+ sync Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Whenever I frowned after not getting what I wanted: "you better straighten your face before I straighten it for you!" rvwnsd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvwnsd Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 32 minutes ago, sync said: Whenever I frowned after not getting what I wanted: "you better straighten your face before I straighten it for you!" My mom would say that, too! Mom, when one of us was sick: "If you die, I'll kill you." + sync 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epigonos Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 My grandmother, who didn't speak English well, would say "Oh my, my, my" when she was exasperated. Both my parents used: "No skin off my nose", "Six of one, half a dozen of another, and "Been there, done that". My dad would say "I don't give a rats ass". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Autumnal Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 Dad - You do good work son, just not enough of it. + sync, keefer and samhexum 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkim1986 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 teaching you manners is like flogging a dead horse. you ain't a chip of the old block you can't step into your dad's shoes needless to say, all of them came from my mom. I still love her. + sync 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ sync Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 When they heard or saw something that didn't seem logical to them: "Well, that makes a pile of sense!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudynate Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 On 11/28/2020 at 9:55 AM, samhexum said: I need it like a lokh in kop. (Yiddish for hole in [the] head) I'm getting farblondzhet. [pronounced fuhBLUNjed] (Yiddish for lost) Whenever I hear Yiddish being spoken, it sounds so similar to German that I always assumed it was a German dialect. I read recently though that linguists consider it a separate language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudynate Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 On 11/22/2020 at 8:38 AM, Luv2play said: It’s got to be calves liver, the most tender of the cow livers or it’s no good. Try it some time. Make sure the liver is not overdone. My parents were fanatic about liver. What they liked was called "baby beef" liver - I don't know if that's any different from calves liver. They got it at the meat counter at the grocery store and it had to be sliced to order - thin. They always had it dipped in flour and pan-fried in bacon fat, with the bacon alongside. My sibs and I all hated it - we would choke down just enough to be allowed to leave the dinner table. I few years ago I bought some liver and tried and it tasted as bad as when I was a kid. + Oliver 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 16 minutes ago, Rudynate said: My parents were fanatic about liver. What they liked was called "baby beef" liver - I don't know if that's any different from calves liver. They got it at the meat counter at the grocery store and it had to be sliced to order - thin. They always had it dipped in flour and pan-fried in bacon fat, with the bacon alongside. My sibs and I all hated it - we would choke down just enough to be allowed to leave the dinner table. I few years ago I bought some liver and tried and it tasted as bad as when I was a kid. When I told my spouse that we often had beef tongue for dinner, he almost barfed. I loved it. I think my mother bought it because it was one of the cheaper pieces of meat at the butcher (yes, she went to a real butcher shop--I haven't seen one of them in a long time). When I objected to something my mother served, she usually said, "Be thankful you're not one of the starving children in China" ("starving children in China" was a standard trope in my childhood). Rudynate 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luv2play Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 (edited) Baby beef liver is not as tender as calves liver. I think the difference in ages of the cattle is about two years, the calves being under a year. Baby beef is next two years and then beef liver, which is the oldest and toughest of the livers. With calves liver, you can almost cut it with a fork. Edited December 31, 2021 by Luv2play Rudynate 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioRob Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 “Those that don’t listen must feel.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudynate Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 4 hours ago, Luv2play said: Baby beef liver is not as tender as calves liver. I think the difference in ages of the cattle is about two years, the calves being under a year. Baby beef is next two years and then beef liver, which is the oldest and toughest of the livers. With calves liver, you can almost cut it with a fork. That sounds familiar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ sync Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 6 hours ago, Charlie said: When I told my spouse that we often had beef tongue for dinner, he almost barfed. I loved it. I think my mother bought it because it was one of the cheaper pieces of meat at the butcher (yes, she went to a real butcher shop--I haven't seen one of them in a long time). When I objected to something my mother served, she usually said, "Be thankful you're not one of the starving children in China" ("starving children in China" was a standard trope in my childhood). I never favored beef tongue, but I was okay with it until I saw a full beef tongue in the display case at a butcher shop. After the sight of that full beef tongue, it was a no go. + Charlie and TumYum 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ pdxleo Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 In my childhood home, tongue was always call "beef roast", not "roast beef", in order to get us to eat it. With horseradish and potatoes, it kinda worked. + Charlie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Autumnal Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 Whenever I said "I wish...", I instantly heard back "If wishes were horses beggars would ride" + Charlie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Becket Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 If it ain't broke don't fix it. When all else fails, read the directions. If the horse is dead, get off. + Charlie and + azdr0710 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 Nobody gets out of bed for free. Lead, follow, or get out of the way. Drive defensively. samhexum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leyte2019 Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 "There's more than one way to skin a cat" (be creative; you'll get it done) "He's tight as Dick's hatpin" (he's cheap or austere) "Can't never could" (don't be a quitter) "Smarty Smarty had a party; nobody came but Smarty Smarty" (no one likes a smart ass) samhexum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ cougar Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 "If she has to remind you she is a woman....she ain't" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ sync Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 Shortly into a contentious exchange: "do you want your ears boxed?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted January 15, 2022 Author Share Posted January 15, 2022 9 hours ago, sync said: Shortly into a contentious exchange: "do you want your ears boxed?" You should've walked out of the room, saying "No, I'll just take them to go." + sync 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ sync Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 2 hours ago, samhexum said: You should've walked out of the room, saying "No, I'll just take them to go." Great comeback, but if I had said that I wouldn't have been able to walk out of the room. 😄 samhexum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Gar1eth Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 On 12/31/2021 at 10:33 AM, Rudynate said: My parents were fanatic about liver. What they liked was called "baby beef" liver - I don't know if that's any different from calves liver. They got it at the meat counter at the grocery store and it had to be sliced to order - thin. They always had it dipped in flour and pan-fried in bacon fat, with the bacon alongside. My sibs and I all hated it - we would choke down just enough to be allowed to leave the dinner table. I few years ago I bought some liver and tried and it tasted as bad as when I was a kid. Years ago in my mid 20's I was at a reception with hors d'oeuvre being served. There was one appetizer wrapped in bacon. I thought it was filet mignon. It was liver. 🤢🤢🤢 Gman samhexum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Gar1eth Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 If I stood in front of the TV, my father used to say, "Your father isn't a glassmaker." (In case that's obscure-the idea was that if he had been, he could install a see through window into my trunk and see the TV through my body-or at least that's what I always thought it meant.) Gman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted January 15, 2022 Author Share Posted January 15, 2022 2 hours ago, Gar1eth said: If I stood in front of the TV, my father used to say, "Your father isn't a glassmaker." (In case that's obscure-the idea was that if he had been, he could install a see through window into my trunk and see the TV through my body-or at least that's what I always thought it meant.) Or it could have meant that you're not made of glass (so move your ass) because he made you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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