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In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts) Fri Apr 22, 2016, 06:22 PM Apr 2016

I swear: I've heard every danged one of these ...

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I swear: I've heard every danged one of these ... (Original Post) In_The_Wind Apr 2016 OP

Me too. ret5hd Apr 2016 #1

Probably said a few of them, too... Wounded Bear Apr 2016 #2

Honestly, 9 of 'em. In_The_Wind Apr 2016 #3

Only heard those in film or read in books mackerel Apr 2016 #4

Did we grow up in the same neighborhood? In_The_Wind Apr 2016 #5

"tha switch" - our "Southern" moms were Tiger-Moms!1 UTUSN Apr 2016 #6

Did Southern moms say frogmarch Apr 2016 #7

yes, also, "knock you into next t uesday" and "bounce you off the walls" Pakhet Apr 2016 #9

My mother (Montgomery, Alabama) washed my mouth out with soap once. Aristus Apr 2016 #8

I had my mouth washed out so many times that I kind of like the Pakhet Apr 2016 #10

My sympathies. Aristus Apr 2016 #11

well, I have to say that a "foul" mouth wasn't usually the reason... Pakhet Apr 2016 #12

ret5hd

(20,493 posts)

1. Me too.

Reply to In_The_Wind (Original post)

Fri Apr 22, 2016, 06:24 PM

Apr 2016

Wounded Bear

(58,662 posts)

2. Probably said a few of them, too...

Reply to In_The_Wind (Original post)

Fri Apr 22, 2016, 06:44 PM

Apr 2016

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

3. Honestly, 9 of 'em.

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #2)

Fri Apr 22, 2016, 07:01 PM

Apr 2016

and I was never a mother.

unless, ya count puppies

or husbands

mackerel

(4,412 posts)

4. Only heard those in film or read in books

Reply to In_The_Wind (Original post)

Fri Apr 22, 2016, 08:35 PM

Apr 2016

These though were go to classics for me Mam:

Eat that up now! Think of all the poor starving children in the world who haven’t a bite and you with a big plate in front of you!

A letter came in the post for you, will I open it? (This one means my Mam already has opened-she truly is sorry.)

Take off your coat or it’ll be no use to you when you go outside.

What’s for you won’t pass you by

Those cookies are for the visitors!

5 minute rule or 20

Who’s ‘she’? The cat’s mother?

You’re wearing that skirt? I can see what you had for breakfast

When I was your age we played with twigs. We got fruit in our Christmas stocking. And we were glad of it too.

I have eyes in the back of my head you know.

Don’t make me count to three. One …(This only for the little ones)

You two deserve each other

I’ll knock your heads together

Oh, you’re off gallivanting again I suppose

If you fall and break your legs, don't come running to me

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

5. Did we grow up in the same neighborhood?

Reply to mackerel (Reply #4)

Fri Apr 22, 2016, 08:40 PM

Apr 2016

UTUSN

(70,706 posts)

6. "tha switch" - our "Southern" moms were Tiger-Moms!1

Reply to In_The_Wind (Original post)

Fri Apr 22, 2016, 10:13 PM

Apr 2016

My two sisters, 7 & 9 yrs older than me, got THA SWITCH. With *THORNS* on tha switch. By the time I came along, unwittingly benefiting from being the youngest and the only male, I never got switched. My surviving sister still holds it against me.

Today our Southern Moms would be reported to protective services.

frogmarch

(12,154 posts)

7. Did Southern moms say

Reply to In_The_Wind (Original post)

Fri Apr 22, 2016, 10:20 PM

Apr 2016

"If you break your legs, don't come running to me!"

My Western mom did.

I don't recall her saying any of the ones in your post, though. I guess my childhood was pretty bland.

Pakhet

(520 posts)

9. yes, also, "knock you into next t uesday" and "bounce you off the walls"

Reply to frogmarch (Reply #7)

Sat Apr 23, 2016, 12:44 AM

Apr 2016

and then there's my all time favorite: "If you don't knock it off, I'm gonna tear your arm off and beat you over the head with the bloody stump!"

Aristus

(66,381 posts)

8. My mother (Montgomery, Alabama) washed my mouth out with soap once.

Reply to In_The_Wind (Original post)

Fri Apr 22, 2016, 11:27 PM

Apr 2016

For speaking a filthy word in public.

The filthy word?: "doo-doo".

Seriously; no lie; washed my mouth out with soap.

She dragged me into the house and down the hall to the bathroom, where she shoved my head under the faucet, turned it on, and ran her soap-lathered hand into my mouth and scrubbed...

That was over forty years ago; I must have been around six or so. And I've never forgotten it...