“You’re so handsome”
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I bet you think this song is about you…
Not my “parents”, but my Grandpa. When he wasn’t feeling well, he would say, “Feels like I’ve been shot at and missed, shit at and hit.”
I want this embroidered and framed on my living room wall.
“Destructions” instead of “Instructions”
Yep my dad totally did this one.
We have this one in my family too! “Read the destructions!”
At some point my father started calling 'Bus -> Bussi" and “Busse -> Bussies” which translates to “kiss/kissing”
We also have Kuss it german and Bussi is more of another fun word for kissKissing bussies eh
Hmm pretty sure Bus is also kiss in farsi, coincidence?
Beso is kiss in spanish, and basiatio in Latin. Farsi, German, Latin, and Spanish all fall under the Indo-European language family, so it isn’t far-fetched that these words would all have a common root.
My mom used to say “been ____-ing looong?” with a silly twang. No idea where she got that from and I’ve never heard anyone else do it. Like, if you trip she’d say been walkin’ looong? If you choke on your soda, she’d say been drinkin’ looong?
Some kind of weird hick thing, I’m sure.
I remember a similar one from the 90s. If someone stumbled someone else inevitably would say “walk much?”. Or with a traffic mistake “drive much?”.
It evolved into just anything that came into someone’s head, like if someone had a premonition “Nostradamus much?”
I’m glad it died.
I remember this.
Also, me too.
My dad referred to all fast food as KenTacoHut. Trucks as Pick-em-up-trucks. I know it’s a thing, but I don’t really hear anyone saying “a month of Sundays” to mean “a long time” since he passed.
Mum had a few:
“Home, James”
“Lead on, McDuff”
“You’re lucky I love you”
“You’re big enough and ugly enough to take care of yourself”
My Parents would always say “Home, James dont feed the horses”. I have absolutely no idea what it means or could mean.
Haha, apparently the original saying is “Home, James, and don’t spare the horses”. My mum told me it’s because a lot of carriage drivers were called James, and don’t spare the horses means to be quick about it. I don’t know if your parents said it differently because it amused them that way or some other reason, but I suppose the idea is there’s no time to feed the horses since we’re in a hurry.
My mama says the first two a lot.
"What’s the bullshit?’ = How are you?
“heads on them like mice” I’m still not clear what the hell he meant. Likely something unpleasant.
I’m guessing small brains?
I assumed something similar, but ended up looking it up. Apparently It means there are lots of them. Teeming.
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Instead of swearing my mother would with say Snivelswitch or Son of a seacooks dishclothe.
“Super cool” - my dad
are you 15 or 50
Somewhere inbetween there
First one is from my grandfather, who is really more of a father to me than my own father. Whenever he was expressing delighted astonishment, he would exclaim Caaaaaaaaaaaaaats!
My mother would always say “ass over tea kettle”. Don’t try to carry all those boxes down the stairs, you’re going to fall ass over tea kettle. Or in a funny exaggeratoy way like “he went flying ass over tea kettle”.
My father would append the suffixes -aroonie and -areeno. It could just literally apply to any random situation. For example, if he got a good price on apples, he got a deal-areeno. One time his foot slipped and the car blasted through the fence. The ol’ smash-aroonie.
Is your dad Ned Flanders?
This aroonie slang was 50/60s era
That tracks the leave it to Beaver Era. Would explain the 40 yr old Ned in 1990
Damn this is making a connection I’d never thought about!
My grandpa would say “I’m hungry enough to eat the ass out of a skunk…”
Pretty sure it was just for shock value
I too could eat at dennys
never heard other families say “oy vey” growing up. As an adult I learned it’s a Jewish saying, and I asked my mom if we are Jewish and she just said no, lol
lol, Hebrew?
Ah right. Should’ve known, but I wrote this comment at midnight.
I don’t have any good ones but apparently my partner’s mom used to “jokingly” tell the kids “you’re special with a capital R” (back when that word was in fashion)
