"Your eyes are bigger than your stomach" when ever you couldn't finish anything.
Also, the threat of the wooden spoon when we didn't go up to bed or similar. Why the wooden spoon? More to the point, why were we so scared of it? I don't think he ever used it and even if he did, it's not like the buckle end of the belt.
On another theme, in a bizarre coincidence there is a blog, that became a book and now a comedy show (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/my_dad_says/?ttag=mktg;fall2010_mydadsays) called "Sh*t my dad says" that's getting popular here. It's is all about the kind of thing we're doing here - capturing the quotes / wisdom of our fathers (though in their case the witticisms are funnier and full of expletives).
I remember finding the eyes bigger than stomach comment very annoying and though i was very clever to point out that in fact my eyes were so big and my stomach so big, and therefore i could actually fit MANY eyes in my stomach - so proving the statement incorrect! He also used it as you were helping yourself to rather too much!
ReplyDeleteI think the wooden spoon was an alternative to: "I'm going to tan your backside"!
Yes, I've heard of that book - I love ours best though - it gives me much pleasure!