Be sure to refill the ice trays, we're going to have company. Watch for the postman, I want to get this letter to Willie in the mail today. Quit slamming the screen door when you go out! Be sure and pull the windows down when you leave, it looks like a shower is coming.

Don't forget to wind the clock before you go to bed. Wash your feet before you go to bed, you've been playing outside all day barefooted.

Why can't you remember to roll up your britches legs son? 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 school clothes on! 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. 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's a dollar in my purse, get 5 gallons of gas when you go 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. Don't sit too 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'll sew it back on after awhile.

Wash under your neck before you come to the table, you have beads of dirt and sweat all under there. Get out from under the sewing machine; pumping it messes up the thread! 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 toilet with you when you go, we are almost out of paper out there.

Go out to the well and draw a bucket of water so I can wash dishes. 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 10 cents for you to go to the show. Do you think money grows on trees? Eat those turnips, they'll 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 don't stay in the house.

Sit still! I'm trying to get your hair cut straight and you keep moving and it is all messed Up.

Hush your mouth! I don't want to hear words like that! I'll wash your mouth out with strong Soap!

It is time for your system to be cleaned out. I am going to give you a dose of castor oil tonight.

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

Quit crossing your eyes, they will get stuck that way! Soak your foot in this pan of kerosene so that bad cut won't get infected. When you take your driving test, don't forget to signal each turn. Left arm straight out the window for a left turn; left arm bent up at the elbow for a right turn; and straight down to the side of the door when you are going to stop.

It's: 'Yes Ma'am!' and 'No Ma'am!' to me, young man, and don't you forget it!

"Go out back and cut me a keen switch!"

Terry,
I think I heard almost all of those in real time.
Good memories, and thanks.
Steve

Yep Steve, I KNOW I did and the switch one Ken mentioned many times over!

"Take this old catalog out to the toilet."

Up hill both ways in the winter with hot rocks in your pockets.....

"you kids be quiet when the adults are talking"

Vacate that chair and let the adults sit.

I carried hot potatoes in my pockets to school in the winter time, and then ate em for lunch. It was five miles to school up hill both ways and in snow neck deep to a tall giraffe while barefoot!

Was TP invented after magazines went to glossy pages?

Had to be!

That one was still in effect when I was a boy.

We are currently trying to teach our 4 y/os to not interrupt.

Run out to the front porch and bring in the milk.

We eat breakfast when the milking is done.

"Take it big love daddy!"

Who shivs a git when it was invented?

Civilization began when it became available in the boonies.

This got me thinking.I dont see any of those iron on knee patches on kids pants.Suppose they dont make them.

Yes they do and my grandsons have jeans with them, grandma puts em on for them.

Patches on knees? Google 'Diesel jeans' and check out what they get for a pair of jeans that look worn out with ragged holes in them! I saw several pair that list for $250+ EACH! Absolute proof there are plenty of idiots alive these days.

Well we made ours worn out the old fashioned way. I still buy jeans that are dark indigo and stiff when new. My oldest grandson was surprised when he saw me in a new pair one time. He was clueless that that was how they looked originally.

Remember getting new jeans wet and them turning your legs blue?

That must mean that all kids dont play video games all day.Kids should play not sit.Grandmas know how to take care of everything.

My 2 grandsons have 40 acres, a pond, dogs, cats, a couple of horses and a miniature horse to play with & on. Not a video game in the house, makes grandparents PROUD!

"Get crackin', do not miss the bus, before cleaning up after chores are done."

My wife make pajamas for them and they love their gramma jamma's, not to mention the shirts & shorts she makes for them.

"We'll be haying this weekend."

"Would you like it filled?, windshield cleaned?, oil checked?"

"Hello, may I help you?"

Press #1 for English.

Leave a message at the beep.

I well remember holding the door for the ice man.. man that was a LONG time ago

Mopar - "whit-it-it-it-it".

There'll be those who know.

"Hush Up"

Heard that alot!

"Kids should be seen, NOT heard." Grandma said this often.

Quit running with those sticks..you'll fall and poke your eyes out!!

You can't go into the pool right after eating lunch..you'll get stomach cramps..you know that!!!

Go to the store for me and don't take that shortcut through the neighbor's yard!!

Stop teasing the neighbors cat!!


Quotes from my grandmother Naumann

"I get to use the bath water first!"

Names for a car:

Flivver


automobile

You boys shell a bushel of corn before you go play.
Go kill me a chicken son.
Time to shovel out the chicken house boys.
Git up! It's 4 o'clock, you gonna sleep all day?
Looks like somebody missed the pot last night.

Still say that here . . . . .

Darn few hayshakers left, too bad.


"Park the tractor on the hill, it's easier than crankin' it."

"Cut that light off and get to sleep, I don't want to hear another peep outta you!"
"Life is hard and you're gonna find out soon enough!"
"You gonna use that head for something other than a hatrack?"
"Next time maybe you'll listen, now hold still while I put some merthiolate on it."
"Who messed with the stone on the kraut pot? Keep out of it until it's done or you'll ruin it!"

Ed

"Thank You"

and

"Stop doing that or you'll go blind"

"start pickin' the berries are already ripe."

"Pick up some Wite-Out, and a new ribbon."

"Yes Mr./Mrs. (Teacher)."

"you make the car go faster by pushing on the foot feed"

I remember Merthiolate and Mercurochrome and Camphophenic .

In government:

"Christmas"

"Jesus"

"Under God"

"Pledge of Allegiance"

"So help me God"

Quieten Down!!!

Rise-n-shine.

I'll learn you!

.... that's a Wurlitzer

I'll slickin your britches boy!

"Pull out the choke."

"Advance/retard the spark."

"Don't hold your thumb that way. It will break if the engine kicks back."

"I wish we had wipers that would work when going uphill."

"Can't dim the headlights when I'm shifting."

"You have to double-clutch it to go into first when you're moving."

Bruce

Here is an oldie but goodie...


Be kind and rewind!

My Grandfather's favorite...
"What do you know, you are still wet behind the ears"

Hemi

"Put the saddle on the stove Ma ... I'm ridin' the range tonite!"

Commercials -
-Winston tastes good like a cigarette should
-It takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'
-I'd walk a mile for a camel
-From the land of sky blue water
-You can take Salems out of the country but you can't take the country out of Salems.
-The beer that made Milwaukee famous

What you don't have in your head you have in your feet, go get it!

ALL of my "Work Jeans" have Iron On Patches on the knees and thighs.

Good rigging, that.

GTC

My Dad was fond of saying

"You been drivin' it like a Chevrolet"

whenever we needed to fix something on one of our cars.

My brother and I think that comes from the days when Fords all had 4 cylinder engines so "drivin' it like a Chevrolet" meant you were abusing the car.

Sonic booms from military aircraft. As a kid back in the 1960's that was the coolest sound in the world. Mom wasn't too happy as she had to watch and make sure her hanging plates didn't rattle off the wall.

Never understood that one until our first child was borne.

Mr. T Lee were did you live in New York so that you got full lake effect and 3-4ft of snow at a time? Cheers NC

Hold er Newt,she's headdn' for the Pea Patch!

Come quick Ma the Hogs done got me!

Hotter than a four balled Tom Cat!

Or two Peckered Billy Goat!

"You don't stand a china mans chance"

The "wood shed"

"for show and tell I took my shotgun and a dead pheasant."

And the motorcycle that took off down the straightaway:
RaaaaaaaaaaaaaiNeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrBeeerrrrrrrrrrrrr....

This soil's rich as 4' up a bulls butt!

"Boy, I remember when you wasn't nuthin but a twinkle in your Daddys eye".

Sloppin the hogs.

Toting water for the kitchen or the wringer washer or the mules.

"hornier than a three peckered goat"
"runnin around like a bunch of raped apes"
"all cockamaime"
"come runnin for dinner when I whistle for ya"
"go play outside and burn off some steam"

Come and git it afore I throw it out.

Don't worry, son. You'll be a man before your Mother.

"Not enough to fill these shoes"

"Hope you got enough man in you to back that up, Boy!"

Any of you guys from back East heard this one? "Go read{red} up your room before you go out tonight." My mother-in-law always used to say that to my wife before we were married...

LS/MFT

You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent

A little dab'll do ya

Take a break with Tastykake

_ green has gone to war

So round, so firm, so fully packed, so free and easy on the draw

I don't hear roosters 'crowing' anymore ...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

We had a chicken coop ... in town! (Same, as most other folks.)

Also, kids don't tip-over Out House's" on Halloween Nite any more either, and risk getting peppered with 'rock salt' from an angry neighbor's shotgun.

Not again you animal!

That one is for all the oldtimers. GW

Fill 'er up and check your oil?

My dad always threatened, "I'll jerk a knot in your tail!" Don't know if anyone else here has ever heard that one, or not!

"Clean the soot outa that chimney 'fore you put it back on the lamp."

"The lamp's runnin' low on coal oil."

"Nah, jes' turn the wick up a bit."

As kid's, riding in the family automobile - we'd always watch out for the Burma~Shave jingles, posted on six rectangular signs spaced-apart in sequence along the highways. (Circa 1943)

+ Many a wolf
+ Is never let in
+ Because of the hair
+ On his
+ Chinny-chin-chin
+ Burma~Shave

+ Tho tough
+ And rough
+ From wind and wave
+ Your cheek grows sleek
+ With
+ Burma~Shave

And, to support the WAR effort:

= SLAP
= THE JAP
= WITH
= IRON
= SCRAP
= BURMA~SHAVE

~ All, circa 1943.

Oh, horse feathers!

http://burma-shave.org/jingles/

Stoney go out and draw Mamaw a bucket of drinking water.

Dang I miss her.
Gunner

I never heard the "keen" part, but learned that there was an art to cutting switches. One too small and Bam (grandma) would cut one of her own, and that was a bad thing. One too large and you really paid the price.


Reminds me of, "I'll unscrew your navel and let your legs fall off", or "You keep that up and all your kids will be born naked." Had an uncle that said those often.

Yeah , you could recognize those starters a half mile away
whether they were on a slant 6 or a hemi ( a REAL Hemispherical Head! of at least 386 ci,)

That ol' Mopar starter was as distinctive as any sound I've heard.

Oh, here's another,

"Pecka-pecka-pecka".

"Run the wash thru the wringer, then hang 'em on the line."

The weird laugh kids got when they watched a real chicken runnin' around with it's head pulled off.

78 RPM records played at 45, or vice versa.

"it's your turn to churn for a while"


"Pull your britches down and bend over that piano bench while I get my belt out"

And it was the same as dragging fingernails across a blackboard to me.

"It's your night to do dishes."

"whit-it-it-it-it"

>grin<

"Have you seen what they did to the new Mustang?"

( or Chevy or Ford or Dodge..they changed most every year. Enough that one could tell one year from another at a 1/4 mile )

But then there was the other side ....
"Time for another tune up. It may need a valve job this fall."

Fords: "Solenoid is bad, and the starter has a 'bad spot'".

GM's: "Probably the valve seals, and the rear-main is leaking."

Mopars: "The rust did it, needs new rockers, quater panels, body mounts, box sides, and door panels."

Quit it.

Oh!, "it's flooded."

Remember when radials were the hottest new tire on the market?

I sure do, in fact one of my Dad's closest friends owned several dealerships, and they used to park identical cars on the showroom floor - one with radials, one with bias-plys, and invite the customer to push the vehicles a few feet across the floor. The radial clad vehicle was easy to roll, the bias-plyed was nearly impossible (unless you really hunkered down).

The distinctive whine of a Merlin engine overhead..a little before my time but I live close to Bellevue Ne. and the home of retired Brigadier Gen.Regis[Reg]Urschler the current pilot of the famous P-51 "Gunfighter".You may have seen him at an airshow near you as he tours the country with the Confederate AF and does flying demo's. My place is right on top of the bluffs overlooking the Missouri river and many times I've been outside working in our orchard and heard him coming from miles away!! A flyover by the "Gunfighter" makes my day ..FLEM

"One of these days Alice - zip, pow, to the moon!"

Oh..yeah!!!!

We have to tell my son this all summer. that kid never wears shoes if the doesn't have to.

Sonic booms, and Merlins got me to remembering the Cival Air Patrol, you don't hear much 'bout them anymore either.

I hear this one all the time still.

Gloria.."So then Puerto Rican's are number 3 then,huh Daddy?
Archie.."Well not necessarily there,Little Girl,your Puerto Ricans can be 4.Your Japs and your Chi.nks can be 3-3A,3B."

All in the Family

More All In The Family.

The Meathead asked Edith what she thought about capital punishment, her response was....."well I suppose it's OK as long as it isn't too severe".

TL

MOPAR or no car

And speaking of cars: Remember "drownding out" the engine going through a mud puddle.

BCR

There! That fixes it-it-it-it-it.

coal's comming today ,you'll have to shovel it when ya get home,

dig the garden we've got to get it planted

anything about inflation

Ford = fix or repair daily

stop playin with dem matches, you'll set the woods on far.

"Don't you 'uh huh' me, young man!"

The Shirts playin' the Skins

"Don't you 'uh huh' me, young man!"

The Shirts playin' the Skins

you go out there to the Peach tree and fetch me a hickory switch, so i can whup your arse.

lots of warbird restorations nearby, many that I've had the pleasure of being a part of; there's one playing around every once in a awhile. Music to the ears....turn it up and enjoy...

http://www.stelzriede.com/ms/mus/p51.wav

good thread TLee


but the one I don't hear much anymore is spoken by a hard bodied 22 year old pretty chicks


"I want to see you"


add 20 years, 20 lbs. some gray hair and wrinkles and that phrase don't come up nearly as often (if ever) as it used to.


boy do I miss that!

I'll give you something to cry about

Another distinctive sound was the B-36.

Bruce

1. "I formation, 3-2 Dive, on 3"
2. "you light it, then we'll run."
3. "Niners win!"
4. "Gosh, you're tall. I love tall guys. How tall are you?"

I'll never understand how you do it - but keep doing it!

That is priceless.

Terry probably owns controlling interest in Photobucket!!!

Westerners describing someone who hangs onto their money or a nut or bolt that won't come loose.

"Tighter than a bulls ass at fly time"

I always just called it squirrelly sounding.

I had a 1975 Pontiac LeMans that had a plate on the dash that proudly proclaimed, "Radial Tuned Suspension".

coaster brakes

pants cuffs

pants clips

Anybody seen the oil spout?

Break the little packet in the margarine and knead until it is yellow.

The lug nuts on that side are left handed thread.

"Stop" "Don't"....Don't Stop!

"That's my chastity belt."

"Gee!"

"Haw!"

"Whoa!"

"Take her yoke off her neck before you feed her."

"Don't know B from bull foot."

"Bust a hame string."

"Let's go (from the kitchen) into the house."

"Light 'n' set a spell."

"The latch string's always out."

"Shadow rider."

"Air-tights."

"Monkey Ward's."

"Set the spark back."

Don't let your alligator mouth overload your huminbird ass.

"Yes, Ma'am!
"No, Ma'am!
"Thank you, Ma'am!
"Please!
"Help yourself to the sugar,
"And pass the peas."

"Father, we thank Thee for Thy blessings. Amen."

I need to see your ID to verify you are 21.

Still staring at the sun, huh?

I haven't heard that in a while either.

OTOH, I did have some goofy woman a couple months back question whether my twins were my children or grand children. I thought that pretty laughable until I did the math and realized that if I had a child in my late 'teens and he or she had a child in their late 'teens....., well it's not so funny anymore.

remember that, scared the heck out of me, the first time. (I knew I was cold, didn't think I was that cold!)

Sycamore

we had "Hold 'er Newt,she's headin' for the Rhubarb!"

"See the USA in a Chevrolet"
"I got my kicks on Route 66"
"Brown shoes don't make it"
"Its Howdy Doody time"

IH-Cornbinder!

Sycamore

I was told numerous times "don't jump on the Davenport" whilst playing Cowboys and Indians; usually the third time was a belt, yardstick, flyswatter or wooden spoon across the butt!

I heard, "Don't run with that in your mouth!" over and over when I was a kid. I got so tired of hearing it, that I decided to get even by not telling the folks when I tripped with a pea shooter in my mouth and jammed it into the back of my throat. It really was sort of fascinating since it stuck there and I could open my mouth and it would protrude without my lips or teeth holding it. The fact that it was a hollow tube also allowed the blood to run from it quite freely. I eventually yanked it loose and swallowed blood until it decided to stop. It must have gotten infected because it was sore as all get-out for a long time. Long after it seemed to have cleared up, I would get times where it would hurt. I also did not provide them the satisfaction of knowing about the time that I jumped over the davenport and swallowed a butterscotch ball (a ball, not one of those flat things) that I had just put into my mouth. It lodged in my throat and I could feel its downward (painful) process as it melted. Naturally I could not swallow while it made its way south, so I sat on the davenport spitting in a bowl. That one hurt for awhile as well, but I don't think it got infected.

"You dasn't do that"

"Best better get that done"

"Do I have to tell you twice"

"Get your heels to clickin' "

"Don't just sit there like a bump on a log"

No, you can't ride on the runnung board

Don't sass me, I'll dust your britches

Here, let me put some drawing salve on that

A switch or paddle

You do that one more time and I will hit you so hard, you'll get a speeding ticket going through Livingston...

I'm gonna smack you so hard you'all starve to death bouncin.

Don't make me take off my belt!

"Speak English Dammit, you're in California!

"we had a gay old time"

or he is so tight you couldn't drive a flax seed up his ass
with a sledge hammer. Cheers NC

Merry Christmas!