I am not sure if that's a good title but it was the best I could come up with.

Sitting in the backyard the other night I looked at the moon and something my Grandmother used to say came to mind:


"It can't rain when the moon is full because there is no place for the water to get out!"

If it's raining and the sun is shining then, "The the devil is beating his wife!"
Get him to stop by "Driving a 16penny nail into the ground!"

When we were kids and got to acting-up she would tell us, " I'm going to put you under a washtub and put a rock on top of it!"
:053:

My Grandmother used to say, "Damn a dog that don't wag his own tail." She'd say that with a smile when someone would brag on themselves. I still am not exactly sure what that means.

Ha! This is a fun one.

I lived with my maternal grandmother for about 3 years, off and on ... most of 1st, all of 2nd, all of 4th grade ... while my mother was getting her feet on the ground after divorce. "Grandmother" (that's what we ... my 2 older brothers and I) called her. She might be something like a female version of "the Grandfather" in Heidi except that she was smaller. She was a slender 4' 10" spitfire from heaven or hell ... best have her on your side, don't you know. Some of her vocabulary's terms and phases that come to mind are ...

"Well, he's/she's a blowed up sucker." Never really figured out what that meant, but it wasn't good to be one, that's for sure.

"That crazy galoot." Here's the wiki definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galoot)

I know there were other zingers but I can't think of them at the moment. She also passed along some pearls of wisdom from time to time:

"Never let a woman get on top of you." She was mistaken in that advice, I think.

"Never date a woman that you wouldn't want to marry." I think that the underlying but unspoken premise may have been, "in case she is pregnant."

She and several of her sibling moved to Oklahoma from Washington C.H. (Court House), Ohio, around 1900 and, before moving to other parts of the state, they lived near Duncan. A pair of her sisters landed in Chickasha; Grandmother in Clinton. A couple of brothers moved to central Oklahoma somewhere, one (I think) to Jones and some returned to Ohio. Despite her aggressive tendencies when talking about those in her disfavor, she was full of love for the natural objects of her affection and she remains dear to me still -- even if I was called upon by her, on occasion, to go to the front porch and get a "limber switch" from a bush growing nearby. We knew the consequence of getting a "limber switch" meant, that's for sure!

I remember her "wringing" live chicken's necks to get them ready for the eating (for the uneducated, that means grabbing a chicken by its head/neck and twirling it around until the head twists off) ... amazing how much life those chickens still had in them after their heads were gone, jumping around all over the place for quite a time. A lady across the alley from her had chickens ... Grandmother did, too, at one time, but not when I was around.

I was hoping it would be fun...........

When a dog howls at a siren then that person is dead or will die. Does that mean the dog knows the difference between an ambulance, a fire truck or police car?

One thing she said that always cracked me up was, "I'm about to starve to death for a drink of water"

My aunt, her sister said something that I try to keep in peoples (women) minds is, "A woman should never wait on a man to do what she can do herself!"

I think the one that I hated the most was "They say." My father always used that one to imply the total knowledge of the masses (who always agreed with him). When I was about 14 I once told him that if I knew who "they" were I would kick "they's" butt.

My favorite was one that my Grand Dad used, "Never cuss the man you work for, quit, then damn him to hell."

My favorite aunt used to say "Don't let the tail wag the dog."

"I'm so hungry that my stomach thinks that my throat's been cut", that one comes from my uncle.

The best advice came from my best friend's grand dad, "If you worry that people think you're stupid, keep your mouth shut and try not to prove them right."

How about this one?:...."Hot Dam"....what was that all about....and how about in a fit of fury came out that "Sea Biscuit"....Seabiscuit was quite a horse if my history is right......

My Great Grandmother, a staunch Mormon (she never did get used to calling herself a Latter Day Saint), used to say, "Son of a biscuit eater!" when she was exasperated.

How about this one?:...."Hot Dam"....what was that all about....and how about in a fit of fury came out that "Sea Biscuit"....Seabiscuit was quite a horse if my history is right......

The rest of us need you to verify how good the horse was.

You are the only one of us that was around at that time.

How about...

I'll slap you so hard your head'll swim!

Pay attention, boy, you'll learn somethin'!

Do that agin' and I'll knock you into next week!

Wise up!

Bless their heart. Paul Harvey said you could get away with calling anybody
anything as long as you add bless their heart.
He's so stupid and hasn't a lick of sense, bless his heart.

She's so ugly that if Moses had seen her there'd be eleven
commandments, bless her heart.

Well, I declare.

Lands o'Goshen

Lawd a mercy (pronounced Mussie)

Well, I'll swan

Your ears are so dirty I could plant potatoes in them.

"If anything is worth doing...it's worth doing well!"

I had a sixth grade math teacher who used to say, "Bless my stars and worn out garters!"

"Don't make me turn you over my checkered apron!"

how about, "He's three-sheets to the wind."

"If that turtle bites you, he won't let go until it thunders!"

when it snows,"Ole Lady God must be pluckin' geese!"

And this doozy, "You can't sleep with your head at the foot of the bed because your blood might rush to your head and you'll die!" I have often wondered if they were being serious.

my grandma always would say grab my pocket book and we'll be on our way and we'll be there directally

S#*t fire and save the matches.

Upon leaving the door open - "were you born in a barn?"

Man, I am ***ged out tonight.

my grandma always would say grab my pocket book and we'll be on our way and we'll be there directally

pronounced as DREK'ly

Dad nab it:..........?????
Shoot low Sheriff....he's riding a Shetland.....
What the Sam???...who was Sam????
Hang On?????? Too What?
Moan Back.....When backing a trailer etc.
Whoa Nellie.....
Gee Whiz......
Gosh:.....when did you last here that????

Dad-gum-it

2 that would probably never used today;

1) That's mighty white of you.

2) Free, white and 21!

Dad-gum-it

2 that would probably never used today;

1) That's mighty white of you.

2) Free, white and 21!

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Straighten up or I'll slap you so hard you're Grandkids will feel it...

Go and pick me out a GOOD Switch???? How dumb were we to do it????the little tiny ones really hurt worse than the big clubs....remember that kids....

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Straighten up or I'll slap you so hard you're Grandkids will feel it...

Go and pick me out a GOOD Switch???? How dumb were we to do it????the little tiny ones really hurt worse than the big clubs....remember that kids....

Had an aunt who when they were in season would go and cut-off part of a rose bush...................
Where was child protective services.

I'm actually glad they were not around then..............

- I'll swan/I'll swanny
- With regards to food my Granny would say "that's so sweet/sour/hot it'll make you sit up & slap yer mammy"
- Well, shoot a monkey ....poor monkeys, what did they do to get shot at?
- I'm sweatin like a whore in church
- I'm just-a clickin along (my grandfather's response to someone asking how he's doing)
- my grandfather never referred to lunch as lunch, he always referred to it as "snackin a bite"
- my great-grandparents also used to say "son of a biscuit-eater"


@Prunepicker: My fiance has pointed out that before I say something really bad about someone, I usually preface it with "bless his/her heart" LOL

@USG '60: Drek'ly is right! lol I don't think anyone in my family even knows HOW to say directly the right way.

How about Ovar? The house is ovar. My wife is from N.J. she flips at way I pronounce some words.

Guess she would really flip if she heard .........us folks from Southeastern Oklahoma talk

(Yep I warsh my clothes)

i dont know that person from adam

i dont know that person from adam

Or "Come here" from "Sic 'em."

Call watermelons "piss-ball".....

"Stick" balonga = dog

a block of cheese = rat cheese.

white bread = light bread

when I stayed with an aunt and uncle on the farm they never saked if you wanted a bowl of cereal. It was always a bowl of Post Toasties.

I have heard cereal called "breakfast food".

Getting her to go anywhere is like pulling teeth.

What the Sam???...who was Sam????

According to my grandfather it was Sam Hill and he was never happy.

okay, now i still dont understand where over in the next hollar means, over under means over there somewhere (is that correct) my grandma and aunts are from mississippi deep mississippi, and when they speak i can barely understand them with there old ways and language, i would wake up at 7 a.m and i already missed breakfast but lunch was right around the corner, dinner was around 2 then there was supper ( what supper i thought dinner and supper meant the same thing?? ) i still never got that one, an what does puddlin mean when your puddlin i heard that a couple times as well

Where I come from dinner was at noon and supper was at 5

We had breakfast, lunch and dinner most times but, sometimes dinner was called supper.

It was like this at our house. On weekdays it was breakfast, lunch and dinner. On Sundays and holidays it was breakfast, dinner and supper. But the nomenclature was not strictly enforced.

I don't recall the evening meal ever being called anything but supper. Dinner was lunch timish on Sunday or a holiday.

I don't recall the evening meal ever being called anything but supper. Dinner was lunch timish on Sunday or a holiday.

What time do you eat supper? Many people I have met and known from the east coast claim we eat supper here too early. Some grew-up with the supper bell ringing at 7 or 8 p.m. Do you find this to be the case? :chef:

What time do you eat supper? Many people I have met and known from the east coast claim we eat supper here too early. Some grew-up with the supper bell ringing at 7 or 8 p.m. Do you find this to be the case? :chef:

I still eat early but my kids, who live in NYC, eat at about 8:00. Part of that might be because they don't get out of work until nearly that late. New Yorkers frequently go in about 9:30 and work until about 7 or 8.

In the DC area, I think a lot of people eat a little later than OKC if they have to commute but with so many government workers, a lot get out at 4:30 or 5:00 and that brings dinner back down to an earlier hour.

Moan Back... When backing a trailer etc.


Moan back... moan back... moan back...

CRUNCH!

That's good.

According to my grandfather it was Sam Hill and he was never happy.

I bet the phrase originated with this:
Washington Stonehenge - A Tribute to WWI in Maryville (http://www.legendsofamerica.com/WA-Stonehenge.html)

Be sure to refill the ice trays, we're going to have company.

Watch for the postman, I want to get this letter to Willie in the mail today.

Quit slamming the screen door when you go out!

Be sure and pull the windows down when you leave, it looks like a
shower is coming up.

Don't forget to wind the clock before you go to bed.

Wash your feet before you go to bed, you've been playing outside all
day barefooted.

Why can't you remember to roll up your britches legs? Getting them
caught in the bicycle chain so many times is tearing them up.

You have torn the knees out of that pair of pants so many times there
is nothing left to put a patch on.

Don't you go outside with your school clothes on!

Go comb your hair; it looks like the rats have nested in it all night.

Be sure and pour the cream off the top of the milk when you open the new bottle.

Take that empty bottle to the store with you so you won't have to pay
a deposit on another one.

Put a dish towel over the cake so the flies won't get on it.

Quit jumping on the floor! I have a cake in the oven and you are going
to make it fall if you don't quit!

Let me know when the Fuller Brush man comes by, I need to get a few
things from him.

You boys stay close by, the car may not start and I will need you to
help push it off.

There's a dollar in my purse, get 5 gallons of gas when you go to town.

Open the back door and see if we can get a breeze through here, it is
getting hot.

You can walk to the store; it won't hurt you to get some exercise.

Don't sit too close to the TV. It is hard on your eyes.

If you pull that stunt again, I am going to wear you out!

Don't lose that button; I'll sew it back on after awhile.

Wash under your neck before you come to the table, you have beads of
dirt and sweat all under there.

Get out from under the sewing machine; pumping it messes up the thread!

Be sure and fill the lamps this morning so we don't have to do that
tonight in the dark.

Here, take this old magazine to the toilet with you when you go, we
are almost out of paper out there..

Go out to the well and draw a bucket of water so I can wash dishes.

Don't turn the radio on now, I want the battery to be up when the
Grand Ole Opry comes on.

No! I don't have 10 cents for you to go to the show. Do you think
money grows on trees?

Eat those turnips, they'll make you big and strong like your daddy.

That dog is NOT coming in this house! I don't care how cold it is out
there, dogs don't stay in the house.

Sit still! I'm trying to get your hair cut straight and you keep
moving and it is all messed up.

Hush your mouth! I don't want to hear words like that! I'll wash your
mouth out with soap!

It is time for your system to be cleaned out. I am going to give you a
dose of castor oil tonight.

If you get a spanking in school and I find out about it, you'll get
another one when you get home.

Quit crossing your eyes! They will get stuck that way!

Soak your foot in this pan of kerosene so that bad cut won't get infected.

When you take your driving test, don't forget to signal each turn.
Left arm straight out the window for a left turn;

left arm bent up at the elbow for a right turn; and straight down to
the side of the door when you are going to stop.

It's: 'Yes Ma'am!' and 'No Ma'am!' to me, young man, and don't you forget it!

Y'all come back now, ya hear!

Bring back any memories?

I don't recall the evening meal ever being called anything but supper. Dinner
was lunch timish on Sunday or a holiday.

I still can't get it straight. Mom called the evening meal dinner. Lunch was
always called lunch, but it was never naked. Breakfast was called "You
better get in here before it gets cold." She was a Tar Heel. Dad was
an Okie. We kids were prunepickers.

From the German side,

listen, listen! The cat's a pi$$in. Where, where? Under the chair! Run, run, get your gun! Psss. Aw, shucks he's all done.

<from the old one in my family>

From the German side,

listen, listen! The cat's a pi$$in. Where, where? Under the chair! Run, run,
get your gun! Psss. Aw, shucks he's all done.

<from the old one in my family>

That was weird, but very interesting.

Be sure to refill the ice trays, we're going to have company.

Watch for the postman, I want to get this letter to Willie in the mail today.

Quit slamming the screen door when you go out!

Be sure and pull the windows down when you leave, it looks like a
shower is coming up.

Don't forget to wind the clock before you go to bed.

Wash your feet before you go to bed, you've been playing outside all
day barefooted.

Why can't you remember to roll up your britches legs? Getting them
caught in the bicycle chain so many times is tearing them up.

You have torn the knees out of that pair of pants so many times there
is nothing left to put a patch on.

Don't you go outside with your school clothes on!

Go comb your hair; it looks like the rats have nested in it all night.

Be sure and pour the cream off the top of the milk when you open the new bottle.

Take that empty bottle to the store with you so you won't have to pay
a deposit on another one.

Put a dish towel over the cake so the flies won't get on it.

Quit jumping on the floor! I have a cake in the oven and you are going
to make it fall if you don't quit!

Let me know when the Fuller Brush man comes by, I need to get a few
things from him.

You boys stay close by, the car may not start and I will need you to
help push it off.

There's a dollar in my purse, get 5 gallons of gas when you go to town.

Open the back door and see if we can get a breeze through here, it is
getting hot.

You can walk to the store; it won't hurt you to get some exercise.

Don't sit too close to the TV. It is hard on your eyes.

If you pull that stunt again, I am going to wear you out!

Don't lose that button; I'll sew it back on after awhile.

Wash under your neck before you come to the table, you have beads of
dirt and sweat all under there.

Get out from under the sewing machine; pumping it messes up the thread!

Be sure and fill the lamps this morning so we don't have to do that
tonight in the dark.

Here, take this old magazine to the toilet with you when you go, we
are almost out of paper out there..

Go out to the well and draw a bucket of water so I can wash dishes.

Don't turn the radio on now, I want the battery to be up when the
Grand Ole Opry comes on.

No! I don't have 10 cents for you to go to the show. Do you think
money grows on trees?

Eat those turnips, they'll make you big and strong like your daddy.

That dog is NOT coming in this house! I don't care how cold it is out
there, dogs don't stay in the house.

Sit still! I'm trying to get your hair cut straight and you keep
moving and it is all messed up.

Hush your mouth! I don't want to hear words like that! I'll wash your
mouth out with soap!

It is time for your system to be cleaned out. I am going to give you a
dose of castor oil tonight.

If you get a spanking in school and I find out about it, you'll get
another one when you get home.

Quit crossing your eyes! They will get stuck that way!

Soak your foot in this pan of kerosene so that bad cut won't get infected.

When you take your driving test, don't forget to signal each turn.
Left arm straight out the window for a left turn;

left arm bent up at the elbow for a right turn; and straight down to
the side of the door when you are going to stop.

It's: 'Yes Ma'am!' and 'No Ma'am!' to me, young man, and don't you forget it!

Y'all come back now, ya hear!

Bring back any memories?

OMG - not all of them, but most. It was the same at my house. No wonder the young ones think we are off our rockers - their point of reference and way they were raised is completely different. Parenting has changed, for sure.

You'll understand when you have children of your own. [ Didn't "get it" then, "get it" now.]

"Swap Meet"

My girls had a fit when I called the flea market a swap meet.

"Swap Meet"

My girls had a fit when I called the flea market a swap meet.

What? But that is what it is! :dizzy:

"Swap Meet"

My girls had a fit when I called the flea market a swap meet.

Haven't they always been interchangeable? That's bazaar!

The next time you go to a garage sale with them you should call it a
rummage sale!

Haven't they always been interchangeable? That's bazaar!

The next time you go to a garage sale with them you should call it a
rummage sale!

hahahha, snort, snort.

hahahha, snort, snort.

Thanx for your your enthusiasm!

Haven't they always been interchangeable? That's bazaar!

The next time you go to a garage sale with them you should call it a
rummage sale!

There are only a few things they'll let me go with them. Most are holiday's spent with my folks and siblings.

I do get to attend my granddaughters softball and basketball games with them.

They just don't always allow me to sit with them.

Ain't I somthin?

There are only a few things they'll let me go with them. Most are holiday's spent with my folks and siblings.

I do get to attend my granddaughters softball and basketball games with them.

They just don't always allow me to sit with them.

Ain't I somthin?

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It's that T-Shirt you always wear stating that YOU went to Capitol Hill. Put on Grant T-Shirt and you will be accepted.....Did your Mother (or dad) ever tell you (before a spanking (beating)...) "this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you.....Yeah right......One time my sister was getting (well deserved) a spanking and she got loose and took off like a Gazelle...I told my dad I'd go and find her.......(snitch) but I didn't really look for her. I came back and said she was too fast for me...but, Dad I'll take her spanking for her.....O.K. my said...Changed my mind real quick but I never did tell him where she was. I still (to this day) remind her of how I saved the day.....she didn't know I started to snitch on her.......

My Dad used to say..."Hotter than a two dollar pistol"... and "Hotter than a depots stove".

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It's that T-Shirt you always wear stating that YOU went to Capitol Hill. Put on Grant T-Shirt and you will be accepted.....

But I don't care to go to homeless shelters, women's shelters, bread lines or detox!!!!!!!
:woowoo:

"Stay in school or you'll end up being a ditch digger".
I know some of those heavy equipment operators make some pretty good money " digging ditches".

Queer as a three-dollar bill.

Queer as a three-dollar bill.

Wrong as two boys in a closet.

Wrong as two boys in a closet.

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Excuse me>>>>>>the guys from Capitol Hill thought that was Kosher.......

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Excuse me>>>>>>the guys from Capitol Hill thought that was Kosher.......

Need to check that out with your female alum.................

They know better...........several times..........

You're thinking with your stones again...........

That's okay since you have nothing in your head to think with.......

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Southside OKC Memories
Get Together

Coit's Root Beer Drive-In
2500 S. Western

August 15, 1:30pm

Bring memories, memorabilia,
photos, yearbooks, etc...

Go play on the highway, not the access road, the highway.
If you don't stop that you'll go blind.
Why me Lord?
If you're trying to drive me crazy, it's going to be a short trip.
Two bricks shy of a load.
You're getting on my last nerve.

I guess that you can tell that I was a difficult child from these.

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.....