquor" on Inwood Drive.)

Another stupid thing taking up memory: a woman I used to work in a cube farm with would occasionally, randomly yell out, "I'm going to go see if there's anything in my box!"

And I'll tell her good luck. She was a fundie (before being a fundy was cool) and wasn't even trying to be funny.

What about you?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Dogs get mad, people get angry

My sixth grade english teacher whenever anyone said anything made them mad

[Bouncy Ball]

4. Wha?

:crazy:

Oooookay.

[MichiganVote]

2. Brush your teeth, eat your carrots

[kodi]

3. "always be away when they're moving"

when i asked who was "they" i was told, "it doesn't matter"

[Bouncy Ball]

6. Eh?

LOL, more context is needed there, but it's making me giggle.

[Taxloss]

5. When it was a nice day, my Granddad would say:

"Nice day for the race."

And we would say "what race?"

And he would say "the human race".

There was a variant on this - when at a restaurant or a bus stop or something, asked what he was doing, he would say "just watching the race". Cue the same exchange.

[Bouncy Ball]

9. You reminded me. My grandmother used to say

"Well might as well do something, even if it's the wrong thing."

When I was a kid, that confused me.

[Taxloss]

14. My father gave me a piece of advice I live my life by, which

is in some ways very similar. I didn't include it in my original response because I consider it profound. He said: "It is always better to regret something you have done than something you haven't done."

Words to live by.

He also told me to never drink in the pub nearest the station, never play cards with a woman whose first name is also a city, and to never fight a land war in Asia.

[Bouncy Ball]

18. The British, in my opinion, have WAY better advice than we do.

[Taxloss]

26. What makes you say that?

Your presidents were far better phrasemakers than our prime ministers.

[Bouncy Ball]

27. The British PEOPLE.

Not necessarily your prime ministers. ;-)

[Taxloss]

30. We live in a country of sayings, idioms and catchphrases.

Aphorisms, saws and advisals drip from every branch. Heavens, we're pretty much the only country on Earth that has "family mottos". Even my family has one.

[SKKY]

61. And then, Dr. Szurkis, the OBGYN who delivered my son...

...here in Rota, Spain commented, "You know, you can be in a hurry, or you can be in Spain, but you can't be in both at the same time." If you've ever lived here, you know how true that really is.

[Lilith Velkor]

7. People love being part of an empire

...until it falls. Wish I could remember who said it.

[Taxloss]

16. Probably the British.

We really revel in post-imperial hubris and bathos.

[Lilith Velkor]

31. That's it, thanks!

Not the British exactly, but an online pal from the UK. It really helped me figure out the dynamic of the last election.

[babylonsister]

8. Ah, I remember Mom well, telling me, "Do as I say,

not as I do."

[DawgHouse]

10. I worked at a place about ten years ago where we

all shared one network printer. Unfortunately some of the print jobs I sent (in accounting) could be quite large, so out of consideration for the others, we would shout "PRINTING!" when we sent something to the printer. (This let the other unfortunate coworkers know that it would be a while before they could print their jobs). Anyway, I sometimes yell "PRINTING!" when I send something to the printer even now, out of homage to my old coworkers from ten years ago.

[Bouncy Ball]

11. ROFL!

:rofl:

[fudge stripe cookays]

38. Kind of like our ancient dorm at UNT....

Bruce Hall's been around since the 1940s or so.

Community bathroom. When you flushed, you had to yell "Shower!" so those taking showers wouldn't be scalded by the sudden gush of hot water.

FSC

[VelmaD]

12. So many of the sayings I use...

are ones my momma or nanna or daddy said when I was little that have stuck with me. Like "if you were any cuter there would have to be two of you" (or smarter or dumber or crazier or whatever the occasion called for).

I also really like "good lord and butter" - I have NO idea what it means. :crazy:

[Bouncy Ball]

17. My family used to say someone or something was

"uglier than homemade sin" or when a food was especially delicious, it was "enough to make you want to slap your momma--twice."

And my dad loved to joke (when we were MUCH older) that some foods were "better than sex." Once when I was in my mid-20s I said "No it's not" without thinking, then blushed really hard. Ack! Around my DAD, I said that!

[VelmaD]

32. Speaking of food related sayings...

my dad used to say "that's so good if you put the plate on my head my tongue would beat my brains out trying to get to it". Funny...gross...but funny.

And my mom sprang a new high-tech one on me. I emailed her a pic of a cake I made last Thursday and she said it looked so good she wanted to print out a copy and eat the paper. *snort*

[newscott]

13. Let's not and say we did.

My dad used pull this one on me. Took me years to unravel it.

[Bouncy Ball]

15. That one used to get me, too.

[babylonsister]

19. My Mimi (only grandma I ever knew): "I'm as old as my

pinky, and a little bit older than my teeth."

This thread is going to be great!

[Bouncy Ball]

23. Everytime you asked one of my roommates what she was doing

she'd say "negotiating world peace."

And just for fun sometimes, if you asked her for information about anything, she'd say she couldn't tell you. When you asked why, she'd say "Ancient Chinese secret!" and laugh her ass off.

[Sugar Smack]

63. I love people who crack themeselves up

in that particular way!

:rofl:

I really do!

[Pithlet]

20. "Let's get the road on the show"

My sister said that once as a kid, and it stuck with me. I still say it that way sometimes.

[sundog]

21. This too shall pass

[Bok_Tukalo]

22. Hope this meets your criteria

When I was young, my step-dad was very, VERY, Labor and he would say all sorts of radical stuff. He was Working Class idealist (poor bastard).

But the one that always stuck with me was, "the Ruling Class lives in fear of the day when everyone wakes up and realizes they have the right to vote."

[tammywammy]

24. You can't have 2 starches to eat

I always wanted mac & cheese AND mashed potatoes, and my mom always said one or the other.

To this day, I feel guilty when I have both together....but they're still delicious.

[Bouncy Ball]

28. I've said that to my own daughter!

[intheflow]

25. If you asked my old boyfriend what time it was,

he'd burst into the Spin Doctors song.

What time is it?
Four thirty
It’s not late, naw, naw,
Just early, early, early


Every. Single. Time. :eyes:

[Bouncy Ball]

29. My husband sings this song EVERY weekday morning

"I don't wanna work, I just wanna bang on the drums all day!"

I've learned to sleep through it, but at first, I wanted to bang on his head all day.

He is a SERIOUS morning person.

[intheflow]

41. OMG!

Is your husband my friend Linda? She does that too! We lived together for a month while she looked for an apartment where I was living.

The biggest problem was that she really is a drummer. I'm serious.

[margaritamama]

33. I'll drive you just sit there

Kids say come on we'll just sit there you drive.

[Left Is Write]

34. "It's just what I ever wanted!"

Blurted out by my brother as a very young child when a coveted Christmas gift was opened.

We've been using that line ever since.

[CO Liberal]

35. When I Was in Fourth Grade (1962)....

...the principal of our school, Mrs. Randall, was talking to our class one day. And she told us that every minute we lived was one minute closer to our death.

That was over 42 years ago, and I never forgot it.

[Bouncy Ball]

36. Damn!

That teacher fucked you UP!

[EstimatedProphet]

37. Here's 2

1) My dad, when he gets on an elevator with people he doesn't know, ALWAYS turns arond to tham and says "The reason I called you all here today is..."
It's funny, once. Once.

2) TheProphetess and he mother, when they want someone to turn up the volume on a radio, say "Will you higher it?"

[youthere]

39. My grandpa used to say some really weird stuff..

Like "That'll pucker you up so much you'll be able to suck watermelons through chickenwire."

Or "He's happier than a cow pissing on a flat rock"

or (when speaking of something gross)"That's enough to gag a maggot off of the gut wagon" (eww)

My mother really messed me up. She always told us our first food was "A puppy with a brown nose" It took until I was about 13 to realize she meant her breast.

[Lilith Velkor]

40. Don't bitch, reenlist.

Said by a lovable crusty old fart with whom I used to work.

[Shell Beau]

42. Instead of saying no when I asked my dad for something he

would say "negatory". I don't know why or where it came from, but I remember that. I also remember it getting on my nerves.

[Obamarama]

43. Those who carry butter on their heads should not walk in the sun.

An old Yiddish saying my grandmother used to say.

[hootinholler]

44. It takes a mighty big dog to weigh 200 pounds.

Thanks Photog! From the Photographer's mate on the deep survey ship I was on during a prior life.

I use 'That dog won't hunt' on occaision along with many others I've picked up.

I see, said the blind man to his one legged wife named Peg.

On the other hand, he wore a glove.

-Hoot

[LibDemAlways]

45. I was taking a path down to the beach one time when I

passed a man and his teenage son walking in the opposite direction. As they passed me, the father was saying to the son, "The essence of life is cruelty." I'd like to think he was wrong, but in so many ways, he simply nailed it.

[babylonsister]

46. An old Coastie friend: "If you don't mind, it don't matter."

That was the standard answer after numerous brews, to anything!

[uppityperson]

47. Same difference

Used like "whatever" is these days. Sort of. Same difference.

[alarimer]

48. At Christmas time (unwrapping presents)

We always say (to the unwrapper) "I hope you like your new blue candle!"
This was something I said many years ago when I was small. We were so poor my mom made candles for everyone for Christmas (and they were blue). I said this as someone was unwrapping thie present, thus spoiling the surprise. So I am not allowed to live it down.

[peekaloo]

49. My dad's way of ending an argument

"Yeah, well you'll shit if you eat regular, too".

:shrug:

[carpetbagger]

50. "Everybody does it, Nixon just got caught"

That was before Suffolk County, NY went marginally democratic.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

51. "Let's go so we can get back."

Said by my homebody mother when we had to go somewhere. I'd say, "Why go at all? Why not just stay home?"

[babylonsister]

52. From Dad: This is my house, and you

aren't entitled to an opinion.
I was 17 and left/got kicked out, in 1973. But I don't have any ill will towards Dad; he just turned 78 or 79, and I'm very grateful I still have him.

[opiate69]

53. I had a boss once...

who, when talking about a particularly obnoxious person, would say "I'd like to buy him for what he's worth, and sell him for what he thinks he's worth"

[AngryLizard]

54. "That's okay. We're all sailors here."

I was helping out at a fundraiser, and swore right in front of someone I didn't know. That's what he said after I apologized.

Also, I have a tendency to say, after I do something completely ineffectual as a solution to a problem, "That was really stupid, P.J." Which is from a book by P.J. O'Rourke called "Give War a Chance." P.J was a correspondent during the Gulf War, traveling with a unit of soldiers (or it could have been other reporters, I don't quite remember) when they ran into a sandstorm, after which he found himself trying to dig his jeep out with a pepsi can. When he told his wife this story, she replied, "That was really stupid, P.J."

[GoddessOfGuinness]

55. aaaAAHHCHUMBO!

That was the way my grandfather sneezed.

[Hardrada]

56. I was apprehensive as a child and used to ask my Grandfather

about some topic I was concerned about, "Are you sure?"
And he'd always say, "No. I'm Knute."

Also whenever I mentioned Mozart and Haydn to him, he'd always say, "Oh yeah, where's he hidin'?"

And also when I was a little older and engaging in some political diatribe he'd always bring me up short by saying, "That's just one man's opinion."

[Jean Louise Finch]

57. My dad always says

"I may be small, but I'm weak" which is just one of a thousand priceless lines.

[NMMNG]

58. "I'll keep my panties on if you give me a cigarette"

(an attempted bribe from one of my clients at work"


"You have a stinky ass" and later "You don't wash your ass"
--from a profoundly mentally disabled client


"Get out of there ho"
--from the same client when I was giving her a shower

:rofl:

[xmas74]

59. I remember being in elementary school in 1980

We had Weekly Readers and they had us vote for who we wanted to be president. We got to take them home. I showed it to my Aunt Peggy. I didn't care one way or another about Anderson but I told her that Reagan kinda scared me(don't ask-I was only 6). She said he scared her too and then the part that I remember "All Republicans scare me." I have been an avid Democrat since.

[SKKY]

60. "Don't thank me! Thank God for people like me!"

HTCM(SW) Byron Flakes, my company commander in bootcamp. Although I'm not particularly religous, I always dug this saying.

[Sugar Smack]

62. There was a photo on the cover of TIME

back when I was four; it was of the Native American with the tear running down his face. Well, I asked my father why the man was crying, and my father said, "He twisted his ankle."

I had fears which my father quickly put to rest at about that age. My fear of volcanoes was stifled by his assertion that all the volcanoes were in Iceland. All of the quicksand was in Africa, all of the earthquakes were in San Francisco, and all the tornadoes were in Kansas.

[NorthernSpy]

64. "eyes are my new eye candy"

Someone said that here in the lounge -- like, a year ago -- and it has re-echoed in my brain ever since.