Our parent's sayings

My dad had a saying about one's fly being down. He'd say, "The horse has got to get up before he can get out."

One time in the 3rd grade the teacher called me up to her desk and informed me that my fly was down, to which I responded with my fathers saying.

I was sent to the principals office and my parents were called for a conference. 😁
 

Having difficulties getting the bolt, screw, or cotter pin in position we used to say, "Put some hair around it".
 
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Verisure said:
"a sod house on a Montana farm"? That's a new one on me!
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That wasn’t a saying, it was my father‘s origin - a sod house on a Montana farm. A Sod house is one with walls constructed of blocks of sod cut from the grass and soil of the prairie, and built by his parents. Needless to say, not a luxurious residence. To hear him, a 6am visit to the outhouse at 20 below zero wasn’t much fun. He went on to get a pilots license, joined the Army Air Corp day after Pearl Harbor, and spent the war ferrying planes across country and delivering supplies to the Pacific. Eventually became a colonel in the Air Force Reserve, and died at Pebble Beach California, age 89.
 
ElCastor said:
That wasn’t a saying, it was my father‘s origin - a sod house on a Montana farm. A Sod house is one with walls constructed of blocks of sod cut from the grass and soil of the prairie, and built by his parents. Needless to say, not a luxurious residence. To hear him, a 6am visit to the outhouse at 20 below zero wasn’t much fun.
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Oh, that's what they call "adobe" in the South-West. I knew a guy in New Mexico who built his own one-room adobe house. After he got married and had numerous children he would simply spit together 3 walls against one of the ones already established and when it was finished he just knocked down the wall between them and voilá! a new room. He ended up with 12 children so you can just imagine.
ElCastor said:
He went on to get a pilots license, joined the Army Air Corp day after Pearl Harbor, and spent the war ferrying planes across country and delivering supplies to the Pacific. Eventually became a colonel in the Air Force Reserve, and died at Pebble Beach California, age 89.
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Now that's the kind of job I should have had when I was in the Army! Nice! Malmstrom AFB?
 
Verisure said:
"a sod house on a Montana farm"? That's a new one on me!
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On the western Canadian plains, where they were few trees, the first settlers built "sod huts " using the turf they cut from the ground, placed over a hole dug in the ground. That was a "soddy " house. When the CPR rail lines were pushed westward to wards the Rocky mountains, the CPR sold lumber to the locals, who used it to build " above ground homes" . The CPR tied the Canadian nation together, from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific. It also resulted in the fall of at least one Federal Government over the abuse of the land grant sales that Ministers of the Crown took part in. Scandals and bribery were wide spread . JimB.
 
Dad was a WW1 Canadian Army veteran, served 3 years in France and survived. He grew up on a farm in southwest Ontario. A few of his odd sayings...I would like another slather of that gravy, please? To him it was a ELUM tree, and the stuff in the Kodak camera was FILUM. He loved head cheese. He liked butter milk, but claimed he was allergic to milk. His favorite ice cream was maple walnut, but he was "allergic to milk " figure that one out ? He could play the piano, but only in one key ? He liked a certain brand of men's shoes that he called "Brogans " . He always bought grey suits, and red ties and white shirts with French cuffs, so he could show off his 18 carat gold cuff links. He would only buy his hats from one men's store in Toronto, Sammy Taft, The Hatter. Stetson fedora's with a silk band , a grey hat with a black band on it. To him dressing nice was "being professional " . He always called it "The Great War ". JimB.
 
jimintoronto said:
On the western Canadian plains, where they were few trees, the first settlers built "sod huts " using the turf they cut from the ground, placed over a hole dug in the ground. That was a "soddy " house. When the CPR rail lines were pushed westward to wards the Rocky mountains, the CPR sold lumber to the locals, who used it to build " above ground homes" . The CPR tied the Canadian nation together, from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific. It also resulted in the fall of at least one Federal Government over the abuse of th land grant sales that Minister of the Crown took part in. Scandals and bribery were wide spread.
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So, sod huts were built below ground? Sounds practical and cozy in harsh weather!
jimintoronto said:
Dad was a WW1 Canadian Army veteran, ........ He liked a certain brand of men's shoes that he called "Brogans " . He always bought grey suits, and red ties and white shirts with French cuffs, so he could show off his 18 carat gold cuff links. He would only buy his hats from one men's store in Toronto, Sammy Taft, The Hatter. Stetson fedora's with a silk band , a grey hat with a black band on it. .... JimB
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Dad sounds like he was a real dandy!
 
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Verisure said:
Oh, that's what they call "adobe" in the South-West. I knew a guy in New Mexico who built his own one-room adobe house. After he got married and had numerous children he would simply spit together 3 walls against one of the ones already established and when it was finished he just knocked down the wall between them and voilá! a new room. He ended up with 12 children so you can just imagine.

Now that's the kind of job I should have had when I was in the Army! Nice! Malmstrom AFB?
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Moved around, but for part of the war he was stationed at Hamilton Field, north of San Francisco. He was 35 when he enlisted, and considered too old for combat. Had one experience that really bothered him. He and some others were towing gliders over the Rockies, began icing up, and had to cut them loose.
 
ElCastor said:
Moved around, but for part of the war he was stationed at Hamilton Field, north of San Francisco. He was 35 when he enlisted, and considered too old for combat. Had one experience that really bothered him. He and some others were towing gliders over the Rockies, began icing up, and had to cut them loose.
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I am assuming (hoping!) the gliders were unmanned?
EDIT: I just now realized my mistake. 😟 Did you find out their fate?
 
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"Spare the rod and spoil the child"
"Children are to be seen and not heard"
My mother used to say it but never put them into effect.
However .. "Continuous criticism (never any praise) made for good children" and she definitely took that to heart, the bitch.

It was a popular theory when I was a boy that "the quickest way to teach children to swim was to simply toss them in the deep end". I heard my father say it several times and I think he really believed it too so I made sure he was never near me when I was in the vicinity of deep-ended water. I devised a way to teach myself how to swim ..... slowly and controlled.
 

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