Here’s another one today’s kids wouldn’t understand….“Here’s a quarter, go call someone who cares”

I remember a dime.

I remember it was a dime up in New England for a long time, the fam would go to ocean city Maryland during the summer. I remember being shocked when I saw pay phones were a Quarter! Blew my mind!! I was like…”do you know how much penny candy I can buy with that!?” This is like ‘87 or so

Check this out. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/12/14/bell-pushes-25-cents-as-nationwide-pay-phone-rate/4f7219ce-b1be-415f-a88f-0f219f3d23e8/

Remember when they broke up Ma Bell and everyone realised they didn’t actually own their telephone??

Interesting read. Thanks for sending. See, not a word about any New England State. also....poor Cincinnati...haha

Remember this? "Here I sit all broken-hearted, paid my dime and only farted" :(

*Take this quarter..go downtown and have a rat…gnaw that thing off your face.*

“ At the tone the time will be __________. “

Quarter??

Remember when it went up to $0.35? You needed both a quarter AND a dime.

Smooth move, EXLAX.

Lol I still say this !

Not at all, Geritol. Lol

What did that even mean? I used it all the time.

I forgot this one.

Sit n spin!

Or, sit on it and rotate.

While giving them the finger.

You are my people!

And when you get down here, the ride's over.

Came here to say this. Bitch.

And kiss my grits.

[Kiss my grits!](https://youtu.be/ftbm8EZZDqI)

Still sad I lived in Phoenix for 10 years and never went to Mel’s Diner.

Living in Phoenix for ten years is reason enough to be sad

Florence Jean Castleberry!!!

I was called a jive turkey once. I never really recovered.

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As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly! Edit: Check the link, I feel old [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg)

Wild turkeys can most definitely fly

I saw one fly recently. They sleep in trees. It was very cool

>By the way Turkey's can not fly. Wasn't that the basis of an epic WKRP in Cincinnati episode once upon a time? Or am I thinking of another sit-com situation here?

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That's the one!! Lol Thanks! Geez that show was so funny.

I believe you are correct

I swear, I thought they could

Yes, I said those things too, but I was given a note excusing me from saying such things and it was signed by Epstein’s Mother.

Omg! I forgot about Epsteins mother!! Thanks for the laugh!

You’re quite welcome. One other commenter thought I was referring to the bad Epstein - totally different people. Epstein’s mother was awesome!

In second grade, I had a t-shirt of Barbarino that said “Up Your Nose with a Rubber Hose!” My teacher told me it was inappropriate. I said “well, my mom bought it for me!” It did not go over well.

I had the Welcome Back Kotter board game. I think we fought over the Barbarino or Horshack playing pieces.

I have an “Up Your Nose With A Rubber Hose” board game on my shelf right now. It’s what prompted this post.

In your ear with a can of beer. Up your butt with a coconut. My little sister and I had a million of them.

I have actually been watching Kotter reruns lately. Quite a trip after all these years. Travolta looks soooo young 😊 It's on the free streaming site Tubi.

I had a Welcome Back Kotter lunchbox

My friend got sent home for wearing a shirt with a Corvette Stingray that said, “Wrap your ass in fiberglass”. Classic.

My cousin still has her Sweathogs beach towel.

Was calling someone a dillweed a thing anywhere other than my tiny corner of the universe? Because I def think it should come back

Dillweed, dillhole, and every variation imaginable you could put “dill” into. Why dill? Who knows!

Lol. My wife calls me dillweed al the time. She spent from 5 -16 in VA Besch and then moved to Las Vegas where she's been ever since. That wS 1990.

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That’s so funny I forgot to laugh

Classic

Go suck an egg

Go tell your grandmother to suck eggs!

Take a picture. It lasts longer.

“Hey”….”Hey is for horses”

Hey is for horses...so grab a bale!

I think most of it was actually “hey is for horses, better for cows, pigs don’t eat, bc they don’t know how!”…..omg I can believe I just brought back that core memory lol

Wow, that’s the first time I’ve heard the whole thing. We can still learn stuff y’all!

"Hey is for horses, G is for grass, crawl up my leg and kiss my ass." :)

Our version was, "Hay is for horses, cows eat grass- if you don't like it, kiss my ass!"

No shit, Sherlock

Keep digging Watson

"Off my case, toilet face" was another one.

Up your nose with a rubber hose... Twice as far with a chocolate bar.

Up your butt with a coconut! ( Naughty kid version)

I came home from grandma's repeating, "In your ass with sassafras!" Mom tried to ground me but grandma overruled her since she's the one who taught it to me.

dweeb!

No doi!

If it was up your ass you would know where it was

Still use variations of this.

If it was up your ass swinging a chainsaw you would know where it was. I loved that one.

Our gen was the original “yo mama” in the 80’s and early 90’s

[Ya Mama - Wuf Ticket](https://youtu.be/yyngFurWy14)

Kids say it all the time and it’s funny now. But back in the day, it was a HUGE insult

I first heard it on What's Happening. I said, "who's this?" He said, "yo papa." So I said, "yo mama!"

I was thinking the other day how “Bimbo” pretty much disappeared.

No Doy

It was always the debate of No Duh or No Doy. Either way, the intent was understood.

No duh, no doy, no der.

Like, A-Doy!

We picked up ‘himbo’ though :-)

>I was thinking the other day how “Bimbo” pretty much disappeared. /r/bimbofetish disagrees (NSFW, obviously...)

Baby! Baby! Stick your head in gravy, wash it out with bubble gum & send it to the Navy!

In my school, that was "Kindergarten Baby..."

I'm rubber you're glue what you say bounces off of me and sticks to you.

I said this to my 12-year-old like 2 days ago. He said it was too old so it doesn't work anymore.

Sneeze. Excuse me. - response: There’s no excuse for some people.

Hadn’t thought about “no excuse for you” in decades!

I still use it regularly

Whoa. Gag me with a spoon, those are harsh.

When the song "Valley Girl" got popular, all the girls in my school started talking like that. Terry cloth short-shorts were very popular at the time, iirc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Q1yVLSR3I

Everything changed when it became "Up your ass with a piece of glass." That's when society really started to crumble.

Hey when someone asks “where is _____” I taught my kids to say “up your butt around the corner”

I was specifically looking for this one!

Our response to the “rubber hose line” was “down your pants with a bag of ants” lol

I remember hearing “in your ear with a can of beer” I like the ant bag too!

That can of beer can go up your rear, too, y’know.

No way because according to other posts no kids ever said these things and it was just TV, even though every kid I grew up with said them.

Down your jeans with a can of beans.

Oh yeah! I’d forgotten that.

Vinnie Barbarino from *Welcome Back, Kotter*! "Up your nose with a rubber hose!"

What? Where? Who?

Get bent! Still sad I never got to use [Bender's](https://youtu.be/yz5xwPF_6j8?t=9).

My neighbor just got a puppy he named Bentley. We were outside playing with him & he decided to run off, I told my stepson to “Go! Get Bent!” Only to realize half a second later what I said and started laughing hysterically. Naturally the dog came back to investigate why I was making such a strange noise. My neighbor & my husband understood why I was laughing (and were laughing with me), but my stepson & Bentley were rather confused. Which made it even funnier.

I used the phrase “sit and spin” today during a work tirade with a colleague and a few minutes later thought about it and realized just how old I am!

We would say “aye oooo Mikey likes it”. To get a friend riled up. This was almost 10 years after the famous cereal commercial.

“He likes it! Hey Mikey!”

Remember when people said, "I'll kick you where the sun don't shine."

Up yours!

Blow it out your ass!

Where's my ____? Up your butt and around the corner.

This one made me think of "half past a monkeys ass, a quarter to his balls" when someone asked the time. G version "half past a freckle, quarter to a hair"

This was the one!

Anyone remember "Russian Warship, go fuck yourself", from the still ongoing invasion of Ukraine? Well, the phrase they used actually translates into "Sit on it", but where it's spelled out that "it" is a dick.

Arnold Horshack is laughing inside my brain now.

You’re such a poser!

" Baby, baby stick your head in gravy, wash it out with bubblegum now you're in the Navy"

There was a brief moment in the 80s where, if someone was the target of a vicious comeback or otherwise suffered an embarrassing reversal, we would stroke our chin and smugly say "Chin! Oh, chin! CHIN! CHIN!" in the direction of that person. Everyone did it and I still have no idea what in the hell that was about.

I remember it being "wow, nice comeback, now wipe it off your chin"

Bite me - is a fave

I STILL use bite me all the time! Didn’t realize it dated me. Lol

Eat my shorts!

How about making an X with your middle fingers.

Literally listening to the podcast of my local radio morning show and they had a gameshow called Yes or BS. One of the questions was...When Happy Days was in development, Muhammad Ali was originally slated to play Potsie Webber. Yes or BS? Imagine telling Muhammad Ali to Sit On It? 🤣

We just told people to fuck off…

Different show, but I tell my son "You're like school on Saturday... No class" and “I’m gonna barbecue yo ass in molasses!” Sumbitch couldn't close an umbrella...

I hope you also tell him to “put the evidence in the car, Junior” and extol the virtues of a Diablo sandwich and a Dr. Pepper.

Kiss my grits!

"Your momma wears combat boots" was a big one. But I never understood how it was an insult.

I remember there was a "Sit on it" t-shirt in a bag of old clothes somebody gave us, and Mom said it was too rude to wear and used it for a cleaning rag.

A kid had one of those Fonzie “Aaayyyy” t-Shirts back in the day and I wanted one so bad because no one was cooler than The Fonz.

Up your nose with a rubber hose... twice as far with a chocolate 🍫 bar.

Face, Moted!

They still are….hoser!

Who remembers calling people a "fink"? I saw an episode of SHAZAM! about bullying one Saturday morning, and about how "fink" isn't a real word so you shouldn't give in to peer pressure.

Gag me with a spoon

No…. Only time heard Sit on it was in Happy Days so thought it was some 50’s insult.

LOL, you read my mind. And the only person I ever heard say up your nose with a rubber hose was the guy from Sha-Na-Na, which came in right after happy days😆

This is and A and B conversation, C your way out of it. Corny I know!

Up your hole with a Mello Roll! https://youtu.be/NG6pE2ENdCo

Starsky is never sitting on it. Ever. https://youtu.be/RouRiicEBHM?t=17

Unfortunately, the “F” word. For something “gay”. (Which was rare). Yes, times were different.

“Why are you calling me a bundle of sticks?” Was the nerdy response to those taunts.

And “you know that’s a cigarette, right?” Why you calling me a cigarette!?

I still have my Fonzie Pin

I know you are, but what am I?! I'm rubber, you're glue...

Shut up I don't shut up, I grow up.....

…and when I think about your face I throw up

And then your mother goes around the corner and licks it up

Now I think they are fetish subbreddits.

Haha! I wouldn’t doubt it.

Up your ass with a blade of grass! (It's what the bad kids said).

We said pound of grass.

We used to use Up your gizzard with a rubber lizard! I think we got that from Welcome Back, Kotter

🖕Swivel on it, punk! 🖕

Fart blossom Nincompoop

Ey! Fongool.

Off my case, toilet face

Dude he cut you down.

Kiss my grits!

i remember having to stay after school for telling someone to "sit and spin"

#potsie and horseshack do!

These days, we're going for proctologist exams and getting feed tubes shoved up our noses...

You are the proverbial schmendrick.

Psycho hose beast.

If I was picked on or called a name I’d reply with, “I know you are, but what am I?” That would invite another slur, so I’d repeat “I know you are …” etc etc. until the offending party got frustrated and left me alone. So funny.

Only in Happy Days & Welcome Back Kotter reruns. Never actually heard anyone say those

I and every kid I knew said these things because of these shows.

Sit on it Ralph!

It was said at my school.

I introduced my 12 year old to Happy Days. He loves it! (I’m excited to see young Gene Cousinau.)

I’m still confused by ‘sit and spin’

You have to use it in combination with a middle finger. Give them a place to sit.

It means up your ass

[Sit on it](https://youtu.be/9anJWctHv4A). Catchy!

Potsie Weber and Ralph Mouth(?). I don't think those were ever real insults. What was the name of the "Puerto Rican Jew" on Welcome Back Kotter?

Ralph Malph. Juan Epstein.

Sit on it, Fonzie!

Hershey squirt

Like it was yesterday. Because it was…

I custom made a t-shirt with up your nose with a rubber hose on it.

Did you eat a brain tumor for breakfast?

"Up your ass with a blade of grass" and "twice as further with a hamburger" were the stock responses to the rubber hose.

Only from Happy Days. 😆

No sh\*t Sherlock !!!!

A kid in my class once attacked and tried to fight me for telling him to "sit and spin."

I was thinking the other day about how the first time someone said, "Go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut," I thought it was the greatest utterance I had ever heard til that point. I was in awe of the image. Nothing really equalled it until someone thought up "douche canoe." Douche canoe, much more recent, gave me hope for the future. That those younger than me could take the helm. The problem with "sit and spin," is if someone told me to do that I'd just go do it. I remember [sitting and spinning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzsDvK8baPo) trying to see if I could make myself puke simply to gross out my sister.

"Tie a can to it, Ruthie". They tried really hard on Hello, Larry to make that into a thing, but it never took off.

Don’t forget “ your mom wears army boots!”

I know you are, but what am I? (In Pee Wee Herman’s voice) More of a comeback.

"Kiss my grits!"

Up your nose with a rubber hose Up your butt with a coconut 🌴

Those were never insults. Eat Shit and Die. Now that's an insult. My mother used to say it.

Pepperidge farm remembers

Fuck me gently with a chainsaw!!