ONE saying?



My father is Cuban. Cubans have more sayings than the rest of the world combined!



Ask Ed Sr.!

"Con el dinero baila el mono..."

"En boca cerada no entran moscas..."

"En el pais de los siegos, el tuerto es rey..."

"Por donde pasas tu, ya yo pase y vengo de regreso..."

"El diablo sabe mas por viejo que por diablo..."

"Cuidate, que de los bueno quedamos poco..."

Etc.

Sorry, but they simply don't translate well....

the fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom

serve the lord

Do it now, or I'm going to rip off your head and crap down your throat/drop kick you through the goalposts of life.

Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about.

It's the long, skinny pedal on the right!!!!!

My dad is actually a great guy and we're very close, but boy, did he have a temper when I was a kid.

Quoted: Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about.

Yeah! That one too!

"Never buy a cheap hammer."

A bird in the hand, is worth two in the bush.
But if in that bush a maiden should be, one bush in the hand is worth *3* in the tree.

Quoted: ONE saying? My father is Cuban. Cubans have more sayings than the rest of the world combined! Ask Ed Sr.! "Con el dinero baila el mono..." {The monkey dances with money, probably means don't flaunt your wealth} "En boca cerada no entran moscas..." {Flies don't go into a closed mouth} "En el pais de los siegos, el tuerto es rey..." {In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king} "Por donde pasas tu, ya yo pase y vengo de regreso..." "El diablo sabe mas por viejo que por diablo..." {The devil knows more about the old than about the devil (I think...?)} "Cuidate, que de los bueno quedamos poco." Etc. Sorry, but they simply don't translate well....

That's about what I can translate...

My dad has a couple favorites...
"Oh, GOD, I hate my life!"
"You're acting like two-year-olds!"
"Goddamn sonofabitch motherfucker!" - usually said when the traffic light goes red.

My dad's favorite.
"It's not the fool that ask?"

Quoted: Quoted: ONE saying? My father is Cuban. Cubans have more sayings than the rest of the world combined! Ask Ed Sr.! "Con el dinero baila el mono..." {The monkey dances with money, probably means don't flaunt your wealth} No, it means you can solve almost anything with money. "En boca cerada no entran moscas..." {Flies don't go into a closed mouth} Yep. "En el pais de los siegos, el tuerto es rey..." {In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king} Correct. "Por donde pasas tu, ya yo pase y vengo de regreso..." You see the road yhou're walking on? I've already walked that road and I'm on the way BACK. "El diablo sabe mas por viejo que por diablo..." {The devil knows more about the old than about the devil (I think...?)} Correct. "Cuidate, que de los bueno quedamos poco." Take care of yourself, because there are few of us good guys left. Etc. Sorry, but they simply don't translate well.... That's about what I can translate...

Not bad! Silver star for you!

Better to be an hour early than five minutes late.

remember, you can only polish a turd so much.

"You can take the yellow ones if you want to, but the black ones are a helluva lot better."

1. Weak dick

2.  Commie

3. #9     as in that guy got himself a #9 mustach, car, paintjob, front lawn, size, shoe..etc  If you try it it works for just about everything out there.

Hmm. . .

My dad has a couple:

"camoflage" (Holds up ring, middle, and index fingers at once)

"Life's a bitch, so shut the hell  up and do it anyway"

and

"Aw, Hell"  

Not mine, but a Fellow Marine's father:

Even a bad lay is still a lay.

None the truer words ever spoken.

"remember, intelligence is a liability"

Have fun but dont get into more trouble than you can get out of yourself.

"NOTHING IS SIMPLE"
"ITS AN OLD INDIAN TRICK" (usually said of some technological fix)

My father served in the Navy during Korea.

Whenever someone mentioned the Marine Corps his comment was that Marines are all brain washed to kill.

To this day I'm not sure if this is good or bad.

He told me lots of things that had a very strong impact.  I don't know that I can think of them all right now, but they come back to me at critical times.

"I'll never ask you to do anything I wouldn't do myself."
"Anything worth doing is worth doing right."
"This is going to hurt me more than it will hurt you."
"You can do anything in the world that you put your mind to."
"Buy land, they aren't making any more dirt."
"The closer to the bone, the sweeter the meat."

Quoted: Quoted: Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about. Yeah! That one too!

For sure!!!

"John Kerry is a Jackass"

No wait, that's MY saying.....

My dad:

"Shit or get off the pot!"

(R.I.P. POP)

"You have to make things easier on the other guy"

meaning, shovel out your mailbox so the mailman get drive up to it, when you've cleaned out the garage and have tons of garbage, leave a 12pack too.

Stuff like that.    

My old man's favorite "Use your head for something besides a hat rack".

Me:  "Whatcha doing?"  Him:  "Mildewing to keep from molding."

"Profanity is what morons and idiots use to stress their point"

After my dad told me that one when I was a teenager my cussing went way down. I couldn't help but notice then that the biggest losers were the ones that cussed the most.

Unfortunately, once in a while when I am an idiot I will have a slip of the tongue.

My father was a hard man. The hardscrabble existance of growing up in the depression, one of six children of a Polak foundry worker refined his metal. That metal was tempered in the jungles of Guadalcanal, and the Solomon Island campaigns of a Marine Corps rifle-grenadier.

He never talked much about the war, but his sense of humor is illustrated by a story that made him laugh like hell. Seems there was this Lt. that had a habit of prowling the line in middle of the night. When the Lt. found a Marine asleep on watch the Lt. would jump in the foxhole, both boots on the sleeping Marine and then commence to beat the snot out of the errant Marine. The procedure was supposed to be; approach the fighting position and go through a call and response routine so that you didnt' get shot by your own guys. This Lt. really liked to catch Marines sleeping so instead of risking waking a Marine up by calling out the Lt. would just try to sneak up on them. Dear old Dad broke the Lt. of this habit one night on Guadalcanal. My father had strung noise makers in a perimeter around his fighting hole, and heard the Lt. coming so he gets out and hides in the bush. The Lt. goes into the hole, my father goes in on top of the Lt. and comes up with the Lt.s' head in one hand and one of those WW1 trench knives (the kind with the knuckle duster grips) in the other. With the blade across the Lt.s' throat my father asks for the password. Telling that story always made Dad laugh like hell. Hard life, hard man.

If you would have thought my father a hard case, well, Grandpa was downright scary.

The one piece of wisdom Grandpa passed down, and then only to my brother Hubert (Grandpa's namesake) was this: "Always have some money tucked away, you never know when you might have to leave town in a hurry." The most polite version of the story was that Grandpa punched a guy in a barfight and the guy fell, hit his head and died. There were nasty rumors that Grandpa had a more active role in the man's demise. Decades of humping iron in a foundry had made Grandpa "strong like bool". He was built like a fire plug and was just as hard. My grandfather was a no shit "steel drivein' man". My uncle (the youngest in the family) would laugh and tell of going into taverns with his father and how the crowd would part like the Red Sea before Moses to give way to old Hubert. I remember him in his seventies, still a serious individual. Hard life, hard man.

Anyway my father always said two things to us kids:
"Keep your nose clean" Meaning stay out of trouble.
"Keep your ears open and your mouth shut and you'll learn a lot." Lot of truth in that.

Who the hell are you?
Go clean your room.

Quoted: Do it now, or I'm going to rip off your head and crap down your throat/drop kick you through the goalposts of life. Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about. It's the long, skinny pedal on the right!!!!! My dad is actually a great guy and we're very close, but boy, did he have a temper when I was a kid.

Raising kids will do that to a parent. It's the mellow parents, who are never flustered, never worrying, I'd be concerned about, if I were their kid. They couldn't give a damn what happens to the kids....

My stepdad used to say all the time.

"The door works just as well to let you out as to let you in; if you don't like it around here use it"

A suggestion I took to heart when I turned 15, I've managed to live the next 30 years without asking him or anyone else for a damn thing....

 Cold days,,, Father always said it was "colder than a womans heart"

My Dad's favorite saying:  "Obey your Mother."

My Dad died when I was 15.  But I have absolutely no recollection of my father using even a single word of profanity.  Mom died when I was 19.  The only time I recall Mom using profanity was when she quoted someone, and then she would hold something in front of her face because she was too embarassed to have anyone see her even mouth the words.

Both of them grew up during very hard times.  They were far from perfect.  But looking back on them (now that both of them have been gone for 30 years or longer), I realize that I was very blessed to have them as parents.  Furthermore, I had wonderful neighbors who loved me as their own.

It's a shame that I had to live nearly 50 years to really begin to appreciate what good people they were.

"The quick nickel is better than the slow dime"
"Only fish are cought with their mouths"

"Never leave the house without your pants, wallet and pocketknife."

When he was mad: "Hells, bells, and little gold fishes."  Never DID figure that one out.

Here's to ya, Pop!

Shut up dumbass, and leave me alone.

Quoted: Raising kids will do that to a parent. It's the mellow parents, who are never flustered, never worrying, I'd be concerned about, if I were their kid. They couldn't give a damn what happens to the kids....

Don't be so sure.

My mother was like that, and there has not been a finer woman to walk the planet.

The quiet ones are the ones you have to look out for, because when they DO explode......

"Pass me your chicken skins."


CMOS

"Don't shit where you eat, boy."

"You can want in one hand and shit in the other, and see which one fills up first."

"Can't never could do nothing until he could."

"I got spanked twice by my father.  Once for what I did wrong, and once for running.  You'll get the same."

"Up a mule's butt to see the sun rise." when asked "where are we going?"

I miss his wisdom.

Remember the Alamo, and God Bless Texas...

My old man:
"The woman you marry determines at least 50% of your potential future happiness."

"That is a personal problem."

"Facts, not opinion."

"Why is it when you get three kids together they always act 33% as old as they are?"

My dad is a great guy, and after all these years I can look back and see I earned a great majority of my smackdowns.  I try to be as patient with my kid as he was with me.  It ain't easy.

"Son, people are no damn good."

" A word to the wise is sufficient"
He has/had tons of sayings. That was the one I heard a lot.

"There is reason for everything..."

I miss him SO much! Love ya pop!

These were pretty common when I was growing up with the folks.....


"I'm as nervous as a whore in church"

"He's tighter than Dick's hatband"  (never did figure that one out cause I don't know who Dick is)

"I'm gonna do it if it hair-lips the pope"

"It's colder than a well diggers ass"

"Not a snowballs chance in hell"

My dad was born during the depression so he's quite old school and he's a hardass, but sometimes while he would be chewing my ass, I just could'nt help but laugh.  I did pay for it though.

My dad would say, "give me time to shit, shower and shave and I'll be ready to go."  

Quoted: Dad-- "If a job's worth doin', it's worth doin' RIGHT!" "But did you LEARN anything?" "Someday you'll learn to listen to the Old Man." "My dad taught me, and his dad taught him, and now I'm teachin' you--you rinse your dirty soap out of the sink when you're done washing your hands."   "I'm only gonna tell you ONCE!" "That paper will lay there and let them write anything on it."  (Didn't believe everything I read) "God dammit--everything you buy you have to bring home and rebuild to make it work right."   "Engineers only exist to torment the men who actually DO stuff."   "Some damned engineer got paid a lot of money to fuck that up." "Now THAT required a real education to so royally fuck up." "He's an educated idiot if I ever saw one." "He's a triple-dipper."  (Means a guy put 20 years in the military, then enough for a pension at another job, and drawing Social Security.) "You can't buy good lumber any more."  (said sadly) "If you're man enough to get yourself into jail, you'll have to be man enough to get yourself out--don't call me."   Grandpa (maternal)-- "Children should be seen and not heard."   "I'm not goin' through that riga-marole." Is grandma (paternal) okay to include?-- "Don't talk so much--you already know everything you're going to say.  Be quiet and learn."

Sounds alot like my Dad.

A few more...

"Repetition is the mother of all learning"- Ben Franklin....repeated  and repeated and repeated to me.

"Everyone makes mistakes.  If you get caught, take it like a man."