Mum had a few:
“Home, James”
“Lead on, McDuff”
“You’re lucky I love you”
“You’re big enough and ugly enough to take care of yourself”
I say “Lead on McDuff” all the time
My mama says the first two a lot.
My Parents would always say “Home, James dont feed the horses”. I have absolutely no idea what it means or could mean.
Haha, apparently the original saying is “Home, James, and don’t spare the horses”. My mum told me it’s because a lot of carriage drivers were called James, and don’t spare the horses means to be quick about it. I don’t know if your parents said it differently because it amused them that way or some other reason, but I suppose the idea is there’s no time to feed the horses since we’re in a hurry.
My mom’s exasperated “shit a fiddle!” when fed up with something / something broke. When I was younger, she didn’t really say curse words around me except for this.
I’ve never heard any one else ever say this. Not in Appalachia, or anywhere. She probably made it up herself. But in the 80s she also dated a Korean War fighter pilot/POW (crashed, survived, & captured, unsure of release details). And he could have had a creative catalog of swears that she borrowed from.
You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but never pick your friend’s nose
I learned that from Grimm adventures of Billy and Mandy
Very true, that
Onward and sideways.
“We’re merrily going bankrupt”/ " We’re merrily destroying ourselves"
(Two version because it’s a translation)
Instead of swearing my mother would with say Snivelswitch or Son of a seacooks dishclothe.
“Super cool” - my dad
are you 15 or 50
When my parents would say something was really far away, instead of saying it was “out in Timbuktu” like everyone else here, they would go “it’s out in Gadansk, Poland!” I think it’s a really place but like why there specifically? Neither of them had ever been. We are not Polish. Just why lmao.
My mom used to say “been ____-ing looong?” with a silly twang. No idea where she got that from and I’ve never heard anyone else do it. Like, if you trip she’d say been walkin’ looong? If you choke on your soda, she’d say been drinkin’ looong?
Some kind of weird hick thing, I’m sure.
I remember a similar one from the 90s. If someone stumbled someone else inevitably would say “walk much?”. Or with a traffic mistake “drive much?”.
It evolved into just anything that came into someone’s head, like if someone had a premonition “Nostradamus much?”
I’m glad it died.
I remember this.
Also, me too.
My dad referred to all fast food as KenTacoHut. Trucks as Pick-em-up-trucks. I know it’s a thing, but I don’t really hear anyone saying “a month of Sundays” to mean “a long time” since he passed.
Dad: “I’m so T-A-R-D tired, I could F-A-R-T faint.”
My grandpa when he would get up from a chair/the couch he would always say, “Going to have to call American Hoist and Derrick”.
Now, as I’m north of 40 I found myself saying it too which is funny since the company left the market where I live 9 years ago.
anywho
You must’ve never been to the Midwest. I hear it all the time here.
I get irrationally annoyed when I hear that one.
And it really is irrational. I say ‘Yup’ quite often, and there’s not much difference when you get down to brass tacks
“You’re so handsome”
I bet you think this song is about you…
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Älä välitä, ei se villekään välittänyt, kun sen väliaikaiset välihousut jäi väliaikaisen välitystoimiston väliaikaisen välioven väliin.
Rough translation: Don’t worry about it - Ville didn’t care either when his temporary long johns got caught in the temporary side door of the temporary temp agency.
I love this! What is the language? Danish, Swedish, or am I totally off base?
It’s Finnish
