![]() ![]() I know all of you out there have some good material like this! Well, that was a fun little trip down memory lane, wasn’t it? I remember how often that was used on me.” “Put your brain in gear before your mouth in motion”. “Ten pounds of potatoes in a five-pound sack.” 22. “Dad, describing someone whose clothes were way too tight: If I asked my Dad when I was little where my mother went: “She went up a hog’s a** to get a ham sandwich.” 21. My great grandpa when someone would talk too much: “Sounds like a bell clapping in a gooses a**.” Pappaw the day after said holiday dinners: “That s**t went right through me like a dose of sauce through a goose.” My Pappaw after eating my Mom’s broccoli casserole and mac n cheese at the holidays: “I’m going to have to put a screen door over my a**hole to keep the rats out.” I’m not sure how far back these go, but I know at least 4 generations. ![]() “I come from a long line of Southern Funny men and bullsh**ters. Or “that’s the kind of gal that could make you write bad checks.” 20. “She’s red on the noodle like a pecker on a poodle” referring to a red haired lass. Or when my mom was pissed at someone she’d say, “I could snap his/her neck like a stale breadstick.”” 19. “It’s hotter than a hooker’s doorknob on payday. When I started doing the same, he’d reply, “I ain’t half as green as I am cabbage looking”.Īnd one uncle always used to ask all us cousins “if it takes a man a week to walk a fortnight, how many apples in a barrel of grapes?”. ![]() “My dad used to say “you’re nosey for a cabbage” to a question he didn’t want to answer. ![]() “If you’re looking for sympathy, you’ll find it between sex and syphillis in the dictionary.” 17. My dad says this in place of grinds my gears.” 16. “It’s not the cough that carries you off it’s the coffin they carry you off in” 14. “”Want in one hand and s**t in the other and see which fills up first” “”Hold on to your bippy!” when making some risky driving moves.” 13. “My grandma liked to say “help, murder, police!” anytime anything when mildly wrong.īut if you told her something went wrong she’d always say “tough s**t.” 12. The road of life is paved with flat squirrels that couldn’t make a decision.” 11. All good choices!įiner than frog hair.” 10. I still do that to this day and it confuses everyone.” 9. “Grandpa was a dairy farmer, whenever a manure truck “honey bucket” went by or we drove by a freshly fertilized field he’d take a deep sniff and loudly proclaim “My 104 yr old grandma who was a vaudeville actress in the 20s and married a guy in the mob in the 30s would always say as she left, with a wave, “See you in jail!” 8. “When my mom’s going to go to sleep she says “It’s time to do what I do best.” 7. “If my dad didn’t want anything to do with something he’d say ‘not my monkeys, not my circus’.” 6. I never dreamed I’d be able to share it with the world two weeks later.ĭoes Pinocchio have a wooden dick?.” 5. “I recently wrote down all of the weird things my older family members say. “Every time my Dad would fart he’d say “There’s a kiss for ya.” 3. “My grandma always liked the phrase “out gallivanting”, as in “you wouldn’t be so tired if you weren’t out gallivanting all night.” 2. Trust me on that one.Īnd we should appreciate it and embrace it, because it’s actually a lot of fun and these sayings have obviously stuck with us for one reason or another.ĪskReddit users shared their favorite old-fashioned sayings that they’ve grown accustomed to hearing. And hey, don’t laugh, because that’s going to be all of us sooner than later. Older people LOVE to baffle the younger generations with their quirky sayings and one-liners. ![]()
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