Dad-isms and Granddad-isms

These are great! I recognize, and remember, many of what has been shared so far! Here are some of mine ... off the top of my head.


Paternal Great-Grandfather (1895-1991)

* "Never look a gift horse in the mouth."

* "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."

* "Never kick a man when he's down."

* "You come from good stock."

* "Make you want to slap your grandmother."

He'd bellow that after a good meal - have no idea where it came from - but it was meant as delicious/wonderful.
He'd also say it if he was inviting somebody over for supper too, like ...

* "Ella Mae can make a mean pineapple upside-down cake ... knock your socks off ... make you wanna slap your grandmother!"


Maternal Grandfather (1907-1998)

* "Brookie, bundle up, you'll freeze yer cricket off."

* "You kids bundle up. You'll freeze yer crickets off ... and yer frogs." (I, like you, can only guess ... but I repeat it, today, with authority!)

* "Pull my finger."

* "People are just dying to get in there." (After we'd pass a large cemetery/graveyard.)

* I think I just stepped on a frog!" (He'd jump, and look at the ground all shocked, after he farted.)


Father (1946)

* "Here. Come cry in my hand."

* "Whatever you do, do it good."

* "If you're gonna mess up, might as well mess up good."

* "Don't confuse activity with results."

* "Dream big."

* "You can be anything you want to be ... you can do anything you want to do."

* "Failure is not an option."

* "Every no puts you that much closer to your yes."

* "Assume: makes an ass out of you and me."

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I LOVE DONUT BALLS

i dont like to think tooo much before i speak ... heehee ... i like to be just as surprised as you are.

Whenever I brought home a new boyfriend my Dad would say

"he couldn't find his way out of a wet paper sack".

Whenever he was putting things off he would say: "I'll procrastinate tomorrow"

"That thing don't have enough power to pull a greased string out of a cat's butt"

"that's slicker than socks on a rooster"

"you pull that s---- again, and your a--- is grass, and I'm the lawn mower"

" Tighter than a fish's ---hole. and that's watertight, otherwise they would drown"

I grew up with many of these too! Along with "can't find his butt with two hands" "I'll give you the first wooden nickel I see rolling up hill in a sheeps track" "Shucky darn!" In snowy weather it was always "It's slicker than owl s--- out there" "you'll look real funny with boot stuck up yer a--" "slap you into next week" regarding how tall I was getting my Granpa always said "You're growing like a bad weed, last week you were only knee high to a grasshopper" LOL Thanks for the memories guys!! Near Xmas I find myself missing my family too

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You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him float on his back.

LOL!

I remember it as, "He can't find his butt with two hands and a flashlight."

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