How about a thread for old or unusual sayings

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!)

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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".

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I spent the first 12 years of my life as a remote control for the tv. :Rofl

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Originally Posted by TheGrandPoohBah

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!)

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That is a talent there.

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".

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Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

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.

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I remember one heavy equipment operator that we all thought a book should be written on His techniques, and title it "Don'ts".

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Originally Posted by TheGrandPoohBah

I remember one heavy equipment operator that we all thought a book should be written on His techniques, and title it "Don'ts".

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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.

"Man, I haven't seen you in a coon's age".