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Edie 05-24-2010 02:30 AM


Originally Posted by Happy Tails

Originally Posted by Dragonfly Nana
One of my dad's was "Colder than a witch's tit in January"

we lived in Minnesota at the time.

OMG LOLOLOL I nearly choked on my coffee!!! LMAO too funny!!!

I live in Minnesota and it is true - but also our summers can be "Hotter'n a two peckered billy goat."

eiltcoq 05-24-2010 04:00 AM

It's too bad Will Rogers isn't alive today.

rita222 05-24-2010 04:04 AM

This too shall pass.

nana2 05-24-2010 04:14 AM

And quilters should know "A stitch in time saves nine"

rita222 05-24-2010 05:48 AM

the rest of it goes___
patience is a virture
possess it if you can
seldom found in women
but never found in man

mrsreeves2 05-24-2010 07:32 AM


Originally Posted by Edie
I was brought up on this one -- "Never empty handed to the kitchen go!" (This is an old Pennsylvania Dutch saying from the Mother (mine). When you go from one room to another, if there is something that belongs in that room take it with you and put it away. - Works for me!

Mine is "I only chew my cabbage once." In other words, listen to me the first time, I do not repeat my self. Edie

Eddie, this was one of my grandmother's OFTEN spoken instructions! There were five of us and she must have been hoarse from saying it so often. Thanks for the memory!

Olivia's Grammy 05-24-2010 07:51 AM


Originally Posted by Charlee
"And if your friends go jump off a cliff, I suppose you would too?"

(Used everytime I said, "But Moooooooooooom...EVERYONE is doing it!)

I would add Maybe your Mom loves you more than their Mom

greaterexp 05-24-2010 09:29 AM

"I'm about as handy as a button on a barn door."
"She'd squeeze a nickel so tightly, the buffalo would poop."
In answer to "How are you?" - "About as fine as a frog's hair split four ways."

K.P. 05-24-2010 09:47 AM

When the chance was slim of something working out, I used to hear, 'About as much chance as a snowball in Hell...'

or

when something you are doing is about to backfire, or not work like you thought, I've always heard, 'You're just pissing in the wind...'

betlinsmom 05-24-2010 09:54 AM

I am as busy as a one legged man at a bug stomping!!


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