re: Your dad's favorite catch phrases?

Always called us “Tiger”

For every situation, he ALWAYS had something to follow “Well, you know what they say…..”

Angry dad was always “I’m gonna knock your block off”

Son, your mother and me would like for you to cozy up to the Finkelstein boy. He's a bright kid, and he's going to military school and...Remember, he was an Eagle Scout.

Everybody likes a little arse but nobody likes a smartass.

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I'm 35 years old and to this very day this phrase makes not a single lick of sense to me. Would removing my teeth make me work faster?

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Think it was meant to imply you weren’t working hard and breathing hard, so your teeth were in your closed mouth instead of open and showing cause you’re breathing hard

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cold as a well diggers arse.

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Read the entire thread in hopes no one posted this.

Though I can add..."in the Klondike."

He/She fell out of an ugly tree and hit ever limb on the way down.

You want sympathy, it's between shite and syphilis in the dictionary.

Can't isn't a word.

I'll back you up as long as you don't lie to me, you lie and I don't know you.

Who? Your feet don't fit a limb, and you don't shite through feathers, don't "Who" me.

Boy, you gonna let your alligator mouth overrun your mockingbird arse.

Close enough for government work.

Can you see it going 55mph down the road? Then it's good enough.

It's colder than a well digger's arse in Nome, Alaska.

“Well cut my legs and call me shorty”

“How would you like to wake up in the morning and brush one tooth?”

Women like tall, dark and handsome but two out of three ain’t bad”

When someone were to use “if” in a response he’d say “if my aunt had nuts, she’d be my uncle”

And “work hard, play hard”

“You’re the reason your mother and I got a divorce” he’s such a jokester