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Permalink Reply by Dorcheated A1 on March 30, 2009 at 10:28

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Permalink Reply by Iris on March 30, 2009 at 11:19

You get paid for your raisin'.
Getting shut of things...
..I'm sure there were more from my north central Texas mother-in-law (deceased).
I don't have the guts to print what my father-in-law said.

Permalink Reply by Dorcheated A1 on March 30, 2009 at 11:51

Tiger,
That's a teaser, please tell us what the farther-in-law said.

Permalink Reply by Pipeliner on April 3, 2009 at 16:53

"If wishes were horses, all beggers would be tiding"

Permalink Reply by Eric on January 12, 2010 at 9:39

Dumber than a box of rocks.
I'll whip a penfull like you and guard the gate at the same time.
You don't need no ticket to ride this trian. Hobo your way over here and I'll pay your way back.
Don't let ten seconds of stupidity ruin the rest of your life.
So ugly we had to tie a pork chop around their neck to get the dog to play with them.
if it ain't broke don't fix it.
That car runs like a spotted ape. I quess a spotted ape is fast.

Permalink Reply by S.H.M. on January 12, 2010 at 10:56

Dad used to say " You ain't a wolfin' ". I took that to mean...You, sir, are definitely yelling the truth. Though, the saying might be family pattern and not a common colloquial saying.

Here's a zillion of them.

http://www.gwizfunny.com/oldtimesayings.html

Permalink Reply by Max on January 15, 2010 at 5:06

I know people who still say, "You ain't a wolfin".

The phrase was used by, but not limited to, the male hillbilly's of North Louisiana who came of age durning the late 60's and early 70's. "You ain't a wolfin" also began to become a popular reply in the larger cities of North Louisiana after city 'cousins' visited country cousins.

As with any language, the young male population in North Louisiana cities morphed the phrase into, "I ain't a wolfin", "are you wolfin me?", "wolfin dude", and " Hey man, I got your wolfin". These phrases migrated back to the hillbilly's and became as popular as 'you ain't a wolfin', when city cousins visited durning hunting seasons.

"Wolfin" general meant lying, but not necessary telling the truth neither. An example would be a reply by a young male hillbilly to his mother after someone broke 'the' window in their house.

"Wussn't me, I ain't a wolfing".

Now, the young hillbilly knew that his brother had broken the window. The brother had missed catching a rock thrown by the young hillbilly himself. The broken window was a result of a missed rock, so technically, the young hillbilly was telling the truth.

Of course, the best order of action taken by the mother was to whip both boys, since the window had already been busted out several times before with the same smooth, egg shaped rock.

Only thing she couldn't figure out was how those boy's were getting that rock back. She had thrown it into the pond, dropped it into the well, buried it in the dead of night, and mailed it to her sister in the city. That rock had been around, but it kept showing up on her floor through her busted window.

That's why we got plywood over our window. I ain't a wolfin......

Permalink Reply by RAZORBACK on January 15, 2010 at 6:03

HMMM:
Slang Terms of the Seventies

You Ain't Just A Woofin'
agreeing with

Permalink Reply by sesport on January 15, 2010 at 19:04

Bustin' a gut!!!!!

the wisdom of Solomon (who probably got it from his mother, lol)

Can't see the forest for the trees.

Now, Max, I'm inclined to believe that mother was up to speed on JJ Rousseau, that one of those boys MAY have been named "Emile?" That those boys would learn, through natural consequences, that the house would be freezing during wintry Arctic blasts, and subject to annoying mosquitoes buzzing in ears during the hot, humid summer months.

Boys will be boys ... At any rate, I'm sure they believed it was the rock's fault for being there, or the window's fault for being so transparent they didn't stop to think the mother may have been watching events unfold.. Rousseau would have said that they should have just gone squirrel hunting or carp fishing.

Cut the apron strings ... Sometimes difficult to determine when, but is necessary for self actualization.

Kary bar the door ... goes hand in hand with the plywood.

A rolling rock gathers no moss.

All's well that ends (with a) well ... isn't that what we're all here for?

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Permalink Reply by RAZORBACK on January 16, 2010 at 5:42

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

Permalink Reply by sesport on January 16, 2010 at 6:10

Still put my pants on one leg at a time.
Know why the caged bird sings.
The whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.

http://humanscience.wikia.com/wiki/Part_and_Whole

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Permalink Reply by RAZORBACK on January 16, 2010 at 6:37

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

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