Old people sayings

Homerboy

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"The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!"
 

HN

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Back in my day they used to say "Back in my day...[insert story of something back in the day]"
 

KarenMarie

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My 76 year old father always said:

Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.

Hope for the best, but expect the worst.

Live hard, die young and make a good looking corpse.

I have been here longer than I am gonna be here... so I'm gonna have fun.

Whatever ya wanna do....!!!

:p
 

nonameo

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"Let's talk about Jesus and potatoes"

"Well glory be!"

edit: my dad used to say these"

Hotter than a two-peckered billygoat

colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra.
 

MrPickins

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Originally posted by: CrackRabbit
"That's as useless as tits on a boar hog."

LOL I was gonna post that.

"It's raining like a cow pissin' on a flat rock"

"Go over yonder and get that ___ for me"
 

scootermaster

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Originally posted by: G Wizard
"hell's bells"
"every tom, dick & harry"

See, these are the first good ones.

Crap like "as the crow flies" or whatever. Or just people using the word "ornery". That kinda stuff. More?
 

scootermaster

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Originally posted by: handoverfist
Don't be so george.

Just joshin ya.

That dog won't hunt.

Like "just funnin' ya"

I guess I mean more old people 'words' than sayings, but sayings work too.
 

pnad

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My Grandmother used to say some messed up stuff.

"In a pig's a$$!" Like 'in a pig's eye' or point of view but different.
GM: Go clean up your room.
Kid: It IS clean!
GM: In a pig's a$$ its clean!

Some other notable favorites:
"Take a long walk on a short pier"
"Go play marbles on the highway"
"Your a$$ sucks buttermilk" <-- I never understood that one.
"Up your a$$ with a BB gun"
"Up Mike's a$$" <-- No idea who Mike is/was.

Grandma was a mean alcoholic with an obvious anal obsession.
 

xochi

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I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?
 

angminas

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Taking care of us kids was like pouring water down a rathole, because we were always barking up the wrong tree. Mom also used to swear in Dutch quite often, though she didn't really know what it meant.

Originally posted by: KarenMarie
My 76 year old father always said:

Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.

I say this one all the time, usually to my mother :)
 

wheresmybacon

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"My lands!" (shock, surprise)
"That really frosts my cake!" (anger)
"Well she's just a floozy" (skanky woman/girl)