What do you remember your parents saying to you as a kid?

[Ropin]

Ok, I'll play too.

"If that thing only has 1,000 uses in it, you just wasted 65 of em." (That usually followed something along the lines of one of us repeating an action over and over...like clicking a pen.


One more I heard a lot was, "I love you."

[Keith B]

Do NOT shoot toward the butane tank! It'll explode like a bomb if you hit it! (I think it was actually LP, but for simplistic sake we called it butane.)

Actually, it is LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas), which is a mixture of butane and propane, usually 40% butane and 60% propane depending on the season (summer vs. winter.) In the early days the mixture was even more butane, or sometimes even pure butane was used as it was sold in small bottles, so it was more commonly referred to as butane. Propane burns cleaner than butane, so later, as the mix became more propane to help with sooting and the fumes, many folks switched over to calling it propane, but it is still really LPG. Butane is readily available as it is a hydrocarbon byproduct that is obtained from natural gas or by refining petroleum. In Europe and many other countries it is still used pure as a heating and cooking fuel. I use LPG as my fuel for my balloon.

Now, back on topic, I think my parents actually used one or all of these things as some time or another on my brother and me.

[AEA]

My Mother would always end whatever sentence she was hollering to me with "and I don't mean maybe".

That still sticks with me and I am 62 years old!

[joe817]

Do NOT shoot toward the butane tank! It'll explode like a bomb if you hit it! (I think it was actually LP, but for simplistic sake we called it butane.)

Actually, it is LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas), which is a mixture of butane and propane, usually 40% butane and 60% propane depending on the season (summer vs. winter.) In the early days the mixture was even more butane, or sometimes even pure butane was used as it was sold in small bottles, so it was more commonly referred to as butane. Propane burns cleaner than butane, so later, as the mix became more propane to help with sooting and the fumes, many folks switched over to calling it propane, but it is still really LPG. Butane is readily available as it is a hydrocarbon byproduct that is obtained from natural gas or by refining petroleum. In Europe and many other countries it is still used pure as a heating and cooking fuel. I use LPG as my fuel for my balloon.

Now, back on topic, I think my parents actually used one or all of these things as some time or another on my brother and me.

Thanks KeithB, many moons ago. That thing was huge. It must have been at least 10' long X 4' in diameter. We used it to heat the house, water, stove. Our only heating source for the house. A fairly common sight for homes out in the country. In town too for that matter. It's still there! If you do GoogleEarth: 33deg 49' 20.99" N ; 98deg 07' 21.55"W

[davidtx]

My dad had a thing about the "good fairy". There were three of us born within three years and then a few years before the next one came along. The drill went like this:
Did you do it? No
Did you do it? No
Did you do it? No
OK, line up, I'm going to whoop the good fairy.
Afterwards the other two would gang up on the guilty culprit and beat the tar out of him. I sure hated that good fairy.

[Keith B]

Do NOT shoot toward the butane tank! It'll explode like a bomb if you hit it! (I think it was actually LP, but for simplistic sake we called it butane.)

Actually, it is LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas), which is a mixture of butane and propane, usually 40% butane and 60% propane depending on the season (summer vs. winter.) In the early days the mixture was even more butane, or sometimes even pure butane was used as it was sold in small bottles, so it was more commonly referred to as butane. Propane burns cleaner than butane, so later, as the mix became more propane to help with sooting and the fumes, many folks switched over to calling it propane, but it is still really LPG. Butane is readily available as it is a hydrocarbon byproduct that is obtained from natural gas or by refining petroleum. In Europe and many other countries it is still used pure as a heating and cooking fuel. I use LPG as my fuel for my balloon.

Now, back on topic, I think my parents actually used one or all of these things as some time or another on my brother and me.

Thanks KeithB, many moons ago. That thing was huge. It must have been at least 10' long X 4' in diameter. We used it to heat the house, water, stove. Our only heating source for the house. A fairly common sight for homes out in the country. In town too for that matter. It's still there! If you do GoogleEarth: 33deg 49' 20.99" N ; 98deg 07' 21.55"W

Not to stray too far off topic, but many rural homes still use LPG as a source for gas heat, cooking and hot water due to no natural gas lines running through their area. The natural gas companies will not put lines in due to the cost associated with serving a few homes many miles apart. Similar to not having sewer or water lines running to your home. I have a several relatives that live outside of town and have an LPG tank, septic tank and a well. One actually lives inside the city limits (incorporated about 3 years ago) and they just got water lines ran past his house. Still on septic and LPG though.

And I was told the same thing to not shoot toward it any time we went out to the country to a relatives house as a kid. They sure make a neat 'ping' sound when hit with BB's though. LOL

[longtooth]

Many of these are real good & I remember a lot of them.
We have had to remove a couple for vulgarity.
Please dont get it locked.
LT

[timdsmith72]

The only one I can think of right off hand that hasn't already been covered is:

"Did you grow up in a barn??"

[joe817]

The only one I can think of right off hand that hasn't already been covered is:

"Did you grow up in a barn??"

According to my Mother, no. But I was born in one!

[tauruspt145]

My dads favorite when he wanted us to be asleep we would come out and ask for water or something he would say " you want a spanken what" or if the light /tv was on in a room and we were not he would say "how are you watching tv in your room from out here?" he harped about the lights so much we started calling him "the prince of darkness".

[USA1]

"You're not chubby...You just have big bones"

[threoh8]

Check the cheap and easy stuff first. (On troubleshooting)
Sometimes "good enough" isn't.

[Kythas]

"I hope your kids give you half the trouble you've given us!"

This is probably why I don't have any kids. I don't want that kind of trouble.

[timdsmith72]

The only one I can think of right off hand that hasn't already been covered is:

"Did you grow up in a barn??"

According to my Mother, no. But I was born in one!

[timdsmith72]

Oh! And I got this a lot...
"Sometimes, I just don't know about you...."