I remember my Dad using terms that I had never heard before. They were often a source of amusement for me and my teen buddies. You know the times when you were cool and your father was just some old guy who lived in your house. He would at times call my sister Gravel Gertie and ask me if I thought I was Joe Palooka. He used the term "swell" an awful lot.

List yours.

My dad would say “uglier than home-made sin” and “longer than a month of Sundays.” As I’ve gotten older, I find myself sometimes using some of his old sayings. Then again, I’ve started wearing overalls, so I’m allowed I suppose reckon.

My dad would use "do you savvy" a lot when he was explaining something or just getting on my ass. Later on, I caught myself using it with my kids!

'Blivot'. That's a turd in a sock. He demonstrated with a slinging motion.

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Originally posted by Texas Bob C.:
'Blivot'. That's a turd in a sock. He demonstrated with a slinging motion.

My dad described a “blivit” as 5 pounds of shit in a one pound bag...

My father would use "Shut your Yap" a lot, particularly when it came to politicians.

Were my dad still alive during this pandemic, he'd have called the COVID an "epizootie".

Shit in one hand and wish in the other. See which one fills up first!

My Dad:
Once in a Blue Moon
Life is not a bowl of cherries
Sky Blue Pink and Purple
Month of Sundays
two bits (for a quarter)

I miss my dad. I raise a toast to him at sunset when the colors are Sky Blue Pink and Purple.

Can't never did do nothing...

Dog had't stopped to take a crap
he'da caught the rabbit..

You can either 'Like it, or Lump it'....

Uglier than a mud fence.
Crooked as a dog's hind leg.
She's so ugly, can eat corn on the cobb through a split rail fence.
Close enough for government work.
Broad is so tough, she frys bacon with her shirt off.

My personal favorite whilst drinking in a small coal town bar in Western PA, spoken very loudly because his hearing aids weren't in; "Tell rough house Rosy to bring us another round".

None of them are outdated, I use them on my kids!

My goodness! I thought there'd be some really old sayings here. But, no, they're the same stuff I say and still say today.

I thought about it for a minute, then, demonstrating my mind being like a steel trap, I realized I'm older than most of your dads and probably the same age as your grandpas.

I didn't see "dumber'n dirt" or "nice shot, Oswald" or several others. Prolly too modern, huh?

Bob

You'll go blind if you keep doing that.

"The older they get, The dumber they get." Not sure who he was referring to

Mom raised me and when something stopped working it "conked-out." I still like that term.

“Cold as a well digger’s ass”

“Busy as a one armed paper hanger”

“That’s cooking with gas”


And when teaching me to drive, “Having the right of way doesn’t do you any good if you’re dead”.

Not sure those are outdated, though.

Oh for cryin' in the mud. For the love of Pete.

"Busier than a one-eyed cat watching nine golpher holes"
"Dag gummit"