# Kids' Catchphrases or Words **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 4, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-catchphrases-or-words/847484 "2020-02-04T17:19:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-catchphrases-or-words/847484/21 "2020-02-11T18:43:55Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > OK. I left this one alone thinking someone else might ask, but what the heck does this even mean? I mean, what’s wrong with it? The state’s name is Florida, not Floridia. I would think even a Canadian would know that.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-catchphrases-or-words/847484/22 "2020-02-11T19:00:44Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > The state’s name is Florida, not Floridia. I would think even a Canadian would know that.😉 D’Oh! I read what I wanted to see, not what was actually typed. We’re all guilty of this occasionally, right? Right? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-catchphrases-or-words/847484/23 "2020-02-11T19:05:43Z")
Right said the lady from Mass-achoo-setts ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Fairway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Mrs\_Fairway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Fairway)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-catchphrases-or-words/847484/24 "2020-02-13T20:33:33Z")
From my niece: Hankaburger = hamburger Gingeraffe = giraffe Fridgafator = refrigerator Air kasheen = air conditioning The cation = vacation Tomarno = tomorrow (from my nephew) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-catchphrases-or-words/847484/25 "2020-02-13T20:58:30Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > Peefume Especially after parrot grass. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-catchphrases-or-words/847484/26 "2020-02-13T21:29:36Z")
My little sister’s birthday is September 2nd; aka “September the twooth” (pronounced “tooth”) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-catchphrases-or-words/847484/27 "2020-02-13T23:21:55Z")
I haven’t pummed in so long, I forgot how to do it! ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-catchphrases-or-words/847484/28 "2020-02-13T23:56:06Z")
Those old oil well thingies…also called oil pumpers…used to be all over SoCal when I was a kid. One of my sisters called them oil cows for their resemblance to cows grazing, and it stuck. ---
**Author:** ![JWT\_Kottekoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@JWT\_Kottekoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JWT_Kottekoe)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-catchphrases-or-words/847484/29 "2020-02-14T03:40:44Z")
From my little brother: Brief case = Grief case (my mother loved that one) Windshield wipers = Windsheepers ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-catchphrases-or-words/847484/30 "2020-02-14T04:37:12Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Especially after parrot grass. Sounds funny, but I have no idea what this means. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-catchphrases-or-words/847484/31 "2020-02-14T04:47:46Z")
My daughter, when my wife was debating the best way to make something for supper, “Mommy, read the _destructions_!” ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-catchphrases-or-words/847484/32 "2020-02-14T05:21:20Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > My favorite was my cousins’ “parrot grass” for asparagus. We don’t still use it (although I think it when eating it.) > [@saucywench](#): > > Peefume > [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Especially after parrot grass. > [@saucywench](#): > > Sounds funny, but I have no idea what this means. Parrot grass makes your pee smell funny. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-catchphrases-or-words/847484/33 "2020-02-14T06:56:42Z")
Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![musiuuu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@musiuuu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/musiuuu)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-catchphrases-or-words/847484/34 "2020-02-17T14:18:09Z")
Nabanas? ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-catchphrases-or-words/847484/35 "2020-02-17T15:51:26Z")
> [@musiuuu](#): > > Nabanas? I haven’t seen that one. In our house, it was beenanas and blanas ---
**Author:** ![EdelweissPirate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8491ac/32.png) [@EdelweissPirate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EdelweissPirate)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2020, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-catchphrases-or-words/847484/36 "2020-02-23T04:55:59Z")
> [@Bookkeeper](#): > > My daughter, when my wife was debating the best way to make something for supper, “Mommy, read the _destructions_!” Oooh! My eldest, obsessed with Legos, always referred to the step-by-step pamphlets as “constructions.” We found this _hilarious_. His mom has a Ph.D. in anthropology and I have an undergrad degree in philosophy, so we were both pretty comfortable agreeing that instructions are societal constructs. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-catchphrases-or-words/847484.md?page=1)