From a wide-spead ethnic joke that floats about. Funnier in
A quick reference guide of essential remarks you can't afford not to make to your children during their formative and adult years:
GOING OUT:
A-G-A-I-N with the going out?
Doesn't the word "NO" exisit in your lexicon?
WHEN BEING ASKED FOR PERMISSION TO GO OUT:
Wise-up and stay put!
WORDS OF ADVICE WHEN GOING OUT:
Pay attention, have eyes ont he back of your head.
Don't do anything to make us the laughing-stock.
REACTIONS TO GETTING HOME LATE:
Oh you came home?
Sarcastically: Welcome, hun. How is it that you thought of us?
Don't you have a home?
Is this a hotel?
CLOTHES:
You bought THAT useless thing?
Hey, leave something in the stores for someone else to buy.
FRIENDS:
Where did you find such "friends"?
All well and good, but don't your friend have parents?
Show me who your freends are and I'll tell you who you are.
STUDIES:
You? *FEH* You know it all already, why study?
HOUSEWORK:
You have to learn or you moter-in-law will taunt you.
LIFE:
Life is not all fun and games
You've turned my car inot a bucket of bolts!
TAKING HOLIDAYS:
Yo. We came here with an empty suitcase, we bled and sweat to save a dime. We didn't go out, we didn't have vacations, nothing....
SAVING MONEY:
Econmize! Economize!
USING OTHERS AS AN EXAMPLE:
See what good kids _____ has? Why can't you be that way?
FOOD:
Eat, eat
Did you eat well/enough?
BEHAVIOUR:
Are you never going to wise-up?
Have you no shame?
Bravo. Is that how one speaks to mother/father?
GENERAL MARKS:
Wait till you have kids to see what a mother's pain/heart-ache is.
PRICELESS!
And my favorite line.
I already have a mother and she did her job well. So get off my @$$, I'm an adult.
