Post Funny or Goofy Things Your Family Says or Does (kinda vague, read on:)

[bertha katzenengel]

Okay, two things.

First, we keep a list of silly things we've said to the kids:

get the broccoli off your arm
don't step on the lettuce
don't slap your burrito
don't explode your donut (that's my favorite)

Second, we have names for wild animals

squirrels are Chucky
raccoons are Rocky
herons are Ichabod
crows are Edgar
seagulls are Jonathan.... you get the idea.

Now: will this thread get any hits? Inquiring minds want to know.

[texas1928]

1. All our cats have knicknames.

there is Chickenbutt, Chunkybutt, Fluffybutt, and Goofybutt.

[bertha katzenengel]

11. i'd've loved to have been around when they were so named

:wonders how chickenbutt happened:

[texas1928]

16. We have cat that is skinny...

She is just naturally skinny, and her butt when she walks away looks like a chicken butt.

[Left Is Write]

2. Parmesan cheese is not Parmesan. It's "Parmis."

When my brother was little (30-plus years ago), he asked for spaghetti with butter and "Parmis on." We've jokingly called it "Parmis" ever since.

The same brother couldn't pronounce Kentucky Fried Chicken, so we took to calling it Chucky Fried Chicken.

And yet another one attributable to my brother: One Christmas, every time he opened a present he'd say, "It's just what I ever wanted!"
That became the family phrase for an extra-special present. Just what I ever wanted!

[bertha katzenengel]

4. ours is "sprinkle cheese"

Just what I ever wanted! :)

[Maine-ah]

10. he-he

my niece calls it "ball cheese" (I know! It sounds really bad) because you know how the kraft stuff clumps together....:rofl:

[SallyMander]

12. crushed red pepper

we've always called it "shaky peppers"!

My dad is the king of goofy names for food... i've never heard him say "garbanzo beans," it's always "garbeanzo bons."

[Hugin]

13. "Parmeeezian!"

"I'll have some of that Parmeeeezian Cheese."

:rofl:

[Bunny]

3. Any time anyone says "guess what?", we all respond with "chickenbutt".

We've been doing that for probably 40 years. :eyes:

[Hugin]

5. There's a similar thing in my family... If someone says, "I've been thinking."

We yell out, "Congratulations!" :rofl:

[Gormy Cuss]

8. In our family, the reply is " we know, we can smell the wood burning."

:D

[reyd reid reed]

6. We do that, too.

It's gotten to be a knee-jerk reaction.

[Gormy Cuss]

7. We prank each other and tease each other relentlessly.

New SOs are taken aback by it, even though we never treat them that way. Long time SOs, on the other hand...}(

We use a lot of regionalisms in our speech and have odd nicknames for each other courtesy of our maternal grandmother who assigned silly rhyming names to many of her grandchildren.

[grace0418]

9. My husband and I call underwear "jackies" because his mother

(bless her heart) is not a native English speaker and thought the brand name on the wasteband was actually the name of the item itself. She still managed to mangle the name, calling them "jackies" instead of "Jockeys."

And so, like pre-teen boys, we giggle every time the local newscaster Jackie Bange comes on tv.

[trackfan]

14. Butter is "Johnny Boudreau and the Rams' Band"

Drinks are "inflation ala dronghee"

And there are many other examples of such weirdness.

[reyd reid reed]

15. I rarely call my kids by the name that's on their birth certificates

unless they're in trouble.

#1 son is Boo-Boo (he loved Yogi when he was little. Great fun, when he was a teenager, to call him to the phone. Especially when the caller was a girl.)
#2 son is Bonehead (had a fondness for banging his head against things when he was bored. Cabinets, walls, floors, stairs...whatever was handy. I've been known to use it in public.)
daughter is Girly-poo (started it's considered impolite to refer to your children as brats in public, so it started out as 'stop being such a little girly-poo'. When she's being really bratty, it's 'girly-poo-face' and when she discovered low-rise jeans, it became 'girly-poo-face-piggy-bank-butt'. She loves that one.)
#3 son is Buzzard-butt (have no idea where that one started...but it gets me strange looks when I use it in public.)
#4 son is Kiddo. I used to call him 'butt-boy', because until he started school, the first thing he'd do when he went outside was take off all his clothes.

[azmouse]

17. This is what we do:

We applaud and say 'yeah!!' or 'about time' when someone says they're going to take a shower.
My husband calls ants 'antwans'. I have no idea why.
If we eat something good we say 'oh yeah, that's the stuff!'.

[youthere]

18. Whenever we see someone with "plumber's butt"...

we begin loudly telling the story of the wee Irish lass called "Fanny McKraken".

[mopinko]

19. a kid word we still use.

my youngest is very outgoing, always was. always ready to go somewhere new. her word for- let's go have an adventure was- chicksawinza. have no idea where it came from, but we still use the word.