Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Pond Boss Things rarely heard these days...

It's your turn to change the channel

Don't forget to fill the ice trays, we have company coming over

Dial 411 for the Johnson's number

Don't forget Cherry Bombs and Bottle Rockets from the fireworks stand

Go ahead and walk to the store - you need the exercise

You kids be home by sundown!

I'm taking my new toy machine gun to show and tell

Get the cape and the stool and sit outside, it's time for a haircut!

Clean your plate - there are starving children in China!

For the love of Pete!

For crying out loud!

The Pirates look strong this year

A couple that come to mind that show my age:

I'm feeling gay (for feeling happy)

Made in Japan at one time meant the same thing as made in China does now as far as lack of quality.

TJ mine wasn't be home by sundown it was be home when the street lights come on..

Here's a couple gems from my parents: (notice most involve discipline I never listened lol)

Go pick a switch

We're you born in a barn

Ill show you child abuse

Beat you like a red headed step child

--A couple other things--

Walking to school if you live in town

Teachers paddling students

Chores? What city kids today have them?

Allowance

Paper or Plastic?

How much gas would you like today?

Can I check your oil and wiper fluid?

Filling station

Push mower (no, not the kind with 4 wheels)

It's getting close to 3,000 miles. It's time for a tune up, gotta check the points, and look at the plugs.

Leaded gas

I'm going to get the belt!

BGK, you beat me to streetlights.

Three on the tree.

Please and thank you

you better go and get a switch

stop that cussing or cus in general

are they kin to ya

Lets blow up some cow pies.

Good music on the radio.

Tractor radios. In days of yore you could often hear a tractor radio over the sound of the tractor's engine in a neighboring field. Now they either have a cab, or the operator is using head phones.

Pumping the accelerator pedal once to set the choke...I remember the sound it made when the hood was up and the butterfly snapped shut...

"A little more....no, go back the other way".....heard countless times as a boy while reaching out the window in our living room, pipe wrench in hand, rotating the pipe that held the TV antennae... My kids wouldn't have any idea how to do that today..

The sound those old analog tuners made while switching channels....thunk, thunk, thunk....

"turn off the TV it's dinner time" (my Dad's rule)

"would you like smoking or non-smoking section?"

record stores

paperboys on bikes (my first job)

doghouses (most of them live inside now)

I like these, and can relate to the paperboy and record stores a lot. I still have all my vinyl.

"Get up. Cows are out."

"You really got it together and I admire you."

Well done!

Don't worry about the battery, just let it roll down the hill and pop the clutch.
(My first car,1953 plymouth)

"You're right, dad"

This one is still in use in my neck of the woods!

"NO" [Parent--->Child]

* Money doesn't grow on trees *

* Pick up your Lincoln Logs and Erector Set before going outside to play with your friends *

Good one!!

Stop slamming the screen door!
Do you want a knot up side your head?
Go get the laundry off the cloth line.
Get your elbows off the dinner table.
Who put the shot gun shells in the burn barrel?

The pages in the Monkey-Wards catalog are almost gone!

Alfred E. Neuman for President.

Remember to thoroughly spray all the udders and teats with DDT before hooking up the milking machines.

Just dump the oil and antifreeze into the creek.

More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.

"Yoo Hoo, It's Me! My name is Pinky Lee."

I want my Maypo!

"Brusha... Brusha... Brusha. Get the New Ipana - it's dandy for your teeth!"

"I gotta get that closet cleaned out one of these days"

Its Howdy Doodie Time!

Lol, I still use some of these, especially "Turn off the TV it is time for dinner"

Some others off of the top of my head:
"Walk to the bus stop down the street"
"Family TV show"
"I built it in shop class!"
Impromptu unmoderated sports of any kind. You know, call the pals and go play crush the kid with the ball (football), or garbage can goalies for hockey.

Heres one i hear prtty often. LEE PICK THE .22 CASINGS OF THE BATHROOM FLOOR NOW !!!

O.K, what's the view out the window like??

shooting range, woods, and the ocasional varmit. I dont kill them just stir up some mud with lead to get em to go to the neighbors property little quicker. except for the bears learned my lesson the hard way.

"No more skinning skunks in the basement."

My dad was a patient man. He put up with everything imaginable in all of my outdoor endeavors, but he drew the line when it came to skunks. Actually, I did skin them outside; I was just drying/stretching them in the basement. The homemade fish oil project was interesting too. I had the neighbors wondering about that one since there wasn't a pond within a mile of our house.

My dad drew the line with the exploding targets 50 ft from the house almost broke a window from the concusion. oops

Hey Man. Why you gotta rag on the Pirates? We know what our problems are, and you ain't even from the Burgh!

My college roommate's brother put a bullet in a vice and cranked down on it. Not too bright.

Not as bad but the brief time I was in the Boy Scouts and we had access to army rations in a can, someone would put a can of cheese in the campfire unbeknownst to the rest of us. Once it got hot enough it exploded! You haven't lived until you get hot cheese all over you! And it's really funny when it's the other guy!

Hey what can I say. We were hardcore Army brats.

I didn't get past Tenderfoot. Preferred to do my own thing in the woods and on the lakes.

I've been a diehard Pirates/Steelers/Penguins fan since I was 6 yo - 1976! The Pirates are sporting the longest losing streak for any professional sports team at 20 seasons. Actually held first place for a while last year, even after the all star break, but melted yet again at season's end. Embarrassing.

I had to carry my guns as hand luggage in cabin, on board civilian planes, illegal to ship in the luggage compartment.

Yeah, we know!

Anyone else call the T.V. a "boob tube"? I may not be that old, but my Dad is old fashioned as they come. He always said, "go turn off the boob tube." I dont know where that phrase came from, but you dont here it anymore. Good Christian man to by the way, so he didnt get the phrase from those kinda shows. LOL

Solid as a bank

hehe

Dogs belong under the house, not in it.

I wouldn't want to be in your shoes when dad gets home.

You know, a 30-30 bullet fit's in a .410 shotgun. It oughta be OK.

It shouldn't take long to get the powder out of a big package of black cats. Hold all the fuses aside.

Dave, the cops just pulled up in front of the house.

who took the sears catalog out of the out house

[.]its not that bad , Think your mom will notice? [*]"person to dog" get off the couch! [*]good food [*]gas 5 cents a gallon.