Things our parents said.

[Jeanied]

T is for telling and F is for finding out...

[binley100]

Those who ask don't get and those who don't ask don't want ........no win situation really

[julesapple]

You'll stay like that if the wind changes.......

[julesapple]

Eat your ______ it'll put hairs on yer chest.


I need a hairy chest, I do.................not.

[julesapple]

Where are we going, Mum?

There and back again, see how far it is.....

or

To see a man about a dog.....

or

Up the hill to Bedfordshire......

or

Don't ask no questions and I'll tell you no lies......

[donnakebab]

How many beans make 5?

It was a puzzle rhyme my dad used to say and I can't remember it.

[Nicos]

Two beans and a bean, a bean and a half and half a bean. That's how many beans make five.

[donnakebab]

That's it.

He knew a lot of rhymes did my dad. Can't repeat the rest of them here though.

[lizzylemon]

Ah this thread is wonderful - it's bringing a lump to my throat and making me so wistful for my Grandma, she said most of the above.

A few of her "pearls"
Legs like Sparrows knee-caps (in reference to me)
"I want" doesn't get (I now say this to my child)
You've got hollow legs!
Sit still or have you got ants in your pants
Its like a having a frog in the bed with your cold clammy hands and feet!
Cold hands, warm heart.

[Florence Fennel]

Two beans and a bean, a bean and a half and half a bean. That's how many beans make five.

I remember it slightly differently

"Two whole beans, two half beans, a bean and half and half a bean"

[Two_Sheds]

your mom would lick her hankie then wipe your face with it.

Did anyone else have Iffit for dinner? (if it gets cooked, you might get some)

[Florence Fennel]

We had bread and pullet, or three runs round the table and a kick of the table leg

[Feral007]

You've taken most of them already!
Quicksticks is about the only one I can think of that you haven't already got.
I used to tell me kids I'd spiflicate them if they didn't do something (or stop doing something.)
After many years they asked me what spiflicating was.
No idea, but it sounds like it should be painful but not something that child services would pull you in for!

[Feral007]

Oh I've got one! I'll knock both your heads together! I had two brothers. And then I had twins myself so it was a handy little phrase. My boys always said - what good will that do?
And then there's 'I dont care who started it, get outside both of you!'

[chris]

Hah I always remember my old man saying shake a leg, and me and my sister actually shaking our legs, giggling like loons and then getting a wallop around the head

I was always told to wipe that smile off my face.

Or

It hurts me more than it hurts you (when having the 'belt'). Yah, I'm sure it does - I'm the one with red lines across my botty!