A Saying You're Known By?

That reminds me of one I just heard about hatracks but I can't quite recall it. Hope it comes to me soon.

"it is often the journey, not the destination"

Great one, Dyson, and so true.

"It's your life, be the star".

Just read this one as part of an email:

Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.

"It's not the miles it's the stops along the way"........DH is really known for this one.. shirley

These are all great!!

I know I am being bad but one of my most memorable things was when the kids did not like my dinner I would say. Oh ....you know the house rule....If you do not like what I cooked ....feel free to make yourself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich......This is not a short order kitchen. lol... they still laugh about that rule today.

I liked the story about a tug boat that worked the Chesapeake Bay between Norfolk and Baltimore.

The rule on the boat was that if you complained about a meal - you became the cook.

A first-timer on the tug complained about a meal and was assigned cooking duties for thr remander of the trip or untill someone else complained.

The next day they exchanged barges on the York River, and while they were docked, the "cook" went ashore for supplies. While he was ashore he located a pasture and collected some cow dung.

Upon returning to the vessel, he prepared an evening meal worthy of kings, and for dessert served -

A Cow Dung Pie!

The first deck hand to take a bite of the pie exclamed - "This taste like dung!", then added "good dung though".

ROTFL!!!

pirl I like the " It's your life, be the star". I always thought of myself as the hub of the wheel .... making it possible for all my family to run around and be the stars....shirley

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the words to the worms song as I learned it:
Nobody loves me
everybody hates me
I think I'll go eat worms
great big fat ones
teeny tiny skinny ones
think I'll go eat worms
worms worms worms worms
think I'll go eat wo -o-orms worms worms worms worms
think I'll go eat worms!

It has a tune and we sang it on the playground growing up in Ohio.

I do remember the fat ones and skinny ones, but then I go into another song and come up with ''kids who climb on rocks.'' (Oscar Mayer song, laugh!)

LOL!

I often wonder what IMPORTANT information has been displaced by things like this in our brains. For me, I'm sure it's MATH.

LOL!

I know the worms saying as,

Nobody likes me, everybody hates me.
I'm going out to eat worms.
The first one was easy.
The second one was greasy.
The third one wiggled all the way down.

It wasn't a song, but a sing-song poem. This would be of western PA origin.

wow, maybe the worms need their own thread!

One I say when people ask how I am is,
Can't complain - nobody listens. I said it and the clerk at the store said it to me almost at the same time - we giggled!!

That is so funny!

owie gooie was a worm
owie goie crawled upon the railroad track
there was owie goie all over the track !

I wouldn't call these sayings exactly, but in certain situations, it's pretty much guaranteed that I am going to say the following things. This is really goofy, so consider yourself warned.

It turns out that all of these pertain to watching baseball games.

Whenever one of a select group of guys is shown on t.v. or his name is mentioned, I say, "Oh! It's (player name)! He's my (team name) sweetie!" DH has gotten to expect this and it actually amuses him. There are some teams for which I don't have a sweetie, so at some point in the game I will announce, "I don't have a (team name) sweetie."

Whenever Raul Ibañez plays (he's not my Mariners sweetie, BTW) or his name is mentioned, I repeat his name slowly and carefully because I like to say it - Rah-ool Ee-bahn-yez.

Some announcers use this rather inane phraseology that in the broadest sense is like this, "If you're (player name), you are (doing something)." For example, "If you're Barry Bonds, you're looking for a fast ball low and away." When the announcer says this, I say, "But I'm not (player name). If I was, I wouldn't be sitting in the living room watching your show," or "But I'm not (player name). So now what?"

Yeah, I know. It's all pretty silly.

ooey gooey was a worm
a mighty worm was he
he crawled upon the railroad track
the train he did not see
oooey! Gooey!

I say, "Go draw water in the bath tub" (so we could worsh the dog) My nephew would respond "Give me a pencil" with a grin.


I've enjoyed reading this thread. :) It's bringing all sorts of memories back.

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

Feed a man a fish, fish him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life.



Keep up the good sayings! I'll adopt many new ones to annoy my future kids. =) Least they'll always remember mom as a hoot!

Or, as an old comedian used to say:

You can lead a horse to water but if you can make him lie on his back and float THEN you've got something.

Okay, I have a few that I've said for many years:

When my children would come home from school and would be real sad or hurt because someone said mean things about them....

"If they're talking about you, they're giving someone else a break."

When they asked about a certain situation and how to handle it....

"Every action has a reaction. It can be a good reaction or a bad reaction, you be the judge."

"If you want something done the way you want it done, do it yourself."

And one I don't say, but it will always be stuck to my mother-in-law! When I married my husband (I am his 3rd wife, but the best.) :) and I asked her for addresses to send out wedding invitations....

"I'm not giving you addresses because no one will come, "it's old hat!" " FYI: I got the addresses from his aunt (father's sister) and we had about 100 people there and a wonderful time....even his mother! And yes, she's still a thorn in my side! as recent as last night. LOL.

:) Kathy

Your last line reminds me of: She brightens a whole room.......just by leaving it.

Now look right at Grandma, keep your eyes on the lens, ok?

LOL!

I'm one ov those dad-burned 'newbies' y'all are fussin' about...LOL..a refugee from GW.

This is a great thread!
Hope ya don't mind if I chime in...

I've got a plethora of sayings, but a few come to mind...or I should say I'm aware that I use these!

When someone asks me how I am today I normally reply: "'Nuther day above ground...can't complain!"

If somebody asks me why I've done this or that...(and I probably shouldn't have)...I answer with a quote from anita borg:
"Well behaved women rarely make history!"

In response to 'how do you like living on an island?'...
"I love the beach. It makes my butt look smaller."

And if someone is dead wrong about something, I usually say: "That's OK. Even a broken clock is right twice a day." LOL

Thanks fer lettin' me play!

Hi, Lellie, nice to see you here!

Right back atcha Miss Joan!
(you're the 'gorgeous koi pond' lady, right?) *chuckle

Not me. I have no pond or koi.

Misty:

"Caution, Red Neck, Mad scientist, Biker, Planting, Hippy at work - Please step & speak softly".

ie. talk about confussed!

i will finally come clean
I'm know for one saying and it is one word
CHARGE

My favorite is, "If not you,who? If not now,when?" But the one thing most people hear me say is, "road trip!"
Sherry

Hi Kids,

I just got here. What a great thread and it has brought back many memories..

The Ooey-Gooy I learned:

Ooey-Gooy was a worm,
Ooey-Gooy loved to squirm,
Ooey-Gooy crossed the RR tracks,

OEY-GOOY!!!!!

The one expressions that I am know for is "FANTASTIC" to the point of being called the "Fantastic Lady" in the newspaper.

Years ago I knew a chef that no matter when you asked him how he was, he would answer, "Fantastic". I thought that it was wonderful. I shortly found by saying it, I started to believe it and it usually brought a smile to whomever, (IS that correct) I said it to. That was very important at the time for I was the chef at the only soup kitchen in Ft. Lauderdale and the people that came in needed a smile more than anyone.....

As far as my kids.....

"DON'T TOUCH THINGS THAT DON'T BELONG TO YOU!!!!!!" , and the way I said it was, DON'T touch THINGS that DON'T be-LONG to YOU. My son still says that to me and his kids.

Also, if his kids start to act up in the car, he'll say, "I'm going to get that snow-brush!!!" When seat belts first came in I was a stickler about having the 3 of them use them for I recently had a neighbor killed because she did not have one on leaving a husband and 7 kids. One day they decided they weren't going to,. I advised them that if I stopped the car they were going to be in trouble. Being of mother that always kept her word, I stopped the car, got the snow-brush and whacked each one of them on the knee.......NOW GET THEM ON!!!!!! There was a quick, Click, Click, Click. They evidently remember that well, because when I was up in Rochester last year, my two boys checked my rental car and laughed because I had a snow-brush....

Well, rattled on long enough.

Thanks for all the laughs.

Will be watching...

Hap

Great stories Happy! Really made me smile!

"Make the memories matter, for the memories you give, will be with them forever"..author unknown.
kiska

happy 1 I loved all your stories!

I'd love to thank the person who wrote about how to tackle a huge job: same way as eating an elephant, one bite at a time. It's been a huge help to me for outside work in the fall and changing plants around.

Thanks to whomever it was. I didn't find it on this thread but know it was a DG person.