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What do you say to a chatter box?

Tappa posted on Apr 08, 2007 | views: 840 | Tags: chatter box, sayings, chatterbox
Secretlife's blog entry "Short of a full deck" - read it yet? Aw, go on, you'll love it!
 
It reminded me of a really funny saying I heard on a comedy (UK) show a while ago (actually, Years ago!)
 It appealed to me because as a kiddy, I was a real chatter box - I'd talk all the time, not knowing or caring if anyone was present or listening. I can remember an aunty hollering (I was disrupting grown-up talk, you know how it goes) with a grin on her face "For God's sale SHUT UP!!!!" and the whole family cracked up laughing.
 
Then at my brother-in-law's wedding, my DS age less than 1 was burbling away, drowning out the folraml speeches. Another b-i-law called out "Chuck it down a bone!" Again, a major crack up from all present.
 
But that's not the one I wanted you to "hear".
This is the one...
 
"Is your mouth glad when you're asleep?"
 
Makes people stop dead in their tracks and think about it! LOL
 
So, what's your family's way of letting someone know it's time to shut up"


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  • dailyachesandpains said on Apr 08, 2007....
    Tappa!  I love those!  So funny!
     
    Daily
  • momsrock said on Apr 08, 2007....

    LOL... I think I might use that one from now on :) 

  • botoni said on Apr 08, 2007....
    I absolutely love it! A friend had a 'chatter child' We used to see him riding his bike around town as a young teen. His mouth was going as fast as his feet peddled. We could have used that line many times over.
    We use the zipper motion across the mouth as a signal to STFU....not that any member of this family pays the least attention to it!
  • beyondtheveil said on Apr 08, 2007....
    tappa- Long ago, growing up in my hometown I had an aunt who was not just a chatter box, she never closed her mouth. One time my aunt and uncle pulled up to a stop light and my uncle, not being able to stand it any longer said "would you just shut up?"
     
    A man, with his wife, had pulled up next to them. He leaned over and hollered to my uncle "way to go."
  • boyzmom said on Apr 08, 2007....
    My sister was the chatter box in my family and now my youngest son is quite a talker.  I got really good at ignoring my sister so I sometimes just ignore my son's constant commentary but when I listen, I am a bit surprised by what he says. I wonder if I need to take him to a child psychologist or something.
  • polarheart said on Apr 08, 2007....
    There's a scene in the movie "Devil wears Prada" where the meany assistant says to the female lead "I'm hearing this (signaling the talking hand blah, blah, blah) and I want to hear this (closed mouth hand - thumb to fingers)" 
     
    It really only has impact when you see it. . .did it make sense to anyone?
  • dailyachesandpains said on Apr 08, 2007....
    Polar, I saw that and it was SO funny!  Thanks for reminding me!
  • Tappa said on Apr 08, 2007....

    momsRock and dailyAnP - go right ahead - it's yours!

    botoni and polarHeart - the zipper and closed hand signals would Never have worked for me - I was never even Looking at the people around me!

    beyondTV - I'm absolutely certain that other grownups would have been sympathetic with my aunty.

     boysMom - my DS at age two while travelling with DH, my sister and me for a twelve hour journey, talked non-stop. Although we couldn't get a word in edgeways, we were fascinated by what he talked about. He made up his own "legend" of the origins of two islands in a lake (it took us about forty minutes to drive around/past it; his story took another twenty ninutes! LOL!).

    I think I'm glad I learned to hold my words in my head, or otherwise people would have taken Me off to therapy

    Thanks for dropping by, people; appreciate your thoughts

  • hotaka said on Apr 08, 2007....

    I like the "throw it down a bone." That's funny.

    When I have small kids who won't shut up in my class I tell them, "Put a sock in it," or "If you don't shut up I will shove one of my socks down your throat."

    Unfortunately they never understand me because they don't know much English.

  • mom said on Apr 09, 2007....
    My kids would chatter but the ones that drove me out of my gourd was the constant questioning.  The question leads into another question and another one and another one until there is nothing left to say and then they go right into another question.  I didn't mind the questions but when the day was filled with questions, it would make my head hurt.   I also use the "Put a sock in it"  or "Put a cork in it".
  • polarheart said on Apr 09, 2007....
    Hotaka, you are so funny, you seldom fail to make me smile :-) Thank you!
  • silverwhisper said on Apr 09, 2007....
    i'm surprisingly laconic IRL. :>

    ed
  • hotaka said on Apr 10, 2007....
    polar - seldom? You mean there are times when I don't?
  • polarheart said on Apr 10, 2007....
    Hotcakes, only 1 in 100 times!  That's a pretty good ratio! :-)

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