What sayings did your parents tell you as a kid?

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I am not kidding you, my dad told me this..

"There is no rhyme or reason why you can't have salamanders in your custard"


... My dad spouts all kinds of strange things.
 
"Hinting is in West Virginia." When I wanted something but wouldn't spit it out.
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"You've got more excuses than Carter's got liver pills." I think she was talking about President Jimmy Carter.
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These were different than anyone else's sayings. Oh, there was the "Go break me off a switch and if it's a little one, I'll go get one bigger than my finger to whip you with."
 
My grandmother: "If you're going to do something at all, do it right."

My grandfather: If you pull a horse tail hair and put it in his water trough, it will turn into a worm."


I also heard that one about the Watermelon seeds. HenZ
 
When we asked where he was going "up Mike's next to Jake's", my whole life I thought he had friends Mike & Jake!

My grandmother's maiden name was Dunn. Whenever we said "I'm done", he would say " no your not, my mother is Dunn"!

Take a long walk off a short pier.

Here's a dime, call someone who gives a hoot.

Hear that noise? That's my heart bleeding for you.

Geez, I could write a book!!!



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Goody revive this thread. My grandparents were a little off I think: Grandma always said "Goats fly on a low roof." Many years later I realized she was telling the truth. A lot of homes had sod roofs so the goats would Jump or climb (not fly) to graze.

Meanwhile grandpa always said "If grandma had wheels, she'd be a streetcar." Still haven't figured that one out.
 

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