Those Silly Things Said

Actual quotes are stated here as Dubisms....in honor of my father, W.D. (Dub) Welker. All quotes listed here (an ongoing project) compiled by myself,Susan Welker, and my sister, Kathleen Welker Horn. These little gems will make you smile, and ponder the profound meanings. The list continues to grow with belly laughing episodes.

Credit is given with a first name only.


         "Those Silly Things Said"


"I'm not gonna rake those leaves until they fall off the trees."....Joy


"I was born a little bit before I was one year old." ....Tashina


"He called twice two or three times."....John


"What was the name of that word?"....Dub


"The flood watch will continue until it is canceled."....T.V. Station 12


"I read it while I was sleeping."....Katandra


"You know, where that dead man lives across the lake."....Kathy


"I have tangled feet when I walk fast."....Kathy


"I have to stop thinking about it now, so I can think about it later."....Susan


"I've never lost my wallet while I was drunk. But, I misplaced it when I was sober."....Bernie


"It is daylight, but it will get darklight."....Joseph


"I'm gonna get up early tomorrow night."....Katrina


"I didn't see it speak to me."....Bernie


"I am thinking about so many things, I don't know what I am thinking about."....John


"In a few minutes, today will be tomorrow. Then, tomorrow will be today."....Susan


"That neon light is easier to see at night than in the daytime."....Susan


As told to John, "Charlie won't call today because it would cost him some money."
John's reply, "He could use the pay phone."


"I've been too busy to do anything."....Bernie


"The focus is on the concentration."...Susan


"If you wanna fish, you can fish on the water."....Barb


"Storm is coming. Black skies over Whitewater. It's gonna get dark tonight. I know because it did the last three nights."....Dub


"You can't go barefoot in your socks."....Susan


"It hasn't rained since it stopped raining."....John


"I can't see anything when I have my glasses on. I've got to be looking at something."....John


"So you were in the fourth grade when you started kindergarten?"....Corey


"I can still see the look on their faces from the back of their heads."....Susan


"He's not as old as he is going to be later on."....Al


"I was going where I was thinking."....Susan


"Things stay the same as long as they don't change."....John


"Speak up. I can't hear you. I don't have my glasses on."....Susan


"I cannot eat breakfast on an empty stomach."....Susan


"I wasn't born yet when I was 23."....Vicki


"My earring hung up on me."....Brooklyn


'I'm gonna stop looking for it so I can find it."....Vicki


"Once it's done, it's done. You cannot undone it."....Susan


"I can't talk when I get my tang tongueled up."....Susan


"Time sure flies by fast in slow motion."....Susan


"Let me think about this out loud on paper."....Susan


"My finger hurts. It feels like it has a migraine headache."....John


"She looks like a little blue Red Riding Hood."...John


"If you stay busy, you won't get anything done."....Dub


"You can stay busy if you don't know what you are doing."....Dub


"It would be easy if I knew what I was doing."....David



"I didn't know it would be like this when I thought I would be this age.".....Doug


"That re-make movie is now almost as old as the original.".....Susan


"If you come home and we aren't here, we will be somewhere."....Bernie


"I think I am right. I am positive. But I am not sure.".....Dub


"You should try watching yourself sleep."....David


"I didn't have my mind about it."....Kathy


I was just resting my face on my chin."....Susan


"We are in that part of the country where the sky is closer to the ground."....Susan



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(note: in dialect, it is typical for southern Missourians to confuse the pronunciations of "ar's" and "or's" by switching them)

"Just try going to Memphis and honking your harn."....Dub


While traveling down a rural highway and seeing an obvious farm, it was said, "That's a form, isn't it?"....John


While driving around and around in a parking lot, it was exclaimed, "Mosquitoes in the Far O'clocks. No place to pork!"....Dub
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" I am tired of drinking dry water."....Susan


"Why don't we go to the middle first?"....David


Three year old grandson was told to slow down while eating. His reply, "But Grandma, my teeth are moving fast.".....Brennon


"If we are not where we are, then we are not where we are suppose to be.".....Vicki


"Whoever Christopher Columbus was and intended to be, whatever he intended to do and did, he was suppose to be and do. Therefore, he was and he did.".......Susan


"If you missed it, then you didn't miss it."....Kathy


"She was a dark Snow White". ...Katrina


"With some men, women have to approach through the backdoor of their minds to reach the front door of their hearts."...Susan


"Can he not hear what he reads?".....Susan


"Sales will plummet up through the roof."...John


"Did you just see what he just said?"....Brooklyn


"I cannot eat all my supper, Grandma. My thumb hurts."...Brennon
"Eat with your other thumb, Grandson."...Susan


"I guess my mind is smarter than I am."....Susan


A sign at an ice cream parlor: NO FOOD AND DRINK.


A sign at a restaurant: ALL DAY BUFFET- OPEN UNTIL CLOSED


A bank sign in Tightwad, Missouri: TIGHTWAD BANK


"Winter is coming. It does that every year.".....Dub


"Part of the book was so awful, I had to read it with my eyes closed."...Susan


"I wore glasses all my life, until my eyes got bad."....Pete


"Did you remember what you remembered?"....Brooklyn


"He is a couple years younger than my son, so they are the same age.".....Susan


"It was a small big wreck.".....Kathy


"My eyes are snoring wide open."....Susan


"Can you cold'em up for me?"....Brooklyn


"She was single before she was married."..... Rose


"You better eat this soup before it gets done."....Bernie


"Don't be surprised if I am still there when I leave."....Susan


"I have looked everywhere except where it is.".....Kathy


"They got to where they are now."......Kathy


"I drank three beers. Six if you are counting.".....Bernie


"I have bruises not from falling down, but from getting back up."......Brooklyn


Big sister: " Don't look at me with that strange face."
Little brother: "How else am I suppose to look at you? This is the only face I've got."......Brooklyn


"Do a lot more of less.".....Barb


"Once it is done, it is undone-able.".....Susan


"Tell her I said hi when you see her awhile ago.".......Susan


" I can breathe while out of breath."......Susan


" She may not see the text since she has only 12 teeth."....Kathy


" I like the East sunset better." .....Rachel


" It worked fine until it didn't. "..... Dave


" I said it out loud in my head.".... Kathy


" Sorry. Moving cattle after church.".... Sam


" I need to put all those numbers in alphabetic order."..... Susan