Archive for the ‘Hierloom Phrases’ Category

YTBYIES - Abbreviation for: You’re The Biggest Yuck I’ve Ever Seen. And the faster you can say it, the cooler you are. One will start it, the other replys “NO, YOU’RE the biggest yuck I’VE ever seen! And it goes back and forth, each time getting faster until you’re giving a quick move of your lips (indicating you speaking SO FAST, it can’t even be heard!), a tilt of your head and raising of ones eyebrows. Stupid, huh? I know.

This phrase will pop up from time to time here on Rattle Them Pots And Pans, so I guess I’ll need to explain. My nephew Jason C. was in 1st or 2nd grade. I had recently been discharged from the Navy and was visiting his family in Indiana. (Jason’s dad is my brother – the Fruitcake guy). I was helping out with chores and while mowing the grass, came across a sheet of paper I didn’t want to run over. I picked it up to throw it away and noticed it seemed to be a letter of some sort. I was indeed a letter and found out later that it was also an assignment. Jason was just learning how to write a letter. You know, proper formating and all. It seemed there was a neighborhood bully named Justin who had been picking on Jason’s sister Joy (the adorable muchkin in my header design!). The letter read as follows:

Dear Justin, If you don’t stop picking on my sister I will kill you in the face. Love, Jason.

Is that too funny or what?!?! Of course I share said letter with his parents, and well – here it is 30 some odd years later and the family (and a lot of friends too!) still uses it! (I like saying it with a Russian accent “I KILL YOU, in de face!”

Yet another family heirloom phrase!