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Replies to: What are some of your funny, family allusions?? How did they come about?
Hook was "huckle"
Pizza was "ee-pa"
Virginia was "ja-rin-va"
Eventually we all started to do it when we wanted something from him, so it doesn’t have quite the same impact.
Our entire family starts singing “Cows, they’re remarkable cows,” every time we see a cow. Every single time. Sometimes when just referencing a cow.
We had been going on a very prolonged road trip from LA to Vegas, to North Rim of Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce, Petrified Forest, Sedona, Mesa Verde and south Rim of Grand Canyon, then back to LA.
We wanted to point out the great wildlife along the trip (tho sadly there wasn’t much). Whomever saw what they thought was an animal would inevitably say, “Wow—there’s a deer....bear...,horse....no guess a cow”’ it got shortened to the above.
Another, kind of sad, sorry one is that when my father died, I found out about it a month later, as we were dropping D off for her first day of college. I made the choice not to tell her at that point in time. It wasn't until one of my sons mentioned at Thanksgiving dinner about Grandpa dying that I realized I hadn't gotten around to telling D. Now, whenever she comes home, the first thing she says is - "Is there something you'd like to tell me, Mom?" It's become our family go to phrase for secrets or things that shouldn't go outside the family.
When people are rude or overbearing, we refer to them as having been raised by wolves by saying "Oh, I think he knows the Wolfs."
Boy, some of my coworkers were so clever and hilarious. We could really make each other laugh with our war stories & inside jokes.
That reminds me that, after the menus were passed around, my dad always said, “I’m just having water. What are you just having?” For years, my brother and I only scanned the prices on any menu for the lowest cost item, whatever it was. We never ordered anything to drink, just water.
Once, when I went to pick up DS from our church preschool, the youth pastor’s wife (one of the teachers) came to the door, slipped her arm round me, and started to walk me away from the classroom asking softly, “Did you lose a child?” Astonished and clueless as to where this question came from, I said, “No! Why?” She said, “Oh, I know <DS> is your only child, but several times now he as referred to his ‘other brother,’ so I thought perhaps you had lost a child previously. I’m so glad to hear that’s not the case.” I was mortified as I understood instantly where that came from. Whenever DS did something that could be dangerous like putting his hand near the fire or just something we didn’t want him to do, we often said jokingly, “Stop that. You know what happened to your other brother...”. One day he asked us just how many other brothers he had, to which I replied, “I lost count after ten. You’ve lasted the longest, though.” The worst part of the story was that the pastor’s wife and her husband HAD lost a child and she was reaching out to me compassionately. We never used that phrase again.
My kids played string instruments as children, and their favorite insult was to call someone an "f hole" which is the actual name for that squiggly opening on the top of a violin/viola/cello/bass where the sound comes out.
And because their elementary school was on the other side of what passes for a mountain in our state, driving back and forth several times a day gave me "carpool tunnel syndrome."