Things Your Mom and Dad Said

[robb_k]

Here are some gems from mine. I bet yours said a lot of these.

My Mother:

Wait 'till your father gets home!

Yeah? When pigs fly!

Quit picking on your brother!

Eat everything on your plate! People are starvin' in China!

Shut that door! You weren't born in a barn!

Turn that music down!

You should meet a nice, Jewish girl!

Don't get too big for your britches, Mr. Know-It-All!

If your friends asked you to jump off a cliff, would you do it?

Stop making that face! If you do it too long, it'll freeze that way!

You think I was born yesterday?

Because I say so!

Go ask your father!

From your mouth to God's ears!


Dad:

Keep your stick on the ice!

Keep your guard up, and always get the first hit in!

If he had an ounce of brains - he'd be dangerous!

There are lots more fish in the sea!

Whaddayahthink - I'm made O' money?

Stay away from Jewish girls. They're too demanding!

[[after a karate chop to my arm) Slow down! You eat like The Russians are in St. Boniface!

related: You got a hollow leg? You're eating us out of house and home!

Yeah? Right! And if my Zeyde had tits he'd have been my Bubbe!

Get goin'! It's ONLY 55 below! When I was a kid, we walked 7 miles to school, through 10 foot snow drifts, in 65 below, with 140 below wind chill!

Because I say so!

Go ask your mother!

You kids are soft, these days. You couldn't have handled what we went through.

You live under MY roof, you follow MY rules!




Ha! Ha! I forgot to add this one, that EVERY father says:

"Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about!"
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[theboyfromxtown]

Mum used to say she'd send my dinner to the starving in Biafra

Dad used to say..before you take out a girl...look at her mother cos that's what she's gonna be like in a few years time.

Whadya think this is...a doss house?

What's for dinner?
Crumpet and gunpowder
Air pie
What's on the table

[144man]

"If you don't stop crying, I'll give you something to cry about" was one of my my dad's favourites too, Robb.

Also:

She's too slow to catch a cold.

He's a good boy when he's asleep.

He/ She's got a face only a mother could love.

And when faced with a question he couldn't answer: God knows, and He won't split.

[sophisticated_soul]

Mom: "Get out of my sight!"

[Jerry Oz]

The classic: "You better eat all of that. There's starving kids in China who'd love to have it."

[sansradio]

My mom's variant: You'll eat it before it eats you.

[robb_k]

12674
I forgot the classic: "Don't go out with underwear with holes in it, you might get in an accident!". As if the mother was more worried about the reputation of her family in the community than the condition and health of her child after a serious accident! As the famous Saskatchewanian, Art linkletter, once should have said, "Grown-ups say the darndest things!!"

[marv2]

My father:

Now stop crying before I give you something to cry about!

[marv2]

My mother:

All I do all day is say "stop, quit, behave" to you kids.

[marv2]

My mom had a habit of making up words that she thought only kids would understand like:

You have your t-shirt on "wrong, you must have wrongsiditis"! LOL!

[marv2]

My father:

Roll over there and change the channel!

[marv2]

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I forgot the classic: "Don't go out with underwear with holes in it, you might get in an accident!". As if the mother was more worried about the reputation of her family in the community than the condition and health of her child after a serious accident! As the famous Saskatchewanian, Art linkletter, once should have said, "Grown-ups say the darndest things!!"

Robb, my mother use to say that
[[and still does....) but she would add....."what if you had to go to the hospital?" LOL!

[marv2]

Here are some gems from mine. I bet yours said a lot of these.


Dad:

Keep your stick on the ice!

Keep your guard up, and always get the first hit in!

If he had an ounce of brains - he'd be dangerous!

There are lots more fish in the sea!

Whaddayahthink - I'm made O' money?

Stay away from Jewish girls. They're too demanding!

[[after a karate chop to my arm) Slow down! You eat like The Russians are in St. Boniface!

related: You got a hollow leg? You're eating us out of house and home!

Yeah? Right! And if my Zeyde had tits he'd have been my Bubbe!

Get goin'! It's ONLY 55 below! When I was a kid, we walked 7 miles to school, through 10 foot snow drifts, in 65 below, with 140 below wind chill!

Because I say so!

Go ask your mother!

You kids are soft, these days. You couldn't have handled what we went through.

You live under MY roof, you follow MY rules!




Ha! Ha! I forgot to add this one, that EVERY father says:

"Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about!"
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Robb, I hightlighted the sayings that are the exact same ones my father used on me! LOL!!!!

[marv2]

My mother:

Come on and eat your peas.........just mush them up in your mouth and swallow them fast. LOL!!!!

[marv2]

My mother:

Go with your daddy so that he will come right back...... LOL!

[marv2]

My mother:

Turn that TV off and go do it right now!

[Jerry Oz]

Me: [[Banging on the bathroom door) Daddy! I have to use the bathroom!
Dad: Take it easy. Are your pockets dry?
Me: Yes, but they have holes in them!

One of my Mom's favorite childhood memories of me.

[marv2]

My father:

Be daddy's big boy and eat your vegetables.

[Jerry Oz]

My Pops used to always tell people to "shake it easy". We'd all giggle and remind him that it's "Take it easy, Daddy!"

Never dawned on us once that he was playing with us. We seriously thought he was confused about it.

[marv2]

Me: [[Banging on the bathroom door) Daddy! I have to use the bathroom!
Dad: Take it easy. Are your pockets dry?
Me: Yes, but they have holes in them!

One of my Mom's favorite childhood memories of me.

The one my Mom often repeats is me beating up one of my father's co-worker's kids LOL! She said they couldn't stop me.

[Jerry Oz]

The one my Mom often repeats is me beating up one of my father's co-worker's kids LOL! She said they couldn't stop me. I'm sure he deserved it. LOL.

[marv2]

I'm sure he deserved it. LOL.

He did because he took my Justice League comic book and my Aquaman plastic toy I use throw in the tub. hehehehehehehe!

[marv2]

Jerry, what did you parents tell you about crossing the street, not speaking to strangers or Santa Claus? LOL!

[Jerry Oz]

To be honest, I learned to look both ways from my older sister and brother, who walked me to school when we all attended elementary school together. There weren't many strangers in my neighborhood, so I was to be respectful to adults or my folks would know about it and to run if I felt threatened. I don't recall any instance when a true stranger was in the hood and there were very few times that I was alone.

And my brother and I figured Santa was a myth without being told when we found that electric football board in their closet. I don't think that I ever really believed in Santa. My folks are cool. Mom gave us room to grow up and make mistakes by telling us we could talk to her about anything without her judging us. We all did and we all turned out fine.

[robb_k]

Robb, I hightlighted the sayings that are the exact same ones my father used on me! LOL!!!!
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Marv, your dad never told you "There's lots of other fish in the sea!" when you were dumped by a girlfriend or stood up for a date, or were turned down asking a girl out that gave you the hots?

[marv2]

My Pops used to always tell people to "shake it easy". We'd all giggle and remind him that it's "Take it easy, Daddy!"

Never dawned on us once that he was playing with us. We seriously thought he was confused about it.

That is so funny! LOL! My Dad use to do stuff like that too! You've heard Marvin Gaye's song "I'll Be Doggone"? That was a pretty popular saying but my father would always mess it up by saying "Well I'll be dog!" LOL!

[marv2]

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Marv, your dad never told you "There's lots of other fish in the sea!" when you were dumped by a girlfriend or stood up for a date, or were turned down asking a girl out that gave you the hots?

He did, but in his own way which was a little "stronger" than that LOL! I do and will always remember that he did not accept defeat from us. He would always tell me, don't come crying to me......you'd better get out there and do what you are suppose to do! That was his main message after I was say around 19-20 years old and beyond.

When a specific girl rejected me or did not accept my "interests", he would try to steer me towards one of his friends or neighbor's daughters instead. LOL! But never accept defeat or rejection as a reason to mope or give up.

[marv2]

To be honest, I learned to look both ways from my older sister and brother, who walked me to school when we all attended elementary school together. There weren't many strangers in my neighborhood, so I was to be respectful to adults or my folks would know about it and to run if I felt threatened. I don't recall any instance when a true stranger was in the hood and there were very few times that I was alone.

And my brother and I figured Santa was a myth without being told when we found that electric football board in their closet. I don't think that I ever really believed in Santa. My folks are cool. Mom gave us room to grow up and make mistakes by telling us we could talk to her about anything without her judging us. We all did and we all turned out fine.

Ok that is pretty much how it was for us too. There were no strangers around really, my family knew everyone ,every where it seemed. My father did made it understood that we could and should tell him any and everything! I don't care what it was LOL! He was our go to guy when you had a question or if something happened or if you wanted to prepare him for hearing about something your mother was going to tell him you did bad. My brother broke the Santa Claus fantasy and showed me the toys in the basement hidden in the wall behind the furnance.

[sansradio]

From my dad: Remember...you're no better than anybody else, but no one is better than you.

Also: Always walk like you know where you're going.

[robb_k]

From my dad: Remember...you're no better than anybody else, but no one is better than you.

Also: "Always walk like you know where you're going".
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Very important to know this, especially in an unfamiliar place.

[sansradio]

From Mom: Don't throw those clothes away! Fashion is nothing but a cycle. They'll be back in style and you'll thank me.

[arr&bee]

Well,let's see...pop[who drank the last of my hooch...jiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!]...mom[the day you're man enough to talk back is the day you move out].

[Jerry Oz]

The dreaded: "You kids better be quiet and go to sleep. Don't make me come up there!"

Of course we didn't. Of course she did...

[robb_k]

From Mom: Don't throw those clothes away! Fashion is nothing but a cycle. They'll be back in style and you'll thank me.
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Ha! Ha! I took your mother's advice. First of all, I NEVER was in fashion. I started wearing blue jeans, a T - shirt, baseball cap and sneakers/tennis shoes. I had one suit for fancy occasions [[very conservative - dark blue). In high school, I wore light-coloured [[cacqui) jeans or slacks and Pendleton shirts [[I was dressing like Red Green, already!) :cool: I got a new suit for graduating High School, and a new one for graduating undergraduate. I still wear the latter, and it is my only suit. I have only worn it 3-5 days a year, or less, for weddings, bar mitzvahs and funerals. Otherwise, I wear jeans and a T-shirt on warm days, and blue jeans and a Pendleton when it gets below 40 degrees F. I wore those casual clothes most of my careers
9even as an engineer/environmental scientist/economist for 20 years in Africa and Asia,as a cartoonist, and, of course, working in the music industry. I have some pants from 40 years ago.

[arr&bee]

Hey robb i too have stuff from the sixties,but my wife made me lock them in a trunk buried deep in the back of a vault and she keeps the key locked away in a p.o.box guarded by armed security and killer dogs...i never have any fun!!!

[sansradio]

Another Mom classic: This room looks like homemade sin!

[arr&bee]

Hey,remember when mom would get on you and you would look over at pop and he would pull the newspaper in front of him? Haaaaaaaaaaaaa...you were dead!!!

[144man]

Mum:

You treat this place just like a hotel.

What did your last servant die of?

If you break your leg, don't come running to me.

[marv2]

My Ma when she didn't realize what she was saying...."If you run out there and get hit by a car, I'm gonna kill you!" LOL!

My Mom, "Go over there and let Bob [[my Dad) tie your shoe before you trip and fall".

[marv2]

My Dad: "You kids [[there were 5 of us) had better tell me who broke the window" [[silence and a bunch of "I dunnos"). "Ok then, I am going to whip all of you, that way I will be sure to get the right one" My sister would then always cough up the name and it usually was me or my brother Danny. LOL!

[144man]

Dad [[when asked a question he couldn't answer): How long is a piece of string?

[sansradio]

Me: Let's go to Burger King!

Dad: You got Burger King money?

[marv2]

My brother Robert and I at the barber shop at ages 6 and 8 respectively "take a little from the sides and a little from the top......."

My Dad "Skin 'em and I'll be back in a hour". LOL

[sansradio]

My brother Robert and I at the barber shop at ages 6 and 8 respectively "take a little from the sides and a little from the top......."

My Dad "Skin 'em and I'll be back in a hour". LOL

Yep! My dad just snapped his fingers once by his temple to signal that to the barber!

[marv2]

My mother: "Oh so you think I'm playing? I am sending you to stay with your grandparents this summer....."

[robb_k]

My mother: "Oh so you think I'm playing? I am sending you to stay with your grandparents this summer....."
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I take it that that was a threat to get you "back in line". Sounds like she knew you would hate being away from your friends. Did your grandparents live out in the countryside [[farm or small town) where it would be boring for you, or in another city?

[marv2]

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I take it that that was a threat to get you "back in line". Sounds like she knew you would hate being away from your friends. Did your grandparents live out in the countryside [[farm or small town) where it would be boring for you, or in another city?

Robb that was exactly right! My friends were everything back then.....BUT my grandparents were really my very best friends, they were awesome! My mother didn't view them the same way we kids did. My Grandma baked desserts, cookies, cakes, pies, puddings everyday! My Grandpa was retired and took me everywhere with him and he loved kids. He made sure you had some kind of bike, dog, fishing rod whatever, oh and the chance to ride horses when I stayed with him. Yes my grandparents lived in a small, rural country town. I got to know all the kids in their town. I was a city kid from birth but loved going out to the country. To me it was like going to summer camp! LOL! So my mother's threats did not possibly scare me like the one's where she would tell my father on me.

[robb_k]

Robb that was exactly right! My friends were everything back then.....BUT my grandparents were really my very best friends, they were awesome! My mother didn't view them the same way we kids did. My Grandma baked desserts, cookies, cakes, pies, puddings everyday! My Grandpa was retired and took me everywhere with him and he loved kids. He made sure you had some kind of bike, dog, fishing rod whatever, oh and the chance to ride horses when I stayed with him. Yes my grandparents lived in a small, rural country town. I got to know all the kids in their town. I was a city kid from birth but loved going out to the country. To me it was like going to summer camp! LOL! So my mother's threats did not possibly scare me like the one's where she would tell my father on me.
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I grew up mostly living in the same house with my father's parents, but when we weren't there [[almost 4 months out of each year), we were staying with my mother's parents. So, all 4 of my grandparents were like 2 more sets of parents to me. I had two homes. So, no one could threaten me with "banishment" to my grandparents' homes. But, I was pretty well behaved and got good grades, and was an integral worker in my father's store, and was working on a sub career that would result in my paying my own way through university with scholarships. So my parents would never have had to threaten me, anyway. As it was I ended up paying my own way through university. The only thing my parents could ever hold against me is not giving them any grandchildren or great grandchildren. Luckily, my sisters did that.

[marv2]

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I grew up mostly living in the same house with my father's parents, but when we weren't there [[almost 4 months out of each year), we were staying with my mother's parents. So, all 4 of my grandparents were like 2 more sets of parents to me. I had two homes. So, no one could threaten me with "banishment" to my grandparents' homes. But, I was pretty well behaved and got good grades, and was an integral worker in my father's store, and was working on a sub career that would result in my paying my own way through university with scholarships. So my parents would never have had to threaten me, anyway. As it was I ended up paying my own way through university. The only thing my parents could ever hold against me is not giving them any grandchildren or great grandchildren. Luckily, my sisters did that.

Robb, that is excellent! Don't get me wrong. We were not like Juvenile Delinquents[[I've seen the inside of NYC's Juvenile Justice Centers aka Kiddie Prisons and those kids have murdered their own parents). We were more mischievous especially my older brother Robert. He would follow or mimic older kids and I would follow him into every kind of trouble a small kid could get into back in the sixties LOL! We were both very good students. Always earning A's and B's.

I don't how it would have worked out for us if my grandparents on either side had lived with us. Both of my parents believed in corporal punishment..........none of my grandparents did especially in regards to their grandkids. They would not allow it and that would have caused all types of problems.

[robb_k]

Robb, that is excellent! Don't get me wrong. We were not like Juvenile Delinquents[[I've seen the inside of NYC's Juvenile Justice Centers aka Kiddie Prisons and those kids have murdered their own parents). We were more mischievous especially my older brother Robert. He would follow or mimic older kids and I would follow him into every kind of trouble a small kid could get into back in the sixties LOL! We were both very good students. Always earning A's and B's.

I don't how it would have worked out for us if my grandparents on either side had lived with us. Both of my parents believed in corporal punishment..........none of my grandparents did especially in regards to their grandkids. They would not allow it and that would have caused all types of problems.
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Well, I did get mostly A's and a few B's [[or their equivalent number grades). But, I wasn't exactly Little Lord Fauntleroy. I ditched school a few times, got in about 4-5 "official" fights [[fights in school, in which we got caught and stopped by a teacher). But most fights started in school were held in alleys or fields, away from school [[and there were plenty of those that my parents never found out about). I said those cut lips, bruises and black eyes happened in my hockey games[[some did). I carried a switchblade to junior high school every day, as The Ukrainian boys used to jump us.

My father paddled my rear end a few times when I was little. But, he never hit me after I was 8 or so. He figured that once a kid was 8 or 9, he can understand things, and then can have consequences that "hit him where it hurts" if behaving badly, or to learn a lesson. Being grounded for a weekend or two was used. But, my parents couldn't take away my "allowance" or things they normally bought for me, because I didn't get an allowance nor things bought for me, because I was independently wealthy from working in my father's store and earning good money. I worked hard and was worth my salary.

My mother tried to hit me with a broom once, after drinking heavily, when I was 16. But, I ducked [[dodged) and her swing missed, and she wrenched her back. She never tried to strike me again. I didn't really do anything to warrant that. She claimed I "talked back to her". But I was just saying what needed to be said, and not rude or disrespectful, at all. She was too messed up to think straight. Thank goodness she never did that again.

My parents were pretty mild when it came to disciplining their children. Paddling the fanny of kids when they are little is nothing compared what the schools did. In elementary school, our principal [[a big, strong man) took off his belt, and whipped kids who were sent to him. He'd go to prison if he did that now. Teachers whacked you on the knuckles if you talked out of turn, laughed, chewed gum in class, or got up and walked in the room without permission. In junior high school we had an ex CFL lineman for the "swatman". He'd hit the boys in the rear end various numbers of "swats" for various offences, with a wood paddle-ball paddle. There were 4 holes drilled in it to avoid wind resistance, so he could swing it at you faster. You couldn't sit down for a week after getting swatted by him, unless you had a big, plush pillow strapped to your rear. :eek: I think I already told you all about my sister's kindergarten teacher, who used to put the transgressing boys under her grand piano, and bang down hard on the keys [[apparently trying to break their ear drums?). And after that, they had to sit in the girls' walk-in "doll house", and listen to the girls laugh at them for 10 minutes at a time. Needless to say she thought boys were "little devils". Another sadist who would have been fired and sued for millions in today's times, and perhaps serve a short prison term as well. Some things were tougher back when I was a kid. So, I one old geezer that wouldn't claim that "EVERYTHING" was better back in "The Good Old Days". :)

[marv2]

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Well, I did get mostly A's and a few B's [[or their equivalent number grades). But, I wasn't exactly Little Lord Fauntleroy. I ditched school a few times, got in about 4-5 "official" fights [[fights in school, in which we got caught and stopped by a teacher). But most fights started in school were held in alleys or fields, away from school [[and there were plenty of those that my parents never found out about). I said those cut lips, bruises and black eyes happened in my hockey games[[some did). I carried a switchblade to junior high school every day, as The Ukrainian boys used to jump us.

My father paddled my rear end a few times when I was little. But, he never hit me after I was 8 or so. He figured that once a kid was 8 or 9, he can understand things, and then can have consequences that "hit him where it hurts" if behaving badly, or to learn a lesson. Being grounded for a weekend or two was used. But, my parents couldn't take away my "allowance" or things they normally bought for me, because I didn't get an allowance nor things bought for me, because I was independently wealthy from working in my father's store and earning good money. I worked hard and was worth my salary.

My mother tried to hit me with a broom once, after drinking heavily, when I was 16. But, I ducked [[dodged) and her swing missed, and she wrenched her back. She never tried to strike me again. I didn't really do anything to warrant that. She claimed I "talked back to her". But I was just saying what needed to be said, and not rude or disrespectful, at all. She was too messed up to think straight. Thank goodness she never did that again.

My parents were pretty mild when it came to disciplining their children. Paddling the fanny of kids when they are little is nothing compared what the schools did. In elementary school, our principal [[a big, strong man) took off his belt, and whipped kids who were sent to him. He'd go to prison if he did that now. Teachers whacked you on the knuckles if you talked out of turn, laughed, chewed gum in class, or got up and walked in the room without permission. In junior high school we had an ex CFL lineman for the "swatman". He'd hit the boys in the rear end various numbers of "swats" for various offences, with a wood paddle-ball paddle. There were 4 holes drilled in it to avoid wind resistance, so he could swing it at you faster. You couldn't sit down for a week after getting swatted by him, unless you had a big, plush pillow strapped to your rear. :eek: I think I already told you all about my sister's kindergarten teacher, who used to put the transgressing boys under her grand piano, and bang down hard on the keys [[apparently trying to break their ear drums?). And after that, they had to sit in the girls' walk-in "doll house", and listen to the girls laugh at them for 10 minutes at a time. Needless to say she thought boys were "little devils". Another sadist who would have been fired and sued for millions in today's times, and perhaps serve a short prison term as well. Some things were tougher back when I was a kid. So, I one old geezer that wouldn't claim that "EVERYTHING" was better back in "The Good Old Days". :)

I think a lot of times we look back and remember things as being better then than now. Somethings were better then like Saturday morning cartoons [[they no longer produce and air cartoons on Saturdays in the U.S.). When it comes to physical discipline in the school, it was on the bad side back then but it taught you to be responsible or face the consequences. Today and maybe perhaps the last 25 years there has been a ban in place for paddling/spanking children in schools and results have been mostly disastrous overall. Kids do not respect authority today.

[robb_k]

I think a lot of times we look back and remember things as being better then than now. Somethings were better then like Saturday morning cartoons [[they no longer produce and air cartoons on Saturdays in the U.S.). When it comes to physical discipline in the school, it was on the bad side back then but it taught you to be responsible or face the consequences. Today and maybe perhaps the last 25 years there has been a ban in place for paddling/spanking children in schools and results have been mostly disastrous overall. Kids do not respect authority today.
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I didn't mean it is necessarily better for society. Only better for the mischievous little fairly innocent kids' rear ends. No, I don't think that the current violence and disrespect and laziness and lack of work ethic in American schools is a good thing.

[arr&bee]

my mother: "oh so you think i'm playing? I am sending you to stay with your grandparents this summer....."my mom sent me to my grandparents once,but made the mistake of telling them i was coming...i sat on that porch for three months and nobody came to the door.

[marv2]

my mom sent me to my grandparents once,but made the mistake of telling them i was coming...i sat on that porch for three months and nobody came to the door.

LOL!!!!! My grandfather would be sitting on his porch waiting.

[arr&bee]

Remember when you would go to your auntie's house and she would always make you eat something,and i mean a full sized plate,and you didn't have the heart to tell her that your other six aunts just feed you too.

[arr&bee]

SON,WHAT HAPPENED TO THE NOTE THE TEACHER SEND FOR ME TO READ?[of course me being the genius that I was I didn't think that the teacher called mom].

[144man]

If i made the excuse to my dad that I had done something wrong by accident, he would say, "yes, accidentally on purpose".

[Jerry Oz]

Well, Dad has graduated to full grumpy old man status. If I take an extra week to cut my hair, he reminds me by saying "Looks like Jerry's getting taller. He's grown right through his hair!"

[marv2]

Well, Dad has graduated to full grumpy old man status. If I take an extra week to cut my hair, he reminds me by saying "Looks like Jerry's getting taller. He's grown right through his hair!"

Jerry, I don't have mine, my Dad anymore, but he never really turned into an old grump. As he got older, he got cooler and we all got along so much better. Same with my Uncle John who was grumpy as a younger man! LOL!

[Jerry Oz]

My dad is fantastic. He's gone through the ringer physically in the last few years. He went from bowling every week in a league to barely being able to walk in the span of months. Since then, he's had both knees and hips replaced and a heart bypass. It's a struggle but he grits his teeth and soldiers through. He is rude as heck and has absolutely no filter. If he thinks it, he says it. But that's cool; he can be as grumpy as he wants to be. I thank God that my Pops was and remains the best father that I ever met. I feel sad for people [[especially men) who didn't have a father to teach them the lessons that I learned from my dad.

[arr&bee]

That's fantastic jerry god bless him.

[sansradio]

My dad is fantastic. He's gone through the ringer physically in the last few years. He went from bowling every week in a league to barely being able to walk in the span of months. Since then, he's had both knees and hips replaced and a heart bypass. It's a struggle but he grits his teeth and soldiers through. He is rude as heck and has absolutely no filter. If he thinks it, he says it. But that's cool; he can be as grumpy as he wants to be. I thank God that my Pops was and remains the best father that I ever met. I feel sad for people [[especially men) who didn't have a father to teach them the lessons that I learned from my dad.

Yep, you are blessed to still have him. I lost mine over 15 years ago. I can absolutely relate; having a present, engaged father [[and mother) made all the difference in my life.

[144man]

My dad also said to me that if anyone picked a fight with me that I should hit them twice as hard as they hit me. That was good advice. No one ever picked on me more than once.

[robb_k]

Yep, you are blessed to still have him. I lost mine over 15 years ago. I can absolutely relate; having a present, engaged father [[and mother) made all the difference in my life.
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I can't complain, as I had my father until a about a year and a half ago, till age 94. He had still been working 3-4 days a week in his Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise and playing golf 2 of the 3 other days. He had nothing wrong with him physically, dying peacefully in his sleep, 2 days after getting a clean bill of health on his physical. We had planned for me to take him to the driving range on Saturday [[the day after he actually died). He wouldn't take me onto a public course for fear I'd hold up other players [[by shooting 6 to 8 on every hole). My sister told him he was "too old" to drive a car 25 miles each day to work, and 15-20 miles each way to play golf. So she convinced him to stop working. He and my uncle sold the franchise, and he sold his car, and six months later he was literally "bored to death". He lost interest in everything, and decided he was ready to "go lie under a tree", like an old dog, and go to sleep.

Anyway, he had a great life, and I was lucky to have him around all the way to age 70. My mother died at 89, 5 years earlier. And, I had my father's parents until their ages of 97 and 94, and my mother's parents till age of 94 and 88. So, I had a lot of wisdom to tap into for what will end up as most of my life. Nice to not have to feel like an orphan until after 70. Being the eldest child, I am now the "old geezer", but we've still got 2 of my father's sisters with us, at ages 97 and 95.

[Jerry Oz]

You're from a great line, robb_k. I hope you continue the streak of long and full lives.

[sansradio]

Wow, robb_k, longevity is in your genes! Both my parents and all their siblings are gone now, but amazingly we have a great-uncle still with us, still stepping lively at 100 years of age!

[robb_k]

Wow, robb_k, longevity is in your genes! Both my parents and all their siblings are gone now, but amazingly we have a great-uncle still with us, still stepping lively at 100 years of age!
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Yes, I should be around for another 25-30 years, and still being active, if I follow in my father's footsteps, and don't walk in front of a moving bus, tram or train! :cool:

[arr&bee]

Hey robb,darn right you are and afterwards will you donate your body to da hood so we can stuff it and learn from your wisdom...[i got a nice place picked out over in the park]!!

[nysister]

LITTLE BOYFRIENDS - Dad: "He can't even pee straight."
STUBBORNESS - Mom: "Sugar aint sweet til you taste it."

Oh, how I love and miss them so much!!!!

[arr&bee]

Mom-son go to the corner store and get a loaf of bread.

[sansradio]

Hey, arr&bee, when my grandma used to send my dad to the store as a kid, she'd tell him, "If you lose my change, don't come back here, don't go nowhere else, and don't stay there." :D

[robb_k]

Hey, arr&bee, when my grandma used to send my dad to the store as a kid, she'd tell him, "If you lose my change, don't come back here, don't go nowhere else, and don't stay there." :D
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Ha! Ha! My Mom used to send me, as a young kid, to the tobacconist or liquor store with a note, to buy a carton or two of cigarettes. She smoked 3 packs a day. I never took more than 2 or 3 puffs of a cigarette, and only did that twice or 3 times when the boys were first trying them. IDID try to smoke a cigar at 4 years old [[but my practical joking uncle deliberately didn't tell me NOT to inhale it, like a cigarette!). THAT horrible experience, of turning green and almost choking to death probably was the reason I never smoked. I'm surprised that my mother didn't ask me to buy her vodka at 8 years old, with a note! :cool:

[arr&bee]

Mom[during my high school years]...son you don't seem to have much homework.

[nativeNY63]

Robb, I hightlighted the sayings that are the exact same ones my father used on me! LOL!!!!
Variation for "if they jumped off a cliff..."[[NYC)"jumped off the Empire State Building [[or Bklyn. Brdg.)...?!

[nativeNY63]

Another Mom classic: This room looks like homemade sin!

Along with my Mom's: hit by a cyclone [[or tornado)
Which always puzzled us, no end, living in the Bronx!

[nativeNY63]

Robb that was exactly right! My friends were everything back then.....BUT my grandparents were really my very best friends, they were awesome! My mother didn't view them the same way we kids did. My Grandma baked desserts, cookies, cakes, pies, puddings everyday! My Grandpa was retired and took me everywhere with him and he loved kids. He made sure you had some kind of bike, dog, fishing rod whatever, oh and the chance to ride horses when I stayed with him. Yes my grandparents lived in a small, rural country town. I got to know all the kids in their town. I was a city kid from birth but loved going out to the country. To me it was like going to summer camp! LOL! So my mother's threats did not possibly scare me like the one's where she would tell my father on me.
You hit the nail on the head, Marv! We transplanted from The Bronx to ATL in the '70's. And the grandparents lived in the 'burbs. Their refrigerator was so well-stocked, that whenever you wanted something, you had to lean against the door. Then, ever so slowly reach one hand in. You couldn't really choose anything - there was soooooo much food -but hope you grab something good! The freezer? They had two!!! One for meats and another back up outside near the laundry room!! You thought they were "feeding an army!"

[nativeNY63]

Honorable mentions: "Stop running with that [[fill in your fave) before you put someone's eye out!!"
"Boy! You eat like you got a tapeworm!"

[nativeNY63]

Bonus cuts: "Keep eating that watermelon, and one's gonna grow in your stomach!"
Mocking crippled persons - " You're gonna wake up tomorrow just like that! Keep it up!

[nativeNY63]

I think a lot of times we look back and remember things as being better then than now. Somethings were better then like Saturday morning cartoons [[they no longer produce and air cartoons on Saturdays in the U.S.). When it comes to physical discipline in the school, it was on the bad side back then but it taught you to be responsible or face the consequences. Today and maybe perhaps the last 25 years there has been a ban in place for paddling/spanking children in schools and results have been mostly disastrous overall. Kids do not respect authority today.

Had to go stand in the coatroom, alone for"mouthing off." It was dark in there too.

[nativeNY63]

Remember when you would go to your auntie's house and she would always make you eat something,and i mean a full sized plate,and you didn't have the heart to tell her that your other six aunts just feed you too.

The southern always said this: "Baby, you need some meat on dem bones!" or "It's alright, Sugar. I just like to see people eat!!!" After 2 full plates, cake, pie, and ice cream for dessert.

[nativeNY63]

Remember when you would go to your auntie's house and she would always make you eat something,and i mean a full sized plate,and you didn't have the heart to tell her that your other six aunts just feed you too.
"Put that salt shaker down, young man! Did you even taste it yet?"

[arr&bee]

hey, arr&bee, when my grandma used to send my dad to the store as a kid, she'd tell him, "if you lose my change, don't come back here, don't go nowhere else, and don't stay there." :dhey sans,my wife tells me that today,hehe!!

[sansradio]

hey sans,my wife tells me that today,hehe!!


rotfl!!!!!

[arr&bee]

Boy go to your room and wait for me...meaning-my butt is toast!!

[nativeNY63]

Yep, you are blessed to still have him. I lost mine over 15 years ago. I can absolutely relate; having a present, engaged father [[and mother) made all the difference in my life.
Thanks, Sans & Jerry. My Dad passed in the late'70's. Had to learn those lessons the hard way.

[nativeNY63]

Whipping time refrain: "Go out there and get me a switch!!!" Eddie Murphy immortalized those moments in his '80's stand-up comedy.

[robb_k]

Honorable mentions: "Stop running with that [[fill in your fave) before you put someone's eye out!!"
"Boy! You eat like you got a tapeworm!"
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That was the one EVERY mom said: "You eat like you've got a tapeworm!" - I also got: "Watch out! The guy with the hollow leg is back! He eats anything that's not nailed down!" "Slow down! You eat like The Russians are in [[fill in a neighbourhood or suburb nearby to your house) I got St. Boniface[[next town over from Winnipeg), and "South Shore", when we were in South Chicago.

Yes, my mom yelled at me to not run with that because I'll poke my eyes out. I also go the"Your room looks like it was hit by a cyclone!"

ALL moms say ALL of those lines. Nobody ever said "He couldn't pee straight!" when I was a kid. But, unfortunately, they could say it about me NOW, and be accurate. :[[

[nativeNY63]

Another Mom-ism:"[[Fill in an almost unbelievable factoid)..will make your head swim!"

Deep cut: Mister, no dessert until that plate's CLEAN!" Unfortunately, we didn't have dogs then .

[nativeNY63]

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That was the one EVERY mom said: "You eat like you've got a tapeworm!" - I also got: "Watch out! The guy with the hollow leg is back! He eats anything that's not nailed down!" "Slow down! You eat like The Russians are in [[fill in a neighbourhood or suburb nearby to your house) I got St. Boniface[[next town over from Winnipeg), and "South Shore", when we were in South Chicago.

Yes, my mom yelled at me to not run with that because I'll poke my eyes out. I also go the"Your room looks like it was hit by a cyclone!"

ALL moms say ALL of those lines. Nobody ever said "He couldn't pee straight!" when I was a kid. But, unfortunately, they could say it about me NOW, and be accurate. :[[
Funny thing is, I still eat like I got a tapeworm! I outeat my 2 adult and 1 teenaged CHILDREN COMBINED!!

Here's another gem: "You keep eating like that and you're gonna explode!"

[nativeNY63]

I'm approaching my 60's, very cautiously, but have always been under 200lbs.
My favorite - "Where's it all going?! To your feet?!"

[arr&bee]

Pops...well i'll be a monkey's uncle!

[sansradio]

Another Dad classic: Beauty's only skin deep, but ugly is to the bone!

[nativeNY63]

You can't judge a book by its cover!

[arr&bee]

Moms to you...mamas little man!

[nativeNY63]

Mom- Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

[arr&bee]

Mom..boy we can't afford that,do you think your name is-eisenhower,roosevelt or truman!

[arr&bee]

Pop[before you went out on a date]son,you got money in your pocket?

[Jerry Oz]

One of my Mom's favorite stories was when I was about 4-years old and banging on the bathroom door for my Dad to come out. "Take it easy," said Pops. "Are your pockets dry?"

"Yeah," I replied. "But they have holes in them!"

[nativeNY63]

Parents Hall of Fame ditty: "Do I look like a bank to you"? or "You think I'm made of money"? In third place - " Money don't grow on trees, ya know". " Let me go out back to the money tree". Cause us kids always wanted something our parents couldn't afford.

[144man]

Me: The sun's out.
Dad: What about the daughter?

Me: It's not fair.
Dad: No, look how dark it is.

Me: I did it by accident.
Dad: You mean accidently on purpose.

So infuriating to hear them time after time, but oh how I miss them now.

[Jerry Oz]

My Pops is responsible for my fixation on jokes. Dad told me so many inappropriate jokes when I was a boy. I could write a five volume book with the jokes I've learned since then.

[marv2]

Here's something my mom use to say when I was a kid whenever my Dad was leaving the house when he was off work. "Go with him so he'll come back........." LOL!

[marv2]

My mother would say this even in front of other people. "With you kids all I do all day is say Stop, quit, behave until I'm ready to pass out!"

[marv2]

My father use to say this "Oh you say that now, wait until you get to be my age!".

[Jerry Oz]

Did anybody post the infamous "Keep crying and I'll give you something to cry about"? For some reason, that line worked remarkably well with me.

[sansradio]

Did anybody post the infamous "Keep crying and I'll give you something to cry about"? For some reason, that line worked remarkably well with me.

My dad would bellow, "DRYITUP!!!"

[144man]

Did anybody post the infamous "Keep crying and I'll give you something to cry about"? For some reason, that line worked remarkably well with me.

That must be universal!

[marv2]

Did anybody post the infamous "Keep crying and I'll give you something to cry about"? For some reason, that line worked remarkably well with me.

Oh yeah because my father would say it with his hand on the belt LOL! He could whip his belt off faster than Zorro! hehehehehehehehe!

[nativeNY63]

My father use to say this "Oh you say that now, wait until you get to be my age!".

The other end of that was "When I was your age, I [[ fill in any preposterous tale )"!

[arr&bee]

oh yeah because my father would say it with his hand on the belt lol! He could whip his belt off faster than zorro! Hehehehehehehehe!the fastest belt in the house,haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

[marv2]

the fastest belt in the house,haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

It would make that flapping sound. My sister would get so scared she'd wet herself LOL!

[arr&bee]

I'm wetting mine just reading this...oh i just spilled some hooch,hehe!!

[marv2]

I'm wetting mine just reading this...oh i just spilled some hooch,hehe!!

It could get scary because he had this talent or habit of changing his face to the Tasmanian Devil when you were about to get a whipping! LOL!!!

[nativeNY63]

You guys had compassionate folks. We just got hit with whatever was in reach. Like Eddie Murphy said, "...throw a shoe like Clint Eastwood [[he made that familiar whistle)... ok let's go"! [[to his father)

[marv2]

You guys had compassionate folks. We just got hit with whatever was in reach. Like Eddie Murphy said, "...throw a shoe like Clint Eastwood [[he made that familiar whistle)... ok let's go"! [[to his father)

How about the big wooden kitchen spoon?

[nativeNY63]

How about the big wooden kitchen spoon?
Yup! And in school, the Ping Pong paddle or the ruler cross the knuckes.

[marv2]

Yup! And in school, the Ping Pong paddle or the ruler cross the knuckes.

I got my first paddling in school, in the Kindergarten with one of these:

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[nativeNY63]

I got my first paddling in school, in the Kindergarten with one of these:

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Ouchee!!! That smarts!

[arr&bee]

Mom[to me]do you think that trash is gonna take itself out?

[marv2]

Mom[to me]do you think that trash is gonna take itself out?

Exactly! They knew what to say to get you to do what they wanted! Oh so you think those dishes will wash themselves? I guess those cans are going to walk themselves to the curb huh? LOL!

[arr&bee]

Haaaaaa,hey marv,mom only had to say it once...fast forward to today's kids,i said that to my kids and they looked at me like-maybe the trash will take itself out..[what the!!!##$@@#!!@@@]of course at that point i blew my top and the wife had to keep me from catching a charge..what happened???

[marv2]

Haaaaaa,hey marv,mom only had to say it once...fast forward to today's kids,i said that to my kids and they looked at me like-maybe the trash will take itself out..[what the!!!##$@@#!!@@@]of course at that point i blew my top and the wife had to keep me from catching a charge..what happened???

Although my Mother knew how to whip us and make it count, she also used my father as a weapon. She would threaten us with,"ok y'all are showing out while I am trying to watch my "Stories" [[aka Soap Operas), I'm telling your Dad when gets off work and then you'll be sorry........ LOL!

[marv2]

Whenever my parents asked us to do something that we did not want to do, we were prohibited from saying "shoot!", "dang!" or the rolling of eyes...........LOL!

[arr&bee]

You got that right,as a matter of fact,if we breathed wrong we might get popped,hehe..if my dear mother were alive today and saw the disrespect given,there would be an explosion that would make[mt. Saint helen's]look like a sparkler.

[marv2]

You got that right,as a matter of fact,if we breathed wrong we might get popped,hehe..if my dear mother were alive today and saw the disrespect given,there would be an explosion that would make[mt. Saint helen's]look like a sparkler.

Ain't that the TRUTH!

[nativeNY63]

You could not call anyone stupid or dumb. Boy! This generation's language made ours seem quaint, prissy. Remember the word sissy? If you liked to read, cook or bake. Even if you didn't always want to go outside to play, that label stuck. The horror!

[arr&bee]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...i'm on the floor,nativeny63 you got that right,cooking and baking????..reading[well maybe a comic book]hehe,guys with glasses were-four eyes,hehehehehe!!!

[marv2]

You could not call anyone stupid or dumb. Boy! This generation's language made ours seem quaint, prissy. Remember the word sissy? If you liked to read, cook or bake. Even if you didn't always want to go outside to play, that label stuck. The horror!

PC was unheard of then. You could easily call someone a "sissy-punk" and get away with it. That's just how it was.......LOL!

[Jerry Oz]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...i'm on the floor,nativeny63 you got that right,cooking and baking????..reading[well maybe a comic book]hehe,guys with glasses were-four eyes,hehehehehe!!!Don't forget the mean words black folks had for other black folks. High yella, nappy head, blurple and more.

[marv2]

Don't forget the mean words black folks had for other black folks. High yella, nappy head, blurple and more.

I could list a battery of mean names people used back in the day, but I will refrain. LOL!!

[144man]

Wasn't there a dance called the Sissy. How did you do that one?

[nativeNY63]

Don't forget the mean words black folks had for other black folks. High yella, nappy head, blurple and more.

...Redbone! Today? Light-skin.

[nativeNY63]

Wasn't there a dance called the Sissy. How did you do that one?
Yes! You held your arm out, limp-wristed, and alternated moving it and your legs! Think the "two snaps up" only in dance form!!😅

[nativeNY63]

PC was unheard of then. You could easily call someone a "sissy-punk" and get away with it. That's just how it was.......LOL!
Punk was also followed closely by "chump"!

[nativeNY63]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...i'm on the floor,nativeny63 you got that right,cooking and baking????..reading[well maybe a comic book]hehe,guys with glasses were-four eyes,hehehehehe!!!
Cooking and baking with your parents. Or in Home Economics - and having a knack for it!

Comic books? You had to love them secretly, undercover! If anyone knew you read them - "nerd"!!

[Jerry Oz]

Cooking and baking with your parents. Or in Home Economics - and having a knack for it!

Comic books? You had to love them secretly, undercover! If anyone knew you read them - "nerd"!!Oh, I was a nerd and still deal with a cadre of former nerds. I had some classics back in the day.

And I remember showing up for first day of 8th grade and finding out my mom had them put Typing on my schedule. I was embarrassed to no end. But that was the single most important class I took for my future success. Didn't have Home Ec but I learned to cook everything I enjoy eating since then.

[marv2]

Wasn't there a dance called the Sissy. How did you do that one?

There was the "Sissy Strut" and the "Sissy Jerk".

[marv2]

Cooking and baking with your parents. Or in Home Economics - and having a knack for it!

Comic books? You had to love them secretly, undercover! If anyone knew you read them - "nerd"!!

Not with us! We'd trade them and the kid that had the biggest collection was generally admired or envied. You's get your ass kicked if you stole someone's comic book back in the day where I lived! LOL!

[marv2]

Oh, I was a nerd and still deal with a cadre of former nerds. I had some classics back in the day.

And I remember showing up for first day of 8th grade and finding out my mom had them put Typing on my schedule. I was embarrassed to no end. But that was the single most important class I took for my future success. Didn't have Home Ec but I learned to cook everything I enjoy eating since then.

I took typing the last semester of my senior year in High School and it proved out to be probably the most valuable class of everything I took in high school.

[nativeNY63]

I took typing the last semester of my senior year in High School and it proved out to be probably the most valuable class of everything I took in high school.
I took every typing class my high school offered.
Why? It was full of pretty girls!! Plus I learned to type really fast, to impress them!

[nativeNY63]

Me and the bros were comic nerds too. So much so, that we went beyond collecting and created our own books and characters!!

[PhillyKen]

My father said "You know what'll happen if I take this belt off?" 9 yrs old ,I responded with "yeah,your pants will fall down".He walked away laughing.

[marv2]

My father said "You know what'll happen if I take this belt off?" 9 yrs old ,I responded with "yeah,your pants will fall down".He walked away laughing.

Oh yeah, now my Dad use to say that too.

[marv2]

Here's one my Uncle John use to say..." You kids better pipe down down there or I'm getting you!" LOL!

[Jerry Oz]

Me and the bros were comic nerds too. So much so, that we went beyond collecting and created our own books and characters!!I'll never forget the day when my younger cousin visited while I was focused on watching a football game. He ran upstairs, dug through my box of comic books and came down with a couple that he liked.

"Can I have these?" he asked.

"Nope. Put them back when you're done reading them," I instructed him. It happened a couple more times and the second time, the books he had were the coverless books I bought in 2 and 3-packs at the convenience store. They had no value, so I gave them to him. He ran back upstairs.

"Can I have this?" he asked, presenting a first issue book that I figured would be worth money some day.

"No, put it back."

He trotted back up the steps. The next time, he had a couple of other coverless books that I quickly agreed to give him. Then, a third haul of a few coverless books before it was time for him to go home.

When the game ended, I went upstairs and discovered that the last couple of times that he came down, the books were without covers because he ripped them off after discovering that I didn't care about them. The little jerk! A couple of them were first issues of popular titles and all I had remaining was their covers lying on the floor beside my box.

[arr&bee]

Typing class? Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...we only had one in the whole school and it was under lock an key in the principle's office..do you know how much you could get for one those things at the pawn shop back in the day?? Hehehehe!

[nativeNY63]

I'll never forget the day when my younger cousin visited while I was focused on watching a football game. He ran upstairs, dug through my box of comic books and came down with a couple that he liked.

"Can I have these?" he asked.

"Nope. Put them back when you're done reading them," I instructed him. It happened a couple more times and the second time, the books he had were the coverless books I bought in 2 and 3-packs at the convenience store. They had no value, so I gave them to him. He ran back upstairs.

"Can I have this?" he asked, presenting a first issue book that I figured would be worth money some day.

"No, put it back."

He trotted back up the steps. The next time, he had a couple of other coverless books that I quickly agreed to give him. Then, a third haul of a few coverless books before it was time for him to go home.

When the game ended, I went upstairs and discovered that the last couple of times that he came down, the books were without covers because he ripped them off after discovering that I didn't care about them. The little jerk! A couple of them were first issues of popular titles and all I had remaining was their covers lying on the floor beside my box.

Lurve that story, Jer!!

[nativeNY63]

Who remembers shop class? Metal shop? Wood shop?

[arr&bee]

Yep those guys were tough as nails.

[nativeNY63]

Yep those guys were tough as nails.
They really knew how to knock on wood!

[marv2]

Who remembers shop class? Metal shop? Wood shop?

It was called "Industrial Arts" at my school. One year we had a woman teacher, the next we got "Lurch" aka Mr. Coffin who was 6'6" blond and totally devoid of personality! He was the one that teachers dispatched to paddle "unruly" students with his 2 1/2 foot, 3/4 wooden paddle with holes in it! LOL!

[Jerry Oz]

We had Mr. Tracy for Industrial Arts. Cool guy, but not the one to tick off. One day, he couldn't get us to shut up, so he put a small metal trash can on a work table, pulled out his paddle and swatted the trash can with it. It flew 30 feet across the room, hitting the wall with a bang. We were perfect angels after that.

[marv2]

We had Mr. Tracy for Industrial Arts. Cool guy, but not the one to tick off. One day, he couldn't get us to shut up, so he put a small metal trash can on a work table, pulled out his paddle and swatted the trash can with it. It flew 30 feet across the room, hitting the wall with a bang. We were perfect angels after that.

I bet! Our basketball coach had a habit of kicking one of those old style metal garbage cans during halftime in the locker room.

[sansradio]

Forgot to mention my mother's classic line to keep from swearing in front of us kids: GOT-to-be-more-careful. :D

[marv2]

Forgot to mention my mother's classic line to keep from swearing in front of us kids: GOT-to-be-more-careful. :D

I love it! LOL!!!! My mom use to make up words to avoid all out cussing. I have of some and post them. She really had some real doozys LOL!

[sansradio]

I love it! LOL!!!! My mom use to make up words to avoid all out cussing. I have of some and post them. She really had some real doozys LOL!

HA!! Oh, yeah, my mom had "Bull-Babbitt" and my grandma had "John Switch-It." ;)

[marv2]

HA!! Oh, yeah, my mom had "Bull-Babbitt" and my grandma had "John Switch-It." ;)

hehehehehehehehehehehe! LOL!!!!

[marv2]

My Dad use to say "I'll be doggone" instead of "I'll be damned!". Whenever I'd put a shit or undershirt on wrong, my mother say what's wrong with you? Do you have "wrongsaditis"? LOL!

[marv2]

My mother would never use the word "bit*ch" when one of her friends or neighbors upset her, she'd say "that heifer!" LOL!

[arr&bee]

my mother would never use the word "bit*ch" when one of her friends or neighbors upset her, she'd say "that heifer!" lol!yep,i'd forgotten that one-haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

[arr&bee]

they really knew how to knock on wood!and they would-knock you out if you got smart,hehe!

[nativeNY63]

and they would-knock you out if you got smart,hehe!
Or twist your ear til it burned! Sometimes your arm skin was twisted.

[144man]

If I asked my a parents a difficult question which they didn't know the answer to, they'd sometimes say, "God knows and he won't split".

[marv2]

If I asked my a parents a difficult question which they didn't know the answer to, they'd sometimes say, "God knows and he won't split".

LOL!!!!!!! hehehehehehehe!

[marv2]

Or twist your ear til it burned! Sometimes your arm skin was twisted.

My Mom had her own specialty. She would "pinch and twist" a spot on your arm if we were in public or in front of people LOL!

[robb_k]

It was called "Industrial Arts" at my school. One year we had a woman teacher, the next we got "Lurch" aka Mr. Coffin who was 6'6" blond and totally devoid of personality! He was the one that teachers dispatched to paddle "unruly" students with his 2 1/2 foot, 3/4 wooden paddle with holes in it! LOL!
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We had a 6'6" 275 lb ex CFL Lineman giving our swats in my junior high school in Manitoba, who, like your guy, used a heavy wooden paddleball paddle, with holes drilled in it to avoid wind resistance. He was very heavy for that position in the 1950s. He'd be a linebacker now. People who were "serviced" by him had to sit on pillows afterwards.

[marv2]

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We had a 6'6" 275 lb ex CFL Lineman giving our swats in my junior high school in Manitoba, who, like your guy, used a heavy wooden paddleball paddle, with holes drilled in it to avoid wind resistance. He was very heavy for that position in the 1950s. He'd be a linebacker now. People who were "serviced" by him had to sit on pillows afterwards.

Robb, it sounds like you guys had our Mr. Coffin's brother! LOL! Those paddles would be totally banned or outlawed today. When Coffin hit you, all the blood in your body seemed to rush to your face and head! LOL!

[arr&bee]

One of our shop teachers was an ex boxer,we thought that he was still punch drunk but we couldn't prove it,except that whenever the bell rang he would start-shadow boxing..needless to say that nobody got near that dude when the bell rang!

[robb_k]

One of our shop teachers was an ex boxer,we thought that he was still punch drunk but we couldn't prove it,except that whenever the bell rang he would start-shadow boxing..needless to say that nobody got near that dude when the bell rang!
;););););)

[marv2]

One of our shop teachers was an ex boxer,we thought that he was still punch drunk but we couldn't prove it,except that whenever the bell rang he would start-shadow boxing..needless to say that nobody got near that dude when the bell rang!
U h hehehehehehehehehe...........LOL!

[marv2]

You know what? Overall I loved my teachers [[except Mrs. Gregory my Kindergarten teacher). They were generally good people that were severely under paid, but did a great job as far as I am concerned.

[arr&bee]

God bless em all.

[nativeNY63]

Whenever my baby brother were especially ornery, Mom: " Keep it up! Imma send you to military school!"

[marv2]

Whenever I'd interrupt my father to ask for money while he was working on something in the garage or watching one of his programs, he'd go "If you don't get out of Dodge...." LOL!!!

[arr&bee]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...yep,marv where did our youth go???

[marv2]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...yep,marv where did our youth go???

I don't know JAI, I don't know, but as long as we have our memories, it is only a thought away. I thank God that he blessed me with a very, very good memory for even the smallest of things.

[arr&bee]

I too have the gift of long memory,and at this stage of life i use it more and more to get me through.

[nativeNY63]

"Thanks for the memories. "

[marv2]

I too have the gift of long memory,and at this stage of life i use it more and more to get me through.

God Bless ya JAI, you're going to be fine. God Bless all during this truly trying and uncertain time!

[nativeNY63]

Let's flip it. This is what I've said to
my own kids - 'If you think you know more than Dad, you can leave now!'

[arr&bee]

I told one of my kids that years ago...she's still here-i shoulda kept my mouth shut,hehehe!!

[nativeNY63]

Mom: "You want to wait until senior year of high school to cut class??!! Okay. Then here's what you do - since you want to jeopardize getting your diploma and walking with your class. You can leave NOW!

[arr&bee]

Remember asking mom for a favorite toy for christmas?and her reply-we'll see...you didn't bug her about it either!

[nativeNY63]

"Uhh. Is the grass gonna cut itself?" "Gonna do something about that BO?" "Have you had a BM today?" Jer, Marv, I think you guys KNOW what the last two are about! And my doppleganger, "NativeNuYorker!! It's a NY mom thing.

[sansradio]

Bump: My mom told us about one of her college professors who, during a lecture, told the class, "If you have any questions about any passages in the text, just put a little asterkis [sic] by it and see me." He kept repeating it. My mom deadpanned, "I thought, 'I'll give you MY asterkis if you don't learn how to pronounce 'asterisk.'";)

[moe]

My mother [RIP Mom] won a contest on the radio. It was 2 tickets to see Yanni in Pittsburgh. So she told me & all the neighbors that she won 2 tickets to see Yoda.:rolleyes:

[sansradio]

my mother [rip mom] won a contest on the radio. It was 2 tickets to see yanni in pittsburgh. So she told me & all the neighbors that she won 2 tickets to see yoda.:rolleyes:

rotfl!!!!!

[robb_k]

Not with us! We'd trade them and the kid that had the biggest collection was generally admired or envied. You's get your ass kicked if you stole someone's comic book back in the day where I lived! LOL!
19403
When I was young, back in the late 1940s and through the early '50s, before normal people had TVs in their houses, comic books were one of our biggest evening or blizzard day entertainments. Almost all the kids read them - not just nerds.

[robb_k]

Robb, it sounds like you guys had our Mr. Coffin's brother! LOL! Those paddles would be totally banned or outlawed today. When Coffin hit you, all the blood in your body seemed to rush to your face and head! LOL!
19404
I can't believe that when we had this discussion I didn't mention my sadistic old Electronics teacher, who, at the beginning of the semester, would line up all the boys [[back then, the shops weren't coed), and give them electric shocks. I can't remember the voltage, but it was enough to really sting for quite a while afterwards. He really enjoyed that. He had an evil looking snicker on his face when each kid jumped in pain. Nowadays, a teacher would go to prison, and lose everything he owned in lawsuits, for doing such things. I think he lived for the first week of each class. He claimed that he did that for "safety" reasons, to "make sure we would understand just how dangerous dealing with electric fixtures and facilities is, and to always have that in the back of our minds. But, seeing his glee while seeing our pain told me a different story.

[Jerry Oz]

19404
I can't believe that when we had this discussion I didn't mention my sadistic old Electronics teacher, who, at the beginning of the semester, would line up all the boys [[back then, the shops weren't coed), and give them electric shocks. I can't remember the voltage, but it was enough to really sting for quite a while afterwards. He really enjoyed that. He had an evil looking snicker on his face when each kid jumped in pain. Nowadays, a teacher would go to prison, and lose everything he owned in lawsuits, for doing such things. I think he lived for the first week of each class.Reminds me of my shop teacher, Mr. Tracy. He was a genuinely good guy, who went the extra mile to give us credit even when we didn't quite do things right. He used to walk with a limp because he had several muscles stripped out of his leg for some reason or another. We all respected Mr. Tracy because he was a good guy, but also because he {along with vice-principal Brown and Mr. Kelly, the gym teacher} was known as one of the Big Three Swatters in junior high school. Mr. Kelly drilled holes in his paddle so it went faster and there was an urban legend about it whistling when he swung it.

Anyway, one day Mr. Tracy tried several times to get the boys to settle down because we were all ramped up and talking loudly about something from over the weekend. Finally, when the din was so loud he had to shout to be heard, he placed a small metal trashcan on a work table and hit it so hard with his paddle that it flew about 25 feet across the room. "WHACK!!!!"

He had our attention after that.

[Jerry Oz]

One of my Mom's favorite stories of me was from when I was about four years old. I was at the bathroom door, jumping up and down and begging my Dad to let me in.

"Take it easy," Pops said, nonchalantly from behind the door. "You still have dry pockets, don't you?"

"Yes!" I replied. "But they have holes in them!"

[Jerry Oz]

Lost my Pop almost a year ago and I miss him more than ever. He was deep into playing the Dozens with everybody that he came into contact with and one of his favorite opening lines when he saw somebody that he hadn't seen for awhile was to ask them "When did you get out?".

My cousin Guy's adult son stopped by a couple of years ago to see the folks and when Dad broke out his rude "hello", the response was "Oh, I've been out for a couple of months, now." :o

[arr&bee]

Hey jerry, isn't it amazing that when we were small it was-daddy but when we grew up it became[pop]which is what my adult kids call me.

[Jerry Oz]

Dad, Daddy, Pop, Pops, Papa... About the only one that I never used was "father", which was always way too formal for our family. I almost choked on my soda when my oldest brother visited from Lost Wages about 20 years ago and his kids were referring to him and his wife as "father" and "mother".

[moe]

Hey jerry, isn't it amazing that when we were small it was-daddy but when we grew up it became[pop]which is what my adult kids call me.

Jerry, that's exactly what happened to me. Daddy became pops when I was about 25.

[144man]

When I was on a bus today, I saw a child demand of his mother "I want to get off NOW". That reminded me that my dad would have replied "What you want and what you get are two different things."

[arr&bee]

when i was on a bus today, i saw a child demand of his mother "i want to get off now". That reminded me that my dad would have replied "what you want and what you get are two different things."haaaa...if i had tried that stunt...i would've gotten knocked out!!!

[sansradio]

Bump: Not her direct quote, but my mom owned a decorative pillow on which was embroidered, “Whoever said that money doesn’t buy happiness obviously doesn’t know where to shop.”