Old sayings you heard while growing up
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This is a really old idea. An early English reference was first cited in 1612 by John Webster in his play "The White Devil." Act five, scene one, line 170: "For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas." Some claim it was first said in Latin by Seneca (54BC to 39AD): in Latin it is: qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent. Ben Franklin didn't originate it, but didn't mind stealing it for Poor Richard's Almanack. "He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas"
Not me. When my mama got mad, she was/still is crazy. I remember her whooping my brother once when we were growing up. She whooped him so bad, even I was crying. She’d tell me to go bring her a hickory stick for our whoopings. It was hell trying to pick one out. If it was too small , it would piss her off even more. If it was too big, I was afraid it would break my bones 😂
Don’t do as I do. Do as I say!
BECAUSE I said so
I wouldn’t ever want you to stop wanting
Yep. Picking out a switch was a delicate balance.
Indeed it was. I did deserve every whooping I ever got...and then some 😂
This one was pretty common, but I always heard "Don't let your mouth write a check your ass can't cash."
My son was very stubborn. I told him, you can be smart or you can be strong. You better pick one or you gonna be sore.
I'd make him do pushups with me if he couldn't be smart and follow the rules.
My favorite was
Me: "Mom, come here."
Mom: "No, you come here, it's closer!"
I'd make him do pushups with me if he couldn't be smart and follow the rules.
My favorite was
Me: "Mom, come here."
Mom: "No, you come here, it's closer!"
My dad said if I opened my mouth again he put something on me that Ajax wouldn't take off. I never tested him cause Marines, but I imagine that would have been a Hell of an ass whoopin.
To tell how much confidence someone had in a car,they would say”I wouldn’t be afraid to go to California in that car’.
"This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you." - My dad. (Right before whipping my ass).
Never got a whipping I didn't deserve though.
Never got a whipping I didn't deserve though.
Ya’ll remember when your Mom would turn the mixer on and the TV screen would start rolling?
or- the UHF and VHF dial? Back before REMOTES!?! When I was a little kid I WAS the remote!!
“Worthless as tits on a boar hog!”
-Arthur Ravenel
-Arthur Ravenel
If bullshit could fly this place would be an airport
He's as phony as a get well card from an Undertaker
He beat him like a dusty rug at spring cleaning
He couldn't spell Cat if you spotted him the "C" and the "A"
He's as phony as a get well card from an Undertaker
He beat him like a dusty rug at spring cleaning
He couldn't spell Cat if you spotted him the "C" and the "A"
As a kid, if I ever did anything remotely bad, my mother would always find out about it. I'd ask her how she found out and she'd always say, "A little birdie told me". If I could've found him I would've shot him with my BB gun.
Yep, I knew we were having mashed potatoes when that happened. Back when mashed potatoes came from potatoes, not a box.
To borrow a line from Bill Cosby - My mother must have been an expert on pigstys, because she would always come in my room and declare
"this room looks lie a pigsty.
"this room looks lie a pigsty.
Used to work with a lot of older guys in my late teens/early twenties, and some of the things I picked up are things I still hear occasionally today.
Hotter than two rats f*cking in a wool sock
Like "two midgets arm wrestling" or "two midgets fighting for air" (reference to boobs bouncing under a shirt or butt cheeks jiggling in pants) 😂
That's as f'ed up as a soup sandwich
That's as f'ed up as a football bat.
The devil is beating his wife (grandmother used to say that when it rained while the sun was out)
Hotter than two rats f*cking in a wool sock
Like "two midgets arm wrestling" or "two midgets fighting for air" (reference to boobs bouncing under a shirt or butt cheeks jiggling in pants) 😂
That's as f'ed up as a soup sandwich
That's as f'ed up as a football bat.
The devil is beating his wife (grandmother used to say that when it rained while the sun was out)
Not an old saying or anything particularly special, but my dad always told me and my siblings to "knock it off" when we were getting too raucous. It never came across to me as gruff or mean, as dad is neither of those. He just meant we needed to settle down. Now, when I tell my kids to knock it off, my wife looks at me like I just committed child abuse.
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My friend was a "steady Eddie" but he was always hanging out with "share crops".
Slang for promiscuous boys and girls from the 1950s, or so.
Hotter than a whore house on nickel night!
Slang for promiscuous boys and girls from the 1950s, or so.
Hotter than a whore house on nickel night!
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You could break a gd anvil iron boy!
All that glitters is not gold.
It is hotter than a man burning stumps .
Confucius says he who cuts his own firewood gets warm twice.
All that glitters is not gold.
It is hotter than a man burning stumps .
Confucius says he who cuts his own firewood gets warm twice.
Pay as you go, if you can’t pay don’t go.
from my grandmother and stuck with me
from my grandmother and stuck with me
Daddy would tell my 2 brothers and me, Ya'll better have this house cleaned up when your mama gets home and if it ain't clean ya'll gonna tote an ass whipping.
My first job after graduation.my boss was telling me about my job duties. When he finished he said he had only one rule, "Keep your peter out of your paycheck".
My grandparents were farmers and they watched the weather constantly. Whenever it was going to rain they would say "It's coming up a cloud".
My dad always said if your are going to be stupid, you gotta be tough.
My dad always said if your are going to be stupid, you gotta be tough.
"its better for people to wonder why you didnt speak, than why you did"
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