Sayings you remember from years ago

i7win7

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When water strikes water
it makes a noise for all to hear
When water strikes porcelain
it falls silent to the ear
Archie Bunker
 

twomany

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Can't dance,
and it's to wet to plow

come to think of it, ya can't get there from here.
 

chim

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He's so old he farts dust.

When that guy shows up for work, it's like having two good men off sick.
 

armylifer

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That boy don't have the sense he was worn with.

He done told one lie too many.

Don't let mama catch you don't that.
 

NCL4701

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If there’s enough blue in the sky to make a Dutchman’s britches it isn’t going to rain.

(No one could ever explain why it had to be a Dutch man or how much blue that was.)
 

RichardAaronlx2610

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My grandma used to always say, “with friends like that, you don’t need enemies”
 

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While cropping tobacco in my early years I would be in the fields with old guys. I would always get to the end of my row first. You were expected to start cropping back to help the old guys but I would at times sit down and wait, being a kid. My Grandfather would always holler at me to get up and start cropping. He would say " I bet your ass will be glad when your body learns to carry its weight!"
 

HVACRoger

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My Grandma would always say " You may never be anything more than a ditch digger but be the best damn one throwing dirt out of it"
 

Kurtee

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for the slow movers

If there was snow he would be leaving 3 tracks

Grandma was slow, but she was ninety
 

DaveFromMi

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For slow movers: Do you have a piano on your back?!

Better than a sharp stick in your eye.
 

ACDII

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That boy is dumber than a box of rocks at the bottom of a river.

My dads favorite though was Useless as tits on a bull.
 
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HVACRoger

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Slow movers: Sh## or get off the commode
 

Ping

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Slow movers: Unhitch the plow. You've milked that job long enough. I didn't know that job had teats!
 

NCL4701

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At one time I had a new employee who was originally from Denmark. She was a lovely person, but pretty coarse so I didn’t much watch my language around her, nor she with me.

Once in a while I’d something like, “That’s about as useful as tits on a boar hog.” Or, “You have to get everything you need from the customer before delivering everything on our side because they’re your best friend until they have what they want and after that they wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire.” After saying some colloquial statement everyone else clearly understood, she’d ask me, “So why exactly would tits be useless on a boar hog, and what exactly is a boar hog?” I’d then have to explain that but for the protection provided by the sow or farmer separating the boar from the piglets, the boars have a tendency to eat the piglets so a boar would be unlikely to submit to being suckled by piglets, etc. It got to be an activity we both found amusing after a while. She works in a different department now, but still occasionally mentions she learned proper English in school and learned southern US red neck from me.