h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

My Mom still says things like "you're not too old for a good hiding", though she has (thankfully) given up on the "you're not too big to go over my knee, m'girl"

Mother's "Looks" were infinatly more frightning than any threat, I still back up and shut up when I get one of her "Looks"

I have also perfected the "Look" Alex has learned to respect the "Look" as did I

the "look". I was always (and still am) better at them than Mom. My sis is terrified of my "look" but, since she's 18 years younger than me, I was always her second Mom anyway

The "Look" is an inbuilt woman thing that kicks in when the kids reach 3, along with all they sayings that have been posted here. How many of us have caught ourselves saying exactly the same phrases to our kids that our mum said to us

*Raises Hand*

Oh, most definitely!

Always swore I wouldn't be like my Mom when I had kids - I love her to pieces, but she is sooooo hard to live with! - but I still end up saying the same kinds of things...

I think it's imbedded deep in the DNA that you will eventually turn into your mother

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I know it was a shock to me when I realised it

*panic*






In the car...

Mother: "You're going too fast."
Me: "*sigh* The limit is 40, and I'm only doing 30"

Mother: "Ooh if feels faster!"
Me: "$@£%!!!"


... Two minutes later, just enough time for *that* goldfish up there to do a full lap around her head ...


Mother: "You can go a bit faster if you want."
Me: "Yes, Miss Daisy!"


... Imagines goldish going the other way to see if it all looks different I guess ...


Mother: "She's dead now."
Me: "She who?" (Knowing full well.)

Mother: "That woman."
Me: "You mean Tandy?"

Mother: "That's her."

And so the day goes on.

My mum is ok, it's my Nan who's marbles a rattling

There is time left yet.

Luckily my nan is my Dad's mum so it'll be me who's marbles will rattle

I sound just like my mum when I talk to my baby, though I don't threaten to smack him.
She never hit me, but threatened to all the time...

Four things stick in my mind....

"Its looking a bit dark over will's mothers" if the weather looks bad

"can you hear the trains at manea?" if you asked what the weather was gonna be like, if you could the weather would stay fine!?!

"come you down, do you'll fall!"

And finally the words that go down in family history.......

"WOULDN'T CATS BE DANGERIOUS IF THEY WERE BIGGER!"

It took nearly ten mins of us laughing for her to twig!!!

The "Its looking a bit dark over will's mothers" was a favourite in our house too

On the other side it, if you saw a little blue sky inbetween storm clouds it was "Not enough to knit a cat a pair of trousers"

In answer to the original post it must vary regionally cos I've heard 'Well I'll go to Cardiff on a bike' in South Wales.

okay i admit to skipping some but it all made me laugh too much, my mum and nanna used to say them all!!

my dad was worse at sympathy than the persons mother who told them not to move it.
if i fell down and hurt myself my dad used to check i hadnt broken the pavement


sithee later

My father has a very annoying "I guess you know best what's important" when I choose to do something other than visit him (and he wonders why!)

My stepmother comes up with things like "you can't take your things from your closet without asking" and then she wonders too!

As an Aussie, it's quite interesting that some of the phrases mentioned above have made their way out here. We just put it down to things that came from the motherland and that they probably know what the phrase means in Britain. So i think it's quite funny that the origins are lost even there.

My mum used to work the old "YOU'LL BE THE DEATH OF ME" pretty hard. Another morbidity related phrase that used to really scare me was...

"YOU'LL CATCH YOUR DEATH!"

It doesn't get any more disturbing than that

my mother had a quite scary saying, or so I always thought - when we were complaining about being hungry or thirsty somewhere nothing was available, she'd always ask "Soll ich's mir aus dem Daumen saugen?" - "You want me to suck it out of my thumb?"