# Funny things our parents told us **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 26, 2012, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-things-our-parents-told-us/638906 "2012-10-26T05:34:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-things-our-parents-told-us/638906/41 "2012-10-30T18:24:50Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > My dad’s witticisms – I’ve heard them all dozens of times… That’s the problem. The first time it’s funny, the second time amusing… by the tenth or, in my dad’s case, hundreth time… arrrrrgh! My dad would introduce my mom at a party with “Oh, have you met my first wife?” Or tell a waiter “I’ll have a scotch on the rocks, and my mother here will have a martini”… Or start singing “Mairsy Doats and Dosey Doats, and little lambsy divy. A kiddley divy, too; wouldn’t you?” … Over. One. Hundred. Times. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-things-our-parents-told-us/638906/42 "2012-10-30T18:45:38Z")
If we’d whine “Mooooooom, I’m hungry” she’d respond “I’m Loretta - nice to meet you, Hungry!” My dad was sneaky. We’d all be sitting around watching TV, and he’d look at one of us with great concern and say “Stand up a mimute!” Naturally, we’d get up, wondering what was wrong, at which point, he’d say “While you’re up, go get me a soda!” Funny guy… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![misling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@misling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misling)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-things-our-parents-told-us/638906/43 "2012-10-30T18:55:30Z")
My mom (and my grandma) both used to say (after dinner) I’ve had my sufficiency fanciful, my Shimmy-shirt & my pants’r’full. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-things-our-parents-told-us/638906/44 "2012-10-30T19:12:16Z")
“Mum, what;s for dinner?” “A run round the table and a kick at the cat.” Animal abuse,\* really\* mum? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-things-our-parents-told-us/638906/45 "2012-10-30T20:45:37Z")
“Don’t just sit there like a bump on a log!” “Try using your head for something besides a hat rack!” ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-things-our-parents-told-us/638906/46 "2012-10-30T20:45:41Z")
My Dad gave my brother and I a talk about the birds and the bees: “Bees got stingers and birds got peckers.” ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-things-our-parents-told-us/638906/47 "2012-10-31T05:53:33Z")
> [@Jumpbass](#): > > My Dad gave my brother and I […] Sorry. Us busy. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-things-our-parents-told-us/638906.md?page=2)