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The things you say.. | Pad Patter Jan 4

Love reading all of these. A few phrases..

"God don't like ugly." or "Don't be ugly." You are in trouble
"We need to have a come to Jesus meeting." You are in a lot of trouble
"What's her/his head." I don't remember their name but you know who I am talking about

Words..
fixin': like I am fixin' to do the laundry (yes I live in IL but my family is from MS haha)
cloud maker: this is what we were told and then told our kids (and even grown we still call it that) what the factories/industries that produced smoke are.

I know there is more but my brain is drawing a blank haha.
 
"Will ya?" I have a habit of ending a request with "will ya?" Hey, hand me that book, will ya? Come peel some potatoes, will ya? And I don't know how many other requests I've made with that ending. I never noticed it until my kids started to use it though. And one day I asked one of them where they got that phrase from. They just looked at me and said, You say it all the time! OH!!! LOL After I found THAT out I started watching how I said things. Guess what? They were right! I do say it all the time. Without thinking. Don't know where I got it from or why I say it. It just happens. :)
 
My DD was about 4 when she would add "-ment" to the end of a word to make it, well, I guess to make it a noun. She said "mommy, would you like a relaxment?" Turns out, a relaxment is basically a 4yo kid version of a spa day. She rubbed my feet. With crayons.

Later she coined "damagement" to mean damage/breaking (easy enough, right?). So her toys had "damagement" if her little brother drooled on them.
 
I often say "Jokes are meant to be funny" when someone says "only joking".
Seriously? Like seriously? all the time.
As South Africans we have now, now now and just now. Now now means in the next 5 minutes or when I am finished what I am busy with, while just now is even later.
Flippin Cheeseburgers is my go-to exclamation.
Thinga-ma-jig and whatchamacallit are common here too.
 
Eyeore said:
As South Africans we have now, now now and just now. Now now means in the next 5 minutes or when I am finished what I am busy with, while just now is even later.
Flippin Cheeseburgers is my go-to exclamation.
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you just became my hero! i had no idea 'now' could have such a range of time associated with it and that cheesburgers phrase is brilliant! it reminds me of spongebob - i used 'fishlegs!' as a frustration exclamation for a while, had the right sound to it and DS was watching a lot of How To Train a Dragon and the Fishlegs character was exclaimed at a lot so it came from that
 
Sunberry2 said:
"Can you see the Golden Gate Bridge?"

I can't even remember the whole context that my family started saying this - I can remember that it was during one of our many trips to San Francisco so maybe we were trying to make sure my little brother could see it? Not sure. But we use it all the time now!
Someone goes on vacation and sends the family a photo: "Oh, pretty mountains, but can you see the Golden Gate Bridge?"
Planning a trip: "Are you going to see the Golden Gate Bridge?"
And the few times we have actually seen the bridge again, we send each other a photo to proclaim that "yes, it IS the Golden Gate Bridge!"
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Bwahaha!
 
QuiltyMom said:
"Hey Dad, do you want to make pigs in a blanket?"

My husband loves to use up leftovers in the fridge. One day he saw hot dogs and some refrigerator biscuits in a can. He completely wrapped a hot dog in biscuits and put it in the toaster oven to cook. 10 minutes later the toaster oven was on fire because the biscuits expanded and touched the heating element. We've never let him forget it, either! :rofl
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this thread is so funny (not that i'm laughing at your toaster on fire - well, maybe just a little but only cos i know you lived to tell the tale :) )
 
When my daughter was young she'd call mustard - 'mustup' so now we just call it that instead. ROFL
There are many more, I'll try to remember
 
When someone is being stupid, we will say "How many Yets are there?".
When I was a kid, my brother (6) asked my dad how to spell yet. And he responded with "which one?" Of course, my smart butt 8 year old self "There's only one Yet Dad. What other one can you think of?"

So, poor dad, it has stuck around.
 
bestcee said:
When someone is being stupid, we will say "How many Yets are there?".
When I was a kid, my brother (6) asked my dad how to spell yet. And he responded with "which one?" Of course, my smart butt 8 year old self "There's only one Yet Dad. What other one can you think of?"

So, poor dad, it has stuck around.
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i love that you are still quoting your 8y.o self!
 
Whenever we use a condiment with a squeezy bottle & it gets to the end and makes that farting noise, my 3yo ALWAYS says, 'Excuse you, ketchup/mustard/whatever!'

I had no idea how often I would have to say as the mother of a son, 'Your p**** has to be covered up before we cook/eat/do chores/leave the house.' He walks around with no bottoms quite often since pottytraining a couple of months ago.

I make deconstructed stuffed green peppers that we call Christmas Rice (because of the colors) and a chicken-pesto-noodle dish that we call Pisto Pasta.
 
I come from a very wacky family so you'll hear some "foreign" words and even names. When we were all kids, my brother made up names for all of us - Mom, Dad, himself and the three of us girls. Yes, they are still hanging on us all like a ball and chain. We 4 siblings don't ever address each other by anything other than our dopey nicknames.

I always tell the kids "I have one nerve left in my whole body and you're ON it!" I've said that for years.
My sweet little grandmother was very active in The Women's Christian Temperance Union. She went and spot again drinking any kind of drinking. My brother used to take her a 6 pack quite frequently and put it in her fridge. She'd just have a fit - which is exactly the reaction he wanted.
 
Haha! These are so funny!! And definitely some of those are only things that mothers would say. I told Bellamy the other day, "Sure, you can kiss the lizard if you want to!" ... what...

We have a few family sayings:
  • "Careful as a lobster" - Said Melody when we asked her to be careful not to spill the milk
  • "Love you more than muchly" or "love you big much" - More than muchly was a sickening sweet thing hubby have always said, and big much was something Melody said and Bellamy said it too.

And then funny kid words that we have kept going
  • "Sassle", "Bashbush", "Looly-Sassle" and "Little Puff" - all Bellamy-made-up insults (as in "Don't do that you Little Puff"), but he has stopped saying those for the most part, and it is very sad :(
  • "Pish Pingers" - Another Bellamy word when he couldn't say his 'f' sounds yet.
  • "Doo-duh-bo" and "Shoopies" - Melody's first try at saying cucumber and strawberries...
 
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