The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #62965   Message #1019831
Posted By: GUEST,Paul Burke
16-Sep-03 - 09:16 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Old sayings from childhood
Subject: RE: BS: Old sayings from childhood
It'll rain or go dark before morning.

Ask, don't get. Don't ask, don't want.

(answer to "where's dad" etc.: He's in a bottle on the roof.

Black follows green.

Anyone identify this teacher:

"Sir, my pen's run out." "What do you expect me to do, run out after it?"

"What do you expect me to do, stand in a bucket of water and sing a sea shanty?"

etc. ad nauseam.