“Things are the way they are.”
Seriously.
It is what it is.
“An old Indian taught me that.” (Idk where I learned this)
“And we’re off like a turd-of-hurdles/smelly underwear.” (Underway)
“Oh, I know it!” (I agree whole-heartedly)
“(That’s) big noise.” (Nonsense)
“Slicker than dog snot!” (The bee’s knees)
My maternal grandfather said “By Jove” a lot.
My paternal grandfather had a lot of sayings: “here’s me head, me arse is coming”, “she walks with a bit of a run”, etc - typing them out a lot had to do with the way people walked. There are more though.
When he was talking about turning 100: “I can’t see, and I can’t hear, but I can still eat so I’m not going to die.”
He did indeed make it to 100.
Take me out back and shoot me.
Those who run don’t see it, those who love don’t mind it.
“Aki szalad nem látja, aki szeret nem bánja.”
Basically strangers don’t matter, your flaws wouldn’t stick out to them. And your loved ones will accept you as you are.
“How’d you seem to be this morning?”
In response to someone saying “oh my god” every single time, without fail:
“Well he’s my god too!”
My dad would say “my name is dad” to people saying “oh my god” to anything he did
Our god.
(Cue L’Internationale.)
Comrade?
My great grandma would say: “There’s nothing bad which would not result in something good.”
It’s an ill wind that doesn’t blow somebody good.
From my grandmother: “Essen! Essen!” (Eat! Eat!) Followed quickly by “You need to lose weight! You’re getting fat!”
Do we have the same grandma.
I don’t know about ‘iconic’ but I once heard my grandpa say “I’d eat 5 feet of her shit just to see where it came from.” and that mental scar will probably stay with me the rest of my life.
Is this a military thing? One of the characters in Generation Kill says this in the first episode.
Possibly? I think he might of been in the military but I’ve never heard him talk about it.
Me too…
When my 89 yo grandma accidentally farts she says “oops I stepped on a duck.”
Lol! My grandma would say, “it was a frog!”
Good gravy!
It’s not so much a catch phrase, but words that I will always remember.
My grandmother was a WWII vet who came home and vowed to be a pacifist. She raised 7 kids before going back to school. She was at Kent State in 1970, working on her masters degree. She happened to be on the commons when bullets started flying.
She died ~2002. When we were cleaning out her belongings we came across a brown stained handkerchief in a plastic bag along with some news clippings. The clippings were her letter to the editor of the Akron Beacon Journal describing her experience on May 4th. The hanky had a little handwritten note that said “this is the blood of Allison Krause. Shed for many. May 4th, 1970”.
My grandmother was an amazing woman who did so many great things after the war. You could easily write a movie about her accomplishments. But out of everything she did, the words on that little note made the biggest impact on who I would grow to be.
I’m genuinely stilled at this, and did not expect such an emotionally gripping comment in this thread. Thank you for the moment of quiet contemplation of peace and its genuine maintenance costs. ❤️
Not good luck, good management. Luck is not a strategy.
Talking about making plans and thinking ahead.
