Post #122949 by Tikiwahine on Mon, Nov 1, 2004 12:49 PM

Heh...these are great.

My Grandma's was 'spend a penny' when referring to using the washroom, and Grandpa used 'bloody hell' quite a bit, but always appologised for swearing.

'You're toast!' meant 'you're dead meat!' in the 80's. we also used 'your ass is grass'

'That's the cat's ass!' means that's great

and a 'shit disturber' is someone causing trouble.

instead of prayers at supper time my Mum's family used 'past the teeth, the tip of the tongue, look out stomach here it comes!'

I always got 'I'm as old as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth' from older relatives.

And, like Hanford, my Mum always called me a raggamuffin when my clothes were not tucked in properly.