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geardaddy

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39. My mom used to say this...
Fri Jun 22, 2012, 12:51 PM
Jun 2012

If asked her to get us something while we were sitting around, she'd say "Are your legs painted on?" I know she got that from her mother, because *she'd* say it to us when we visited her.

Mother: want something to cry about? I'll give you something to cry about! ohiosmith Jun 2012 #1
Jeannies dad when she was little: :Wake up and pee, the world's on fire." panader0 Jun 2012 #2
My mother said the same thing. smokey nj Jun 2012 #21
Mine did too. pipi_k Jun 2012 #27
I had ALWAYS done it. MiddleFingerMom Jun 2012 #53
My father too. Frankly, it's just plain mean. nolabear Jun 2012 #62
My grandmother was wonderful that way. nolabear Jun 2012 #3
My mother would often say, "Don't come running to me if you break your leg." Ptah Jun 2012 #4
"If you hurt yourself, I'll spank you." EFerrari Jun 2012 #14
"Go get the wooden spoon!" Ptah Jun 2012 #16
"Go fetch me a switch" Art_from_Ark Jun 2012 #18
In houston it was bamboo switches. Manifestor_of_Light Jun 2012 #47
Bamboo switches-- yikes Art_from_Ark Jun 2012 #67
Every time I think about it, I feel like my brain is on fire in terror. Manifestor_of_Light Jun 2012 #68
The wooden spoon at our house was called "The No-no" geardaddy Jun 2012 #38
For as long as I can remember whenever I had the hiccups OriginalGeek Jun 2012 #5
BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!! MiddleFingerMom Jun 2012 #54
This message was self-deleted by its author MicaelS Jun 2012 #6
My granny used to say... one_voice Jun 2012 #7
"gosh all fish hooks" cyberswede Jun 2012 #8
My all time favorite: turtlerescue1 Jun 2012 #9
Whenever I'd ask my dad if we could do this or that (usually involving cash expenditure)... bluesbassman Jun 2012 #10
"Be thankful for your food! There are starving kids in Africa!" Art_from_Ark Jun 2012 #11
CARE ads, iirc. My uncle called me out for being skinny as a teen by calling me a CARE ad. lol EFerrari Jun 2012 #13
My mom's guilt country pipi_k Jun 2012 #31
In my house it was "kids are starving in China". southerncrone Jun 2012 #51
At my house, the national TV news would come on at dinnertime Art_from_Ark Jun 2012 #52
For my mom it was India ashling Jun 2012 #77
I got that one from my mom. Odin2005 Jun 2012 #64
Tons. EFerrari Jun 2012 #12
Oh, my other grandma once told my brother OriginalGeek Jun 2012 #15
I had a grandfather who said this one... Archae Jun 2012 #17
"Too windy to haul gravel" would be a VERY high wind! davsand Jun 2012 #42
Dad always had the right expression for any occasion Generic Other Jun 2012 #19
Hi, G.O. What's "chicken butt?" Bertha Venation Jun 2012 #35
We raised turkeys when I was young erinlough Jun 2012 #37
I heard it called "The parson's nose". Manifestor_of_Light Jun 2012 #45
I've heard that as "funny as a rubber crutch" ... eppur_se_muova Jun 2012 #66
"Shit for the birds" bif Jun 2012 #20
what context did she use it in? fizzgig Jun 2012 #57
My grandmother would say that! Avalux Jun 2012 #72
"When my ship comes in" was my mother's standard response whenever I asked her if she smokey nj Jun 2012 #22
Can someone explain "can of corn" Rambis Jun 2012 #23
This one is a "can of corn" to answer grandtrio Jun 2012 #28
Ahhh "piece of piss" Rambis Jun 2012 #30
If someone was poor, crunch60 Jun 2012 #56
When I used to play baseball/softball OriginalGeek Jun 2012 #41
My mother has some phrases Fortinbras Armstrong Jun 2012 #24
All of my Grandparents were Slovak, so the translation to English isn't quite the same but, livetohike Jun 2012 #25
Grandma was from Ireland... Iggo Jun 2012 #26
hahahahahahaha Bertha Venation Jun 2012 #34
My grandma was a real character. femmocrat Jun 2012 #29
For a fairly prudish guy... pipi_k Jun 2012 #32
Mom: your ass is grass and I'm the lawn mower Bertha Venation Jun 2012 #33
Mrs. Astor’s pet horse frogmarch Jun 2012 #36
My mom used to say this... geardaddy Jun 2012 #39
For my grandfather, anybody that wasn't white NewJeffCT Jun 2012 #40
My dad... Wait Wut Jun 2012 #43
A few: The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2012 #44
Mom's east texas expressions. Manifestor_of_Light Jun 2012 #46
getting euchred isn't getting cheated fizzgig Jun 2012 #58
Thanks! Manifestor_of_Light Jun 2012 #61
My parents were hillbillies kurtzapril4 Jun 2012 #48
When she was tired, instead of a sigh, justgamma Jun 2012 #49
sounds like part of a ditty Mom used to sing: annabanana Jun 2012 #73
"Out in the tules..." hunter Jun 2012 #50
"what have you got besides a habit?" vanlassie Jun 2012 #55
Pray for fog in Worchester Throckmorton Jun 2012 #59
mom would describe the REALLY rich as ldf Jun 2012 #60
My grandmother called the kneading cats do "making butter". My other grandmother used to applegrove Jun 2012 #63
Instead of saying "Well, I'll be damned."... GoCubsGo Jun 2012 #65
"So? Sew buttons on ice cream!" DirkGently Jun 2012 #69
"That's just the kind of Hair Pin I am" annabanana Jun 2012 #70
also: "By the Borey-eyed Johnson". (I expect it's of Swedish origin) . . . n/t annabanana Jun 2012 #71
My Nana taught me to "swear" when I was 3. Whenever I was upset I was to say, GreenPartyVoter Jun 2012 #74
Both my parents (born in 1924) said "For corn's sake" pink-o Jun 2012 #75
"I was raised in the sticks," then he'd point somewhere. "Act like a monkey!" meaning Honeycombe8 Jun 2012 #76
Expressions dothemath Jan 2013 #78
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