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Love those expressions of Dad and Grandpa (and now me)

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Bled like a stuck hog
Worthless as nipples on a boar
That coffee would take the hair off a wooden leg
Tore some hide off
Hung like a stud field mouse
 
I always said that about my sister's late husband. You had to drive a stake into the ground to see if he was moving.
 
How about Granny?s? Mine use to say ? I reckon I?m gonna have to go over there and whoop that Heffer?s @*$?, my granny kept everybody straight, true vocabulary of hers, lol
 
After a good meal "That was a little bit alright." He loved apple pie with cheese. He said "The only thing better than a piece of apple pie is a second piece of apple pie" Sure do miss him when I think of these things. There are a lot of things I wish I had done with him!
 
i will pass a couple along from my grama, (polish woman with a hot temper) i know its hard to believe, but apparrently i was quite a lil stinker when i was a wee lad.

ohhh you little judas you!!!!!!!

that lil sh*t knows where the devils got lil ones!!
 
All of 'em I grew up with from Dad and Grandpa have been mentioned on here before, but I've started using one a lot. Rather than swearing, have gotten to where I'll yell out "[i:51ecb508d1]Crab nabbit[/i:51ecb508d1]!". Have no idea where the 'crab' part came from but grew up hearing "[i:51ecb508d1]Dag nabbit[/i:51ecb508d1]"......a LOT! *lol*
 
Dad would say to us kids after getting a minor bruise or scrape, "It will feel better when it stops hurting", or "Gee, it must have not hurt too bad, I didn't feel it".
 
Better than a sharp stick in the eye. (mine) Going to see a man about a dog. (my Dad when we'd nag him about where he was going).
 
My other Granny used to get on me about playing with snapping turtles, she would say, ?if that thang bites you it ain?t gonna let go til it thunders?
 
My Grandpaw used to say he would rather feed somebody that?s hungry instead of somebody that ain?t, cause somebody that ain?t hungry will eat you out of house and home
 
Well....to listen to that fellow you'd think he was around when they put the salt in the ocean.
 
Yep.
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Or as Grandma used to say, "I'd rather feed two hungry men as one boy with a comin' appetite."
 
Was just in town. For the heck of it I checked at the store and they had it. No longer a little green tin but a red box. And Doan's, not dones.
 
My grandpa used to say Rears and Soebuck! Or, like shootin fish in a barrel-when things were easy!
 
FIL would describe a bad deal as getting the sh*t end of the stick. I've heard that all my life and thought it was "short end of the stick" but his version makes more sense.
From my machine shop days, "If he went any slower he'd be putting metal back on."
 
My uncle was a quiet guy and could fix pretty much anything. He used to stand there watching me and my brother struggle with whatever we were working on until we gave up or got hurt. At that point he'd say "I hate to throw a monkey wrench in to the mix, but ..." Then he would tell us everything we did wrong. WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY THAT 30 MINUTES AGO?!?! I miss that guy.
 
Funny thing about that statement of the Boar, we always used that as part of our evaluation. If they were uneven or odd in number it did not come home with us. We raised upwards of a thousand head a year for many years that way with usually one boar a year.
 

When it had been a long frustrating day, Dad would say to me while walking across the yard "...well, Jeff, there's a hole in the ground." Never could figure out what that mean't and I don't think Dad knew either as I recall not getting a satisfactory explanation when I once asked.

Grandma didn't much care for a certain politician I won't name and she'd grumble in a old witch sort of voice that we had to "put up and shut up" while they were in office.

My own variation in slowness of some folks is: "so slow he has to speed up to stop..."
 
I heard it as "------ Carter's got liver pills!"

Just got curious and googled it, lo and behold, there actually was a product called "Carter's Little Liver Pills!"
 
When I was growing up a lot of people would pronounce what for? as "what fur". Dad always replied cat fur make kitten britches.
 
A friends of mine had a brother say after a meal " that will make a turd, or push one out"
My grand pa " a lot of birds will s--t that don't have a--holes before that will happen.

My dads best advice, tell the truth and you don't have to remember what you said.
 
The one l'm using now: If he was doing (whatever) for lard he couldn't grease a skillet. Grandma used to say I can get glad in the shoes I got mad in
 
As men will often do, some of my dad's ole buddies would sometimes greet him with a "Hey, boy, what're you up to?." My Dad's usual reply: "Boy? Man with a (----) like a ear of corn an' you're hollerin' boy?"
 
if his brain were put on the edge of a razor blade, it would look like a BB rolling down the middle of a 4 lane highway.
 
When I was little and asked Dad where he was going; he would say......

"Up Mike's and down Jakes' to get some flat pancakes"

and other times he offer to tell us a story...........

"I'll tell you a story of Jack Manury; now my story has begun"
"I'll tell you another about his brother; now my story is done"

Boy would that make me mad!
 

When hoeing out the corn in the garden Dad would say:
You get any slower, a cutworm gonna get that hoe handle

He's so tight he puts sycamore balls around his barn at night to keep tumblebugs from rolling his cows%$*# off
 
JerryS's reply reminded me of what my Dad would say when anyone said something like, 'Boy, is it hot out'. He'd reply with. "Boy? ... How big do men grow where you come from?.
 
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