My Dad was born in Iowa in 1895. When he was working on a project and something went well he would often say, "Aha she cried and waved her wooden leg." He would also whistle 'La Paloma' as he worked. My wife, of Hungarian extraction, born in the late 1920's & from Ohio,introduced me to, "You're a liar said the Dummy as the Blind man picked up his hammer and saw."