Apr 18 2006
Just Shoot Me
Did you get the memo?
It’s official.
I’ve become my parents. Both of them.
Plural.
Arghhhggggggggghhhhh!
Why, you ask?
Well.
Because I said it.
I said the word.
Smart-alecky
As in “Don’t use that smart-alecky tone with me”
I don’t even know what that term actually really even means. So I looked it up.
Apparently…
One incarnation of “Smart Aleck” is a silent black & white porn flick from 1951.
Silent?
The hell?
They had porn in 1951? Silent porn?
I wonder if my parents knew about this movie when they were throwing that term around in the 70’s.
Heheheh :)
Kidding. KIDDING!
(Please. My parents were total squares. How else could I have turned out so cool?)
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At lesat you didn’t call them Deep Throat.
I’m turning into my mom too…*sigh* I don’t know anything different!!
LOL. I just had to google this term and I found this…
According to G.L. Cohen, author of Studies in Slang Part 1, the phrase smart alec(k) arose from the exploits of one Alec Hoag. A celebrated pimp, thief, and confidence man operating out of New York City in the 1840’s, Mr. Hoag, along with his wife Melinda and an accomplice known as “French Jack,” operated a con called the “panel game,” a method by which prostitutes and their pimps robbed foolish customers.
Classy!
Mom101 — Now would that be Deep Throat the uh, classic film? Or Deep Throat, the secret source from Watergate?
Cityslicker Mom — How’s that little rhyme go? Mirror mirror on the wall, I am my mother, after all :)
Something Blue — Dang…smart aleck has quite a checkered past. But mine is sleazier. Na na na na na naaaaa :)
Hahahahahaha! I’m speechless!
Calling your kids 50s porn .. NIIIICE :)
Very funny. Whenever I catch myself saying somthing my mom said I loose it. Last week my son said “mommy I am thirsty” to which I replied “nice to meet you I am mommy”. My mother used to drive me crazy with that so why, why, why would I say it to my own kid?! My mom missed the boat on 50s porn though.
Hmmmm….parents with a secret past…
My mother used “Smart Aleck” on me, too. But she is a saint. I can’t imagine she would have used this term if she knew there was porn involved….at least that’s what I NEED to believe *shudder*
this is funny. It reminds me of the time that I found out that when my friends parents said the word “randy” to each other it meant they wanted to get busy. I was about 10. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWwwwwwwwwwwww.
oh man do i hear you. i find myself spouting ‘parentisms’ all the time and wonder WHAT HAVE I BECOME?!?!
That’s funny my grandfather called us smart-turkeys, I say “what were you thinking” like my mom. And my son thinks its funny, instead of firm. lol.
Ha. That’s hilarious. I’ll need to see that porn. Can you bring it to blogher?
So if they had porn in the 50s, did they have to do it in two twin beds on opposite sides of the bedroom?
Yea, I am slowly turning into my mom too. It hit me the hardest when I caught myself yelling, “Don’t MAKE me come back there!” into the back seat of my truck as I drove the kids to school….
I’ll “officially” become my parents when I use the phrase: You want me to knock that chip off your shoulder?
Porn in the 50’s? Perhaps that is why they used the term “Smart Aleck” so much; it was a secret, running joke each and every time they said it.
I always flinch when I catch myself saying/doing something that I’ve mocked my parents for in the past. I guess it’s our destiny, but sometimes it hurts. ;-)
I feel old because we put our kids in teh corner for having “sass mouths” I had always though sassy was cute and cool until i told my then 3 year old that she better not get sassy with me! BWHAHAHA at least your term has cool undertones! Mine is a smurf reference!
LOL. “Smart-alecky”…I totally have that in my vocabulary, too, I’m ashamed to admit. That’s hilarious about the silent porn from 1951!
You know, I don’t mind using my parents/grandparents “catch-phrases”, you have to keep those in the family while adding your own.
Not sure about using the porn references though…
That is funny! I catch myself saying things sometimes. What drives me crazy though is talking to my adopted parents about Jeremy and some of the stuff he does - they laugh at me!! My birth mom is much more empathetic lol.
That is quite interesting! “Smart Alec” is a classic phrase in our family as well, made even funnier by the fact that we have a deceased Uncle Alec.
Who knew the derivation of “Smart Aleck” was so scintillating? I’ll be sure to use it more often now!
It’s absolutely inevitable. I knew it the day I heard myself say, “You are too damned SMART to be getting grades like these!! It was like a horrible nightmare where I was was the bypercritical, uncool and totally tight-assed mom instead of the kid. But it wasn’t a dream, and you can’t wake up from reality. I am my mother. Thankfully, now that I’m an adult, I can appreciate what my smart alecky little ass put her through and admire her restraint in not wringing my ever loving neck. I can even admit that she was a really good Mom. There are worse things, right??
My mom used to tell me that I smelled like a “p-tute”, which I assumed was a “Petunia” and sadly figured out it was for “Prostitute”
And that is how my life of sin began
I always think of my parents whenever I call At-man a “stinker.” He really is one though.
Suh-weet. Love it. Makes becoming your parents totally worthwhile. Well, for you, anyway. I’m still trying to figure out if the injunction against touching my belly-button was because it was, somehow, dirty.
Did you say “gallavanting” or “lollygagging”? Because if not I think you’re good.
Silent porn? What’s the point? (I’m an auditory person, I guess.)
I think I might use that term too much! I recently asked my son what his middle name was and he said, “My name is Conor Smartypants.” After I stopped laughing and silently agreed with his statement, I figured out how he must have come to that particular name. His real middle name is Alexander named after his Uncle ALEC(like Julie above). I think he got confused with Alexander, Alec, Smart Alec and it came out Smarty Pants! And he is a little Smarty Pants, but this little mix up makes him the cutest, darned little Smarty Pants I have ever met!!!
I told my daughter yesterday not to get “that tone with me” and not to be “saucy” with me. My god. I even sounded like my mother.
I was completely mortified the first time I heard my Mother’s voice come out of my mouth.
Now, I just don’t care. Whatever works right? hehe…
A few weeks ago, Nathan was crossing his eyes to make Ryan laugh, and I walked by him and actually said “don’t cross your eyes, they might freeze that way”! I heard it coming out of my mouth but I couldn’t stop myself. And I thought NOW I am definitely a mother!
Thanks for your supportive comment on my blog post. I really appreciate the nice things you said. I like you, too! :)
I never wanted to say “because I said so” because that is what my Mom would usually say when you ask her why — for some it reason I can’t help but say it to my son! uuurgh.
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Black and white silent porn? I’m intrigued. That sounds…uh..odd. And don’t call your kids porn.
Apparently I’m screwed. I use the term smart-alecky all the time, as well as lolly-gagging too. But the porn thing, maybe I’ll rethink the term…
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Did your parents actually say “smart-alecky” or just smart-aleck? Because maybe you turning it into an adjective means you are NOT completely your parents — just sort of.
Hey, I’m trying to help here!
Ha! It’s scary, turning into our parents, isn’t it?
I think about it everytime I hear myself saying, “Because I SAID so!” or “I don’t know. Go ask Daddy.”
It won’t be long before I’m wearing a hair net and calling everyone under twenty-five a ‘whippersnapper.’
Umm, I think we have that tape. (Ha! Not really.) I’m turning into my parents as well. And I’m getting REALLY predictable. The other day while J and I were eating Breyer’s ice cream right from the carton I said, “You know what I like about this ice cream? It tastes so CLEAN!” And J celebrated like his favorite team had just won the Super Bowl. “Yessss!” he said. “I knew you’d say it. I was just waiting. You say that every time you eat Breyers.”
Ha that’s too funny. I am slowly heading in that direction. I haven’t gotten to the dreaded, “because I told you so,” yet!
Rotflmao brilliant post, Awww its gutting when things like that happen though. I hear myself shouting at the kids and think exactly the same.
You know that just makes me want to use the phase!!!