Old Timer sayings

[Hammer Handle]

"Take your shirt off so the mosquitoes stay off of me."

"Hear that bass?" (after he farts).

"They all taste the same!" (after he tosses that tiny sunny into the pail).

"Darn seagulls!" (after he splashes a little water on your head).

"What a plan! You catch the salad, I will catch the meat." (as you reel in a pile of weeds).

[DeathRoe]

"6 A.M.? It's too early to pick up chicks, let's go ice fishing"

[genegodawa]

"all ashore that's going ashore"

and as we get set to hit the throttle full tilt, "batten down the hatches"

[Ebiz]

Most of the one's I know can't be posted on a family site such as this

[quietcranker]

Even a broken watch is right twice a day!

[Craig Plummer]

"Take your shirt off so the mosquitoes stay off of me."

"Hear that bass?" (after he farts).

"They all taste the same!" (after he tosses that tiny sunny into the pail).

"Darn seagulls!" (after he splashes a little water on your head).

"What a plan! You catch the salad, I will catch the meat." (as you reel in a pile of weeds).

I like those haha

[DTro]

"Time for a snort" (followed by the statement below)

"Where’s my Lil’Oscudy" (what he called his Lil’Oscar cooler he kept his Canadian Windsor in)

"One soldier stands alone" (as he finishes the last of the Canadian Windsor)

"If your dangling a line your fishing."

"You pert near lost that one" (as I was netting his fish)

"Two Bits on the first fish"

[genegodawa]

"quick release"

"If I catch the first fish, you owe me a dollar. If you catch the first fish, you owe me a dollar"

[CarlWBL]

When out on the boat when we got bored, my grandpa used to sing the tune "In Heaven, there ain't no beer, that's why we gotta drink beer here!" It was funny cause he hadn't had a drink 20+ years and my age was in the single digits...

[Longline]

Orange Sky at night Sailors Delight

[PDOGG]

When I used to ask my Grandpa what was in the tin of stuff he was putting in his mouth (Kodiak) he'd show me the cover and tell me it was "the only bear that won't pinch you back"

[chaffmj]

We're not happy till you're not happy.

[boatfixer]

"Big enough to stink up the pan"

[genegodawa]

We thought it went like:

Red sky at night, sailors delight.

Red sky at morning, sailors warning.

[woody1975]

Rainin' like a cow (tinklin') on a flat rock

Colder than a well diggers (butt)

Slicker than cat ([PoorWordUsage]) on a hot tin roof

DL

[slick814]

"Good enough for the women we date"... never really got that one, other than a play on the old "Good enough for government work"?

"No use keep big mouth"

And one of my favorites if someone complained about the food - "If you don't like it, throw it on the floor"... no one ever dared to do it, though.

[looneyducer]

I think it started as "if we put all the politicians in a bag, you could reach in and grab a crook every time," but that later morphed into "if we put all the politicians in a bag, the drowning would go much quicker."

[machohorn]

My dad once told my that he had a fast car ( for the 40's), Gramp's got into it hit the throttle and said, "When we see God I'll back her down a notch. 1 mile later it was piled up in the corn field.

[bottomdweller]

For all the people that never chipped in on the trip. (They got fish hooks in them pockets)

[paceman]

My Father in law when he leaves someplace with his wife " lets go the bus is leaving"

"Fishing is good when the oak leaves are as big as a squirrels ears'

"colder than a mother in laws kiss"

[genegodawa]

Chaff,

our version goes like:

women are never happy unless they are unhappy.

For poli-haters:

What do you call 10 policitians on the bottom of the ocean?

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A good start.

[Rogerio1]

Gramps used to talk about how men and women were different.

If two guys sat in boat for 8 hours and didn't say a word to each other it was no big deal. Women would go 20 minutes before one would say to the other, "Is something wrong"

[hoggs222]

Do as I say, not as I do.

We used to have to walk to school up hill, both ways!

[tunrevir]

Let me show you an old indian trick(when teaching any new technique).

We caught so many fish(bragging about the good old days) we stacked them up in the snow like cord wood.

When you see the bottoms of the leaves, you in for a heckuva storm.

You can't catch fish in the minnow bucket.

Slicker then snot on a doorhandle.

This old rod? She ain't pretty but she never lets me down.

Just a few from the past.

Tunrevir~

[hitthebricks]

Are going to fish or are you just going fishin, refering to the guy who always is playing with his equiptment

[The Grebe]

'The fish were bitin so fast, I was busier then a one legged man in an a$$ kicking contest!'

'Hand me one of them beers, I'm dryer then a popcorn fart!'

'Only 2 kinds of fish worth catchin, the big old good ones and the good old big ones!'

[Surreal Deal]

'I gotta pee so bad I can taste it!'

'I'm so hungry my big guts are eating my little ones up.'

[Surreal Deal]

Almost forgot:

'You bet your boots.'

And of course, 'Uff-da!'

I too heard my share of "In heaven there is no beer." Furthermore I spent more than a few rainy afternoons in a cabin on Leech Lake, subjected to the Statler Brother's greatest hits... on eight track. I know that doesn't have so much to do with old-timer sayings as it does with old-timer culture but I felt compelled to say it anyway.

By the way, I fish out of my dad's old 1972 Lund s-16 tiller, and I have most of that Statler Brothers album on MP3. So I guess that makes me a next generation old-timer.

[Willard_J]

"there's my other shoe!" grandpa would yell as he pulled the truck to the side of the road. never did understand why grandma wasn't impressed when we'd come back from town and tell her about it. grandpa would get the stinkeye pretty good when we would happen to find his shoe at the dump. grandpa sure couldn't keep his shoes together.

[toughguy]

I always liked "dangnabbit"