Use your head for something besides a hat rack.

But mom, everybody's doing it!

If everybody was jumping off a cliff would you jump with 'em?

Sis: What would look good with orange fishnet hose, a purple mini-skirt, a
pink and yellow tank top and chartreuse spike heels?

Dad: A raincoat and hip boots.

Use some elbow-grease.........(Where can I get some?) Wrong thing to ask.......

People in China would kill to have what you left on your plate..(box it up!) Not a good thing to say........

Dad always used a belt. Stand you up: Hold you by the fold of your left arm and you had nowhere to go but in a circle. You made circles until he was through.....

Hey, I made plenty of those circles myself. Never could bring myself to the point where I could do that to my kids though.

Heard this on a 6 O'clock newscast.

"Everything got soaked. Now it's all ruint"

This guy was probably 20 years younger then me!!!!

Heard this on a 6 O'clock newscast.

"Everything got soaked. Now it's all ruint"

This guy was probably 20 years younger then me!!!!

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"Hey OKC, it's 10:00....do you know where your children are?"

"Hey OKC, it's 10:00... do you know where your children are?"

LOL! I still say that to Prunette. She always replies, "NO!"

Was that on WKY TV just before the news?

LOL! I still say that to Prunette. She always replies, "NO!"

Was that on WKY TV just before the news?

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yes sir:...........I still say to the wife "It's 10:00 , oh well:"!!!

Soonergirl26 mentioned a couple of things she's heard old folks say.

Whippersnapper! Oh my, what was the other one?

Soonergirl26 mentioned a couple of things she's heard old folks say.

Whippersnapper! Oh my, what was the other one?
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My Grand father was about the "Boogie Man" being around the corner with a butcher knife.....Never could find him.....so, finally he changed the name to "Ole Doggie" and I went around the corner and accidentally stepped on the tail of one of his hunting dogs.....scared the Crap out of me...I'm real cautious now about going around dark corners........

He ain't the brightest turnip to ever fall off the truck, is he?

I may have been born at night, but it twern't last night, so go ahead and tell me a nuther story if ya dare

I may not look any prettier and I may not smell any cleaner, but I durn sur feel better, and that counts fer sumthin

He ain't the brightest turnip to ever fall off the truck, is he?

I may have been born at night, but it twern't last night, so go ahead and tell me a nuther story if ya dare

I may not look any prettier and I may not smell any cleaner, but I durn sur feel better, and that counts fer sumthin
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Are you from southeastern Oklahoma????? or did you just go to an OKC Public School....You know, not the "Sharpest" knife in the Drawer....

Stop cyring of I'll give you something to cry about. Of course, after smaking me in the first place.

You Horse's pa-toot...what is a pa-toot???

Better git home or your momma is gonna raise Willy Ned.

(don't know who willy was but never wanted to find out)

He's grin'in like a possum eat'in persimmons.

while trying to hold something back or stay something you might hear.
"Hold'er Newt she's a rarin"

or if the dog or child was running crazy "hold on to em he got a sniff of alfalfie"

"don't hold your brother upside down you will turn his liver over"

"I 'm sweatin like a canary at a cat show"

You Horse's pa-toot...what is a pa-toot???

That's polite for butt.

Stop cyring of I'll give you something to cry about. Of course, after smaking me in the first place.

That.

> Are you from southeastern Oklahoma?????

Yeppers. Momma was from western NC Hill country, poppa from west texas. I was born in the Ozarks and then plopped down in Lil' Dixie when I was still ruining a passle of diapers a day. Over time there was a brief venture hither and yon, nary for long though.

I arrived here on the concrete prairie 23 years back, yet all in all, I remain a SE Okie, heart and soul.

I remember how my Grandfather could remember where things were not.
as if he was here before creation.

we would drive out near lake hefner and he would say there was nothin here when I was young

I remember how my Grandfather could remember where things were not.
as if he was here before creation.

we would drive out near lake hefner and he would say there was nothin here when I was young

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Yeow, I can remember when there was NO Draper Lake or Lake Eufaula. Or, how about the "Dream" of a College on the Southside of OKC....Big old empty field.....89th street was Gravel....May Avenue past 59th wasn't.....Roosevelt school wasn't even thought of.....Prunepicker was still in diapers.....

I remember how my Grandfather could remember where things were not.
as if he was here before creation.

We would drive out near lake Hefner and he would say there was nothin' here
when I was young

Isn't what what all these nostalgia threads are about?:LolLolLol

Isn't what what all these nostalgia threads are about?:LolLolLol

What......:tiphat:

How about:...........Bull Malarkey.....what is a Malarkey????not in the dictionary.

How about:...........Bull Malarkey.....what is a Malarkey????not in the dictionary.

Most of what we call "English" is not in the dictionary.............

How about Bull Malarkey... what is a Malarkey? not in the dictionary.

Marlarkey is bunkum! :Smiley259 It's similar to bovine defecation. It's in the dictionary.
Maybe you entered marlarkey in the search box while you were checking out
a beer site after one too many brewskies! You just thought it was a
dictionary!

Marlarkey is bunkum! :Smiley259 It's similar to bovine defecation. It's in the dictionary.
Maybe you entered marlarkey in the search box while you were checking out
a beer site after one too many brewskies! You just thought it was a
dictionary!

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If that's the case I need to go and get another Brewskey to balance the Axis of the World......

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If that's the case I need to go and get another Brewskey to balance the Axis of the World......

Webster's New World:

Slang insincere, meaningless, or deliberately misleading talk; nonsense

Sounds like many or the things passed back and forth on these threads!!:fighting2

If that's the case I need to go and get another Brewskey to balance the Axis
of the World...

And be "three sheets to the wind"! Old folks used to say that!

And be "three sheets to the wind"! Old folks used to say that!

There is a cable program titled "Three Sheets." The host travels all over the world sampling, very vigorously all forms of adult beverages. And sometimes food. He can get plastered with the locals and gets into all kinds of things. Arm wrestling, dancing, eating......Don't really want to get into the eating...
The guy can look (and be) pretty ragged on day 2.

Where were these producers and programmer's when I was at it........

> three sheets

as good an explanation as I've ever found

Three sheets to the wind (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/three-sheets-to-the-wind.html)

wouldn't you really like to know what your grandparents were wanting to say when they would stomp off and grunt and groan ans say something that you couldn't understand.....Poor old dogs would get the crap kicked out of them just for laying in the wrong spot.......

How about this one:...."I'm going to take you out behind the wood shed".....
For What?....My mother did the rear busting right then, right there and she didn't care who saw it..

ditto, oh how I wished sometimes for a wood shed. Might of had a smidgen of a chance to make a run for it if there had been a wood shed, lol.

How about:...........Bull Malarkey.....what is a Malarkey????not in the dictionary.

My Dad used to say Malarkey! My Mom thought of it as 'cussing'. When we asked what Marlarkey was, she would say 'it's a kind of fish'.?????

How about this one, "I'm going to take you out behind the wood shed"!
For What? My mother did the rear busting right then, right there and she
didn't care who saw it...

One of my most memorable training sessions happened at a TG&Y. To this
day I have one arm longer than the other and my butt still hurts. The lady,
who's bratty child I was imitating because it worked for him, thought Mom
was out of her mind. Needless to say, I didn't get the toy and learned that
NO meant NO!

One of my most memorable training sessions happened at a TG&Y. To this
day I have one arm longer than the other and my butt still hurts. The lady,
who's bratty child I was imitating because it worked for him, thought Mom
was out of her mind. Needless to say, I didn't get the toy and learned that
NO meant NO!

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You know, I saw a lot of those training sessions being implemented in my years at TG&Y...Some of those genuine "Fake" tears didn't work at all and the child realized it too late.....I remember however one time a little boy was looking up the dresses of the manequins when his Grandfather (thick Glasses) told him that would make him go "Blind"....thought that was funny.....His glasses were pretty thick.

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You know, I saw a lot of those training sessions being implemented in my years at TG&Y...Some of those genuine "Fake" tears didn't work at all and the child realized it too late.....I remember however one time a little boy was looking up the dresses of the manequins when his Grandfather (thick Glasses) told him that would make him go "Blind"....thought that was funny.....His glasses were pretty thick.

Hahahahha!

this goes WAAAYYY back to my Great Grandmother (1915-1920s??) but my Mom and Aunt remember her saying "Well, if that don't beat a hen a worming".

My Grandmother often said, "I'm about to starve-to-death for a drink of water."

Ask my Grandfather about where someone was or if he knew what they were doing and he would often say, "Oh he went to S--t and the hogs ate 'em."

same situation..."went to H--- in a "Hand Basket"...How'd they do that????

"Don't take any wooden nickels!" That was still a popular saying in the 1950s.

An older employee I worked with grew up during the depression & went into the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) would often say "write if you find work!"

Last but not least was the exclamation "S*** fire and save matches!"
I suppose it had to do with spicy food (?)

Last but not least was the exclamation "S*** fire and save matches!"
I suppose it had to do with spicy food (?)[/QUOTE]

Could have been because it was a anytime, anything saying.

Still is for some.

"Horse fornication!" Have not heard in a long time...............

same situation..."went to H--- in a "Hand Basket"...How'd they do that????
"Well for Pete's Sake" and "For the Love of Mike" _______Who in the H**L is Pete anyway! And this Mike guy, I never could figure these out!! My Dad always told me I couldn't find my Butt with both hands and a flash light!!! What I never figured out was the fact that I really never had much desire to good lookin'!! Lmbo How about, "Good Gravy" instead of "good grief"- ever hear that one Gen/64????

That Gal's teeth were so bad "she could eat peanut's out of a pop bottle"

Describing how tall that girl was: I don't know, but she could stand flat footed and S*** in a dump truck!! NOW THAT's TALLLLLLLLLLLLL.......

"Well for Pete's Sake" and "For the Love of Mike" _______Who in the H**L is Pete anyway! And this Mike guy, I never could figure these out!! My Dad always told me I couldn't find my Butt with both hands and a flash light!!! What I never figured out was the fact that I really never had much desire to good lookin'!! Lmbo How about, "Good Gravy" instead of "good grief"- ever hear that one Gen/64????

I found this:

"For the love of Mike."

In word study this kind of phrase is called a minced oath.

To mince your words means 'to choose words so as not to offend anyone.'

This particular expression began as a substitute for an outcry of surprise or anger, namely, "for the love of God!" But the speaker decided that using God's name in this way was blasphemous and therefore decided to substitute something else for the word God.

In this case, St. Michael.

The phrase began as "for the love of Michael."

It was a soldier's mild curse. St. Michael is the patron saint of warriors and soldiers and he looks after them on the battlefield. St. Michael the Archangel is the chief of the heavenly host, the celestial army that defends the Church. He fights the rebel angels and the dragon of Revelations. He is patron saint of knights and of all trades allied to the production of weapons and scales.

Indeed, the word archangel in its original Greek means literally 'chief' (Greek, arkhos) + 'angel' (Greek, aggelos literally 'messenger' of God). In later ecclesiastical Greek the two roots meld to form arkhaggelos 'angel of the highest order.'

Note that in the currently accepted transliteration of ancient Greek the digraph gg stands for a nasalized syllable, so that aggelos would be pronounced approximately like anglos with a hard g. In precise and fussy enunciation the e would be sounded too.

"Don't take any wooden nickels!" That was still a popular saying in the
1950s.

I remember when Sambo's gave out wooden nickles for a free cup of coffee.

See you in the funny papers. I still use that one.

That's higher than a cat's back.

That's how the cow ate the cabbage.

A penny for your thoughts.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Don't put all of your eggs in one basket.

Higher than the "B***s on a Giraffe:

Tighter than two coats of paint: (that would be Gen/64)

Used to be an all around subject that has to do with "eating crow."

But I think the rise in popularity of Sheryl, that phrase took on a whole meaning!:doh:

Not the "sharpest" knife in the drawer...

Sharp as a marble???

Dumb as a box of hammers.

Look at that "Hussy" if she had what she thinks she has she have it all....."Grandma".....

"General64" as a small boy.....What does she think she has that old "Hussy"....

Grandma:.....I'll wash your mouth out with soap if you ever say that again.

"Generals64":....."Hussy"????........man that soap was bad.....

I wish I could sell you for what you think you're worth.

Soonergirl26 mentioned a couple of things she's heard old folks say.

Whippersnapper! Oh my, what was the other one?

Was the other one, "I need to 'skedaddle' out of here"??

I looked this up and it was American Civil War military slang. Contrary to what most of you think, I am NOT that old!!!!

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How about this one......

Me: How are you doing?
Dad: Oh, "fair to middling".

~~~

What in Tarnation's going one here?

Are you that dumb or just Stupid?

quicker than a minnow swim a dipper..

Was the other one, "I need to 'skedaddle' out of here"?

I looked this up and it was American Civil War military slang. Contrary to what
most of you think, I am NOT that old!
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YES! Now I can give my brain a break and rest easy!

I'm going to skedaddle out of here and catch you whippersnappers later.

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What does that mean?
No mas?
Not me?
Never more?

"Never mind."

I added a saying that I'd already added so I took it off. There is a reason I am hanging around the old folks posts!!