More family quotes (was: Too late, too late, the maiden cried)

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "ovc88guelph" <mckosvc at b...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, eloiseherisson at a... wrote:
> > Sylvia:
> > 
> >> > "Too late, too late, the maiden cried
> > > "As she waved her wooden leg goodbye".
> > > 
> >  "What 
> > are you doin'?" was invariably answered by, "Pickin' a cuin [no 
> idea how to 
> > spell that: rhymes with doin']. Do you want the shell?"
> > 
> > Two from my Lancashire grandmother:
> > 
> > Of any object that had fallen to the ground before use: "It's 
been 
> on the 
> > floor; it'll suit".
> > 
> > Of a minor fault or blemish: "A man on a galloping horse won't 
> notice" (I use 
> > that one quite frequently).
> > 
> > From my father's (southern) family:
> > 
> > Of someone standing in the way "Your father was no glazier!" 
(IOW, 
> I can't 
> > see through you).
> > 
> > And my grandmother's tales of people she had known invariably 
> ended, "And 
> > s/he died."
> > 
> > And from personal (I think) experience of asking directions 
> somewhere, a 
> > frequent answer of my father's to "How do I get to...?" was (in 
> country yokel 
> > accent), "Follow the 'aystacks"
> > 
> > ~Eloise
> > 
>   I don't think these are all that unique to our family, but are 
> commonly used.
> 
> "Madder than a wet hen"
> 
> "Not the sharpest tool in the shed" or "one neuron short of a 
> synapse" (to refer to someone dull witted.)
> 
> "Don't get your knickers in a knot" (don't get upset)
> 
> "Make hay while the sun shines" (Take advantage of an opportunity 
> when it presents itself)
> 
> In response to the question "Have you lived here all your life" 
> (frequently asked by city people who find farmers and their 
> lifestyle "quaint"), one is required to reply "Not yet." 
> 
> 
> MMcK.

My mum's classic:

Me:  "what's for dinner?"

Her: "A walk round the table and a kick at the cat"

June