[AT] old expressions

Wed Aug 2 18:25:40 PDT 2006

I have been gone from home most of the summer and am catching up on the list and really enjoying this thread.

My dad was a joker and he was always using these old sayings and he often came up with new ones--he used many of those already in this thread.  A couple of my favorites were:

When describing my brother who had fallen hopelessly in love the first time:  " he has the taffy ass (sugar ass) so bad, that I need to tie coal oil rags around his ankles to keep the sugar ants off of him"

Talking about someone lazy or slow:  "He is so slow the dead lice never fall off of him."

But the one I remember best--and this was first heard by me about a month before he had a fatal stroke at 82-- was when he was describing a great niece of his who was rather thin and flat chested:  "Grace is so flat, she reminds me of two BBs on an ironing board."  Throughout my life he was always coming up with new ones, I had never heard before.  He has been gone 8 years and I think of things to ask him or share with him all the time.  

If your Dad is alive, call him or go over and just visit and swap tales.  If he is gone, may your memories be as good as mine.  Or as he used to say "fine as dollar cotton".

Bear

--- Mullrbob at wmconnect.com wrote:

From: Mullrbob at wmconnect.com
To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
Subject: Re: [AT] old expressions
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 16:16:37 EDT

My kids call the small spare tires "Handicapped tires" and say that people 
who are a little weird "Must Have Rode the Short Bus to School"

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