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What did your dad say?
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My dear old departed dad used to have some sayings:
“Measure twice, cut once.”
“More haste, less speed.”
But his favourite (hence the one we heard most often)…
“You don’t learn anything the second time you get kicked by a donkey.”
Did/does your old man have any witty aphorisms you’d like to share?
“the smallest thing you should put in your ear is your elbow.”
I don’t think its an aphorism,
I think its just general good advice.j
“the smallest thing you should put in your ear is your elbow.”
He must have been a doctor?
I cant repeat what my dad used to say :shock: Ok then i can but would i get banned from the forum??
No, more likely came from a family with a history of burst eardrums.
Sorry, shouldn’t have mentioned it.
But its good advice, and confuses a child long enough
to make them stop excavating their ears in polite company.My dad would never make a speach at any of my sisters weddings. I, being 2nd. oldest was given the job at all of 6 weddings. He always said “I’m not standing up just to let everyone know that I had nothing to say in the first place”.
Something in the line of “You’ll never make money working for someone else”
oh and for every single exam for 6 years in college, he’d randomly pick out a page in my notes and say
“This is coming up”. :D . Needless to say, i used to ignore him . :roll:a little witticism ..or even sage advice from my Father-in-Law always sticks in my mind…
“A little nonesense now and then..is relished by the wisest of men..”
Robbie
8)I remember hearing a similar dicsussion on the radio one time. My faves:
To a single child: “If you keep misbehaving, I’ll bury you with your naughty brother and sister in the garden” :shock:
“If you open your window on the motorway, you’ll get arrested” – apparently he believed this until he was 21!
Older brother to younger brother: “poo tastes like chocolate”. You can imagine the horror that followed!!!!
Tim
My dad was a man of few words. My mother is a woman of many though. One of her favourite sayings is “eaten bread is soon forgotten”.
“Always cut towards your mate” in this context he meant his apprentice not my Mum, he was an electrcian at one time…
My Dad was one of those silent types.
His moments of vocal outbursts were usually aimed
towards other motorists.
When I turned 18 he wrote this on my cardHappy Birthday Son,
Remember this as you become a man,
Never borrow money, if it’s not in your pocket you don’t have it.My dad had loads of sayings, some of my favourites ;
“Never say f%&k in front of your mother”
“I couldn’t give a tiddlers flute” :shock: (Still don’t know what he meant by that)From his photography days
“Kodak Tri-X, F8, 125 second can’t go wrong, and if it does, sort it out in the darkroom”
“A camera is just a box with a hole in it”
“No amount of fancy & expensive gear can make you a good photographer, but I’d love a Leica”He died some years ago, but would have been blown away by the digital age and the possibilties.
Loved the nags, but never had any success, always backed Pat Eddery no matter what the horse or race.
For many years, Saturday evenings was when we were treated to ” Eddery ya feckin eejit” !!!
Rgds
Kevin“the more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat” – apt coming from someone who spend a life time in army and took part in two major wars!
KPM wrote:
“Never say f%&k in front of your mother”
– brilliant! I love that.
Although my dad is originally from Donegal, he has very little Gaeilge.
But one of his favourite sayings to us as kids was: “Suas an staighre”.
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