Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Jos Date: 21 Feb 19 - 05:18 PM My mother said that the secret of a happy marriage was for both partners to reckon on two-thirds giving and one-third taking. Pity the person I married wasn't listening (we divorced 40 years go). |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Senoufou Date: 21 Feb 19 - 03:43 PM When I left home to go off to University, my father said, "Study hard" and my mother told me, "Keep your hand on your ha'penny". |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Michael Date: 21 Feb 19 - 02:24 PM Olddude; Was that in case you got more than 'a lick and a promise'? |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: olddude Date: 21 Feb 19 - 12:20 PM My dad would say put a helmet on the soldier if you are going out on a date |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Donuel Date: 21 Feb 19 - 08:55 AM Give it a lick and a promise Any clean up job short of a complete proper clean up. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Mrrzy Date: 20 Feb 19 - 07:25 PM I know of And the other up the chimney as a lyric, cool that someone actually said it... |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Mo the caller Date: 20 Feb 19 - 04:30 PM I don't know about adding an r. We certainly drop the er, so pronounce drawers as draws. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: olddude Date: 18 Feb 19 - 07:15 PM You could go blind!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: leeneia Date: 18 Feb 19 - 12:49 PM I think my dad used to say "If you can't be good be careful." too I like that quip about the drawers. It's funnier if you realize that many British people put an unconscious R at the end words that end in a vowel, such as 'draw'. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Mo the caller Date: 18 Feb 19 - 08:19 AM Although my father worked as a hospital cook and we weren't well off my mother aspired to be better than 'working class'. Both she and my father had the intelligence but not the opportunities for education. We went to a church full of well off professional people. So it was a bit of a shock to my well brought up ears when she came out with things like "If you can't be good, be careful" "Winter draws on Winter draws onBe sure you've got your flanelette Winter drawers on" |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Mo the caller Date: 18 Feb 19 - 08:12 AM From: Roger the Skiffler - PM Date: 14 Feb 19 - 04:05 PM I want doesn't get RtS This was the version one of my schoolfriends had Those that ask don't get Those that don't ask, don't want |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Senoufou Date: 18 Feb 19 - 04:11 AM I was always roped in to help with the laundry. No washing machines in those days, just a washboard, scrubbing brush, some Lux soap flakes/washing soda and a mangle. Mother used to hand me a pile of knickers and give the order, "Scrub the gussets! Always scrub the gussets!" I still hear her saying that as I load our Zanussi washing machine and merely press a button. How I bless that machine every blooming time! Another one - not my mother but her sister, my Irish Auntie Lil. She was a drama tutor in a technical college (which she always called the Testicle College!) She lived, ate and slept The Stage and The Theatre. When I went to stay with her, every time I bounced into a room she'd bellow, "Oooh! Enter the fairies dancing and singing!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: ragdall Date: 18 Feb 19 - 03:54 AM My mom taught me to set the table before the men came home from work because, if they saw the table was ready, they'd patiently wait for the food to appear. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: keberoxu Date: 17 Feb 19 - 08:24 PM if I told you, you would be sorry you asked. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Jon Freeman Date: 17 Feb 19 - 02:00 PM Only fall one I remember was one as far as I know she/they composed for me when I fell out of a pear tree and needed stitches. I can't remember all of it but as an attempt: One day I climbed upon a tree I slipped and fell and cut my knee The cut was deep and full of blood I ran down the garden, fell in the mud. It really hurt, it was agony. I wish I'd never cut my knee. While I have no head for heights, she was generally easy going about such things and 2 brothers became very keen rock climbers. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Nigel Parsons Date: 17 Feb 19 - 01:32 PM When I (or one of my brothers) was climbing a tree/wall/whatever: "If you fall and break your leg don't come running to me." |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Steve Shaw Date: 17 Feb 19 - 12:54 PM Gosh, I didn't know it was in a song! Cheers for that, Jon. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Jon Freeman Date: 17 Feb 19 - 12:50 PM Not one of mum's but I'm reminded of Singing Together at this point. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Steve Shaw Date: 17 Feb 19 - 12:41 PM She could be a bit unkind about anyone with a physical defect. Anyone with one leg or in a wheelchair was a cripple, anyone with bandy legs "couldn't stop a pig in an entry" and anyone with not quite straight eyes had "one eye on t'pot and t'other up chimney." Me ould gran didn't like swearing in front of us kids so "bloody 'ell" became "blood and stomach pills." |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Jon Freeman Date: 17 Feb 19 - 11:46 AM I don't know that version but, in anger, things like "your just like your father" have been known... |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Acorn4 Date: 17 Feb 19 - 11:36 AM !I don't know who's worse, you or your father?" |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Jos Date: 17 Feb 19 - 11:01 AM G-force - My grandmother used to say that if there was enough blue to make a sailor a pair of trousers, the rest of the day would be sunny. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Jon Freeman Date: 17 Feb 19 - 10:36 AM If anybody left a door open,she'd say"Were you born in a field" Even though English and not Welsh speaking, mum (still alive and I live with my parents) would often use the Welsh “cau'r drws” to ask for a door closed. Paid (pronounced pied like the colouring) meaning “don’t” was used a fair bit in childhood. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Senoufou Date: 17 Feb 19 - 10:08 AM If I whined that I'd hurt my leg, she'd say, "God gave you a spare one so stop grumbling!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: G-Force Date: 17 Feb 19 - 09:40 AM (On a day of blue skies with patchy cloud): There's enough blue to make a Dutch boy a pair of trousers. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Steve Shaw Date: 17 Feb 19 - 09:25 AM "Will you get out from under my feet. You're sticking to me like shit to a blanket." |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Mrrzy Date: 17 Feb 19 - 07:50 AM Ask your father meant Yes but I won't take responsibility. Dad was way more of a pushover. I'll be disappointed in you meant I'd like to say No but you're gonna do it anyway probably so have some guilt. Worked a treat, most days. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: gnu Date: 16 Feb 19 - 07:06 PM Ask your father. (= No.) |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Jos Date: 16 Feb 19 - 03:28 PM 'Allowan' could be 'I'll own'. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Senoufou Date: 16 Feb 19 - 02:49 PM I've posted about this before, but maybe someone might know what it means:- My mother often said things like "You've been playing in the mud again allowan!" Or, "She's sickening for something allowan." Another person might say, "I'll be bound". But where/what was 'allowan'?? (Bearing in mind she was from Cork in Ireland) Any ideas? |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: leeneia Date: 16 Feb 19 - 02:07 PM When we did something slightly risky, she would exclaim "Why mothers get gray!" Years later, we were in a Chinese restaurant, and I urged mother and father to split an order, since the portions were huge. She wouldn't, and when more food came than they could eat, she acted shocked. I said, "Why daughters get gray!", and she declared that she had never said that in her life. Sure she had. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: fat B****rd Date: 16 Feb 19 - 01:18 PM "He used to fetch our swill". |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Donuel Date: 16 Feb 19 - 12:12 PM I think my mom stole her saying from Lincoln. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Dave the Gnome Date: 16 Feb 19 - 12:11 PM When confronted with one of us telling her a tale she would say 'are you sure you're telling lies?'. :-) What's for tea was always 'three jumps at t'cupboard door and a bite o't'knob.' Never figured that one out. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Mrrzy Date: 16 Feb 19 - 08:08 AM If it was a snake it woulda bitcha, you can't miss a bear. Not mom, that one. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Donuel Date: 16 Feb 19 - 07:33 AM "It's better to keep your mouth shut and seem a fool. that open it and remove all doubt." I got this one alot |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Mr Red Date: 16 Feb 19 - 07:23 AM A whimwom for a wowser. If we asked what she had brought/bought and didn't want to tell us. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Donuel Date: 16 Feb 19 - 07:19 AM Yeah like "he wouldn't say shit if he had a mouthful" |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: banjoman Date: 16 Feb 19 - 07:12 AM " Her mother used to do our washing" was my mother's response to anyone who she felt was putting on airs and graces or alternatively "Its a pity she shits or she'd be in the waxworks" |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Senoufou Date: 15 Feb 19 - 06:29 PM It does sound as though most mothers years ago were much stricter, tougher and stood no nonsense. We were left in no doubt as to who was in charge, and parents didn't hesitate to put us right if necessary. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Joe_F Date: 15 Feb 19 - 05:49 PM "Binna bear dabitcha" = "If it had been a bear, it would have bitten you". Said when you asked after something that was right under your nose. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Senoufou Date: 15 Feb 19 - 08:34 AM Haha Mrrzy! When my husband's cleaning colleagues (mostly middle-aged women) tell him to "Speak blooming English!" he counters it with, "You don't speak English. You speak Norfolk!" They usually shriek with laughter and flick a duster at him. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Mrrzy Date: 15 Feb 19 - 08:09 AM Mom spoke English with a Hungarian accent overlaid with Serbian, German and French. When asked where her accent came from, she answered, It comes from trying to speak English! |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Jim Carroll Date: 15 Feb 19 - 03:55 AM My mother was a gentle, kind hard-working lady who, when my father fell ill and eventually died went to work in a local frozen-food factory and picked up much of the in-your-face humour that Liverpool was renowned for - she was a pleasure to be with When I first started to sing and began to practice around the house she once remarked; "If you were singing for shit you wouldn't get the smell of it" I still get a warm glow from remembering it Jim |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: BobL Date: 15 Feb 19 - 03:47 AM "Mum, what's for tea?" "A ton of lead and the Atlantic Ocean" i.e. weight and sea |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Mrrzy Date: 14 Feb 19 - 10:44 PM Mom always felt that commenting on the traffic would make it turn undriveable. Once we were going somewhere and I commented on how nice the traffic was, and we rounded a curve and came to a dead stop in not-going traffic. Mom turns to me and says, ruminatively, I wonder if you killed someone. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Donuel Date: 14 Feb 19 - 08:07 PM Silversteinesque Ha |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Acorn4 Date: 14 Feb 19 - 07:07 PM Remember to Change your Underpants (done in Johnny Cash type voice) Johnny was born in a tumbledown shack Near a landfill site by the old railtrack, There were 16 kids slept in one fleapit bed, Outside toilet thirty miles way, Life was a struggle every day, They were fighting over a mean ole crust of bread. Now daddy got wild and daddy got drunk Daddy watched “Big Brother” and daddy did a bunk, Mama was left a holding them sixteen brats, But 15 of them kids went to that home in the sky, Cos of eating mama’s home-made roadkill pie, Leaving just Johnny and his mama and one old mangy cat (even the goat died of food poisoning!) Now Johnny grew up, his mama’s pride and joy, She said “son, you’re gonna go to college, my boy”, Packed up his suitcase and went to say “goodbye” And said, “son, you’re gonna be a big success Gonna come back and make your ole ma a millionairess” Johnny thought he saw a little bitty tear in his mama’s eye… She said “now you’re a man, my son, I can’t be there to wipe your nose, You gotta survive in that big wide wicked world You never know how that world will throw of the dice, So I’m gonna give you some sound advice And Johnny never forgot his mama’s words… Chorus: Remember to change your underpants In case you have an accident And those people in the ambulance What will they think of me? And you wont get through those pearly gates With your crusties in a two and eight, So always put on a clean pair every day. Well he grew up wild and he grew up mean, But he always kept that gusset clean, Though his teeth went yellow and his hair grew long and greasy as hell, He said “Ma, I’m gonna take meejah studies”, And “tell me where the nearest pub is” Moved into grubby bedsit and after a month you could practically see the smell. You’d think lying in that cesspit all day, His pants would have got up and walked away, But his mama’s words could penetrate through that grime, And at the merest hint of sweat, Johnny was off down the local launderette, And be back in the saddle ready for pub opening time There were wild,wild women and booze and fags, And certain substances and certain mags, He only went to 5 lectures in three years, And all among the empty cans, the heavy metal and the smoke, And the final demands and the bogeys and the stale farts and the dope, His mama’s words still echoed in his ears. Chorus : Remember to change your underpants... No one knows if Johnny’s alive or dead, He was last seen with a traffic cone on his head, Probably came out with a third class honours degree, Don’t know if he ever got back , To his mama and that ole run down shack, But if he did you can be sure his pants were clean. Well, Johnny must have made out OK I guess, Probably selling life insurance way out west, With a wife and kids and a mortgage I hope he made out alright, But if he’s dead I’d like to think, That Zanussi didn’t make his y-fronts shrink, And went to heaven without a skidmark in sight. So remember to change your underpants |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: Senoufou Date: 14 Feb 19 - 05:47 PM I was often told I had "quarter-to-three feet" (I had slight rickets and walked oddly to compensate) If one sees a lone magpie, one should spit or sorrow will follow. Two together are fine, and portend something good. |
Subject: RE: BS: Things Mom used to say From: fat B****rd Date: 14 Feb 19 - 05:19 PM Looking at my (hated by me)curlyish hair "Ee,wavy enough to make you seasick". |