| The Four Horsemen A chronicle of raising four boys in Canada. |
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06-15-2006, 11:21 PM
|  | Mom of the Four Men | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Canada, sort of
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| |  "You worn-out sock hole!" | |
#'s 2, 3 and 4 have been doing more and more swearing, and it didn't seem to matter what kind of punishment I gave them - soon, after the time-out was over or the swear jar filled, the air would be turning blue again.
Tonight, I had a stroke of genius. Well, we'll see how it all ends. For the moment, though, it seems to be working.
I've told them that they are much more creative than the yobs who walk around with jeans dragging down around their hips who don't seem to have much of a vocabulary which doesn't involve "F-ing M.F!". So, I've assigned the boys to come up with swear alternatives. Here's the list to date, and feel free to try and figure out which phrase goes with which Horseman:
1. "Crawl in a boot and die!"
2. "Vacuum my shorts!"
3. "Toss that in your blender and whirl it!"
4. "Here's a pinecone" 
5. "Wrestle my aardvark!"
6. "You bohemian tree-weasel!"
7. "Whistle into a seashell"
8. "You tree-infested grass sniffer!"
So far, so good, even if none of them make any sense. Keep your fingers crossed, you bunch of foghorn pinchers!  |
06-15-2006, 11:55 PM
|  | thread-killa | | Join Date: Dec 2000
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| | Re "You worn-out sock hole!" | |
I'm a yob.  |
06-15-2006, 11:59 PM
|  | Hot and Juicy | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: off campus
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| | Re "You worn-out sock hole!" | |
Quote: hadassahchana said
 #4. "Here's a pinecone" |
#4 |
06-16-2006, 12:00 AM
| | Mom of the Four Men | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Canada, sort of
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| | Re "You worn-out sock hole!" | |
Psssst! Me too. 
Except for the butt-crack jeans.
Still. I am The Mom. and I try to follow the rule of only swearing when I am in a car and moving faster than 45 m.p.h. UNless we are in a parking lot. Or on the freeway in Florida, where we sometimes didn't move faster than 45 but I swore anyway.  |
06-16-2006, 12:20 AM
|  | Rockin The Suburbs | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Chantilly, VA
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| | Re "You worn-out sock hole!" | |
Quote: hadassahchana said
#'s 2, 3 and 4 have been doing more and more swearing, and it didn't seem to matter what kind of punishment I gave them - soon, after the time-out was over or the swear jar filled, the air would be turning blue again. | You let them see my kids and expected anything less?
Are yours out on parole yet? |
06-16-2006, 12:42 AM
| | Mom of the Four Men | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Canada, sort of
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06-16-2006, 01:35 AM
|  | Insert witty comment here | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Alabama
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| | Re "You worn-out sock hole!" | |
Quote: |
5. "Wrestle my aardvark!"
|  Don't wanna know! 
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06-16-2006, 09:38 AM
| | Hot and Juicy | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: off campus
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so that's what the kids are calling it these days. |
06-16-2006, 09:49 AM
| | thread-killa | | Join Date: Dec 2000
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Well, one of my girlfriends thinks that intact men look like aardvarks, but Cindy's kids are Jewish, so that's out. |
06-16-2006, 09:57 AM
| | Mom of the Four Men | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Canada, sort of
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ROFL! I hadn't thought of it that way. Most of us wonderred about the aardvark thing. |
06-16-2006, 09:59 AM
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Aardvarks, or armadillos? 
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06-16-2006, 10:01 AM
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And BTW, Cindy, I agree that this was a stroke of genius! I love it! 10 to 1, they're gonna get sillier and sillier over the next day or so until they just completely lose it.
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06-16-2006, 02:42 PM
| | thread-killa | | Join Date: Dec 2000
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An aardvark: 
Although I guess the armadillo analogy would work as well. |
06-16-2006, 03:06 PM
| | Hot and Juicy | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: off campus
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Aww!  look at the baby! So so cute.
Gotta love aardvarks! |
06-16-2006, 03:32 PM
| | Mom of the Four Men | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Canada, sort of
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#4 has a cute stuffed aardvark. The other boys tease him about his stuffed animals. So I am told. |
06-17-2006, 12:44 AM
|  | CrackFicAddict | | Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Chantilly, VA
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| | Re "You worn-out sock hole!" | |
I should have sung " The Large dark Aardvark Song' to #4 while we were waiting in DC.
I do know all the words. ;D
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06-17-2006, 01:23 AM
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Vacum my shorts? That's bordering on "blow me" 
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06-17-2006, 01:29 AM
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| | Re "You worn-out sock hole!" | |
Quote: hadassahchana said
Still. I am The Mom. and I try to follow the rule of only swearing when I am in a car and moving faster than 45 m.p.h. UNless we are in a parking lot. Or on the freeway in Florida, where we sometimes didn't move faster than 45 but I swore anyway. | Why didn't we think of a swear jar in Florida? It would have covered the gas with plenty to spare for the blasted toll booths.
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06-17-2006, 10:13 AM
| | Mom of the Four Men | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Canada, sort of
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Those $%#@!!!! toll booths.
Oops! |
06-18-2006, 07:09 PM
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I worked with a woman who used to say Son of a Sea Cook when she got angry
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06-18-2006, 09:43 PM
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LOL! |
06-19-2006, 01:57 AM
|  | Housemother to the World | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: A Capital Ship For an Ocean Trip
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Good thing they don't remember things their Uncle G used to say, when they were just tads. And, hopefully, very little that Jay and Cheech say NOW.
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