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06-02-2012, 06:18 PM | #1 |
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Old sayings or sayings from old folks
I was working on my fence hammering some nails today and it made me think of something my grandpa said along time ago. We were building my folks new house and he was watching me work and said " You hammer like lighting, you never hit same place twice."
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06-02-2012, 07:54 PM | #2 |
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Re: Old sayings or sayings from old folks
My dad always called my brother-inlaw BLISTER,he aways showed up after the work was done
my favorite was"that's harder than sticking a noodle up a dogs but" he had a lot I can't repeat,I'll get SPANKED |
06-02-2012, 09:24 PM | #3 |
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Re: Old sayings or sayings from old folks
One of my all-time favorites is "you can show me a whole lot better than you can tell me"
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06-02-2012, 09:26 PM | #4 |
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If 'ya can't hack it, get your jacket.
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06-02-2012, 09:28 PM | #5 |
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Re: Old sayings or sayings from old folks
"my "screw"ups look better'n your best work.
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06-02-2012, 11:00 PM | #6 |
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Re: Old sayings or sayings from old folks
Hotter then a pop corn fart. Colder then a well diggers destination. Many many more!
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06-02-2012, 11:44 PM | #7 |
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Re: Old sayings or sayings from old folks
That boy's slower than pond water.
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06-03-2012, 09:06 AM | #8 |
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Re: Old sayings or sayings from old folks
A couple of my favorites:
"You're like a wheelbarrow, I have to push you to get you to work" "Handy as a pocket on a shirt"
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06-03-2012, 09:18 AM | #9 |
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Re: Old sayings or sayings from old folks
Dumm'erna snot bubble..
One from my dad, My sister "Betty" was a big gal, but that didnt stopher from trying to wear little gal clothes, she figured it she could get it on, it fit. Well one summer she came to our house wearing a tiny ill fitting sun dress, to which my dad commented. "Too much Betty, not enough dress". I still use that one quite often here in our lovely little community,
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06-03-2012, 09:24 AM | #10 |
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06-03-2012, 12:19 PM | #11 |
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Re: Old sayings or sayings from old folks
My dad used to always say "Don't confuse him with the facts, His mind is already made up"
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06-03-2012, 12:25 PM | #12 |
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Ya know, when I first met you, I thought you was just a regular ol' dummy. But after getting to know ya better, I gotta take that back, you ain't just a regular dummy. You're some special kind'a dummy like I ain't never seen before.
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06-03-2012, 12:28 PM | #13 |
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Hold up. Lets don't confuse the issue up with the facts!
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06-03-2012, 12:30 PM | #14 |
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He's lucky enough to **** in a swinging bucket.
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06-03-2012, 12:31 PM | #15 |
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You must be related to Bob Hope. You're his brother, ain't 'ya, No Hope?
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06-03-2012, 12:32 PM | #16 |
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He's got enough money to burn a wet mule.
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06-03-2012, 12:43 PM | #17 |
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Bowed up like a cutworm.
If I was to get any tighter I'd wring off at the waist. I'm so dadgum quick, when I go to bed I can cut off the light at the door and be in the bed before the room gets dark.
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06-03-2012, 12:48 PM | #18 |
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Re: Old sayings or sayings from old folks
"Madder than an ole wet hen"
"Crazy as a June Bug" "Dumb as a bucket of coal" "Nervous as a long tail cat in a room full of rockers" "He worked me like a borrowed mule"
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06-03-2012, 03:49 PM | #19 |
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Busier 'n a one-eye cat tryin' ta watch 3 rat holes.
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06-03-2012, 03:59 PM | #20 |
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Dad to me or one of my 3 brothers-
Do I need to light a fire under your azz! I'm gonna jerk a knot in your butt! I just don't know about that boy! Then line us all up and say-Which one of you is the "Other one" that did it? And,after we had used some of his tools-"Everytime I need to work on something,I have to mow the grass to find my tools! He really said these things!Very often! Mike. |
06-03-2012, 04:52 PM | #21 |
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My dad would say son-of-a-bisquit insead of the other
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06-03-2012, 06:47 PM | #22 |
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My H.S. science teacher who was a B-17 WWII vet, use to always tell the class in the morning. "Sit down before ya fall down"
He was one of those teachers in ones life that ya never forget.
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06-03-2012, 11:36 PM | #23 |
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I had a old co-worker who would tell me to
"go stick your right eye in sh*t !" every time he caught me looking/checking his work. And a old huntin buddy who would say "thats slicker than owl sh*t on a door knob" every time one of us younin's brought some new gadget too hunting camp
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"it is easier to stay up than catch up"
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06-04-2012, 10:39 AM | #25 |
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My grandmother used to tell us "you'd worry the horns off a billy goat." Now at times I tell my son the same thing
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