Stuff people say

[gryeyes]

Stuff said around me when I was a child, and which befuddled me for the longest time:

"It's always feast or famine around here." Really, Granny? We never starved and we certainly never had too many left-overs. And we weren't talking about food just now, anyway...

"Your father painted the town red last night." Whatever for? Isn't that kinda odd? All red? That's a LOT of paint...

Because Granny grew up in a far different time, and in Kansas (perhaps that has no bearing), she knew she couldn't use a particularly perjorative word for African Americans. So she always said, "Our chocolate brown brothers." My mother always shushed her anyway.


A little ditty my dad would sing when served a particular entre: "Beans, beans, the musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot. The more you toot, the better your feel, so I eat beans with every meal!"

"Little pitchers have big ears!" (Pitchers? Like the jug thing in which Kool-Aid or orange juice is poured?)

"Hmmm, sounds like the engine is missing." MISSING??!?!?! The ENGINE?? Why are you so calm about it! How are we gonna stop at the bottom of this hill? Where did the engine go? Daddy! I don't understand!

"The only thing you are allowed to put in your ears are your elbows." Y'all don't know how many wasted minutes I spent trying to do just that, every now and then......

 

[DuckLady]

Please keep this thread clean, suitable for all ages and remember that bypassing the word censor is the same as using the profanity you are trying to convey.

 

[sheila3935]

Oh for cryin in your bean soup. That what DH says all the time drives me crazy.

 

[KristyHall]

when i am trying to censor myself and I hurt myself I shout " Oh snickers bar!"

ever feel depressed or nervous or like you messed up but you don't know why? We call it a "free floating guilt complex"

we also say "uglier than a shaved monkey"

 

[debilorrah]

Quote:
My favorite non-cuss phrase is fudge monkies to convey frustration.

 

[chickened]

"Stick me with a fork I am done" I say alot when finishing a job.

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

I say fudge monkies too, Debi!!

I also say booger breath!

BTW whats a tarnation???

 

[debilorrah]

I have WHAT in my yard? :

I say fudge monkies too, Debi!!

I also say booger breath!

BTW whats a tarnation???

It falls in the same category as a peef. The singular term for peeves. I like to say "Why on God's green marble...."​

 

[SierraView]

My Dh says some funny stuff and I don't know where he comes up with it. I was thinking of a good one he says and they all seem on the naughty side

. He says stuff like Pumped up like a $2 show dog. And he calls me biscuit because I soak up all the gravy. I now know that means he does the hard work and i do the easy stuff.

Sometimes I think he makes them up. Last week we were working on a project and he said to me, I should call you google you just know everything. He's just learning to use the internet, and totally amazed by it

 

[Glenmar]

How about " I am fine as frogs hair"