Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Endearing phrases and translations

No like it
Creamah -- what Isaiah used to say for ice cream
Get off
Hop up
Carry you -- Carry me
Get there first -- Go pick up the ball
Call my knights -- from the book Peasant Pig
Cookie and muffin -- applied generically to energy bars, cake, anything sweet
Go away -- directed sometimes at his mother when she's in the way of driving trucks on the couch

And one that Marian and I have decided to use on people who look but don't buy the apartment: A blight on your potatoes.

2 comments:

Liz said...

A blight on your potatoes!!! Love it, love it! I am going to get a copy of Peasant Pig for myself.

Anonymous said...

Better watch out--potatoes have eyes, you know! Love, Grandma F.