"Move the Milk Ian" and other family sayings

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These are great… :rotfl:

“Would you suffer in silence!”
Early on when we were dating… oh so long ago :D… once we were at a grocery store, walking down the frozen food isle… and I was COLD… REALLY COLD, LOL… and wouldn’t stop complaining about it. Finally he’d had enough… “Would you suffer in silence” is a family favorite now!

“Shhh… I can hear you!”
Our nice way of telling the kids to SHUT THEIR CAKE HOLES!.. which also happens to be another phrase we use… “Would you shut your cake hole!”… the kids love that one because they always respond with “only if you give us CAKE!” 😃
 
“can we watch Grandma take her teeth out?”

this was asked by my kids who would cluster around my mom in the evening waiting for the big moment. It is now code word for “grandma or grandpa is having a senior moment or otherwise showing serious signs of aging and senile dementia”. So any time we or the other grandparents do something particularly stupid that is probably age related, one of the kids will say “so, can we watch you take your teeth out?”
 
puzzleannie said:
“can we watch Grandma take her teeth out?”

this was asked by my kids who would cluster around my mom in the evening waiting for the big moment. It is now code word for “grandma or grandpa is having a senior moment or otherwise showing serious signs of aging and senile dementia”. So any time we or the other grandparents do something particularly stupid that is probably age related, one of the kids will say “so, can we watch you take your teeth out?”
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:rotfl:… we used to ask my Grandpa that all the time! LOL!
 
**In my family growing up the most used phrase had to be “did you make poop today?” in response to ANY complaint or ailment. This came from spending some time with my grandma (me and my sister) and no matter what was wrong she would respond with "did you make poop today?’ like it was THE answer to all of the world’s troubles.

So now that has become our stock response to anyone (except grandma:D:p) when they complain about anything or are even remotely cranky.

As for new sayings, hubby and I have a fairly recent one that is quickly becoming applied to lots of situations. We were both exhausted one evening and didn’t know what to do for supper. We finally agreed that he’d just run out and pick up Wendy’s. I asked him what I usually ask…“do you feel like fries or a baked potato with the combo?”

his response?

(said in a really cranky, gruff voice)

“FRIES! I’m to tired to eat with a fork!!!”.

I almost died laughing and even he cracked a smile. So now we are finding creative ways to apply that phrase and it is fun:D**
 
In my DH’s family, somehow, somewhere, the story of Tommy Miller was born (no idea who this guy is, only that he has a deep gravelly voice) and his famous put-down: “The knife’s not dull… YOU are!”

You had to be there, I guess. 🤷

'Abiquiu deer" is what we (DH and I) call cows. A long time ago, we stayed at the Benedictine monastery in Abiquiu, NM. It was January, very cold, snow on the ground, and the cells we stayed in were like a strip motel–three rooms in a row, with a bathroom at the end (the furthest from our room, natch) and the bathroom was the ONLY one with electricity. The other cells had a kerosene lamp for light and a kiva fireplace for warmth. Anyway, we had been walking across the field of the monastery one afternoon and saw deer tracks. That night, DH had to answer nature’s call which entailed lighting the kerosene lamp, getting fully dressed with boots and heavy jacket and and walking from our cell to the bathroom. He was back in seconds, shaking me awake. “Hey, babe, there’s a whole herd of deer in the field! The lamp reflected eyes all over the place! Come on, you gotta come see this!” So, sleepy, disoriented and just a bit disgruntled, I get up, dress completely (boots, coat, scarf, etc.) and DH grabs a flashlight. We trudge out into the bitter cold and we come to the corner of the building, DH turns on the flashlight and spotlights… a huge cow, calmly staring back at us, chewing its cud. The field had been overrun by a herd of cows. The glare I gave DH made the temperature drop about twenty degrees and I said, “That’s not a deer; that’s a cow.” So now whenever we see a cow, I say, “Oh, look, sweetheart, an Abiquiu deer!”
 
one of ours is…“are you RTG”?

Ready to Go.

One morning when my oldest DD was in second grade, I was asking her ‘are you ready to go?’ what seemed like 40000000 times one morning, because that is how she is, putzy, always loosing stuff she needs to bring with her, loosing one shoe, or one sock, and she is never ‘ready to go’.

So that morning she exploded at me with WILL YOU STOP SAYING ARE YOU READY TO GO!!! In a huff.

So, I gave it 5 min and shouted to her “OK are you RTG??!!!”

She was:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

It’s now just the way we all say ready to go.
 
This one’s at least 125 years old, passed down to us from my Grandma. Some young child at a family feast said it.

“Take I home… and put I to bed… but don’t… bend I !”

It is still heard at any occasion where we gather to stuff ourselves!

Ruthie
 
Nechasin said:
Milk in a bag…You got to explain that one. I’ve only seen milk in a jug or cardboard container. I know my first thought isn’t correct, but it did cause me to laugh. My first thought was you just take the bag off the cow and put it in the fridge :D:eek:
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Ummm… I guess in the States milk doesn’t come in bags??? Here you can buy cartons for small amounts (1 or 2 litres, not sure what that is in gallons) or buy a “bag of milk” which has 3 smaller clear bags in it that you snip the top corner off and put the bag in a plastic jug, and pour.

I did grow up on a farm but it wasn’t dairy! 😛
 
Feanaro_s_Wife said:
In my family growing up the most used phrase had to be “did you make poop today?” in response to ANY complaint or ailment. This came from spending some time with my grandma (me and my sister) and no matter what was wrong she would respond with "did you make poop today?’ like it was THE answer to all of the world’s troubles.
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Sounds sooo like my mom…any complaint we had that was the 1st question…only she did not say poop we said big job…lol, we now use poop with ds 😉
 
Lil_M said:
Ummm… I guess in the States milk doesn’t come in bags??? Here you can buy cartons for small amounts (1 or 2 litres, not sure what that is in gallons) or buy a “bag of milk” which has 3 smaller clear bags in it that you snip the top corner off and put the bag in a plastic jug, and pour.

I did grow up on a farm but it wasn’t dairy! 😛
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Okay, I was so curious that I had to do a web search, because I have NEVER heard of milk in a bag (besides breastmilk 😃 ). Now this is Canadian, but I assume it’s the same in other countries (except the US):
home.cogeco.ca/~husky66/Milk/

Milk in the US comes in jugs, cartons, or bottles:
kemps.com/products/prodListing.aspx?plc=30&pcc=55

Learn something new everyday! 😃
 
Milk in a bag…something about that just sounds wrong. It’s odd.:ehh: :hmmm:
 
Gwyn said:
Sounds sooo like my mom…any complaint we had that was the 1st question…only she did not say poop we said big job…lol, we now use poop with ds 😉
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lol, we live in a medium size house with 6 of us, and used to have the toilet/shower/bath/sink all in one bathroom.

So, if two people were about to go in at the same time, instead of one saying “I need to go first cause I need to poop”, they would say "I’m going to see George Bush (or any other politician) 😃

Over time, when someone started going upstairs, we would ask “gonna see George Bush, huh? :D”, and the best part is guests wouldn’t have a clue 😛 (and be confused too ;))
 
“What was the name of the dog on ‘The Brady Bunch’?”

We stole that one from a Bill Engvall routine. The joke is about how algebra word problems never give you the information you need to answer the question. His example: Farmer Brown wants to put a fence around his field. His field is 200 yards by 300 yards. If he needs one fence post for every two feet of fence… what was the name of the dog on “The Brady Bunch”?

So we use it in place of the old saw about “I asked him the time and he built me a clock!” whenever someone starts with a long drawn-out explanation to a simple question (or one that doesn’t make a lick of sense to anyone but the speaker.) We wait a beat after they’re finished and say, “So what was the name of the dog on ‘The Brady Bunch’?”
 
We had a standard family grace before meals as I was growing up, and eventually it got to be a habit that someone would add the tag, “and bless the hands that prepared it.” (Usually my mom)

Then some wag in the family (I won’t mention names, but I think his inits were DB) added at a meal that consisted of leftovers, “and bless the hand that REpaired it.”

DaveBj
 
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