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What’s a phrase that your parents used years ago

Damn, you guys were a bunch of bad kids. Didn’t anybody here have parents that said good things?
 
"Use your head for something other than a hat rack."
 
My mother "You've been up in the sand pit again" as she turned pocket inside out as sand came out of pockets and cuffs. Then she'd add " I had to clean sand out of the washing machine don't you go there again". That at best was a couple of days.
 
“You have a head like a foot.”
My dad was the only guy that I ever heard use that expression, but he used it with me pretty much every day.
Moms was: “You walk like you have a potato up your ***”. Not sure what that was supposed to mean.
Yes, I’m all fucked up. But they loved me, and I’m OK with that.
 
They're all crazy, just somes crazier than others! Dad.
 
"Everything I say goes in one ear and out the other."
I tested that out when I was about 5 or 6 by pouring water in one ear and waiting for it come out the other. Didn't work so I tried the other ear. Nothing ever came out the other side - surprise, but I did end up with the worst ear infection in my life. Served 'em right. Don't recall hearing that phrase much again.
 
copper67sat said:
"Everything I say goes in one ear and out the other."
I tested that out when I was about 5 or 6 by pouring water in one ear and waiting for it come out the other. Didn't work so I tried the other ear. Nothing ever came out the other side - surprise, but I did end up with the worst ear infection in my life. Served 'em right. Don't recall hearing that phrase much again.
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I never thought to actually try it. You are one up on me. :):)
 
My uncle used to say-

"You can learn something from anyone.....even if it's just that you don't want to be around them".
 
"Boy, I brought you into this world, I can take your sorry *** out!" True. He knew people with property. The body would never be found!

"I'm gonna knock your *** into next week!" Cool...time travel!

We had a weeping willow in the front yard. Plenty of switches to pick from.

My favorite was when I was in my second year in the Air Force...typical know-it-all smartass 20-year-old Airman. I was a wee bit loud and mouthy in Ops, one swing shift. Our NCOIC, a grizzled Master Sergeant from the 'Nam Era, was off to the side listening. I was oblivious to his presence, until he came up from the side, leaned over and said "Airman, don't let fear and common sense stop you, boy, keep talkin'!" I immediately got the "hint" and shut the Hell up. While I still had teeth! I think I was more scared of him than I was of the swift hand of my Dad.
 
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Y'all had it lucky good. I used to get, "Children should be seen and not heard"!
 
"Go play in the street." and "Go fly a kite." were pretty common too when they wanted us out of their hair.

Probably have Child Services knocking on the door if you told kids to play in the street nowadays.
 
Give an inch and they take a mile. You don't have to be rich to be clean, soap and water is cheap. Opinions are like ********, everyone has one and they all stink.
 
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