Words You Don't Hear Anymore

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Words YOU DON'T HEAR ANYMORE...

Be sure to refill the ice trays, we're going to have company.

Watch for the postman, I want to get this letter to Willie in the mail today.

Quit slamming the screen door when you go out!

Be sure and pull the windows down when you leave, it looks like a shower is coming up.

Don't forget to wind the clock before you go to bed.

Wash your feet before you go to bed, you've been playing outside all day barefooted.

Why can't you remember to roll up your britches legs? Getting them caught in the bicycle chain so many times is tearing them up.

You have torn the knees out of that pair of pants so many times there is nothing left to put a patch on.

Don't you go outside with your school clothes on!

Go comb your hair, it looks like the rats have nested in it all night.

Be sure and pour the cream off the top of the milk when you open the new bottle.

Take that empty bottle to the store with you so you won't have to pay a deposit on another one.

Put a dish towel over the cake so the flies won't get on it.

Quit jumping on the floor! I have a cake in the oven and you are going to make it fall if you don't quit!

Let me know when the Fuller Brush man comes by, I need to get a few things from him.

You boys stay close by, the car may not start and I will need you to help push it off.

There's a dollar in my purse, get 5 gallons of gas when you go to town.

Open the back door and see if we can get a breeze through here, it is getting hot.

You can walk to the store; it won't hurt you to get some exercise.

Don't sit too close to the TV. It is hard on your eyes.

If you pull that stunt again, I am going to wear you out!

Don't lose that button; I'll sew it back on after a while.

Wash under your neck before you come to the table, you have beads of dirt and sweat all under there.

Get out from under the sewing machine; pumping it messes up the thread!

Be sure and fill the lamps this morning so we don't have to do that tonight in the dark.

Here, take this old magazine to the toilet with you when you go, we are almost out of paper out there.

Go out to the well and draw a bucket of water so I can wash dishes.

Don't turn the radio on now, I want the battery to be up when the Grand Ole Opry comes on.


No! I don't have 10 cents for you to go to the show. Do you think money grows on trees?

Eat those turnips, they'll make you big and strong like your daddy.

That dog is NOT coming in this house! I don't care how cold it is out there, dogs don't stay in the house.


Sit still! I'm trying to get your hair cut straight and you keep moving and it is all messed up.

Hush your mouth! I don't want to hear words like that! I'll wash your mouth out with soap!

It is time for your system to be cleaned out. I am going to give you a dose of castor oil tonight.

If you get a spanking in school and I find out about it, you'll get another one when you get home.


Quit crossing your eyes! They will get stuck that way!

Soak your foot in this pan of kerosene so that bad cut won't get infected.

When you take your driving test, don't forget to signal each turn.
Left arm straight out the window for a left turn;
left arm bent up at the elbow for a right turn;
and straight down to the side of the door when you are going to stop.


It's: 'Yes Ma'am!' and 'No Ma'am!' to me, young man, and don't you forget it!

And my personal favorite:
Be sure and wash good behind your ears. There is enough dirt there you could grow corn in it.

Y'all come back now, ya hear.
 
I'm with you TB, my mom knew that when color TV came out it would kill all us kids if we were to close, all three channels. School clothes got laid on the bed and heaven help us if we got caught playing in them.
 
You never hear companies say computer error. Years ago they blamed everything on a computer error.

Also no one is described as dying of "old age" any more.

If my grand mother caught me at home on a Saturday night she Would tell me to call a pretty gal and invite her to the picture show. I doubt they would know what you were talking about now.

Is there still a channel that broad cast an American flag in the middle of the night, or has that been completely replaced by infomercials selling work out equipment to people that are obviously not going to get up and go to work the next morning.
 
Alan":1vjhtrp0 said:
I'm with you TB, my mom knew that when color TV came out it would kill all us kids if we were to close, all three channels. School clothes got laid on the bed and heaven help us if we got caught playing in them.
I sort of miss squatting in front of the TV tinkering with the vertical and horizontal hold knob. Not to mention going outside and turning the antenna with a pipe wrench so we could tune in the OTHER channel.
 
Bringing back memories, like when color tv had 3 color knobs to adjust the color. Making everyone's face green or red, then hoping we got the color adjusted back close enough dad wouldn't notice when he got home.
 
On television, when I got out of high school a man I knew offered me a job selling this new fangled thing his company was going to sell called cable television. He offered me $250/week salary plus $0.25/subscriber/month for each person I could talk into using this new system. $250/week was nearly 3 times my pay at the time so I was pretty psyched about the job till my dad convinced me that no one in their right mind would pay to watch television so I didn't take the job. I won't mention the man's name but suffice it to say he now has millions of customers paying for his service each month. My dad was a wise old bird but in this case he was dead wrong.
 

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