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[bigsmiles]

My Mum (god bless her) was always coming out with old wifes tales and funny sayings. Looking back now over the years i often smile to myself as i think of them. I remember as a very small child she would say to me on a frosty morning "Dont walk on the grass as Jack Frost lives under the ground and he bites childrens toes off" this was only to stop me getting my shoes and socks wet of course. Another one was.... if you unscrew your belly button your bum will fall off only to stop me picking at it (my belly button that is and not my bum) Don't think the kids of today would fall for it, can imagine mine saying "Yeah whatever" And i will never forget the "Don't pick the dandelions as you will wet the bed" whats wrong with picking Dandelions anyway?

[hisamsmith]

That's funny. My mom just had one major saying. Everytime my siblings or I got in trouble she would say "God did not put me on this earth to be your friend. He put me on this earth to make you a responsible citzen of the united states of america". My 3 sisters, brother, and I can all say it verbadum (sp?).

[Jilly]

bigsmiles, on Oct 10 2006, 10:04 AM, said:

if you unscrew your belly button your bum will fall off only to stop me picking at it (my belly button that is and not my bum)

I havent heard that one before....Im sitting here nearly wetting myself!

[bigsmiles]

Jilly, on Oct 10 2006, 04:07 AM, said:

bigsmiles, on Oct 10 2006, 10:04 AM, said:

if you unscrew your belly button your bum will fall off only to stop me picking at it (my belly button that is and not my bum)

I havent heard that one before....Im sitting here nearly wetting myself!

Hay..what you doing up at 4am in the morning

[LadyPilot]

bigsmiles, on Oct 10 2006, 07:36 AM, said:

Hay..what you doing up at 4am in the morning

Jillys from New Zealand where if Im not mistaken it was 4PM in the afternoon The times displayed here are are UK times

[Jilly]

Yep...theres exactly 12 hours difference in time between the UK and here as our time recently changed for daylight savings. So for you lot in the UK its nearly time for lunch, and I should be in bed!! Its almost midnight!

[Chilepepper]

I don't know if this is a saying, but when I was growing up my mom and dad used to say this to me all the time, when I got in big trouble, which seemed to be all the time. "this is going to hurt me more than it is going to hurt you". When I going up, I could never understand that saying. But now as a parent I now do understand what they ment.

[cdngrl]

my mom always says "STOP jumping around you're worse than a fart in a windstorm"

[bigsmiles]

Hi Chilepepper, yes ive heard that one and like you can also relate to it now as a mum:) kinda sweet.


i was only teasing earlier about the 4am thing but thanks for pointing this out, ive got this weird humour gets worse when ive had a few drinks.



What about .... if you don't eat up your crusts then you wont have curly hair and if you dont wash behind your ears then potatoes will grow out of them : quite frightening for kids really.

[Chilepepper]

Jeez this topic if bring back old memories. But here is another one. If your ears get any dirtier, you could grow potato's in them. I am to say that potato's never did grow in my ears

[bigsmiles]

cdngrl, on Oct 10 2006, 03:14 PM, said:

my mom always says "STOP jumping around you're worse than a fart in a windstorm"

I like that one

[Joed]

Whenever one of the kids would tell Mom, "It hurts when I do this" (demonstrating some type of movement) and she'd reply, "Well, then don't do it!"

Grandma always used to respond to the question, "what for?" (or if you're country it's 'fer'), "Cat fur fer kitten britches."........ ..........and we still don't know why.

[John Anderson]

I remember my mom (Miss you mom ) always tell me these, I will post more when they come back to me.

"Everything have a meaning, John...and the meaning of life is what you define of it."

[Jilly]

Joed, on Oct 11 2006, 06:39 AM, said:

Whenever one of the kids would tell Mom, "It hurts when I do this" (demonstrating some type of movement) and she'd reply, "Well, then don't do it!"

Lol! thats what I say to MY kids!!!

[bigsmiles]

John Anderson, on Oct 11 2006, 07:54 AM, said:

I remember my mom (Miss you mom ) always tell me these, I will post more when they come back to me.

"Everything have a meaning, John...and the meaning of life is what you define of it."

Then your mum was a wise lady I miss mine too x

[CaptDave4499]

my mom used to curse me by saying"when you grow up I hope your kids act as crazy as you do!"

Edited by CaptDave4499, 11 October 2006 - 05:36 PM.

[Chilepepper]

CaptDave4499 My mom used to say something to that effect. What she would say to me was, "I can't wait until you grow up have kids just like you, then you will get a taste of what I'm going through" When I look back at those times, I think to myself, "oh my god how did my parents put up with me an my three other siblings"



Thank god we only have one girl. She is now sixteen, and of course the boys are starting to sniff around, and I know what those boys are thinking. When I mention to my daughter what there are thinking she just thinks I;m crazy and that boys don't think that way. She will learn soon enough. Sorry I went off topic a little here.

[bigsmiles]

Chilepepper, on Oct 11 2006, 07:58 PM, said:

CaptDave4499 My mom used to say something to that effect. What she would say to me was, "I can't wait until you grow up have kids just like you, then you will get a taste of what I'm going through" When I look back at those times, I think to myself, "oh my god how did my parents put up with me an my three other siblings"



Thank god we only have one girl. She is now sixteen, and of course the boys are starting to sniff around, and I know what those boys are thinking. When I mention to my daughter what there are thinking she just thinks I;m crazy and that boys don't think that way. She will learn soon enough. Sorry I went off topic a little here.

Im nodding my head in agreement with you....girls, such a worry.

[John Anderson]

I just remember something else that my mom always say when trying to convince my dad that it was ok for me to do something.

"Honey, you know John can do it, he can probably do it ten times better then you can. Just let him do it"

Man, I love Mom...

[livewriter]

My Mom says My grandmother used to say God only puts you through what you can handle, now she say's I'm right, he just likes messing with me.

My mom say behind every cloud's a silver lining, Wise but I say behind that is a thief.

My mom now says: Get off the phone with me, leave the computer, and go make me a mochalatte baby. Now that's a wise mommy cause confucious say:

Smart man give woman Grand Piano
Wise man give her upright Organ.

[Joed]

Grandma would say, "She's got dimples in her butt....she's nice"

[bigsmiles]

livewriter, on Oct 12 2006, 12:58 AM, said:

My Mom says My grandmother used to say God only puts you through what you can handle, now she say's I'm right, he just likes messing with me.

My mom say behind every cloud's a silver lining, Wise but I say behind that is a thief.

My mom now says: Get off the phone with me, leave the computer, and go make me a mochalatte baby. Now that's a wise mommy cause confucious say:

Smart man give woman Grand Piano
Wise man give her upright Organ.