joy riding

Anonymous wrote:Suffering succotash

Who do you know says this (has to be a real person)?

Up a creek without a paddle.

Second the "perchance" vote.

Wrt "bird in the hand equals two in the bush" --has anyone seen the recent geico commercial that uses that quote as the punchline? Hilarious!

Anonymous wrote:-Dag Nabit

I've been saying that ALOT ever since I caught my 3 y/o saying dammit. I don't think he picked it up from me (if he'd said Fuck or Douchebag it would definitely be all my fault) but it was still a wake up call to watch my mouth.

Another good one is son of a biscuit (thank you Orbitz commercial!).
I've always loved Peachykeen and Cool beans


My dad has always been fond of saying someone is "living the Life of Riley!" When I finally asked him who the hell Riley was he said it was an old book.
My grandmother was forever after us to "go outside and let the air blow over your heads." Along with saying things like:
"_____ looks like a haint" (I have no idea how she'd spell it)
My favorite saying of hers by far is "You can't swing a dead cat without hitting ________"

Fussbudget - I called our daughter this when she was having a particularly ornery day thanks to teething, and my husband thought I called her fuss bucket.

Suffering succotash

Good Godfrey

I say good grief a lot.

Also
float your boat/crank your tractor
As in, "Go ahead and do whatever cranks your tractor."

DH calls misbehaving children Ding Dongs. "You're just being a ding dong."

My sister says dungarees because that's what they wear in the Navy.

Jesus, Mary & Joseph (totally blasphemous)
Tom Foolery
Hopped up on Goofballs
Hooligans
Shenanigans

My grandma used to say "dungarees" instead of jeans. Whenever we are doing loving impressions of her, we slip that word in.

betwixt

My grandpa always used to say "and so forth" (as in yadda yadda yadda). Whenever I here that phrase (not so much these days), I think of him.

Anonymous wrote:icebox

I've totally wanted to start calling our fridge an icebox!

I also love "rif-raff" to describe a crowd of hooligans. DH and I use it all the time. Example, we were at the pool of a very nice resort and there were a bunch of younger guys covered in ink with scruffy goatees and wearing street clothes, etc. DH jokingly said "Who let in the riff-raff?"

icebox

did someone say swear alternatives? I wanna play!
My faves: sugar, fetch (fetcher, fetching), mother trucker

hooligans
whence as in "from whence it came"