Showing posts with label stuff my dad said. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stuff my dad said. Show all posts

Mar 28, 2011

Stuff my Dad said

These little gems may not earn me a television show or a massive following on Twitter, but I was thinking about some of the things my Dad would tell us kids, and thought I'd share some (the ones I could remember):
  • Don't spit in the ocean
  • Don't pee in the wind (or the pool)
  • Don't take any wooden nickels
  • You can't (edited) do Number One and Number Two at the same time
  • Don't sneeze with your eyes open
  • If you fall out of the tree and break your legs, don't come running to me
  • Princess Bride is the dumbest movie
  • You kids ride your Green Machines up and down the exit ramp while I try to flag down some help (that "help" turned out to be the State Police)
  • Stop your crying or I'll give you something to cry about
  • This is gonna hurt me more than... no, it won't.
  • What the (blankety-blank) are you two (blanety-blank) kids doing up/down/over there!?
  • If you two are going to horse around, then go outside and do it
  • This will only take fifteen minutes to fix/do (then, three hours later.... we're still at it)
  • This will be a shortcut (EIGHT hours later, still not even close to our destination)
  • You can't get there from here
  • You bet (used in any situation - right, wrong, indifferent)
  • They (ticked) me off, so I quit.
  • Keep your mouth shut, Henderson (talking to/about himself)
  • Vos Los Tibby Hubbin? (That's the best "translation" I can do.  I have no idea what it meant, but when he said it, it meant he wanted you to repeat yourself)
  • I deleted a bunch of files that looked suspicious (turned out they were vital DLL files in his Windows directory)
  • Hey, look what I found (talking about add-ons for games like FIFA, MADDEN, NHL Hockey, etc that made the games more "realistic")
  • Coke Is It! (Thanks, Nik!)
  • Detroit!? Who Cares! (I think this had something to do with a football slogan or something, but it became his saying for anything that would normally warrant a "who cares" response)
 Those are the ones I can think of right now. I'm sure my family will have others they'd like to add...