Things Mom used to say...(or your Dad)

[jojo54]

Stop making that face, your face will freeze that way.

Don't look through that screen door, you'll get pinkeye!

Don't play with your belly button, you'll go blind.

She also had a saying in Romanian that she would say if we tripped, translated she said something about "God punishing you without using a stick" or something like that.

 

[debilorrah]

"Colder than a molasses tree in January"
"Don;t eat them watermelon seeds. A vine will grow out your belly"
"Stop crossing your eyes before they get stuck like that"
"If it rains when the sun is shining, put your ear to the ground to hear the devil beatin his wife"

 

[welsummerchicks]

Flat foot floodgie with the floy floy! (an old Fats Waller song lyric from the 20's or 30's - she had lots of those)

J'ai un grenouille au front (my sister taught her this sentence as a joke, it's French for 'I have a frog on my forehead' - I have no idea what she told my mom it meant, I don't WANNA know! She also tried to teach my mother to say,'There are eels in my hovercraft', that was too hard)

Muchacha pate!

Mingua!

Awwwww, how can I stay mad, look at that punam! (face, in Yiddish)

Nuuuu? (Yiddish, for 'ohhh, how about you?')

Heech ta dome spatch! Your mama cookah you yay-yay (hurry home, your mom is cooking you eggs - in Polish/Yiddish I think - she lived in a multi-ethnic neighborhood in the big city and loved to listen to the mothers calling their children at meal time, in various mixtures of english and their original language)

 

[yinepu]

"slower than molasses runnin up hill in February"

"you're dumber than a box of rocks in a snowstorm"

 

[ChickyLove]

"He/she hasn't got the common sense God gave a toaster" (I use this one sometimes)

"You think I'm yelling? I'm not yelling - THIS IS YELLLLLLINGGGGGG!!!!"

 

[Criskin]

My Mom had quite a few. The ones I can remember offhand are:

"It's colder than a well digger's behind." (Except she didn't say behind.)

That would gag a maggot off a gut wagon.

And the one I hated most, the one to end any argument even when my logic was rock solid: "I'm the Mommy. That's why!"

 

[chickendude]

When we asked our parents where we were going.... They would say "crazy wanna come"
If we asked where something was they would respond "up in Marys' room behind the clock" But there was no Mary in our house.
I have to admit

I use these lines on all three of my kids.

 

[pinkwindsong]

Quote:
oooooohhhh this is not just a quote this is a Mothers curse... and it always come true.. ...

 

[fuzziebutt]

I used to threaten to beat the hair off my boys. And I have threatened to beat the feathers off the chickens, too. Dad used to say
"Argueing with an idiot is like wrasslin' a pig. You just get dirty, and the pig likes it". Whenever he had a line of bull, he would tell my boys "Lemmie tell ya something, son".

 

[jojo@rolling acres farm]

"If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all!"

"He doesn't have anymore brains than the man in the moon!"

"If your friend jumped off a cliff - would you?"