I would like to start a list of the many quotes heard frequently in our childhood home. Please feel free to add. Some of you may even have a specific story that goes along with one of these. If so please share.
1. If the dog hadn't stopped to shit he'd a caught the rabbit
2. You have a champaign appetite on a beer pocket book
3. Why do you always have time to do it over when you didn't have time to do it right in the first place.
4. Show me don't tell me
5. You'll be diggin the toe of my boot out of your butt.
6. I'll knock you in the middle of next week
7. Two Fried Eggs
8. What was the acreage on that spread.
9. Twice as many as half
10. If you want to be seen - stand up. If you want to be heard - speak up. If you want to be appreciated - shut up.
11. Get a bigger Dump Truck
12. Fresh air and rabbit tracks.
13. How long is a Chinaman's name.
14. Do I have to draw you a picture?
15. Pine floats. or Would you like a pine float or a fur shake?
16. I consider the day a total loss unless I recieve hell from someone.
17. You know you're going to have to turn around someday. Why not turn around now?
18. People in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks.
19. I wouldn't slam the back door that hard.
20. Not enough sense to pour piss out of a boot.
21. You feel froggy . . . just jump!
22. If you had a brain it would rattle
23. We?...Do you have a frog in your pocket?
24. 'fraid I'm Gonna Live
25. If you are not part of the solution - You are part of the problem.
26. Put it on the table- not in the Doctor's Pocket.
27. Cat for .... to make kitten britches.
28. Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.
29. The difficult we do immediately... the impossible takes just a little bit longer.
30. If a cadillac were a nickle... I couldn't afford the hubcap.
31. Good enough for the Girls that I go with
32. That'll do me until I get to Rudds
33. Smoother than a spanked baby's bottom.
34. Do something... even if it is wrong
35. It all goes the same place or It all goes the same place and it's dark down there.
36. "Yellow"
37. Your Nickle
38. I thought I taught you better than that.
39. I taught you everything I know and you still don't know nothin'.
40. If you're going to do a job, do it right.
41. When the mouse is filled up, the grain tastes bitter.
42. Close enough for government work (a variation on 31)
43. Nail it where it lays! It's only half a bubble off!
44. You made your bed now sleep in it.
45. If you want to dance you gotta pay the fiddler.
46. Don't let the door hit you in the butt on your way out!
47 Shit or Get off the pot! (remembered by Amber)
48 Fair to Middlen (remembered by Amber)
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Here are a couple more:
Fresh air and rabbit tracks.
How long is a Chinaman's name.
Do I have to draw you a picture?
Pine floats.
The one I remember is:
You feel froggy . . . just jump!
Thanks Kate! I'm going to edit the post and add it to the list.
It's funny to hear some of those, not necessarily because I remember grandpa Rees saying them but my father. It's crazy how we all grow up to be so much like our parents.
my dad says he thinks the pine floats goes... "would you like a pine float or a fur shake"
Ok...one from me. "That'll do me untill I get to Rudds"
Well now two... "Good enough for the girls I go with".... Substitute government work for girls depending on the subject or time of day.
Oooops now its three... promise this is the last. "Smoother than a spanked babys' bottom"
When I was little I used to like to call him on the phone so I could here him answer "Yellow?"
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