In my culture here in eastern Finland we had many sayings when I was little … here are two examples
‘Kävelee kuin Euroopan omistaja’ meaning ‘walking like the owner of Europe’
‘Antaisin vaikka Kuun taivaalta jos voisin’ meaning ‘I would give the moon if I could …’ showing how much somebody would give if could do so …
Did you have any similar funny sayings?
Well mine aren’t as endearing as yours. My Mom was from the south and she used to say stuff like “He can’t find his ass with both hands.”, “He is King of the dip-shits” or “You’d argue with a stop sign.”
She has been dead for 25 years. I miss her.
I grew up with the disney movies of the 1990s and stuff so maybe, the circle of life, hakuna matata, and ohana family means no one gets left behind. And a whole assortment of others. All from tv, unlike your generation we were raised with tv and movies. I personally learned everything about humanity from watching it on an analog screen. So basically, there are no traditions in my generation, everything changes within a couple of months and you have to keep up or you fall off the bandwagon.
Oh yeah All that glitters is gold, only shooting stars break the mould. for good measure.
I really didn’t have any but my dad’s family is Swedish and Finnish and my grandma always had to put an ‘ee’ at the end of our first names so my name is Lucas so she called me Lukee. My dad Toddee. My uncle Tom was Tomee. My sister Theresa was Treesee. It’s actually quite funny when I think about it.
One of my dad’s many favorites. I never was good at remembering most of them from hearing them so much.
Where’s @77nick77 to chime in with all those salty Navy slang from his pops?
I thought also that @77nick77 would have those sayings …
Hmmm, I’m being paged. OK @Csummers and @mjseu.
Here’s his take on someone who is a fool and doesn’t know what they are or is incompetent . “That guy doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground”. I’m not quite sure what it means but i heard it all the time when I was growing up and it was always funny.
When I used to wish I had a better bicycle or i wished I had a bigger allowance or anything else I wished for he would say, “Wish in one hand and sh*t in the other and see which one fills up fastest.”
A favorite of his was when someone obtained something good OR bad, “Well, it’s better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick”.
When my sisters or me would cry about getting a bee sting or stubbing our toes or some other minor injury and we would make it a bigger deal than it really was, he would laugh at us and say, “Man, when I was in the Navy, the guy next to me got his head blown off and he didn’t even say a word”.
I called sock puppets backboos.
I used to make up songs when I was little. “Your birthday’s off pal!” was one of my toddler sayings.
My mother used to tell me to wear clean underwear in case I was in an accident. I was petrified that if I got hit by a car while riding my bicycle the paramedic would say, “He has a skid mark on his underwear, let him die.”
My mom always told me “they won’t buy the cow if they can get the milk for free” … so no free sex? IDK should I charge for it? Lol jk… I knew it meant I should be in a relationship before sex.