Our parent's sayings

[RFW]

My Mom for decades, even to this day, always says:

“See You Later Alligator”
“Miss Your Smile Crocodile”

I finally found the source of this expression on a post card from the 50’s/60’s lying around her house.

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Never heard the last part. That's quite catchy.

 

[Alligatorob]

“See You Later Alligator”

 

[Verisure]

My Mom for decades, even to this day, always says:

“See You Later Alligator”
“Miss Your Smile Crocodile”

Never heard the last part. That's quite catchy.

There's a third part to that too: "After Supper Mother _ _ _ _ _ _ "

 

[RFW]

There's a third part to that too: "After Supper Mother _ _ _ _ _ _ "

If you've just made that up, I salute you.

 

[Verisure]

If you've just made that up, I salute you.

Stand at ease, trooper. It's an old one from at least the 1960s.

 

[1955]

Great song...

There's a third part to that too: "After Supper Mother _ _ _ _ _ _ "

Too much

 

[grahamg]

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"I'm not verisure" was one of my own daughters sayings, or answer to questions she wasn't sure her mum would like here to answer, (like whether she loved her dad!).

 

[timoc]

Our parent's sayings.​

"If you don't wash your ears out, you'll get spuds growing out of them."

 

[Sunny]

If you keep making that face, it's going to freeze like that.

 

[john19485]

My mom would say kiss my grits , if it an't bobby, to me.

 

[Verisure]

"I'm not verisure" was one of my own daughters sayings, or answer to questions she wasn't sure her mum would like here to answer, (like whether she life bed her dad!).

To my knowledge, I am the only one in the world who is verisure.

 

[grahamg]

To my knowledge, I am the only one in the world who is verisure.

"Loved that", (all credit to you, and I'm "very sure" of that at least !).

 

[Alligatorob]

"After Supper Mother _ _ _ _ _ _ "

Had to think about that one for a minute, not likely to forget it now!

 

[Verisure]

Had to think about that one for a minute, not likely to forget it now!

It's one of those things where you think, "Should I say it or should I not?"

 

[RFW]

It's one of those things where you think, "Should I say it or should I not?"

I feel like I'm the only one thinking it's gotta be that one and only word. Surely can't be "trucker". It doesn't fit!

 

[Verisure]

I feel like I'm the only one thinking it's gotta be that one and only word. Surely can't be "trucker". It doesn't fit!

Nope, too many letters. Anyway, I can spell "trucker" ... the other one I wasn't sure so I had to use blanks.

 

[dseag2]

Either my memory is going, or my parents were short on old sayings.

I do recall that my mother always said "pardon my French" after using a swear word. And she often use either "that's nice" or "bless your heart" when she meant "fu*k you".

Never heard my father use a single swear word, not one in the 60+ years I knew him. So for him it was the lack of a few words that were most memorable.

If she said "Bless Your Heart" you surely grew up in the South.

 

[Jace]

How ' bout..."Isn't that the nitz?"

(Pretty sure..it meant the best)

 

[Autumn72]

My mother used to say "He has more (whatever) than Carter has liver pills." What a liver pill is, is anyone's guess. One of my old standards that I never hear anyone else say, is "Oh, for cryin' in a bucket!"

It was 'Oh, for crying out loud"
" She has more complaints than Carters has Liver pills"

 

[Snow74]

Saying? My father needed no saying…he gave me a look..I knew better than to talk back or act up

 

[grahamg]

Saying? My father needed no saying…he gave me a look..I knew better than to talk back or act up

You dont mean he never spoke surely, (though I know exactly what you mean about the "look", both my parents had some of that to them, but I cant often remember things ending there!).

 

[Snow74]

You dont mean he never spoke surely, (though I know exactly what you mean about the "look", both my parents had some of that to them, but I cant often remember things ending there!).

My dad was the Archie Bunker type..lol would not be politically correct to repeat any of his sayings in this day and age...

 

[JaniceM]

" She has more complaints than Carters has Liver pills"

Oh I remember that one!!

 

[grahamg]

"Stick that in your pipe and smoke it"!

(everyone knows the meaning of that one I'm imagining?)

Funnily enough when I tried to us it earlier it came out as "Put that in your pipe and chew it"!

(mixed up with "Chew on that" I guess! )

 

[grahamg]

"All that glitters is not gold, stay at home with your mother and dad"!!

(repeated many times by an old farming neighbour, who was a somewhat eccentric/notorious/amusing character, but a different man altogether when sober)