• PMmeTrebuchets@lemmy.zip
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    When my parents would say something was really far away, instead of saying it was “out in Timbuktu” like everyone else here, they would go “it’s out in Gadansk, Poland!” I think it’s a really place but like why there specifically? Neither of them had ever been. We are not Polish. Just why lmao.

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    My mom used to say “been ____-ing looong?” with a silly twang. No idea where she got that from and I’ve never heard anyone else do it. Like, if you trip she’d say been walkin’ looong? If you choke on your soda, she’d say been drinkin’ looong?

    Some kind of weird hick thing, I’m sure.

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      I remember a similar one from the 90s. If someone stumbled someone else inevitably would say “walk much?”. Or with a traffic mistake “drive much?”.

      It evolved into just anything that came into someone’s head, like if someone had a premonition “Nostradamus much?”

      I’m glad it died.

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    7 days ago

    You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but never pick your friend’s nose

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    First one is from my grandfather, who is really more of a father to me than my own father. Whenever he was expressing delighted astonishment, he would exclaim Caaaaaaaaaaaaaats!

    My mother would always say “ass over tea kettle”. Don’t try to carry all those boxes down the stairs, you’re going to fall ass over tea kettle. Or in a funny exaggeratoy way like “he went flying ass over tea kettle”.

    My father would append the suffixes -aroonie and -areeno. It could just literally apply to any random situation. For example, if he got a good price on apples, he got a deal-areeno. One time his foot slipped and the car blasted through the fence. The ol’ smash-aroonie.

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    My dad referred to all fast food as KenTacoHut. Trucks as Pick-em-up-trucks. I know it’s a thing, but I don’t really hear anyone saying “a month of Sundays” to mean “a long time” since he passed.

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    My grandpa would say “I’m hungry enough to eat the ass out of a skunk…”

    Pretty sure it was just for shock value

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    Not quite a suitable answer, but I concocted the saying “stop negatizing”. My parents then used the term against me throughout my childhood when I would pout or mope around.

    I quite like the saying.

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    I don’t have any good ones but apparently my partner’s mom used to “jokingly” tell the kids “you’re special with a capital R” (back when that word was in fashion)

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    never heard other families say “oy vey” growing up. As an adult I learned it’s a Jewish saying, and I asked my mom if we are Jewish and she just said no, lol

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    Mum had a few:

    “Home, James”

    “Lead on, McDuff”

    “You’re lucky I love you”

    “You’re big enough and ugly enough to take care of yourself”

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      My Parents would always say “Home, James dont feed the horses”. I have absolutely no idea what it means or could mean.

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        Haha, apparently the original saying is “Home, James, and don’t spare the horses”. My mum told me it’s because a lot of carriage drivers were called James, and don’t spare the horses means to be quick about it. I don’t know if your parents said it differently because it amused them that way or some other reason, but I suppose the idea is there’s no time to feed the horses since we’re in a hurry.