Another way of remembering our Dad is thinking of his many ‘Daddy-isms”.  Here are some of his most memorable sayings and expressions. Memorable because he said them often. Dad grew up in the depression. He taught us the value of appreciating what we have. Waking up early. Behaving ourselves. Getting an education. And a whole lot more.

Thanks Rena, Mir and Dave for helping compile this!!!

I always thought this was a take off on “nickel”. Turns out it’s a Scottish phrase. Muckle is a large amount of money. Mickle was originally a lot of money too, but the expression morphed its meaning into a small amount. Wonder if Dad knew the origin of the phrase, which has been around since the time of Washington at least.

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Turns out that there were alternate more colorful alternatives to this phrase, but Dad would never have used them. Funnily, they found their way into the last verse of a song Dad liked (“Passengers will please refrain…” from Humoresque), but we never heard Dad hum beyond the first half of the first verse.

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Dad was one of the only people I know to make extensive use out of the word “Incidentally…” It was one of his signature words.

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This is something that one repeats over and over. Rena did find one reference to it over the internet. We don’t know how Dad inherited it and never heard it anywhere else. But we sure liked to recite it for strangers, until they figured out that there was no ending.

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Mir just recalled this early morning favorite of Dad’s, together with “Rise and Shine.”

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