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Posted: 8/1/2006 3:31:17 PM | what sayings/lines do you remember your parents telling you when you were growing up?!
i remember my Dad telling my brothers "You've been drinking your bathwater" (bleh) when they did something stupid, or telling me if i "ate my spinach, it would grow hair on my chest"  
i'm curious what little things my fellow-Fishies had to endure as kids, & do you say them to your children?   | |
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Posted: 8/1/2006 3:44:13 PM | "Quit your crying or i'll give you something to cry about"   | |
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Posted: 8/1/2006 11:34:48 PM | After something went wrong, my mom always said: "Are you happy now?"
Uh, not really. Let me continue what I was doing and I'll let you know how it turns out. | |
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Posted: 8/2/2006 12:51:20 AM | Don't you DARE......!!!
You know I'm going to want to more...
YIKES!!!
Didn't you hear what I just said!?
If I say, "No," are you going to repeat it or am I going to get in trouble? | |
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Posted: 8/2/2006 12:53:47 AM | My Mother taught me LOGIC...
"If you fall off that swing and break your neck, "Don’t come crying to me."
My Mother taught me MEDICINE...
"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they're going to freeze that way."
My Mother taught me TO THINK AHEAD...
"If you don't pass your spelling test, you'll never get a good job!"
My Mother taught me ESP...
"Put your sweater on; don't you think that I know when you're cold?"
My Mother taught me TO MEET A CHALLENGE...
"What were you thinking? Answer me when I talk to you...Don't talk back to me!"
My Mother taught me HUMOR...
"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."
My Mother taught me how to BECOME AN ADULT...
"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."
My mother taught me ABOUT SEX...
"How do you think you got here?"
My mother taught me about GENETICS...
"You are just like your father!"
My mother taught me about my ROOTS...
"Do you think you were born in a barn?"
My mother taught me about the WISDOM of AGE...
"When you get to be my age, then you’ll understand."
My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION...
"Just wait until your father gets home."
My mother taught me about RECEIVING...
"You are going to get it when we get home."
My Mother taught me about ENVY...
"There are millions of less fortunate kids in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do."
My Mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION...
"Stop Acting like your father!"
My Mother taught me about the CIRCLE OF LIFE...
"I brought you into this world and I can take you out."
My Mother taught me about STAMINA...
"You'll sit there 'til all that spinach is finished."
My Mother taught me about the SCIENCE OF OSMOSIS...
"Shut up and eat your Supper!"
My Mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM...
"Will you look at the dirt on the back of your neck!"
My Mother taught me IRONY...
"Keep laughing and I'll give you something to cry about."
My Mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside... I just finished cleaning."
My Mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL...
"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"
My Mother taught me about FORESIGHT...
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."
My Mother taught me about MORE LOGIC...
"Because I said so, that's why."
My Mother taught me RELIGION:
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet!"
My Mother taught me about WEATHER:
"It looks as if a tornado swept through your room."
My Mother taught me how to solve PHYSICS PROBLEMS:
"If I yelled because I saw a meteor coming toward you; would you listen THEN?"
My Mother taught me about HYPOCRISY:
"If I've told you once, I've told you a million times - Don't exaggerate!!!"
My Mother taught me about VISION:
"Don't sit too close to the television, it'll ruin your eyes".
My Mother taught me about ELOCUTION:
"Don't talk with your mouth full!"
My Mother taught me about DECIBELS:
"Don't use that tone with me!"
My Mother taught me about TOGETHERNESS:
"Don't walk away when I'm talking to you!"
My Mother taught me about having ADEQUATE:
"Enough is enough!"
My Mother taught me about TRUTHFULNESS:
"I can always tell when you're lying".
My Mother taught me about CHOICE:
"I didn't ask who put it there, I said, "Pick it up!"
My Mother taught me about LOCALITY:
"I don't buy snacks to feed the neighborhood!"
My Mother taught me about the OPPOSITE:
"I said CLOSE the door, I did not say SLAM it".
My Mother taught me about SORROW:
"If you don't stop crying, I am going to give you something to cry about!"
My Mother taught me about ADDITION:
"I'm going to give you until the count of three"...
My Mother taught me about being REGULAR:
"I'm not going to ask you again".
My Mother taught me about having CONFIDENCE:
"It's not that I don't trust you, it's that I don't trust everyone else".
My mother taught me about Dr DOOLITTLE:
"A little "birdy" told me"?
My mother taught me about OTHER RELIGIONS:
"Am I talking to a brick wall"?
My mother taught me about OBLIGATION:
"As long as you live under my roof, you'll do as I say"?
My mother taught me about SECRECY:
"Don't pick your nose in public"?
My mother taught me about her EXPERTISE:
"This is the worse pig sty I've ever seen"?
My mother taught me about CONSIDERATION:
"If I want your opinion I'll ask for it"?
My mother taught me about MATURITY:
"I'll treat you like an adult when you start acting like one"?
My mother taught me about TRANSPORT:
"I'm not running a taxi service"?
My mother taught me about DISTANCE:
"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree"?
My mother taught me about CULTIVATION:
"There's enough dirt in those ears to grow potatoes"?
My mother taught me about HISTORY:
"When I was a little girl..."?
My mother taught me about COMMUNICATION:
"Who do you think you're talking to"?
My mother taught me how to DISCOVER:
"Who taught you THAT? You didn't learn that in this house"?
My mother taught me about COURAGE:
"You are getting on my last nerve"?
And her VERY BEST line was: DIFFERENCE
"Drink your milk before it gets cold!"
And my all time favorite thing--JUSTICE...
"One day you will have kids, and I hope they turn out just like YOU... then you'll see what it's like
Well I’m sure these have brought back memories to you also, for these are Classic expressions that all mothers have used from generations past in one shape, form or another. | |
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Posted: 8/2/2006 1:49:25 AM | | That is just too darn funny whattacatch dont forget, if your freinds all jumped off the bridge would you....or did you mention do as I say not as I do? | |
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Posted: 8/2/2006 9:38:26 AM | My father used to say... If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough... I've learned the hard way how true this statement is | |
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Posted: 8/2/2006 9:46:46 AM | | I had to walk up hill both ways to school in 3.5 feet of snow and it was 3 miles. | |
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Posted: 8/2/2006 11:38:24 AM | my dad told me all the time that eating things I didn't want to eat would put hair on my chest. I'm a girl, I really don't want hair on my chest. It just made me want to eat them more.
When my friend asked her mom why her mom was allowed to do stuff and she wasn't, her mom would always reply "Because I'm a mom." I can't remember what my friend asked her one day a few weeks ago, but she got the same reply. Since she was tired of always hearing that line my friend replied "Well I guess I'll be able to do that in 8 months then." Her mom will never say that again. (By the way, my friend isn't really pregnant, she just said that to bug her mom. It took her a week to convince her mom of that!) | |
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Posted: 8/2/2006 11:42:58 AM | | Forgot to add a comment about the whole "if everyone jumped off a bridge would you do it too?" thing. My parents said this to me once and I told them "HELL YEAH! The world would be a pretty damn boring place if everyone jumped off a bridge." They never said that to me again. | |
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Posted: 8/2/2006 7:42:10 PM | or how about
"Im just the lady that married your father"
yup this is for real.
now when shes says it i say then get out and find my real mother,ALWAYS makes her take a second look lol. | |
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Posted: 8/2/2006 8:38:27 PM | when i was a kid from my grandmother "don't make me take out the spoon"
she ment this big wooden spoon used to stir a pot to feed army's. you did not want that on your back side, i got i once, that was it for riding my bike for a hour.
My dad now when i go out (keep in mind i am 28 and have advance driver training)
"just (drive)becarful out there, i dont want any trouble" ok i know crap follows me but by saying that am I covered from danger by a special spell? Oh parents they try to do well.
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Posted: 8/2/2006 8:49:50 PM | We are forgetting a part of the original question....do we say it to our kids? I may have used one or two but, also have my own (times have changed ya know)
When I am out with my boys and they start the I WANT I WANT whine I follow up with my own.
I want a million dollars
i want a mansion in the sky
i want a maid.....and now my eldest beats me to the punch and yells AND NO BOARDING SCHOOLS MONEY CAN BUY!!!! (it used to be the best boarding schools money can buy)lol
I pray my children survive me | |
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Posted: 8/2/2006 10:49:59 PM | | My parents : If all your friends jumped off the roof, would you??? our response: ummmmmmmmm depends. They did not find this funny. If I want your opinion I'll give it to you. Me to my son: look with your eyes not with your hands and God gave you 2 feet stand on them stop leaning on everything (passed down from my parents). New one from me to my son: You had better be glad your mother loves you or you would be SH*T out of luck. | |
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Posted: 8/3/2006 3:55:18 AM | | My Mom used to say, " I really wasn't born yesterday" when I would try to put one over on her. Or she would say " Don't you roll your eyes at me or I will roll that head of yours across the floor"! | |
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Posted: 8/3/2006 8:00:41 AM | | when my boys start the whole I WANT thing... I say "Yeah and people in hell want ice water but that aint happenin either... or "it's good to want".... they think I'm the meanest mom EVER. so I always tell them yep I am and hope to win the award one day. | |
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Posted: 8/3/2006 11:54:17 AM | | I remember the funny ones... "Close the damn door, we're not heating the outside!"... "Stop picking your nose or your head will cave in!"..."Eat it, it'll put hair on your chest!" | |
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Posted: 8/3/2006 12:04:02 PM | | Yea I got a few of those as well my favorite is just down right sarcasm though;eat with your mouth closed, and keep it full! | |
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Posted: 8/3/2006 12:09:33 PM | | "Go cut a switch and bring it to me!" Whack! "Move that hand boy!" Whack! | |
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Posted: 8/3/2006 12:44:11 PM | | OOOps I botched my last entry:Don't talk with your mouth full, and keep it full.Which is an idea for a new thread | |
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Posted: 8/4/2006 1:14:25 AM | I say this to my kids every once in a while...
Clean up your toys or I will clean them up with a garbage bag!
I've done it a time or two, too!
They put their toys away pretty good now... | |
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Posted: 8/4/2006 2:48:03 AM | My Mom would always say, "Just wait until your father gets home!!" (like I had someplace to hide anyway!) "Eat yer Spinach, It'll put hair on yer chest!" So I did and I do have lotsa hair on my chest now.. hehehe
I used to tell my daughter this also and her hubby looks like Grizzly Adams! They have 5 kids now so she did get "hair on her chest" by "proxy"!  | |
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Posted: 8/4/2006 8:03:14 AM | | Anyone remember the crap about this is gonna hurt me more than u?My parents used it for everything..........now when i ground my daughter i find out how true!! ha ha | |
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Posted: 8/6/2006 1:03:07 PM | the one that my dad used to say to me ...and i swore it was the dumbest saying EVER...and of course i have repeated it many many times to my kids. when the "i want, i want , i want" start........you can sh*t in one hand and want in the other and see which fills up faster!... Thanks dad! | |
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