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We use it all the time when driving and an Ohio plate gets in the way.

We have a similar reaction when seeing cars with plates from there

A little explanation: Anybody remember Brownie cameras. Quite popular 1960s and prior years. My dad used to call toilet paper "Film for his brownie".

Never start a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

My dad would look at some of the folks he worked with and some neighbors, shake his head and say damned college educated idiots.

Dad usually got my question by asking, “Do you want me to tear you a new one?”

Try that again and I’ll knock you into the second Tuesday of next week.

when fishing but not catching, "you're not holding your face right."

"slicker than snot on a doorknob"

when I was being dumb or looking for trouble, "you lookin for a scab on the end of your nose or a kick in the seat of your pants?"

When it was rainy but sunny "Yep, the Devil's beating his wife."


and one I've definitely adopted today "are you sorry you did it or sorry you got caught."

no clue if these are outdated or just things my dad always said, but this thread made me think of them.



my wife added that her dad would refer to really large women as "two axe handles wide."

That's a Rube Goldberg device, for something overly complicated.
My Dad's been gone five years and I'm not remembering any others, dammit..

Whenever he saw an attractive woman he'd say she was "built like a brick shithouse."

Thinking it was a fine compliment, I once used it on a pretty girl. It didn't go over as well as I'd hoped. lol

observing someone working feverishly--

"He's busier than a cat burying chit carrying dirt from China."

Who could tell that decades later, speaking of that country would be for many a trigger

Engineered by someone who sat in a room with no windows.

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built like a brick shithouse."

It is. Just did not pick the right girl. Commodores said it best:

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Originally posted by taco68:
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!

My dad's version of this when angered was: "Do you read me?"

"Another he used all the time, in lieu of cursing: 'GOD...bless America and all the ships at sea.'" -- I say that all the time.

My Dad, of blessed memory, would actually ask if I had "read the friendly manual?"

The old man never really had an expressions but used to say shit alot but would drag it out.
Shiiiiiiiiiiiit.

My grandfather always said you're "breeding a scab boy" when he was not happy with something I did

When it was raining like crazy grandpa always said it was "raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock"

When traveling:

Me: "Daddy, when will we get there?"

Dad: "Do you know what the monkey said when he backed into the lawnmower?"

Dad: Pause: "It won't be long now."

For those scratching your heads: back then the only lawnmowers were the two wheel, long wood handle push-type, with a horizontal multi-blade, fixed to and rotating with the wheel axle. The higher or thicker the grass, the harder it was to cut. That's why everyone cut their yards each week.
Anything you ran over got cut.

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My old man actually spoke to me several times while I was growing up.
When I complained about being broke:
"You are picking shit with the chickens".
When I did something that irked him:
"I'll drop you like a bad habit"!

Quit whining or I will give you something to cry about Buster.

I am gonna put something on you that Ajax ain't gonna take off.