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kahlua716
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
My grandfather used to sing a bunch of silly songs:
Mairzy Doats
Shanty Town
There's a shanty in the town
On a little plot of ground
Where the green grass grows all around, all around.
The roof's so worn,
So badly torn,
That it tumbles to the ground.
It's a little old shack,
And it's set right back
25 feet from the railroad track,
Lingers in my mind
Most all of the time,
Keeps calling me back
To my little old shack.
I'm feeling just as sassy
As Haile Selassie:
If I were a king,
'Twouldn't mean a thing,
Put my boots on tall,
Read the writing on the wall,
And it wouldn't mean a thing,
Not a goddam thing.
There's a queen waiting there
In a rocking chair,
Blowing her top on some Schaefer beer.
A-looking all around
And a-trucking on down,
How I want to get back to my shanty town!
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kahlua716
3 Girls for Me!
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by KristenRSF
"I look like who did it and ran"
Another one my mom says 
She also says
Doesn't have a pot to piss in
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| Posted 10/11/12 10:02 AM |
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Juliet
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
My grandmother used to say
"A whistling girl and a captain's cat will come to no good end"
Take a long walk off a short pier.
Now you're cooking with gas
Smoke'em if you got'em
A couple was going together ( dating). My brother and I would always ask, where are they going?
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| Posted 10/11/12 10:13 AM |
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StaceyWill
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Grandma tells me stories about when her and my grandpa were "keeping company" (meaning dating).
When she's upset about something - she'll say "Oh, Sacred Heart", instead of "Oh God", etc.
When I ask her how she feels, she says: "like an old fart" - she's 93.
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| Posted 10/11/12 10:16 AM |
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Mrs213
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Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
When you assume you make ass out of u and me
You look like who did it and ran
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| Posted 10/11/12 10:17 AM |
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AngnShaun
Sisters
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Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
"Eat"
Typical of an italian grandma
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| Posted 10/11/12 10:23 AM |
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LeShellem
A new beginning
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
We are going to the 5 and dime (any discount store - walmart, kmart, woolworth)
You look sharp (We were dressed really nice)
always where clean underwear. You will never know when you have to be taken to a hospital in an emergency
Don't let the bed bugs bite (when we went to bed)
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| Posted 10/11/12 10:24 AM |
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Ian&EmmesMommy23
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
my grandma says:
"never handle anything twice"
"a man should always love you more" (i love this one)
ETA
"never get excited over food!"
Message edited 10/12/2012 3:36:35 PM.
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| Posted 10/11/12 10:32 AM |
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JDandMe
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Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
"you look like who did it and ran" seems to be a popular one. My grandma uses that and "you look like Gravel Gertie"
"you're trying to fit an ocean in a pail" (doing to much at once)
"What should I do stand on my head and spit wooden nickels" (Basically means there not much she can do that would be helpful-I think that's what it means. When I asked as a kid, my grandma would say I was "acting fresh"
"He could put his shoes on the side of my bed" That was what my 101 year old Grandma said after watching Ben Afleck being interviewed. Apparently she found him attractive.
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| Posted 10/11/12 11:00 AM |
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LSP2005
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by avabrodymamma
Some popular words:
Schmata- house coat
schmata means rag or old worn out clothing in Yiddish, not house coat. Sorry.
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| Posted 10/11/12 11:09 AM |
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ElizaRags35
My 2 Girls
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Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
My mom used to say - Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? I used to say that to DH before we got engaged lol.
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| Posted 10/11/12 11:12 AM |
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mrsm-2011
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
eta:
From my nanny (grandma) who married my Polish grandfather:
"I'm only Polish by injection!"
My MIL says this....so gross by the way. 
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| Posted 10/11/12 11:23 AM |
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Bearcat
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by kahlua716
My grandfather used to sing a bunch of silly songs:
Mairzy Doats
Wait a minute. Hold up. The link is blocked on my work computer but I am dying to know if this is the song I sing to DD. And I have it totally wrong!! If it's the same thing... I thought it was "Mares eat Oats"
I sing to her:
Mares eat oats and does eat oats
And little lambs eat ivy
A kid'll eat ivy too
Wouldn't you.
All the while I'm picturing little horses and deer and lambs and goats!!
Is this the same thing?? What is a Mairzy Doats??
It's something my dad used to sing to me, and I thought i "knew" the words!! 
Message edited 10/11/2012 12:21:54 PM.
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| Posted 10/11/12 12:20 PM |
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SnickNNick
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by Bearcat
Posted by kahlua716
My grandfather used to sing a bunch of silly songs:
Mairzy Doats
Wait a minute. Hold up. The link is blocked on my work computer but I am dying to know if this is the song I sing to DD. And I have it totally wrong!! If it's the same thing... I thought it was "Mares eat Oats"
I sing to her:
Mares eat oats and does eat oats
And little lambs eat ivy
A kid'll eat ivy too
Wouldn't you.
All the while I'm picturing little horses and deer and lambs and goats!!
Is this the same thing?? What is a Mairzy Doats??
It's something my dad used to sing to me, and I thought i "knew" the words!!
My mom used to sing that to me too...looks like it might be the same:
mairzy doats
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| Posted 10/11/12 12:24 PM |
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I just love when people of an earlier generation use the word "dungarees"!
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2boys1girl
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Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
"Capisce?"- After pretty much anything they ever said to us
She also used to always say when someone was lying " That's cockamamie bulls*it"
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HoneyBadger
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by TheDivaBrideandTeddyFrog
I just love when people of an earlier generation use the word "dungarees"!
I crack up when they say "slacks" for pants
Some of mine...
If you don't like my peaches, don't shake my tree.
Gonna go see a man about a horse
Here's to those who wish us well, and all the rest can go to hell
dupa (means tush in either polish or russian)
tush
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ItsaJoya19
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by Bearcat
Posted by kahlua716
My grandfather used to sing a bunch of silly songs:
Mairzy Doats
Wait a minute. Hold up. The link is blocked on my work computer but I am dying to know if this is the song I sing to DD. And I have it totally wrong!! If it's the same thing... I thought it was "Mares eat Oats"
I sing to her:
Mares eat oats and does eat oats
And little lambs eat ivy
A kid'll eat ivy too
Wouldn't you.
All the while I'm picturing little horses and deer and lambs and goats!!
Is this the same thing?? What is a Mairzy Doats??
It's something my dad used to sing to me, and I thought i "knew" the words!!
OMG!! My 4th grade teacher sang that song to us all the time. I sang it the same way you wrote it!! I can't believe it isn't mares eat oats!
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| Posted 10/11/12 12:32 PM |
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Juliet
Family is Complete!
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Juliet
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by Bearcat
Posted by kahlua716
My grandfather used to sing a bunch of silly songs:
Mairzy Doats
Wait a minute. Hold up. The link is blocked on my work computer but I am dying to know if this is the song I sing to DD. And I have it totally wrong!! If it's the same thing... I thought it was "Mares eat Oats"
I sing to her:
Mares eat oats and does eat oats
And little lambs eat ivy
A kid'll eat ivy too
Wouldn't you.
All the while I'm picturing little horses and deer and lambs and goats!!
Is this the same thing?? What is a Mairzy Doats??
It's something my dad used to sing to me, and I thought i "knew" the words!!
My mom sang it, too.
And the rest of it was:
If you think this song sounds funny to your ears, a little bit jumbled and jivy, say Mares Eat Oats and Does Eat Oats and Little Lambs eat ivy. Oooooooohhh,
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| Posted 10/11/12 12:41 PM |
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HoneyBadger
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by AngnShaun
"Eat"
Typical of an italian grandma
Mine used to say, "you eat like a bird"
Apparently birds don't eat enough for their grandmothers either
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| Posted 10/11/12 12:44 PM |
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ElizaRags35
My 2 Girls
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Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?
If the words sound queer and funny to your ear, a little bit jumbled and jivey,
Sing "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy."
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| Posted 10/11/12 12:53 PM |
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AngnShaun
Sisters
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Ang
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by TheDivaBrideandTeddyFrog
I just love when people of an earlier generation use the word "dungarees"!
lol my mom said slacks recently and it made me laugh... a lot lol
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| Posted 10/11/12 12:55 PM |
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AngnShaun
Sisters
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Ang
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by HoneyBadger
Posted by AngnShaun
"Eat"
Typical of an italian grandma
Mine used to say, "you eat like a bird"
Apparently birds don't eat enough for their grandmothers either
LOL she would never accuse any of her sons children of eating like birds, lol... but if you were at the table and you werent shoveling something in your mouth she would yell at you to eat... in her half italian half english sentences...
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| Posted 10/11/12 12:57 PM |
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Bearcat
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
thank you all for clearing up mairzy doats! so i'm NOT crazy! 
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| Posted 10/11/12 1:00 PM |
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MaZz
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Re: Things your grandparents say (or used to say)...add yours!
Posted by TheDivaBrideandTeddyFrog
I just love when people of an earlier generation use the word "dungarees"!
My mom always calls them dungarees and for flip flops, it's "thongs". LOL. So one day, my mom says to my sister in law, "we have the same thongs!" SIL goes, "how do you know what I'm wearing!?! LOL as she feels her ass to see if her undies are sticking out  
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