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I remember my dad eating a sardine sandwich with sauerkraut and ketchup! Dad had a cast iron stomach.
OT: Things your dad always said
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I remember my dad eating a sardine sandwich with sauerkraut and ketchup! Dad had a cast iron stomach.
He once said about me any my brother, after a shenanigan that we got into (I think it was lighting fireworks in the front yard, and one of them falling into the gutters which was full of pine needles and started a small fire).
"You two are tied to each other with a 'dumb'ilical cord!"
"You two are tied to each other with a 'dumb'ilical cord!"
My Dad grew up in the Depression and he occasionally would eat butter & onion sandwiches....sliced onions between 2 slices of buttered bread. He never did get me to try that one.
More than once I would bring baked-bean sandwiches to school, my dad's Boston roots showing there. (My mom was Washington born and bred.)My Dad grew up in the Depression and he occasionally would eat butter & onion sandwiches....sliced onions between 2 slices of buttered bread. He never did get me to try that one.
"It's a five minute job"
This for work he would assign you to do that would take at least a week to finish.
"I don't want no Earl Scheid Job."
Said this when he thought the work you were doing was "Half Ass."
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This for work he would assign you to do that would take at least a week to finish.
"I don't want no Earl Scheid Job."
Said this when he thought the work you were doing was "Half Ass."
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No matter what sport it is, even to this day, if there's a dropped pass or flubbed exchange on a throw, he'll bust out 'FIRST. CARDINAL. RULE. -- CATCH. THE. BALL. FIRST.' Had it so ingrained when I played sports that I catch myself saying it whenever a wide receiver drops a sure one because he took his eye off it.
1.. Nobody likes a snitch.
2. Don't be such a knuckle-head.
3. Atta-boy Bob
4. If you think you can do it better, go ahead and do it.
5. Ooooooooooooooh you!
I'm the eldest of three sons, and we are all within a couple years of each other. Things got pretty rowdy at times, and my Dad always had a colorful expression to drive home his dissatisfaction with how things were going:
"I'm going to be all over you like ugly on an ape"
"I'm going to jump down your throat with spurs on, and rake you from head to toe."
"I"m going to leap upon you with the gusto of a hound dog and dance on your gizzard"
It was so effective because we could not keep from laughing, he was always busting up our fisticuffs with some form of distraction and humor. Good times. My Dad is still with us, and still as sharp as ever, although he's slowing down a bit in his 70s. Will always cherish the good memories and all the laughs, and most of all his unyielding love and support for his boys.
"I'm going to be all over you like ugly on an ape"
"I'm going to jump down your throat with spurs on, and rake you from head to toe."
"I"m going to leap upon you with the gusto of a hound dog and dance on your gizzard"
It was so effective because we could not keep from laughing, he was always busting up our fisticuffs with some form of distraction and humor. Good times. My Dad is still with us, and still as sharp as ever, although he's slowing down a bit in his 70s. Will always cherish the good memories and all the laughs, and most of all his unyielding love and support for his boys.
"People are going to tell you things about your kids that you don't want to believe, but you know they're probably true."
"Everyone likes to bitch and moan about things but they never do anything about it."
"Don't tell me you're going to do something and then not do it."
"Everyone likes to bitch and moan about things but they never do anything about it."
"Don't tell me you're going to do something and then not do it."
Whenever I lost something and was looking for it my dad would always say, "if it was up your ass you'd know where it was." I still don't understand how he felt the was somehow helpful.
Actually,l that one was a variant that what my mom used to say a lot, "when you turn them upside down the all look the same." I had a truly awesome pair of parents.
One of my Dad's favorites:
He's so stupid he couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the directions on the heel.
I am always looking for a chance to break that one out.
He's so stupid he couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the directions on the heel.
I am always looking for a chance to break that one out.
I didn't just roll off a turnip truck from New Jersey
I am not running a soup kitchen here
If you just show up you are already ahead of 80% of people
I am not running a soup kitchen here
If you just show up you are already ahead of 80% of people
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