Comments | pallidbat: Family cliché weirdness

pallidbat

Family cliché weirdness

Feb 23, 2009 11:40

In our house, we have a few slaughtered clichés that we use when the time is right. The main ones being:

We'll burn that bridge when we come to it.
If wishes were ponies, beggars would fly.
Well, that really threw a monkey in my wrench.

Does anyone have anything similar they use? I'm looking to expand my repertoire. :)

wtf?, sayings, family

Comments 5

rockydriver February 23 2009, 18:55:34 UTC

Eric and I have a number of these; here are a few:

"Like a monkey in a banana factory" - Refers to wild, uncontrolled behavior

"So, that happened" - Makes note of the randomness of an event that has just occured

"I'm just sayin'..." - Used to refute your partner's argument when both are based on personal opinion. As in:
Person A: "I wish you wouldn't do that because I don't like this about it."
Person B: "But I like this and that."
Person A: "I'm just saying..."
Person B: "No, I'm just sayin..."

cheesentoast February 23 2009, 20:08:13 UTC

Hee! My friend Lara says, to take the sting out of things, "I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'..."

cheesentoast February 23 2009, 20:06:23 UTC

We use that first one a lot. :)
I asked my grandmother about a mean old lady she used to know. Grandma said, "She finally bit herself and she died."
Particularly dashing men are "Swave and de-boner."
We like to use words incorrectly. We all have hay fever so there is always a resurgence of our "allegories" every spring.
And, of course, one should never put off until tomorrow what one can put off until next week.

sequiro February 24 2009, 02:14:30 UTC

We use the word 'yes' to mean 'both'.
"So... does that mean you're going to go to the store in your pants or do you just want to scare all the old ladies in the neighborhood?"
"Yes."

I'm not sure if these count. smirkingatyou February 24 2009, 07:15:58 UTC

1. "If you're looking for sympathy, it's in the dictionary between 'shit' and 'syphilis.'"
This usually gets mean looks. I don't say it enough.

2. "You're not getting out of this without feeling pain."
I have said this to many patients before and after surgery. It's amazing to me how some people seem so shocked that they hurt after someone CUT THEM OPEN. I can give you things to "take the edge off" but you need to do certain things to heal . . . like, ya know, breathe and walk around and such.