Post #122937 by FreakBear on Mon, Nov 1, 2004 11:56 AM

On 2003-07-05 23:12, tikibars wrote:
When I was a kid, and my sisters and I would climb up on the furniture, as kids do, and my mum would say "Get off the table Mabel, the quarter is for the beer". I had no idea what this meant for decades, but my sisters and I regurgitated it ad nauseum anyway.

This came up a few years ago when my friends and i rediscovered Carling's "Black Label" a long forgotten Canadian beer. Our friends dad goofed on our thinking we'd discovered something new -- the whole time struggling to recall the old commercial, "Something like, 'Quarter's on the table, Mabel... get me a Black Label,' No wait... it was..."
Anyways, I think that's where it's from.

When one of us kids was pouting, my grandfather would say, "Put yer lip back in, a bird's gonna poop on it!"

When we cried, he'd say, "Hey there, Horse-butt-face!"

My Mom would often exclaim, "Shit-FAR (dilect 'Fire")!"

My friend's Stepfather was advising him on some matter and exclaimed, "Mumble...damn scalded-ass-babboon!"

-FB