Don't hear these sayings anymore..

[River Rat]

Be sure and refill the ice trays, we are going to have company after while.

Watch for the postman, I want to get this letter in the mail today.

Quit slamming that screen door!

Be sure to pull the windows down when you leave, it looks like it might shower -- and bring in the clothes on the line, too.

Don't forget to wind the clock before you go to bed.

Wash your feet before you go to bed, they are nasty from playing barefooted outside all day.

Why can't you remember to roll up your pants legs? Getting them caught in the bicycle chain so many times is tearing them up.

You have torn the knees out of that pair of pants so many times there is nothing left to put a patch on.

Don't you go outside with your good school clothes on!

Hang up your Sunday School clothes, you know you need to pass them down to your brother in good condition.

Go comb your hair. It looks like the rats have nested in it all night.

Be sure and pour the cream off the top of the milk when you open the new bottle. I need it for baking and Pa 's coffee.

Take that empty bottle to the store with you so you won't have to pay a deposit on another one.

Put a dish towel over the cake so the flies won't get on it.

Quit jumping on the floor! I have a cake in the oven and you are going to make it fall if you don't quit!

Let me know when the Fuller Brush man comes by, I need to get a few things from him.

You boys stay close by, the car may not start and I will need you to help push it off.

There is a dollar in my purse, go by the service station and get five gallons of gas when you start to town.

Open the back door and see if we can get a breeze through here, it is getting hot.

You can walk to the store; it won't hurt you to get some exercise. Maybe you will learn to be more careful with your bicycle.

Don't sit to close to the TV it is hard on your eyes.

If you pull that stunt again, I am going to wear you out!

Don't lose that button, I will sew it back on after while.

Wash under your neck before you come to the table, you have beads of dirt and sweat all under there.

Get out from under that sewing machine, pumping it messes up the thread!

Do you want to go get me a switch?

Be sure and fill the lamps this morning so we don't have to do that tonight in the dark.

Here, take this old magazine to the outhouse (toilet) when you go, we are almost out of paper out there.

Go out to the well and draw a bucket of water for me.

Don't turn the radio on now, I want the battery to be up when the Grand Ole Opry comes on.

No! I don't have five cents for you to go to the show, do you think money grows on trees?

Eat those vegetables; they will make you big and strong like your daddy.

That dog is NOT coming in this house! I don't care how cold it is out there, dogs just don't come in the house.

Sit still! I am trying to get your hair cut straight and you keep moving and it is getting botched up.

Hush your mouth! I don't want to hear words like that. I will wash your mouth out with soap again!

It is time for your system to be cleaned out, I'm going to give you a dose of Castor Oil in the morning.

If you get a spanking in school and I find out about it, you will get another one when you get home.

Quit crossing your eyes! They will get hung that way!

Soak your foot in this pan of coal oil so that cut won't get infected.

When you take your driving test don't forget your hand signals each turn. Left arm straight out the window for a left turn, and left arm bent up to the sky at the elbow for a right turn and straight down to the side of the door when you are going to stop.

It is "Yes, sir!" and "No, sir" to me and your elders young man, and don't you forget it!

While we are at Aunt Mary's and Uncle John's you kids eat when the adults get through and I don't want to hear "I don't like this stuff".

You better keep your mouth shut and eat everything on your plate.







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[coolcash2004]

Actually I still hear alot of those.

I have been spanked, and I have had soap when I was 5. I am currently 15.

-CC

[G.I.B.]

"Don't stick that fork in the toaster boy, you'll 'lectocute yourself"

[stefen]

Many of them bring back memories...

[Montana Jim]

Stop that! You'll go BLIND!!

(was that only me?)

Hello... is this thing on?

[stoney56]

Quit flipping channels. You know we only get three when the weather's right.

[roswellborn]

I'd guess I grew up with 90% of those sayings. Even put up an ol' screen door in the back, just so's I could hear it slam when the grandkids come over. (I need help...)

Here's another one:
"If you're too full for vegetables, then you're too full for dessert!"

[civilman1]

My dad used to give me $3.00 and a note for the clerk to allow me to get his cigarette's (2 pack's) lived about 300 yd.'s from the store....last thing he would tell me was "and bring the change back".....I still find myself using some of the one's you mentioned....Thank's!! HH

[ashleen]

Good stuff, RR,
how about...
If I have to get up off this chair, you'll be sorry!
My favorite (from my mom).
Go find me something to beat you with! hahaha..i'd give her towels. bread anything that wouldn't hurt. One day, just for the heck of it I gave her a hammer.........she just laughed

[Jeffro]

"Go and cut me a switch, boy!"


I learned real quick not to make 'em too big or too small...... double ouch!



"Oh, you got a scrape? Get me a bandaid and the mercurachrome"

"A couple of playing cards and a clothespin and it'll sound like a real motorbike!"

[Old Dog]

"Hey boy!!
That chair has four leggs, I want to see all of them on the floor at once."

"If you don't eat that now, It'll be there when you get hungry."

"Stop telling your sister she can see in the dark if she eats those!"


"Don't put tape on the cat's feet!"

"No you can't sweep the chimney with another chicken."


To list just a few

OD

[Cannonman17]

LMAO! Still use some of them on my kids.. had to add a couple-

Kids were meant to be seen and not heard!

Okay, but don't shoot any windows out!

[Old Dog]

How about ....

"Don't you dare sweep that under the rug son."

OD

[Glenns5900]

Close that d@*^ed door... Were you born in a barn?

Seriously - I used to work with an electronics engineer and he was going on a trip out of the country and had to get a passport. He brought in his birth certificate and it said...

"Born in back seat of '49 Ford in front of 1234 Main Street" (the address of the hospital)

[treetop]

Dont let them chickens in the house.We will have to scrub the floor again

[ivan salis]

Im only 47 years old but my granny raised me for a year or so when I was about 12 in a smallish kinda hick town -- cheifland,fla -- the main "business" of that one light wonder was raising watermelons -- (there were many old "share cropper" type homes there and in general it was dirt poor with a few very rich folks there) to me it was like living in a time warp --the big "kids" that were able to were put to hard labor in the feilds to assist in harvesting the melons when the time came (the smaller ones cut the melons free from the vine -- the "big" kids lifted them up to the --mid sized ones in the truck beds who stacked em up --daddy drove the truck and mommy stayed home with the little bitty babies -- if there was no lil biddies mom worked a half day--and then went home to fix dinner-- mom had to get up early and fix breakfastt- normally eggs and bacon and grits (the slow kind)---and fix up a lunch basket-- lunch was normally sandwiches and sweet tea ----there was no "I don't want to do it " for the kids -- their dad's razor strop saw to that-- I remember winning the "watermelon eating contest" that summer at the watermelonfest held after all the picking was done ---- I was first "white boy" to do it and win (go my photo in the paper-- still get teased by my kin at times-- I just loved a good properly ripe watermelon or peach -- not the "green picked stuff" you find in a store but the real deal) -- almost all my freinds and neighbors were black but it wasn't a big deal at the time to me and still ain't --this was a mere 35 years ago but seems like forever at times - Ivan

[bean man]

"Go burn the trash"

[fossis]

No, we don't hear those much these days,
brings back lots of memories.

Thanks for sharing, Fossis.............

[joya_dorado]

Unplug the TV... a storm's coming.

Pour that bacon grease in the can on the stove it's almost out and I got biscuits to bake.

If I catch you shootin any songbirds with that BB gun it's goin in the trash.

[ivan salis]

my favorite -- granny wants you youngins to go to the brair patch and pick up a mess of blackberries for her to make some cobbler with -- and watch of for rats and the rattlesnakes you hear --

of course later we would get the old fashioned wood bucket w / the crank handle out and withice and rock salt and lots of cranking -- we'd churn up some "fresh" real homemade vanilla ice cream-- man that ice cold ice cream on top of granny's fresh blackberry cobbler could simply not be beat -- when I go to cracker barrel today --if they have it "in stock" I always get the blackberry cobbler and vanilla ice cream --it not exactly the the same of course but does tend to remind me of what was like --- Ivan