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Thread #62965   Message #1019636
Posted By: Metchosin
15-Sep-03 - 11:01 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Old sayings from childhood
Subject: RE: BS: Old sayings from childhood
oh dear....most that come to mind were threats from my father.....usually prefaced by "See what you made me do!"

"You'll be laughing on the other side of you face in a minute"
"I'll tan your backside"
"I'll fix your little red wagon"
"When I finish with you you won't be able to sit down for a week"
"Shut your cakehole"
"whistling girls and crowing hens always lead to some bad end"

Although he sometimes tempered it with:

"They said it couldn't be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That he wouldn't be one
That wouldn't say so till he tried
So he buckled right in
With a trace of a grin
On his face, if he worried he hid it
And he started to sing
As he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done
And he did it."

and

"I wept because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet."

I took the last two to heart and somehow managed to survive childhood.