Dumb Kwestion of the Week #12

Ok, I had to think long and hard on this one...
Not really, I actually stole the idea from Guilty/Forgiven's (or Jim's) facebook post of last week.  I thought it was a pretty neat idea and thought we (as a group) could probably come up with some interesting stuff.  So without further ado here it is.

What strange (or funny) sayings do you remember your dad using!  (or maybe your uncle, grand father etc.)

Let's try to keep this one rated PG, I can think of several things my father used to say on a regular basis that I wouldn't want to repeat.

I'll start. My dad really used to love this one, and I probably heard it on a weekly basis.

"Be Alert! The world needs more lerts."

It's all about teamwork.  You do the work and I'll be on your team.

I love that !!! Never heard that one before... I love it!

Yeh, my Dad has not only some rated R sayings, but some XXX ones too... those I'd like to forget but alas, they are burned in my memory forever.

His funny ones were rather silly that made himself laugh more than anyone else, like when someone would toot, he'd say "Catch that fart and paint it green and see what it looks like"

Xid wrote:

It's all about teamwork.  You do the work and I'll be on your team.

Oh man that's fantastic!

The one that drove me nuts.

"Cheer up, things could be worse. And then Brent cheers up and things get worse."

Never knew if this was supposed to encourage me or what?

Kind of reminds of what my dad would say before every coin toss.

"Heads I win, tails you lose?"

He'd very seriously ask complete strangers "are your fingers clean ?" they'd say yes, he'd say "would you pick my nose for me ?"

   my Dad the legend.

LOL - sounds like something my Dad would say!

My dad is a man of very few words. He never had any catch phrase or anything. He's not a touchy feely kind of guy and I'm just the opposite. I'm a total and complete cuddle bug and it drives my boys crazy. Anyway my dad always called me Baby Girl. Still does to this day. 

Funny story here. My dad never liked my taste in music. I remember back in the early 80's liking the song Come On Feel The Noize by Quiet Riot. I remember having some of my girlfriends over to the house and we must have played that tape over about 20 times this one afternoon. I must have drove my dad crazy! Anyway he comes in to my room and asks "What do you girls want for lunch?" And I said "How about Peanut Butter and Jelly." So we come into the kitchen and I remember clear as day my dad singing Come On Feel The Noize Girls Rock Your Boys We'll Get Wild Wild Wild while making our sammiches! Lol now every time I make a PB&J I start singing that song! 

Good Times

That's funny!

If my dad heard someone say something that he just didn't get or thought was weird, he would say to the person, "Whatever blows your skirt the highest!"

If we were broke or close to being, my dad would say, "I'm so broke that if they were selling steam boats for a dime a dozen, all I could do is run up and down the banks yelling, 'Ain't that cheap!'"

My dad doesn't really have any catch phrases, and even if he did, it'd be all French to y'all.

One phrase he uses with some frequency is, C'est en forgeant qu'on devient forgeron - by working iron, you become an iron worker. That's his incentive to get his science/math classes doing homework.

"Slicker 'n snot on a wet door knob."

"Hmm, thought it was blood but it's not" ... after wiping his nose.

I'm thinking to remember things my dad has said to us.

He likes sweet things and when I baked something or made a dessert he always told me "you could have used a bit more sugar".

Lol whenever I would cook something for my dad he'd say "Not bad for an amateur!"

Maybe it's because you were louder than me back then.  Still are, most of the time!    


It is funny how siblings all remember different things about their parents but yet are remembering the same people.  You have memories of our folks that I can't remember as well.

I suppose that's because different siblings have different relations with their parents. For instance, I'm pretty close to my dad, and my brother is pretty close to my mom.

my dad would always tell me, someday you'll have a kid that will be just like you...

sure enough

My dad likes to say, "you're a pretty fart smeller" (mashup of smart feller if you didn't catch that...) haha.  Ever since I was little, he'd call me Hotrod as a nick-name and so every once in a while he'll still call me by that.  Somehow it'd seem I inherited his corny/dry/sometimes-inappropriate sense of humor too.  Haha the two of us will just crack each other up while my mom just rolls her eyes at us.  Also, I've realized that most everyone else doesn't share that sense of humor and thus I have got myself into pretty awkward situations...

We lived at the end of our street and every week during the summer my stepfather would stand in our driveway and shout "I can whoop every kid in this neighborhood!"  That was a challenge to all of us to charge and and try to take him down.  The only time he would back down from the challenge was when this girl named Jeanna was around.  She is about four years older than me and one year at the county fair she was the queen and won the tobacco spitting and greased pig contests.

The other thing I remember was "that's what the Good Book says."  He'd say that any time he was talking about treating people well whether it was really in the Bible or not.

Well, it's Week 13… Keep 'em coming, Staybrite, I like these.

Ditto

danielbandfan wrote:

Well, it's Week 13… Keep 'em coming, Staybrite, I like these.

Cheesy One wrote:

Ditto

Sheesh, you guys are relentless.     I will do my best to put up another one today. (I knew I should have called it "Dumb Kwestion of the Month")