Tell the lounge your parent's favorite phrase...

[Joe Fields]

My father had two pet phrases.

1)"Everybody to their own taste," said the old lady, as she kissed the cow.

2) "Shhhh...There's a sick lady in Columbus." My dad used to tell us boys that when we made too much racket in the house. I had a hard time with that one, since Columbus, Ks. was 110 miles away. We weren't THAT loud!

What are/were your parent's favorite phrases?

[taterguy]

1. Where ever you go, there you are

[Joe Fields]

6. My dad, from the WWII generation actually liked the Beatles.

[BarenakedLady]

2. Hmmmmm

My Dad in answer to the questions "How much did that cost?" or "How much is it worth." is usually...."Oh, A dollar three eighty."

Other favorites:

"You couldn't ASK for a nicer day." on sailing days
"Pop? Pop? I'll pop you in a minute." in response to being called "Pop".


My mom's would be "Can't you be more sociable?" or "Smile!" or "Get off the couch and DO something!"....although I guess those are not really phrases. :P

[av8rdave]

3. If you break your leg doing that, don't come running to me!

[Joe Fields]

7. lol

[reyd reid reed]

4. Mine had a few

but there was one I swore I'd never use and, even though I've been sorely tempted at times, I haven't:

"Children should be seen and not heard."

and another that I hated at the time but now I use myself. Or did, until I finally got it through the thick covering that my daughter uses as a skull:

"T.T.I." (Stands for 'Tuck Tummy In'...sounds silly but just try to slouch if you're doing it)

(my parents were big on the 'everybody to their own taste' one, too...especially my dad)

[GenDem]

5. My parents said --

My father said -- "Finish everything on your plate -- there are people starving in Africa"

My mother's was very similar to yours --"Everyone to their fancy, and me to my Nancy -- that's what the man said when he kissed the cow"

:hi:

[Joe Fields]

8. WOW! And I thought my old man was the only one who said that.

[Goblinmonger]

9. "I'll give you something to cry about."

That was always a great one.

[reyd reid reed]

10. What about:

"This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you."

That one always baffled me. I mean...huh?

:crazy:

[GenDem]

12. That was one of my fathers greatest hits

Before he hit.

That one brings back some bad memories.:(

[edbermac]

11. My father once called a fart a 'bum burp'

:rofl:

[datasuspect]

13. "mommy/daddy drinks because you cry."

"shut the fuck up you useless motherfucker!"

"i'll give you something to cry about!!"

[La Lioness Priyanka]

14. dont make the gods laugh.

the windmills of time grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small.

[tigereye]

15. things will look better in the morning

virtue is it's own reward

and

Keep it down to a dull roar.

(funny, these were all my mom's - I don't remember any from my dad, he's more a quiet zinger kind of guy.)

but wait, I know, he said "close that door! "

[gbate]

16. They had a few.

My Mom "shit, piss and corruption!"
and
"what does that have to do with the cost of tea in China?"

My Father "shit rolls downhill"

[Joe Fields]

19. My mom used to say, "Heavens to Betsy." I like your mom's..

"Shit, piss and corruption." May I borrow it?

[Lyric]

17. Dad's infamous "life advice"

"Don't spit into the wind, don't draw to an inside straight, and don't eat the yellow snow"

[trackfan]

18. "You look like the statue of 'what's the use'".

[Joe Fields]

21. When I was angry or sad, my mom used to tell me...

"How would you like your face to freeze like that?"

[guitar man]

20. oh boy, my parent's had some crazy ones

Mom:

"Your tit's really in a wringer now, isn't it?"


"your ass is really in a crack this time" (I always found irony in that one)

"thin ice mister, thin ice"

Dad was quite colorful when angry or disappointed:

"That makes my ass want to suck tank water"

"Good god, he's eat up with the dumbass"

"I swear, that boy's dumber in the head than a hog is in the ass"

"Ain't got enough sense to figger' out how to shove a greased cucumber in a hog's ass"

"..Sweet jaysus, it's like watching a couple monkeys trying to fuck a football"

[Joe Fields]

22. OMG! ROFLMAO!

I especially love the tank water and the monkeys ones.

[guitar man]

26. I never really understood the tank water

....phrase. But, mom and dad were depression-era children, so there are probably things I will never understand.

[Tektonik]

23. My mom:

Merde

Oh and she counted to 3 and if she counted all the way we (my brother and I) would be 'dead meat'

[1gobluedem]

24. "Praise God for vittory!"

From the Grapes of Wrath. My father says that when any task, however minor, is accomplished; it's been a family phrase for years. He also calls any deviation from a normal route a "double nought spy route" ala Jethro Bodine.

My mother made up a song called "I'm Cooking Yuck For Dinner" in response to our responses of "yuck" when we asked what we where having. Her other favorite was "you can't cook cold" when we would say something was too hot.

[bluethruandthru]

25. My Mom always told me

It's just as easy to fall in love with a rich man as a poor man. :)

[Patsy Stone]

27. If...

"If my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bus."

[AlCzervik]

28. Ma "Jesusmaryandjoesph!" i used to think that was one person.

Dad "Failure is not an option or else you will end up on welfare, is that what you want?"

Ma "Your room looks like the hell hole of Calcutta!"

Dad "Shut the door, i don't work for the power company" that one i fond myself using with my daughter--"Dad doesn't work for SMUD ya know, shut the door please"

Dad "If you don't have the cash to pay for it then you can't afford it" and thats applicable to everything.

Dad "You have champagne tastes on a diet pepsi budget"

[Raven]

29. Two: "Keep your mind above your beltbuckle" and "Stick to

the main tent and avoid the sideshows". The "beltbuckle" one was usually reserved for my brothers!

[Ladybug Dem]

30. Dad

With grades like these you'll end up
pumping gas the rest of your life!

Mom- Learn to take care of yourself never rely on a man to do it.

[Dervill Crow]

40. Aaah, my mom and your mom gave the same advice. (eom)

[CottonBear]

31. My dad always said "If I've told you once I've told you ten thousand times!"

Dad also loved to say:
"All ashore who are going ashore" (we had boats)
"This is not a democracy (meaning our family), this is a dictatorship and I'm the dictator!"
The best one was "I'll have no swearing in this house, goddamnit!" :rofl:

[fudge stripe cookays]

32. "You've been wasting food ever since you were six months old!"

My mom.

Along with:

"Hells Bells!" and calling someone an "Arschlock" (German for A**hole, picked up from her grandmother)

[likesmountains 52]

33. My Mom..."I hope you have 5 kids and they're all JUST LIKE YOU!"

[Dervill Crow]

41. LOL - I said that to my daughter. Boy, did that shut her up. (eom)

[HamdenRice]

34. If youse don't do what I tell youse to do, I ain't got no use for youse!

My Mom had one of those original deese and dose Brooklyn accents. She had lost most of it by the time we were growing up, but when she got angry, the accent came back and got thicker and thicker.

One day she was angry at my sister and I for goofing around rather than doing what she asked us to do, and she blurted this out:

"If youse don't do what I tell youse to do, I ain't got no use for youse!"

Of course, we just fell on the floor laughing, hysterically for quite some time.

This wasn't a phrase she used often, in fact maybe just this once, but it was one of her most memorable. In fact, I think my sister and I used this phrase to tease her hundreds of times.

Her most common was "lord have mercy!" and "ah lord!"

My father's most common phrase was "wathcamacallit," as in, "would you go to the basement and get me the, the, the, the ... wathcamacallit?"

Long pause, waiting for him to call up the name of the thing he wants.

"I mean, the little hammer!"

[LaraMN]

35. "C$cksuckin' sonofab$tch!"

(when he was fixing things. Which was often.)

or,

"Shit or get off the pot."

He's actually very, very sweet, but you'd never guess it from watching him work on a car.

(My Dad)

[ganeshji]

36. I'm so mad I could spit nails.

I used to love to antagonize dad to the point that he would say this. Hell, I still do.

[gbate]

37. Another: you're so full of shit you stink.

[Mojambo]

38. "Want in one hand, shit in the other. See which one gets filled first"

That's my Pop.

[dysfunctional press]

39. No.

i'm not refusing to answer- that WAS their favourite phrase, as far as i can remember.

[Katina]

42. never say no to your husband

he can always get it elsewhere.

Thanks mom! :crazy:

[Dervill Crow]

43. Mom: Do I have to keep talking to you until I am blue in the face?

Dad: It don't take nothin' to buy __________________________. Anybody can just sign on the dotted line. (Whenever anyone in the neighborhood bought anything.)

Mom: Learn to type and put yourself through college. (Thirty-three years later, and I'm still a medical transcriptionist--haven't made it to university yet!)

Dad: Jeeeeeeeeeeezus Ka-riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiist almighty!!!!!! (Usually while watching football.)

Mom: What are you, a wooden Indian? (After asking me some unanswerable question, like, "Do I have to keep talking to you until I am blue in the face?")

[Dervill Crow]

44. dupe - delete

[Aristus]

45. "Okay, fine. Go ahead and do it. But someday, you'll look back and admit I was right."

Classic from Aristus's parents.

[Broken_Hero]

46. Mine....

Dad-

I got a mind like a steel trap.

Thats a drunk's trick.

Mom-

You got a mind like a steel trap, cause nothing ever gets in.

Who did this?

If your friends jumped of a cliff, would you?(classic)

[Burma Jones]

47. From My Mom, "I will rip off your arm and beat you with the bloody stump"

From Dad, "I want a Divorce".........

[lizziegrace]

48. I'll save Lelapin the trouble...

:)


"Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it."

"Never say never."

[graywarrior]

49. Go piss up a rope

Mom was snarky.

[ronnykmarshall]

50. ROOOOONNNNYYYYYYYYYY!

I knew I was in trouble when I heard that.