My dad always said two things..... "No one said life was fair" and "life's a (female dog) and then you die"
My mother would say things like, "There are kids starving in africa", "Wait til your father gets home", "Well, I'm not so and so's mother" when we'd complain that so and so was getting to do something we wanted to do, "If so and so jumped off a bridge would you?" and such.....
My grandfather was great for saying things you can't repeat in mixed company.......Like "it's colder than a witch's - - - in a brass bra" and yes, that was one of the cleaner sayings.......my favorite one is so and so "wouldn't know (poop) from shine-ola".
But he also had a way about him...like when ever he was excited he'd say in this deep baritone voice "Hole lee Gawd!" Whenever someone said,"have a nice day" He'd reply, "I always do". He'd say "Hun, there's only a few of us good ones left" when he was complimenting me on doing something good. And, "if it wern't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all". When we'd go off to church, he'd say, "say a prayer for us sinners." And he'd constantly remind us he wasn't going to die since "lucifer doesn't want to lose his job".
He called bread punk, candy poggie bait, and the government the giver-ment. He also would refer to Ronald Reagan as Bonzo(from the movies), the expensive minuit mart as Cheatin Chucks and my uncle in a derogatory nickname that I only learned was derogatory when I got older. He'd say things like "only mad dogs, englishmen and your grandpa are out in the noon day sun, hun", "He also referred to his service in WWII as "18 months entertaining the Jap-po-neese in the south pacific".
My Grandmother would say things like "ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die" Or whenever my grandfather would exclaim "God Bless....." in an angry way, she'd throw in "America" and start singing the song. She would also say to my mother, "stephanie, you are your father's daughter". My mother still is not sure if that was a compliment or not!
