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[Chrissi]

I thought of another one! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] And I say it alot when someone gets an attitude with me. "Who peed in your Cheerios?" This phrase was originally phrased a little differently when I first heard it. I use the G-rated version a lot. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

Also, whenever DH or I does something stupid and gets hurt, the other says "You know whatcha did there, eh? You forgot to "fill-in-the-blank (let go of the ball, how to walk, turn on the light, etc.)." And the injured person always responds with "Thank you Captain Obvious. You're number one." Followed by a one-fingered salute of sorts. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

[Dale_Loves_Mickey]

Okay, when my brothers and I were younger, my mom would often say" What would you do if we won the lottery?". while discussing this one wet afternoon my youngest brother (7 at the time?) said we could travel the world w/ a million dollars(Hay! This was in early 80's after all). My middle brother says "Oh yah, what would we do about school?". Bill says "We would have a puberty with us. School can be anywhere!" Charles & I knew the meaning of this word and fell on the floor laughing & rolling around. Bill had no idea what was so funny and kept saying "What?". I had to explain it and boy was he embarrased!!! We still tease him about that and he's almost 30 now.

Another time in my DH was driving down the road and became flustered by the ineptitude of another driver. He hollered out "Get your Sabubadoo out of my way!!" i had to ask..."Did you mean Subaru?" When he turned to me you could see all over his face that he realise what he had said. we still laugh about that one.

[simbarel]

When we were together about a year DH developed this short-lived but aggravating tendency to question anything I said by saying "You sure about that?" MMMRRRRRRAAAOOOOOOWWWW, he soon got the picture that the phrase definitely got my claws out, but now we say it to each other all the time in a mocking jerk manner. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[MickeyMAC]

My youngest son always called his backpack his packback....actually when taking it to school it makes sense.

[award]

DD calls the kitchen the chicken and ketchup is checkup so that's what we've started calling it!

[whoSEZ]

We have a bunch of these -- so many that I'm considering making a little scrapbook of them. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Some of my favorites:

Whenever someone says "Who loves you, baby?" in my family, the appropriate response is "Telly Savalas?" [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]

Because my younger brother did this (when he was all of 3 years old), whenever you hug two people at once, you are required to say "I love you both, my darlings!"

On a road trip to California one year, we stopped at a grocery store in Oklahoma, near the Texas border, and there we saw a very small woman lift a very large tub of groceries and carry it to the conveyor belt that led outside. Another worker called over to her, "Can you get it, Deb?" and she drawled back, "I can get it." Instant family saying. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

One other one that might only be funny to us: Mom doesn't remember telling us this, but the rest of us (Dad and four kids) all swear that she told us Captain Kangaroo had died. This was years before he actually DID die. (She thinks she *meant* to tell us that Mr. Greenjeans had died, but somehow, we all heard that it was the good Captain.) So now, whenever someone in my family reports "news" that turns out to be not quite true, someone will undoubtedly ask if we heard that Captain Kangaroo died. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[Chrissi]

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One other one that might only be funny to us: Mom doesn't remember telling us this, but the rest of us (Dad and four kids) all swear that she told us Captain Kangaroo had died. This was years before he actually DID die. (She thinks she *meant* to tell us that Mr. Greenjeans had died, but somehow, we all heard that it was the good Captain.) So now, whenever someone in my family reports "news" that turns out to be not quite true, someone will undoubtedly ask if we heard that Captain Kangaroo died. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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This just might be the strangest one I've read! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] BTW - who or what is Mr. Greenjeans? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/questionicon.gif[/img]

We do the "who loves you, baby?" thing, too - sort of. When DH or I surprise each other with something thoughtful, we say "who loves you best, baby?" The answer is always "the cats". [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[buzzspal2]

When DS Jayson was little, we were driving in the grocery store parking lot. There was a guy with a turban on, Jay stuck his head out the window and said Look mom a genie We had watch Alladin a few days before that [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[DebiDebiDebi]

My SIL Scott has us all saying "Well, meow meow meow" when we are talking. It's his version of "Well, La-Dee-Dah".

This type of whisk:

is known as a Jouncer-Up-And-Downer in my DH's family. When they were young, one of his sisters was helping in the kitchen and this is what she called it, and it stuck. Even my SIL's call it that now!

My husband was searching for Coco Krispies one day at the store, and in frustration he said..."I can't find the Crispity Crunchity Stop & Go's!" Then his face took on this look of startled disbelief as he started laughing at the goofy title that came outta his mouth. We call them this now when ever we are looking for cereal.

Grandbaby Tristan calls Mac & Cheese "Oakie Cheese" and that has stuck.

Durring our 2003 WDW/Cruise Extravaganza trip, we had great luck arriving just in time to jump on the WDW buses. We called it Bus Luck, and we all still use it to this day whenever anything goes in our favor.

Whenever we get a great parking spot we call it a "Bob Royal". Bob is a guy we know from church, and he has a knack for getting great parking spots...so, everyone who knows him uses this term for primo parking!

[Chrissi]

Thought of some more:

My DS calls grilled cheese sammys "slimy cheesies".

Brussel sprouts are "little pirate heads".

Coco Puffs are "kitty chow". [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

My aunt used to let my much younger cousins drink a lot of soda. They couldn't remember the names of Sprite, Orange Crush, etc. So they called all soda by the color of the bottle - "Red Coke, Green Coke, Orange Coke," etc.

[DebiDebiDebi]

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This just might be the strangest one I've read! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] BTW - who or what is Mr. Greenjeans? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/questionicon.gif[/img]



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This is Mr Green Jeans. He was a sidekick on the Capt. Kangaroo show.

[Chrissi]

I remember Capt. Kangaroo, but I have no recollection of Mr. Greenjeans! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

[JoanW]

I think Mr. Greenjeans died before you were born! Man I'm feeling old!

[Teresa]

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I remember Capt. Kangaroo, but I have no recollection of Mr. Greenjeans! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

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Oh, Mr. GreenJeans was the best. He brought all the news of the day, and would just "hang" with the Capt. I liked him way better.

And, I thought of some that are probably only funny to my family:

My dad was told when I was 5 that he wouldn't live to see me get out of Kindergarten (if was March of my Kind. year!)

Now Dsis, dad or I will call one of the others and announce something along the lines of "I just checked the obits. Dad's not in them." and hang up.

My mom's brother is Bill. But, we usually don't know who Bill is unless the other person says "bush". Stems from the '70s when he had an afro (think of pale, freckly, red haired man with afro)

Anytime someone in my family does something kind of stupid, we always say "well, you just can't measure common sense"

And the best one - anytime you walk through an automatic door, you are supposed to wave your arms about, and very dramatically yell - "Tah-Da!" and then bow! and yes, I do it on occassion usually to embarrass my kids - Step-son started this when he was 4. Thought it really was him!

[whoSEZ]

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This just might be the strangest one I've read! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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That's appropriate, somehow. And I'm pretty sure my whole family would be pleased to hear it. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] As my brother's college roommate said, "You Zilkas are odd, but you're comfortable in your oddities." [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]