“Such an old-fashioned baby.”
Say what???? Don’t ask me, or any in my family, we have no idea what my maternal great-grandmother meant. But her daughters, my Nanny, keep using it and we keep laughing.
“How much do you charge to haunt a house?”
Yup, dad used to say this to me all the time…when we were goofing off and a kidding voice…and I never had a clue for years what it meant. Said it once to my daughter and her reply – more than you can afford. She’s 7.
“Never ___ into the wind”
Well, of course not. Who needed telling?
“Knock on wood” while knocking on your head.
Nanny still does this…hmmm, so do I.
“Don’t let the door hit your backside on the way out.”
What, is this just a silly way to tell me not to slam the door or you telling me to get out?
What can I say, this came to life during an email when I wrote: How is it the more you know the less you realize you did know
Yes, I am the self-acclaimed Queen of the Lost and Confused. But only on Fridays.
A gunnery sergeant I had the pleasure of knowing had a zillion of these kind of sayings. The nice thing was they were short, sharp, and made you think (from personal experience, I know the resulting flash burns healed fairly quickly). Two that pop to mind were:
"He had to study to get that stupid."
"I'll explain it so even you can understand–in words of less than one syllable."
Walt, I remember hearing those sayings. Think the family came up with these during a night of silly sayings, probably when we were trying to figure out 'old fashioned baby' and it just went nuts from there 🙂
Enjoyable post. You made me smile. Thanks.
Glad to do it, Cher. Friday Fun started as a lark and now I'm enjoying the merriment.