Seems A bunch of our dads went to same dad school class for sayings

Most of what has been posted was said routinely by my dad or my best friends dad that I spent a lot of time with. His dad was career navy and when he had enough of our acting the fool. He get a stern look and at “hey, cut the crap” we never pushed past that so I never found out what was next.

Why do I hear the voice of Darren McGavin (The Old Man Parker - A Christmas Story) in my head as I read all of these Dadisms...

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Seems A bunch of our dads went to same dad school class for sayings

^^^^^^
Very true. Good point. The stuff that fathers say to their sons is VERY different from what they say to their daughters.

My old man would always call shotguns "shotty". Like, can I use your shotty? That always irritated me for some reason. He called them that until the day he died. Just to piss me off I suspect.

"If you get that {fill in the blank} now then you won't have anything to look forward for".

Directly. As in: “I’ll get to your request directly.”

When my father got mad he would say "piss up a rope".

"You have more excuses than Carter has pills."

“Why don’t you put that in your pipe and smoke it?!”

You gonna be a greasy spot on the floor if you keep that up.

The world doesn't owe you a living and money doesn't grow on trees! For Christ's sake!

When stumped for a solution to a problem on the job.

Well... Do SOMETHING, even if it's wrong!

When I was a teenager, all my friends were afraid of my Dad. This is how things used to be. My high school football coaches were USMC World War II vets. They smacked you and then might tell you what you did wrong. It was a different kind of parenting back then

"What do I have to do, draw a picture for you?!"

"Shitbird"

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Originally posted by Turbo216:
When my brother and I would get on his nerves we'd often hear: "Hey, you two... bust off!"

One that had me perplexed for many years was: "that's about as useful (handy, or helpful) as tits on a boar." I had no clue what a boar was or why it couldn't find boobs useful.

My dad said "useless as tits on a boar hog". He was not into heavy profanity--I never heard any cursing worse than damn, hell, or shit (and not much of those). I'm sure he had some colorful expressions but I frankly don't remember any. He's been gone a long time (1984).

Many of the sayings mentioned in this thread were quite common when I was growing up. But, like one other has commented, I'm old enough to be a great-grandfather of some of you.

flashguy

I knew to take heed of Dad's forewarning of eminent escalation of discipline: "Young man, you better just straighten out and fly right."

Mind your own knitting
I didn’t just fall off the turnip truck
Sleep all day, cat around all night
Straighten up and fly right
Useless as tits on boar hog

"Because I'm bigger than you."

I grew up on a dirt road in rural Nova Scotia. My dads favorite expression was 'go play in the traffic’

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