Sayings your mother/people said/say

"We got Cows" - Bills fiance Melissa

The top three things my mom would say (sometimes still says...)

1. Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
2. Now, tell me something you're grateful for!
3. Turn that frown upside-down!

read this whole thread. re-read this post and clicked like. walked away from computer and stopped dead in tracks. scurried back to computer. found this post and re-reread this specifically. promptly smacked head on desk.

This silly girl read "New Englander" for "Northern England" and thought it was a reference to the US, despite (or in spite of) the references to the Irish and Dutch. Also in hindsight "OZ" might not mean Kansas and "NZ" might still be New Zealand. Southerners use "boy" and I thought it was interesting that the North East would say "lad" - so until the brain train fully finished the route and returned to the Brain Central, I didn't have a problem with the thought. Since, I have spent no time in the New England states and well.... thought I had learned something.