Family Leg Ends

[Snoopy]

A thread for those sayings and mispronunciations that have become part of your family's folk lore.

For starters:

My Late mother once threatened to "Put my foot down with a firm hand". Now we say it all the time.

My eldest boy when about 5 was taken by his mother and I to London for the first time where he saw Big Ben, recognised it from the TV and blurted "Look ~ It's, It's It's ...... Little Tom" And Little Tom it has remained.

[TG]

I am told by my mother that during the war the family knitted a stair carpet out of string. 

[Barman]

I am told by my mother that during the war the family knitted a stair carpet out of string. 

So, do you call all stair carpets 'string' now then...?

As an aside... do you remember when stair carpet only went up the middle of the stairs...?

[Just One More]

As a kid I can remember mum watching a comedian on TV and part of the joke revolved around the phrase, "Owt for nowt, take two". Mum laughed at it like I'd never seen her laugh before, and from that day on she used the phrase wherever and whenever she could. It obviously implanted itself because to this day I find myself saying it and employing it when in hotels etc 

[Nick]

"A woman is only as good as her glands" (Auntie Nelly, c. 1958)

[Darwins Selection]

As an aside... do you remember when stair carpet only went up the middle of the stairs...?

Errr... Is it not still supposed to?

Is it some EEC regulation? Did we miss out on a grant?

[Snoopy]

I am told by my mother that during the war the family knitted a stair carpet out of string. 

So, do you call all stair carpets 'string' now then...?

As an aside... do you remember when stair carpet only went up the middle of the stairs...?

Ours still does 

[Darwins Selection]

I am told by my mother that during the war the family knitted a stair carpet out of string. 

So, do you call all stair carpets 'string' now then...?

As an aside... do you remember when stair carpet only went up the middle of the stairs...?

Ours still does 

There can't have been a grant then if you've still got one 

[Snoopy]

My thoughts exactly.

[Mrs TG]

my dads was always as we went past a graveyard (ironically the one on way to southport on liverpool road!) how many do you think are dead in there! and us stupid kids counting etc to be told "Everyone" it went on till we grown up, and we did it on our kids, but they too smart an cocky the kids today! so didn't fall for it all time!

Also does everyone remember the hammer house or horror films an tales of crypt? my dad used to sneak in with wafting  a black umbrella to imitate the bats in film. but the best one was blown up black rubber glove to scare us death when we watched "the Hand" film! those where the innocent fun days! he was such a funny man was my old dad...

[Nick]

I assume you have long term psychological damage

[Pastis]

"I aff a doove in my bedrooom!" © Scandinavian au pair c. 1962. Turns out there was a pigeon cooing on her window sill. Thence forward, pigeons = dooves!

Maiden Aunt #1, slightly woozy after Christmas turkey and hearing strains of Mahler from the radiogram:
"D'you have any Borodin?"

Maiden Aunt #2, in surprise, rummaging in handbag:
"I might have some Aspirin or Dispirin but no Borodin... "

[Snoopy]

 

[The Moan Ranger]

When young I asked my dad what the difference between a stoat and a weasel was, to which he replied;-

"A weasel is weasely idfentified and a stoat is stoatally different".

Wise words, indeed.

[Nick]

My mother once said to my sister, "If you ever get pregnant it will kill your father."

Seemed a bit sweeping........