Strange sayings that parents had.......

[Laffitupfzbl]

My Mom's all time best ever saying (and this is saying a lot cause the woman talked nonstop): I think she was in a snit with my older brother who had moved back home after an unsuccessful marriage. Something about money and or cleaning up after him. So she was in the living room ranting, and her final words on the subject (and believe me, everyone knew when the final words were, and it was VERY unwise to attempt to continue the conversation) were: "And you can tell him that this b!tch is tired and this bank is closed." That line still gets said by one of the five of us siblings or one of my two best friends (both present at the time of the speech) at least weekly and this is 23 years later.

As for my Dad, well, his nickname is Waltzilla the Hot Fudge Sundae Killah. The man loves sweets. He's always saying something funny, but our favorite from yesteryear is when you'd ask him for money. He would invariably respond with some gem ("I don't crap gold, ya know.") then you'd get a HUGE sigh, then he would do the wallet lean to one side to remove the wallet from his back pocket. We still imitate the wallet lean, and when we go out to eat somewhere and he has to do it to pay his bill, we all kinda hold our breath then crack up laughing when he does it.

[Bageleth]

My granddad said something that kind of made our jaws drop on year. He was slowly heading toward dementia when this happened, and we had noticed that as he aged, he cared less and less about not swearing in front of the kids etc. So about 5 years ago, we (the whole family) had just had Father's Day dinner with him. After we gave him our cards, he looked through them and said, "You should just give cards that say what you really want. 'Happy Father's Day you dirty old bastard!'". We had never heard him talk like that before and we were so shocked that we laughed.

My husband and I still laugh about that and he quotes it nearly everytime we're out looking for cards or on any card giving holiday

[2Beers]

My dad is gone, but this saying was prompted from an incident when he was a young boy in the 1 room country school house. The teacher was in the front and teaching something and my dad leaned over to his cousin and quietly said "who cares". Of course the teacher heard and threatened to make everyone pay the price unless the guilty party came forth. So my dad raised his hand and his punishment was to write 1000 times over and over --- In Any Endeavor Large or Small Full Cooperation Is Required For Any Level Of Success ---
Some others were " Yah, yah just 1 more thing and I'll be done ( or we can go)" I'm told I have inherited that trait and also "Old age and treachery will always over come youth and ability".

[zenjen]

My dad was brought up on a farm, and he had many colorful expressions for many different things.

1. "It's drier than a popcorn fart" - it's really dry outside.
2. "Oh, it looks like they're loading up the turd hearse" - they're loading a manure spreader
3. "He's So-and-So's brother" - always used, no matter how absurd, when people had the same last name (like Jesse Jackson and Andrew Jackson, just as an example)
4. "She looks like she was rode hard and put away wet." - kind of self explanatory
5. "The only thing better than pie is more pie." - this was used just this past weekend at Thanksgiving dinner. This is my favorite =)