What Your Parents Used To Say....

[Diva]

My friend's daughter can be quite the little princess. Whenever she pitches a fit, her father tells her, "Save the drama for your mama."

Growing up, what classic lines do you remember your parents saying either to you or in general?

[The_Roach]

My mother always said "I'm really sorry about dinner tonight, guys. I made a mistake with the (insert main or side dish here)."

Of course, by this point she had already put in 12 hours at work and arrived home two hours after my father and I had already ceased being hungry. And yet, she insisted on cooking a meal. I'll never understand that woman.

[Redallnite]

Mind your "P's & Q's". I still don't understand that one.... Mind your manners, that has been stamped in my head...

[Diva]

Originally posted by Redallnite
Mind your "P's & Q's". I still don't understand that one.... Oohhh Ohhh! I know! I know! Be careful that you write your 'p's and 'q's so that they aren't mistaken for one another. My dad taught me that.... After I did the typical kid response, "But what does that mean, daddy?"

[usantic]

My folks had some great ones:
-Don't let them get your goat.
-Mind your own lil red wagon.
-The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Those were mostly Mom's.
Dad's were hilarious!!
A downpour was met with:
-This rain is like a cow pissin' onna flat rock!
A firm hold or fit was *tips his head back and laffs* y'all are gonna love this:
-Thats tighter than a preacher's dick inna calves ass!
I gotta see if I can recall a few more. Most of Dad's euphemisms
caused uproarious laughter or milk spewing from noses and very narrowed eyes from Mom.

[berly]

My Dad: "My dear, you are pole vaulting over mouse terds." ~
"Don't get even, get ahead" ~ "Say horse shit!" [used to make my brothers and I smile at a camera]

My Mom: "BECAUSE!" ~ "Robert! [my Dad], stop showing the children how to take silverware/nifty napkins/centerpieces/glasses/salt and pepper shakers home from the restaurant!" ~ "Robert, you are NOT helping!"

My poor Mom. My dad is a bigger kid than we were.

[Amaurote]

"Don't do that, the wind might turn."

This was meant to convey the old superstition that a child pulling a face could have his/her expression frozen forever by a gale. I'm still terrified by that expression today.

However, my favourite has to be one regularly used by my grandmother, the malapropism "Don't be impittent [sic]"; she meant "impertinent", but this amazing portmanteau word always worked better, I'd say. It somehow merged the connotations of "impertinence" and "impotence" within the same exhortatory phrase.

[The_Roach]

That explains so much, Am...

[Redallnite]

I know this isn't a saying but daddy would say at the most unusual places "pull my finger". I fell for it every time.... Now he would say, are you digging for gold?

[Jennafer]

I can't remember...uh. I was in my own world as a child I guess...Money doesn't grow on trees and Life isn't fair. Oh, and I also remember... Curfew is at midnight. OUCH.:confused:

[aussie]

I bet Im not the only kid that had to be sure to have clean underware and a clean handkerchief every time I went out in case I got run over.
I really cant imagine some doctor saying "no lady Im not fixing your kid he has dirty underware"

"If you havnt got the brains to stop that boy Im going to keep belting you till you have"

The only reason Im where I am today is that the old man belted brains into me as a kid

[usantic]

Yup Yup!
Dad had the brain sayings also Aussie. After he'd taste something good he'd say: "That's so good it'll make your tongue slap your brains out!"
*looks for that jar of white lightnin'*

[aussie]

yep I spent my whole childhood either getting brains belted into me or the shit belted out of me.
How about either eat it or go with out? did anyone ever get that one?

[usantic]

I've got a variation of that one Aussie, My mom would say "Eat your (insert your least desirable food here), do you know how many hungry children there are in India?" To which my brother and I would respond, say it with me, "Here, let's send it to them." To which my dad would answer with, "I'm gonna hit you so hard its gonna send you into next week!"

[Amaurote]

Hahahahah - that's brilliant, Usantic: I'd have quite happily paid to see that exchange take place...it sounds a bit like The Sopranos, only without the Italian accents...

[LucifersChild]

"hey, whered this come from" long story, but basically i always had strange things in my room, even at a young age. pink floyd albums, kiss albums all over the place, i had much older brothers so i grew up with that. heh maybe ill say more about the strange things a lil later ;)

[usantic]

ooooooooo I almost forgot one my dad would say, but the "next week" saying refreshed my memory. Another he'd used when peeved at us would be: "I'll kick your ass so hard it'll make your nose bleed." *shrugs* Did I mention he did motivational speeches?

keep *insert deliquent activity* and i'll whoop your ass!