What the old folks used to say........

[RealJimbo]

My friend Larry - "well, my gravy"
My friend Steve - "cool beans"
My grandma - "I'll swan"
My dad - "what in Sam Hill"
My dad - "what in the cat hair"
My dad - "higher than a cat's back"
My dad - "hotter than twenty dollars"
My father in law - "hotter than a two dollar pistol"
My mother in law - "not if you want to keep on livin'"
My friend from the hood - "I'll hit you so hard your mother will feel it"
My father in law - "more nervous than a w___e in Church"


I'm sure there are more...

[normanite]

One I used to hear too many times:..............
"__________________ ____ ____________ (that was my complete name with the middle name included) "I am going to Beat your Butt young man."....anyone else ever hear that with YOUR complete name mentioned????

Oh Yeah, not my family but I heard that many times with some of my friends mother's They would use the full name including the middle name.

[Prunepicker]

One I used to hear too many times...

"__________________ ____ ____________ (that was my complete name with
the middle name included) "I am going to Beat your Butt young man." anyone
else ever hear that with YOUR complete name mentioned?

Only when I was in deep doo doo.

[Generals64]

Only when I was in deep doo doo.

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Deep??? when my Mom lowered herself to making that statement I was making sure the Hospital was on Stand by.....She could get upset sometimes....But, when the three names began to roll off her tongue it was soooooo Badddd....Still miss her though.....I'd stand there and take the whipping just to see her again.....

[papaOU]

Spoilt. Leave that milk alone! It's spoilt!!

[Generals64]

"Slap the Dog and Spit on the Fire"......What????

[CarltonsKeeper]

"Slap the Dog and Spit on the Fire"......What????

You can tell whose been watching the Judd's tonight!! LMAO

[Prunepicker]

As fast as you can say Jack Robinson!

[papaOU]

Busy as a three legged cat in a sandbox...

[PennyQuilts]

As fast as you can say Jack Robinson!

Oh, I hadn't heard that one in awhile!

[Generals64]

I'll be a Monkey's Uncle....: If my nephew did to someone like that Monkey back east did..I'd personally take him out...Or I'd let Prunepicker claim him. That was horrible.....I feel for that lady and my prayers go out for her to the greatest extent....

[PennyQuilts]

I'll be a Monkey's Uncle....: If my nephew did to someone like that Monkey back east did..I'd personally take him out...Or I'd let Prunepicker claim him. That was horrible.....I feel for that lady and my prayers go out for her to the greatest extent....

She sounds like she has an absolutely incredibly positive attitude.

[Generals64]

She sounds like she has an absolutely incredibly positive attitude.

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Don't know if anyone saw the interview but, that lady is in horrible shape but, she had a dead positive attitude.....She said: " I'm the same person I just look different.".... The lady that owned the monkey...I feel sorry for her...That Chimp was a problem animal that had NOT been neutered and was very aggressive. Me personally I don't want to get too close to a wild animal. We had an Orangutan for a promotion with TG&Y he was "Crazy".....

[papaOU]

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Don't know if anyone saw the interview but, that lady is in horrible shape but, she had a dead positive attitude.....She said: " I'm the same person I just look different.".... The lady that owned the monkey...I feel sorry for her...That Chimp was a problem animal that had NOT been neutered and was very aggressive. Me personally I don't want to get too close to a wild animal. We had an Orangutan for a promotion with TG&Y he was "Crazy".....

I once kept monkeys during the late 60's until the mid-70's. Squirrel Monkeys and Capucin.
These animals have to be dealt with in a method that few people know. Such as you don't put your hands in their armpits to lift them up. They will go nuts. That's why you see a handler take them by the hands and lift them up. If you don't pay attention and "work" with them regularly they will start to revert to their wild demeanor and habits. Many return to that behavior more than once. Maybe a couple of months or a couple of years but it will happen.
Every once in awhile one would get out and roam the neighborhood. They never went far and the only thing you had to worry about was it might get hit by a car or some kid messes with them.
Augustus got out once and I saw him heading home using the sidewalk. As he went from the curb to the street, the cat that had been stalking him attacked. I thought I might lose him because in a flash he rolled the cat and jumped on his back. That cat was running, rolling, bucking, anything to get away. He finally did and Augustus came home. Have never seen anything that funny since.

[Generals64]

"Shoot low Sheriff......He's riding a Shetland"....Never could figure that one out.....Anyone else????

[PennyQuilts]

"Shoot low Sheriff......He's riding a Shetland"....Never could figure that one out.....Anyone else????

I think it is a reference to mental horsepower.

[Prunepicker]

Slow as molasses in January.

What does that have to do with the price of eggs in China?

[PennyQuilts]

Eggs? We always said tea in China.

[Prunepicker]

I think the idea was the irony when someone interjected a statement that
was totally off the wall. Much like the political threads LOL!

[Prunepicker]

How about, "I wouldn't do that for all the tea in China!"

Hey! I'm older! LOL!

[Prunepicker]

Here's one that came up during Thanksgiving dinner.

Honest Injun! It means I'm telling the truth.

[gen70]

Here's one that came up during Thanksgiving dinner.

Honest Injun! It means I'm telling the truth.

Hadn't heard that one in awhile.

[Generals64]

How about this:....Just you wait until your Daddy gets home....And then she'd beat the heck out of you.....I didn't know if I wanted Daddy to come home if it was going to be worse than that.....He'd just give you that "Look".....

[rcjunkie]

Not really a saying, but everyone my step dads age (81) and older, walked a a mile to school and in a foot of snow.

He did have a few other stories/tales that he would say, but that's for the OKCTALK-R-RATED THREAD

[RealJimbo]

How about this:....Just you wait until your Daddy gets home....And then she'd beat the heck out of you.....I didn't know if I wanted Daddy to come home if it was going to be worse than that.....He'd just give you that "Look".....

The "look" was all it took for me after one good whoopin from Dad. I have been told by my grown daughters that I've always had the "look", but I don't see it. It truly struck fear in me down to my socks.