Well it's true, I've played sick many times, and I doubt anyone could tell, (not that I'm a good musician
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Weird things my dad used to say.
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Well it's true, I've played sick many times, and I doubt anyone could tell, (not that I'm a good musician
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Middle of winter: "Close that door! What are you trying to heat up the whole neighborhood??!!"
Middle of summer: "Close that door! What are you trying to cool down the whole kitchen??!!" (refrigerator)
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My dad's utterances were generally pretty mellow.
My grandmother, on the other hand, had some great ones.
When someone commented on a very tall guy with a very short woman - "they're about the same height lying down..."
Also "The first baby can come at any time. All the others take 9 months."
And (in Yiddish) "You can't dance at two weddings (at the same time) with one @ss" ("Ken nisht tanz en tzvei khossunah mit eine tuchas")
My grandmother, on the other hand, had some great ones.
When someone commented on a very tall guy with a very short woman - "they're about the same height lying down..."
Also "The first baby can come at any time. All the others take 9 months."
And (in Yiddish) "You can't dance at two weddings (at the same time) with one @ss" ("Ken nisht tanz en tzvei khossunah mit eine tuchas")
Isn’t that what happens when you put Nordstrand or Novak pickups on a Squier Affinity?
When asking what time it was, I was once given the reply, “Time all fools are dead, aren’t you sick?” All I could say was, “Gee, thanks, dad.”
Shaking his head..."Don't have kids."
"Things go along like this for a while... then they get worse."
"You don't need to look in the mirror to brush your teeth."
"Things go along like this for a while... then they get worse."
"You don't need to look in the mirror to brush your teeth."
"if brains was dynamite you wouldn't have enough to blow your nose!"
Him walking into the room "what happened?"
Me: "The milk spilled."
Him: "No, the milk didn't spill, YOU spilled the milk!"
A lesson in personal responsibility.
Me: "The milk spilled."
Him: "No, the milk didn't spill, YOU spilled the milk!"
A lesson in personal responsibility.
My dad used the phrase 'get bent'. As in when telling off someone, they should get bent.
Decades later I'm still not quite sure of the exact meaning, but I certainly can tell by the inflection that it wasn't meant in a nice way. (No, it doesn't mean get bent out of shape, either.)
Decades later I'm still not quite sure of the exact meaning, but I certainly can tell by the inflection that it wasn't meant in a nice way. (No, it doesn't mean get bent out of shape, either.)
Might mean an admonishment to go get bent over and, urm, ‘take it like a man’.
One of my dad's faves had to do with building things:
"No matter how many times you cut it off, it's still too short."
I find it more intellectually challenging than the old "Measure twice before cutting once."
"No matter how many times you cut it off, it's still too short."
I find it more intellectually challenging than the old "Measure twice before cutting once."
If brains were leather he couldn’t saddle a bug. A variation on the same theme but one that made me laugh the first time I heard it.
Several...not all from my dad
My dad had a masters degree in physics and couldn't answer even the simplest question without whipping out a pencil and paper. When I finally "got" his usually long winded explanation, he'd point to his head and say: "kidneys"...
"You want sympathy? Look it up in the dictionary. It's somewhere between $4!7 and syphilis."
"What if, what if, what if!...What if your aunt had balls...she'd be your uncle!"
My dad had a masters degree in physics and couldn't answer even the simplest question without whipping out a pencil and paper. When I finally "got" his usually long winded explanation, he'd point to his head and say: "kidneys"...
"You want sympathy? Look it up in the dictionary. It's somewhere between $4!7 and syphilis."
"What if, what if, what if!...What if your aunt had balls...she'd be your uncle!"
My Dad was a man of few words but sometimes he came up with some crackers.
"If anything happens to me look after your mother, if you don't I'll come back and kill you!"
or the sarcastic remark on me transcribing a tune in 9/4 at age 11 and taking a little too long for his liking;
"Ai! why are we spending money on music school?"
He was a great musician though and played well into his eighties almost right up until we lost him at 90 years of age.
"If anything happens to me look after your mother, if you don't I'll come back and kill you!"
or the sarcastic remark on me transcribing a tune in 9/4 at age 11 and taking a little too long for his liking;
"Ai! why are we spending money on music school?"
He was a great musician though and played well into his eighties almost right up until we lost him at 90 years of age.
