Things my mother said

I was reminded today by a comment someone made of the expressions our parents made to us when we were younger ..............like when I did something for Mum & she appreciated it she would say I was worth my weight in cockies shit .........or if someone was rushing around , they were buzzing around like a blue arsed fly .
Any that spring to mind with you ?

My mum use to say "you bloody little SOD" and when I asked her what a SOD was she went crazy at me for repeating the word.

As a curse I never did find out what SOD was:lol!:

Don't pick your nose and eat it, it will give you worms.

madmax wrote:My mum use to say "you bloody little SOD" and when I asked her what a SOD was she went crazy at me for repeating the word.

As a curse I never did find out what SOD was:lol!:

http://www.effingpot.com/slang.shtml

It lists it here



probably not some of these though LOL

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sod

Or if I pulled a face at her she would warn ....................The wind will change and you'll stay like that

Ewok1958 wrote:Don't pick your nose and eat it, it will give you worms.

That's probably not the worst thing that kids shove in their mouths either

you're giving me the "irrits", whatever they are.

I know you're lying, its written all over your face. so next time I'd come in covering my forehead so she couldn't read it. DOH.

wigwam for a gooses bridle.

probably more if I put on my thinking cap.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=irrits%20%28the%29

I,d forgotten about the wigwam one

There was a lot of things but they were all in German

From my old man:

"It's so cold it would freeze the hinges off the Malaysian Embassy doors" I now have a photo of him in front if the Malaysian Embassy here in Canberra - the doors are still intact.

"You're about as fast as a glacier"

"You were one of a kind and won in a raffle."

"You'd complain if someone shit in your lunchbox" (who wouldn't?)

And the wisest advice he ever gave me: "(pointing to his his head) up here is for thinking and (pointing to his crotch) down there is for dancing and never the twain shall meet."

There would be heaps more that I cannot remember right now.

When ever someone would say I'm 'pissed off' in front of my mum she would reply, 'Well better than being pee'd on'.

O another from her if she was annoyed by someone ...'I wouldn't piddle on them if they were on fire'

As a nipper I use to go to work with my father sometimes. I once asked why the water (the sea) was salty. His reply and my belief for the next ten years was that the local contractor carting salt to the meat works had crashed his truck and trailer into the ocean..

paul wrote:I was reminded today by a comment someone made of the expressions our parents made to us when we were younger ..............like when I did something for Mum & she appreciated it she would say I was worth my weight in cockies shit .........or if someone was rushing around , they were buzzing around like a blue arsed fly .
Any that spring to mind with you ?

Both, heard them a lot growing up, was is a SA thing or do others around Aus remember them as well?

I remember the blue arsed fly saying, along with similar ones like "busier than a one-legged man in an arse kicking contest" or "busier than a one-armed wallpaper hanger."

I spent my early years in eastern Vic if that helps track where these things came from.

I also remember anyone who wasn't so good looking was deemed to be as ugly as a hat full of arseholes , or a hot cup of tea would warm the cockles of her heart .

Ewok1958 wrote:Don't pick your nose and eat it, it will give you worms.

mum said that if i picked my nose i would pull my brains out.

when it was really cold she would say it was cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey.

and the best one was if you dont eat your crusts you will get curly hair.

Mpottsy wrote:

Ewok1958 wrote:Don't pick your nose and eat it, it will give you worms.

mum said that if i picked my nose i would pull my brains out.

when it was really cold she would say it was cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey.

and the best one was if you dont eat your crusts you will get curly hair.

I heard years later that a brass monkey was a rack used to stack cannon balls onto on a ships deck so they didn't roll around the deck in days of old ................. http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/b/brassmonkeys.htm ...........I always thought it was the three balls above a pawnbroker shop .
then I read this .............. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_monkey_%28colloquial_expression%29