Well it sure aint gonna fix itself...
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Well it sure aint gonna fix itself...
As they hand you the sledge hammer, "Hit it like you live".
"Son, why you drivin' like a bat outta heck"
Closely associated with "Where's the fire?".
"That guy's so crooked, when He dies they will have to screw Him in the ground".
"I wont miss Him at all Son, if His wife wants that She will have to hire mourners".
"Couldn't hit a buck's azz with a base fiddle".
One of my Dad's favorites as wellQuote:
Originally Posted by TheGrandPoohBah
A few years ago, I asked an older friend "How's yo hammer hangin?"
He perked up and said "Man, I have not heard that one in many, many years". He informed me that it came from the depression days, if you had work you would have your hammer hanging on the loop of your Liberty Overalls with you, if no work the hammer would be hanging back at the house. Basically, just inquiring if you were able to find work to survive!
In the weld shop it was Hit it with your purse every time someone was swinging a hammer:RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by TheGrandPoohBah
They had lots of sayings back thenQuote:
Originally Posted by TheGrandPoohBah
My Grand Daddy would say "Bring me that (Fill in the blank) while you're still on your first legs, Son".
Back in my heavy equipment days, if I opened a five gallon bucket of oil and poured it in the equipment without a funnel and didn't spill a drop, some old timer would say "I bet you worked with an old moonshiner when you were growing up, didn't you?".
(Can't afford to spill any of that stuff!)
I spent the first 12 years of my life as a remote control for the tv. :RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by TheGrandPoohBah
That is a talent there.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGrandPoohBah
Never count-out(discount) a person that has proven they can be dependably Counted-ON!
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I remember reading Colonel Jeff Copper in the back of the Gun Magazines
One of his sayings was
No man is useless some can serve as bad examples.
I remember working on a track crew, spiking down track rail into creosote cross ties. I saw old timers standing across from each other with big spike hammers wailing away in time with each other driving the same spike. ("Double Clutching") Some of the crew sometimes would sing to keep the spiking on time, or flipping/sliding rails, often referred to as "Gandy Dancers". Sometimes the Superintendent would walk thru, if He felt they needed to move along faster He would address the "Straw Boss" with "Let's gitty up some there, Mr. Gandy". They would say "Better to be singing than to be cryin'".
If you didn't swing the hammer hard and fast enough, "Mr. Gandy" would call you out with "Hey, you aint workin' for Lorche's Jewelry".
I remember one heavy equipment operator that we all thought a book should be written on His techniques, and title it "Don'ts".Quote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
I have seen some that should have been ran off. One ole boy of note ( rather young fellow) walked on the job and told the site work foreman he could run that backhoe better than any fella he had. Site work foreman went to hollering everyone needed to watch this guy show us how good he was. All crafts where out there watching when this fella climbed on that backhoe rammed that right side stabilizer into the ground and picked one side of that hoe up. Reached that bucket out there and signed his name in cursive right there in the dirt. Erased the with the bucket and commenced to writting the foreman's name out there. . Darnest thing I have ever seen.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGrandPoohBah
"Man, I haven't seen you in a coon's age".
That is a long time
More than I can shake a stick at!
Mom said that one all the time
"He would rather climb a tree and tell a lie,
than to stand on the ground and tell the truth".
"He was so ugly when He was born,
that the Doctor slapped His Mama".
"Have your ears been burning?"
If they are talking about me they are giving someone else a well deserved break
"(Go do this or that, or bring me this or that) and I'll dance at your wedding".
That was one of my sweet Grandmother's sayings.
Sweetest woman that ever lived!
Them folks had sayings for everything
"All He's got is a hand full of gimmee,
and a pocket full of much obliged".
It's time to pay the piper
My Dad to me.....Boy if your brain was gasoline you couldn't prime a pi$$ ant's mini bike!
Put your brain in a match box it would look like a bb rolling in a boxcar!
If i want to hear any more out of you i'll pull your chain.
Don't ever sass your mother!!! I helped bring you into this world and i can dang sure take you out of it!
Hang some of those shop towels in your pockets and crawl around on that engine to clean it.
Cruising for a bruising. When I am done you are gonna be hurtin for certain.
finer than split frog hair
If a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his butt when he hopped.
As watertight as a frog's butt.
Blinking like a frog in a hail storm..
When the lord passed out brains he skipped over you.
When the good lord passed out brains, you thought he said rain and went for shelterQuote:
Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie
My dad told me “you could tear up a locomotive with a toothbrush”.
He’s all hat and no cattle.
He’s dumber than a box of rocks,(or sack of hammers).
More nervous than a hemophiliac in a razor factory.
Slicker than owl snot on a wet raincoat.
He thinks he’s all that and a bag of chips.
He’s so fat when he crossed the street a car swerved to miss him and ran out of gas.
He ain’t got the sense God have a screwdriver
And one I used from a barstool MANY years ago- I’m not really this tall. I’m sitting on my wallet.
And then theres my signature line+Cross+
Could tear up and anvil with a sack of feathers
Once in a blue moon
Save your money for a rainy day