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maybebaby
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Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
I thought this might be funny...our family actually has a FB group dedicated to something we call "nannyisms". I can actually publish a book, there are so many great ones. She is 83 years old, and one of the sharpest and funniest women I've ever known.
here are a few sayings...
"I don't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of!"
"I laughed so hard the tears rolled down my legs!"
If someone burps she says "Well excuse the cow, the pig is here"
"I always knew I was pregnant when my beer started tasting funny.."
Anything your grandparents/great grandparents say that you don't really hear people say?? Or is my nanny just insane? LOL
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maybebaby
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
one more..
"wish in one hand, poop in the other and see what you get first". 
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| Posted 10/10/12 10:51 PM |
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
An old friend told me she remembers the advice my grandmother gave to my friends when we were in 8th grade: if you sit on a boy's lap, put a phone book in between you so you don't get pregnant.
Yep, that was my grandmother.
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| Posted 10/10/12 11:05 PM |
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ladybug8
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Awe! Well, my mom is 83 and she has a few:
"I need to spend a penny." (use the ladies room)
"Be good, if not, be careful" (when I would go out!  )
"Patience is a virtue, have it if you can. It's found seldom in a woman, but never in a man!"
"Who is she? The cat's mother?" (when I would use a pronoun when referring to her)
"No rest for the wicked"
"A watched pot never cooks!"
"I can't remember what I was going to say-it must have been a lie."
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| Posted 10/10/12 11:07 PM |
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maybebaby
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by ladybug8
Awe! Well, my mom is 83 and she has a few:
"I need to spend a penny." (use the ladies room)
"Be good, if not, be careful" (when I would go out! )
"Patience is a virtue, have it if you can. It's found seldom in a woman, but never in a man!"
"Who is she? The cat's mother?" (when I would use a pronoun when referring to her)
"No rest for the wicked"
"A watched pot never cooks!"
"I can't remember what I was going to say-it must have been a lie."
OMG LOL! "who is she, the cats mother" is another one she says!! I've NEVER heard anyone else say that..
Those are all awesome!
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| Posted 10/10/12 11:13 PM |
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maybebaby
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by Kerie-is-so-very
An old friend told me she remembers the advice my grandmother gave to my friends when we were in 8th grade: if you sit on a boy's lap, put a phone book in between you so you don't get pregnant.
Yep, that was my grandmother.
LOL!!!!
I wonder if it works?
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| Posted 10/10/12 11:13 PM |
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CunningOne
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
So many and I am too tired now to think of them...
But I remember as a kid, when my dad would be going somewhere and we'd all be asking him "where are you going?" And he's reply, every time, "To see a man about a horse." I have no idea why, if it had meaning, if it meant anything, but I remember it!
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| Posted 10/10/12 11:16 PM |
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ElizaRags35
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Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Not my grandmother but I remember getting ready to go out on a group date with my friends and my new bf when I was in high school. My mother was nervous because he was an older boy and she told me that I should listen to what Christina Aguilera was saying in Genie in a Bottle - specifically these lines:
You're licking your lips and blowing kisses my way
But that don't mean I'm gonna give it away
Hormones racing at the speed of light
But that don't mean it's gotta be tonight
Message edited 10/10/2012 11:28:48 PM.
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| Posted 10/10/12 11:28 PM |
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My dad, who is in his 70s used to always say, "do you think the rain will hit to rhubarb? Not if its in a can." Lol still have no idea why or what it means.
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| Posted 10/10/12 11:37 PM |
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
He doesn't have a pot to piss in.
(no money)
That baby is in piss up to his eyeballs. (wet diaper)
Time to go to Lily White's Party.
(time to go to bed)
She is 3 sheets to the wind. (drunk)
Why don't I just stick a broom up my a$$ and sweep.
(I am already busy, now you want me to do something else?)
She is the cat's Mother. (never refer to your Mother as "She")
Some popular words:
ojeda-heartburn
drawers-underwear
Schmata- house coat
Message edited 10/10/2012 11:52:04 PM.
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| Posted 10/10/12 11:49 PM |
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sfp0701
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
When I left the door to the lake house upstate open, "did you grow up in a barn"?
When they switched to Fios and EVERY SINGLE DAY they couldn't get the remote to work and someone had to come over and fix it. "I can't get this darn FEEEEos to work".
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| Posted 10/11/12 7:09 AM |
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maymama
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
my DH and I always laugh because both of his sets of grandparents (more his Dad's Dad and Mom's Mom) say "and how!" when they agree with something it has become an ongoing joke between the two of us 
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| Posted 10/11/12 8:42 AM |
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Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Whenever one of my grandparents would pass gas my grandma would say "Hi Charlie" I don't know why lol
My other Grandma had "rules" for driving-
No left turns and don't brush your teeth when driving lol.
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| Posted 10/11/12 8:55 AM |
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Eunyboo
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
LOL! These are hilarious!
My grandma still says if she had known how great sex was, she would've started sooner. lmfao. That's my grams!
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| Posted 10/11/12 8:56 AM |
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ALD618
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by maybebaby
one more..
"wish in one hand, poop in the other and see what you get first".
Ha...this is like my mom's favorite saying...except with sh*t instead of poop.
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| Posted 10/11/12 9:14 AM |
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ItsaJoya19
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by ladybug8
"Who is she? The cat's mother?" (when I would use a pronoun when referring to her)
Yes! My dad always said that when we referred to my mom as "she".
eta:
From my nanny (grandma) who married my Polish grandfather:
"I'm only Polish by injection!"
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july4mrsO
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Some pearls of wisdom from my dad (who is pushing 80):
"What am I? Chopped liver?"
"Hark!" (whenever someone belches)
"Don't show your a$$ to the world" (he means keep your business to yourself, not literally your butt )
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| Posted 10/11/12 9:23 AM |
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halfbaked
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by Eunified
LOL! These are hilarious!
My grandma still says if she had known how great sex was, she would've started sooner. lmfao. That's my grams!
When my grandma gets drunk she likes to tell me stories about how she used to "dress provacatively", the shorter the skirt the better!  Grandma!!!
My grandpa was Irish and he always used to say he'd "box your legs" if you did something bad. I don't know what it meant but I certainly didn't want me legs boxed.
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MandJZ
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
This is just a cute thing my grandmother does (she's going to be 90 in a few months and has been responding this way every single day since my grandfather died 7 years ago).
"Bubie (Jewish word for grandmother), how are you feeling?"
Bubie: "Like an old Bubie."
Every single time. Without fail. She doesn't always remember everything anymore, but she always remembers to say that!
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Bearcat
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by CunningOne
So many and I am too tired now to think of them...
But I remember as a kid, when my dad would be going somewhere and we'd all be asking him "where are you going?" And he's reply, every time, "To see a man about a horse." I have no idea why, if it had meaning, if it meant anything, but I remember it!
OMG my dad used to say that all the time! I wonder if it's from an old movie....??
Aha:
See a man about a horse
Message edited 10/11/2012 9:38:41 AM.
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maybebaby
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by MandJZ
This is just a cute thing my grandmother does (she's going to be 90 in a few months and has been responding this way every single day since my grandfather died 7 years ago).
"Bubie (Jewish word for grandmother), how are you feeling?"
Bubie: "Like an old Bubie."
Every single time. Without fail. She doesn't always remember everything anymore, but she always remembers to say that!
Awwww...
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| Posted 10/11/12 9:46 AM |
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kahlua716
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by CunningOne
So many and I am too tired now to think of them...
But I remember as a kid, when my dad would be going somewhere and we'd all be asking him "where are you going?" And he's reply, every time, "To see a man about a horse." I have no idea why, if it had meaning, if it meant anything, but I remember it!
My dad says this too.
He said it to DD and my niece (2 and 3 yrs old) and they both started whining that they wanted to see a horse too
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| Posted 10/11/12 9:50 AM |
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maybebaby
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by kahlua716
Posted by CunningOne
So many and I am too tired now to think of them...
But I remember as a kid, when my dad would be going somewhere and we'd all be asking him "where are you going?" And he's reply, every time, "To see a man about a horse." I have no idea why, if it had meaning, if it meant anything, but I remember it!
My dad says this too.
He said it to DD and my niece (2 and 3 yrs old) and they both started whining that they wanted to see a horse too
I just read that it was a phrase from an old western movie..it was a way to say "i need to use the restroom". LOL.
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| Posted 10/11/12 9:51 AM |
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kahlua716
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by july4mrsO
"What am I? Chopped liver?"
My mom says this 
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| Posted 10/11/12 9:53 AM |
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KristenRSF
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Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
"I look like who did it and ran"
"I almost went ass over teakettle"
"I'm watching my stories"
I'm fit to be tied!"
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