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tushnurse ( member #21101) posted at 6:13 PM on Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
My Grandma, the most wonderful woman ever had a million of these, and it's funny occasionally one will pop out of my mouth, and my kids will look at me like I have three heads.
I hit them with "And people in hell want ice water" the other day when we were grocery shopping and they wanted one of everything. My 16 year old said now that is a good one mom. 
She would mix them up too, saying things like "people in glass houses shouldnt skin cats."
"Kill two birds with a hand basket"
My favorite was when I was worried someone was upset or mad at me, " they can get glad in the same pants they got mad in."
Oh I do miss her still.
Me: FBSHim: FWSKids: 23 & 27 Married for 32 years now, was 16 at the time.D-Day Sept 26 2008R'd in about 2 years. Old Vet now.
Sal1995 ( member #39099) posted at 7:21 PM on Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
HereWeGo reminded me of another one of my father's gems:
"That would gag a maggot on a gut wagon."
Usually spoken after he smells something disagreeable.
welcome14 ( member #26741) posted at 7:53 PM on Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
My Nana used to say "everybody and their yellow dog" was there when someplace was packed, and always said "might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb". Since I had a sheltered childhood and was fairly innocent in my teens it took me being a young adult to figure that last one out. Go Nana! What a rabble rouser for a Missouri Synod Lutheran woman that wouldn't play cards or dance....
Bs- me
Someone I used to know- Him
Nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home- nikki sixx
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
lieshurt ( member #14003) posted at 7:56 PM on Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
Somebody in my family used to say "they couldn't sell rice to the Chinese". "You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip" was popular with my uncle.
No one changes unless they want to. Not if you beg them. Not if you shame them. Not if you use reason, emotion, or tough love. There is only one thing that makes someone change: their own realization that they need to.
Sad in AZ ( member #24239) posted at 8:12 PM on Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
Another of my father's:
Crazy as a shit-house rat. 
You are important and you matter. Your feelings matter. Your voice matters. Your story matters. Your life matters. Always.
Me: FBS (no longer betrayed nor a spouse)-63
D-day: 2007 (two years before finding SI)
S: 6/2010; D: 3/2011
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