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Family Sayings
In everyone's lifetime, events occur that trigger
recollections of expressions heard
previously. These expressions or "Family sayings" may have been
repeated over and
over to a child, or to each child as they reached a particular stage in their
life and heard
by the older children again. Other expressions are said one time, and for some
reason,
they burn such an impression into our brain, we hear them replayed at the drop
of a hat.
The speaker of the expression may not even know the effect the wording had on it
listener.
The speaker may not even recall that they are the one who said it.
Linda and I used to watch a television program called
"Name That Tune" popular in the
late 60's and early 70's. On this show, players "bid" on how few notes
they would have to
hear in order to name a tune which the Emcee had just revealed a clue about. At
the end of
the program, whoever had successfully named the most tunes went on to a bonus
round.
On one such evening, the gentleman who entered the bonus
round heard his clue (I can
no longer recall the clue nor the true name of the tune the clue was about)
and listened
intently to the predetermined number of notes, based upon his earlier success.
After the few
notes were played and the allowable seconds had ticked away, he looked at the
host,
shrugged his shoulders and said, almost questioningly. "Russians
Dance?"
To this day, more than 25 years later, whenever we hear a
tune we do not recognize,
Linda and I look at each other and both say, "Russians Dance?"
Here are some of the expressions that are in my repertoire:
"Some do and Some
don't" Mike, when asked at age
four, by a tourist if they
should tip him.
"I want to thank you
for Hank, at Pa Steve
my new clothes,
Momma" Crosby's funeral
"Edi!" All Wordens, upon seeing
another Worden.
"I'm going to heaven in
a
Mikey Worden.
blue cardboard box"
"This is pretty good
slop"
Bill Kramer, at age 12, to his
Aunt Merle, regarding the
meal she had just prepared..
"I ate 'till I
puked"
Bill McNabb at age 7.
"Phone!"
Celeste Worden, upon hearing
the bells in the Cathedral at the
time of the consecration.
"I like a man with a gonad"
Jane Lyons, age 16, stroking
her chin.
"Why study? I'm just going
to Mylnor Beach, upon being
grow up to be a dumb farmer, reprimanded
after receiving a
anyway!"
low grade in school.
"I didn't know you had to be
in Stevie Beach, seeing Aunt
bed like that when you had
the Merle who had been
con-
"kickenpocks"
fined to bed (pregnant with
Hank) while three or four of us
were quarantined with measles
and chickenpox.
"Send that record
back. Bud Worden, upon
hearing
It's
Warped" a new Johnie Tilitson
album.
"I'll give you all the money in
my Pa Steve, seeing a
pocket for all the money in
your grandchild with
hand." money in their hand.
"THINK
FAST!"
Bud Worden, said to someone,
seconds before tossing them an
item, in an effort to heighten their
reflexes.
"I hope your face
doesn't
Everyone's Grandmother.
freeze like that"
"Quit that crying, or I'll give you Everyone's
mother.
something to cry about."
"NIABBLEGOBBLECHEW"
Said to an animal
to confuse it.
"Cheemanetti"
An expression of amazement
used by Bud Worden. rather
than any profanity.
"Hurry up. we're loosing
light!" An expression used quite
frequently to indicate that a
project is moving much too
slowly and needs to be speeded
up. Literally, the sun is going
down and the project will not
have light sufficient to illuminate
it if much more time passes.
"Aww, come on, you
wasted Bud Worden To
Merle when
the whole
hill"
she failed to pop the clutch on
a stalled car, before it reached
the bottom of an inclined road.
(End
of Chapter 10)
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