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LIMomma
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Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
What are we having for dinner answer: wind pudding and air sauce
Don't marry a man that doesn't have dirt under his fingernails, that means he doesn't get his hands dirty with anything.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph (when she's mad)
Make sure you have a nickel in your pocket to call home
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
What's for dinner? "Fried farts and snowballs."
She told me. "She's the cat's mother."
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| Posted 10/11/12 6:01 PM |
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computergirl
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
When I was in my early 20's and broke up with a guy I was seeing because he cheated on me, my grandma said "What?! You don't need him! Tell him to go find a hole in the wall and just stick it in there!"
Go Grandma 
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| Posted 10/11/12 6:04 PM |
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NAK729
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Nancy
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
My Nanny was Sicilian and lived in Brooklyn...
We had a "frigidaire" (refrigerator) where you would put "bitza" (pizza) and on the counter was the "earl" (oil)!!
Some of her famous sayings were:
"When I wish, I wish I wish, and when I wish...I really wish"
"I don't know what it is, but when I eat, I get full"
"Just shove the broom up my a$$ so I can sweep the floor too"
"Tell him to go sit on this and rotate" (as she was sticking up her middle finger)
or "Tell him to go scratch"
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| Posted 10/11/12 7:04 PM |
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
My mom (72) says:
Earl (oil)
Terlet (toilet)
My dad used to say this a lot when I asked him a question (i.e., who was on the phone, what were you talking about)
"What are you doing, writing a book?"
If I answered "Yes" he'd say
"Skip this chapter, it's a mystery"
"Who knew!"
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| Posted 10/11/12 7:45 PM |
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Sweetlax22
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
My mom says "making time" when you are flirting or talking to a potential love interest. We make fun of her a lot for this.
Great grandmother " you have to eat a peck of dirt before you die" , I think it was her version of the 5 second rule?
And mom also "ass over teakettle "
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| Posted 10/11/12 7:58 PM |
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ladybug8
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by maybebaby
Kiss my a$$ in Macy's window!
(don't know if that is a common old person phrase but one that i just remembered lol!)
Haha! Reminds me of what Karen said to someone in Mob Wives!
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| Posted 10/11/12 8:32 PM |
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Tah-wee-ZAH
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
According to this thread I'm 90
I speak in "old school phrases" all of the time. My Dad spoke in such phrases...
From my grandma...
"Take a long walk off a short pier!"
"You are thick!" (as in thick headed)
"You're too big for your britches."
"Doesn't have too nickles to rub together."
"Doesn't have a pot to piss in."
I swear I'm completely drawing blanks right now... they are so familiar to me I can't think of them...
From my Dad...
"Two wrongs don't make a right."
"What are you writing a book?"
"You're running around like a chicken with its head cut off?"
"Excuse my French..." (when you are about to say a naughty word)
"C'mon.. second speed" (when we were moving too slow)
"From here to Timbuktu..."
"Open mouth, insert foot."
"Where there's smoke, there's fire."
"If "insert name here' jumped off a bridge, would you jump off a bridge?"
"Don't give me any lip."
"Doo-hickey" and "Hoo-zah-mah-dinkle" were used when he couldn't think of the name of something.
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| Posted 10/11/12 9:29 PM |
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Erica
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
My grandfather was a big Doris day fan and would always say "que sera sera. Vat ever vill be vill be ". With his thick German accent.
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| Posted 10/11/12 10:02 PM |
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jlm2008
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Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
When something bad or upsetting would happen to you that would make you upset my great -grandmother used to say" these are things that happen to the living"(she'd say it in Italian, but that is pretty much the translation) As I get older, I really try to remember that.....nothing is that bad, because you are alive!
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| Posted 10/11/12 10:24 PM |
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jlm2008
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by MrsSx2
Anytime something went wrong...
"Jesus, Joseph and Mary!"
haha! My mom says Jesus, Mary , and Little Joseph!( don't ask me why it was little Joseph) but I do the same!
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| Posted 10/11/12 10:26 PM |
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fabrichick
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
My grandmother couldn't say Tylenol
She would say Ty-nol
Funny DHs grandmother says the same thing!
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| Posted 10/12/12 10:23 AM |
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MandJZ
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by DumpsterBaby
My mother and grandmother are French, so a lot of their funny sayings don't necessarily translate, but the ones I remember most:
Ecouter, sante! - If you know what's good for you, you listen!
C'etait pas onions! - Mind your onions (business)
Cheveux partout votre ass - You have a hair across your ass (what's your problem)
This totally reminded me of one. I don't know the actual saying in Polish, but my grandmother used to say in Polish an insult that basically translates to "go stick your head in the sand and grow like an ostridge" NO idea why but apparently this was a terrible insult in Polish. My mom still says it sometimes.
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| Posted 10/12/12 10:26 AM |
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Xelindrya
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
UGH this is hard because she spoke mostly spanish and I only english.
But my fondest memories were her grabbing the (spanish word for mortar and stone) and saying
Mija Ajo y comino, por favor
Garlic & Cumin please.
I always thought it meant Ajy & Comino for flavor!
She just talked to me.. I can't remember how to say all the stuff she said. She'd sit at one side of the kitchen table and i'd sit on the other Cleaning Beans (another hispanic tradition LOL) and we'd talk. Me in English, her in spanish *shrug*
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| Posted 10/12/12 11:38 AM |
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CunningOne
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
My grandfather just pronounced words funny. For example:
ter-let (toilet)
earl (oil)
greez-ee (greasy)
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| Posted 10/12/12 11:42 AM |
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SurferChick
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Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
"This too shall pass" said by my grandma whenever things were going bad.
"Watch out or he's gonna put the curse of the black sausage on you!"
This post made me miss my grandparents :(
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| Posted 10/12/12 11:54 AM |
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