threats i really need to use more often:

1. i will run you out of town on a rail (passions)
2. i will gobble up your ears! (a very long engagement)
3. four words: sock full of pennies (dust that one off)
4. santa's watching
5. i will be all over you like james joyce is all over the modern library's top ten novels of the 20th century list! that's like at least 6 times, dude.
6. i will knock the bloom off your rose
7. one word: behoove