Seeing TheWolf's mention of going and sitting in the corner reminded me of a funny twist of phrase my Mom told me I used as a kid, so I tought it might be fun (go along with me now, ok?) to have a place for people to post theirs.
I have three to start things off:
When my Mom would make me go sit in the corner because I'd been bad, I'd yell "No, please--not the corner of the middle!!!"
I used to call elephants "seffalunts."
I used to call a radio an "eady-eye."
In all other aspects, reports are that I was reasonably normal.
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
My kids used to call caterpillars "pillow-caters." Is that what you mean?
Posted by InarticulateBabbler (Member # 4849) on :
My oldest son used to begin comments with, "Remeber, way back in the 70s, when I..." (He's almost 12.) He used to call hotdogs "hog ogs".
Posted by philocinemas (Member # 8108) on :
When I was a small child, I had difficulty keeping a box of crayons intact - they were always being broken. It was a complete mystery to my mother, until one day she caught me falling on the floor and purposely breaking my crayons. She asked me what I was doing. I responded that I was playing Jack-and-Jill. She asked me what breaking my crayons had to do with Jack-and-Jill. I cheerfully explained that Jack fell down and broke his "crayon".
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Posted by DWD (Member # 8649) on :
KDW - yes, exactly! Perfect!
These are all great--love it!
Posted by DWD (Member # 8649) on :
My mother-in-law says that when my wife was a kid she once asked "Mom, did they really have beds when you were a little girl?"
Posted by InarticulateBabbler (Member # 4849) on :
My Aunt used to threaten us with: "I'll rip of your arm and beat you with the bloody end!" She also used to punish us for vocal violations (lying, backtalk, cursing, etc.) by putting hot pepper in our mouths--it only worked unti lsome of us developed a taste for it.
I once (as a very young child) asked my mother, with all sincerity: "What were dinosaurs really like?"
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Posted by snapper (Member # 7299) on :
My mother said my 'tr's came out as an 'f' when I was a toddler. She used to cringe when I would excitedly shout when ever I saw a fire truck.
Posted by CABaize (Member # 8032) on :
Lol! Snapper, my best friend had a similar problem when his little girl would say "frog". Needless to say, we all bought her a lot of frog-related gifts when she was little... just to watch him squirm.
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
Some of my relatives have told me I spoke with an English accent when I started speaking. Personally, I think they were fooled by my large-for-my-age vocabulary.
Posted by Lyrajean (Member # 7664) on :
My brother and I had a running joke about chipmunks. It went something like this:
I look out the window at the bird feeder and spy a chipmunk gorging himself, "Hey, there's a munk!" I said.
My brother looks at the chipmunk and says, "But monks don't have stripes,"
"Must be a racing-monk," I reply.
From then on chippies or chipmunks were always referred to in our house as 'racing monks'.
Posted by Pyre Dynasty (Member # 1947) on :
Around six I started using the phrase "Twenty years ago"
For example "Twenty years ago I would have shot you for that."
Needles to say I was a young fan of Walter Mathou.
For the longest time I couldn't figure out why people didn't like being called son of a beach, I thought people liked the beach.
Also one time at an after Christmas sale there were so many people, I told my mom that I though all these people were trying to kill me. I was serious, if a little twisted. She laughed and told me I would make a good straight man for some comedian.
Posted by shimiqua (Member # 7760) on :
I used to work at a Daycare, and this one kid Matthew(6) always tried to stay and play with his sister Sara(9). Well, one day he was bugging her and she was trying to get him to leave her alone, and I came up to them trying to stop the fight. I told him that he needed to leave his sister alone, and that he could be independant for a while.
He stopped me with his hand, got all red in the face, and said, "I can't be independant, I'm a man!"
I smiled and then left him to bug his sister. I think he earned it. ~Sheena
Posted by Natej11 (Member # 8547) on :
My niece used to call eggnog "hey nock". My guess is her master plan was to sound so cute that we'd give her sweets past her bedtime.
Posted by satate (Member # 8082) on :
My four year old daughter sings the Mary Poppin song - SuperCalifornia listic expealidoucious. It's especially cute since she can sing it and play it on the piano too.
My step mom wanted to teach my four year sister about being modest. Previously she had let her wear bikinis because they were cute, but didn't want her growing up thinking they were fine. She sat her done to have a serious talk and said, "Lisa, I think it's time that you started wearing a one piece bathing suit instead of a two piece bathing suit."
Lisa looked at her a little confused and then said, "Okay, which piece don't you want me to wear."
Posted by xardoz (Member # 4528) on :
When I was but a wee lad, I pronounced "soldiers" as "shoulders."
A common expression, back in "the day" (meaning late '70s middle school) was "Don't be red" when admonishing someone not be be a jerk, or "That's so red!" when someone did something offensive.
