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02-10-2007, 02:12 PM
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Stew in your own juices ...
Where there's muck there's brass
Julie
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02-10-2007, 02:38 PM
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and all that jazz
any tom oeoeoeoe and harry
a penny for your thoughts
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02-10-2007, 02:40 PM
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***wab has inserted oeoeoeoe for the male name i put in short for richard i think. oh well, you know the phrase |
02-10-2007, 03:52 PM
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Hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
Make your blood boil.
Memory like an elephant..
Give someone enough rope..
Julie
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02-10-2007, 07:51 PM
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Heres one most people hate...
Bin there, done that, got the t~shirt 
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02-10-2007, 08:09 PM
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Hand that rocks the cradle
Take the rough with the smooth
Talk nineteen to the dozen 
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02-10-2007, 08:11 PM
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Red sky at night, shepherds delight.
Red sky in the morning, shephards warning.
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02-10-2007, 08:32 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jdurbo  Excellent but i use the other b word for a man 
jen xxx | You got that right..
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02-10-2007, 11:02 PM
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He who laughs last laughs longest!! 
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02-10-2007, 11:18 PM
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I see said the blind man
Seen more meat on a butchers pencil
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02-10-2007, 11:39 PM
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A nods as good as a wink to a blind man .
its dark over bills mothers, "local saying me thinks"
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02-10-2007, 11:41 PM
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As long as a piece of string .
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02-10-2007, 11:46 PM
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As soft as a bucket of -- well perhaps not that one
How about 'as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike'
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03-10-2007, 07:30 AM
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Like a Bat out of Hell
While the Cats away the mouse will play
Like a Bull in a China shop
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03-10-2007, 07:40 AM
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Farts like a Dervish..
Talk the hind legs off a donkey..
Julie
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03-10-2007, 08:30 AM
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A place for everything and everything in its place.
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03-10-2007, 03:04 PM
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Taking a sledge hammer to crack a nut.
I've just used that in a post somewhere.( It sounds painful )
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03-10-2007, 03:31 PM
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Giving it some stick..
Wet behind the ears.
Talking to a brickwall..
Julie
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03-10-2007, 04:05 PM
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Dont get a boy in to do a man's job..
( If you know what i mean girls)
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03-10-2007, 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by juliejam Dont get a boy in to do a man's job..
( If you know what i mean girls)
Julie | Oh I'm sure we do! 
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03-10-2007, 04:43 PM
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Happy as Larry. Who was Larry and why was he happy?
Also when I was a kid I didn't understand the expression 'making ends meet' and wondered what hen's meat was!
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03-10-2007, 06:39 PM
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'If you had brains you'd be dangerous.'
'Flamin' Nora!'
'Peace be with you, and rowan tree.'
'Find a penny, pick it up, and all day long you'll have good luck.'
'Ship-shape.'
'Clear as mud.'
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03-10-2007, 07:33 PM
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Elvis has left the building.
Houston we have a problem.
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Paul
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03-10-2007, 08:12 PM
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When I was a child and was pulling faces:
"One day the wind will change and you'll get stuck like that!"
"You've made you bed so you must lie in it" (as in, you chose that particular course of action, so it's you're own fault that whatever has happened has done so.)
"Don't come running to me if you fall and break your leg!"
"You're asking for trouble!"
"She'll come to a sticky end!"
"All mouth and trousers" (Never really got that one?)
When there's just a tiny patch of blue sky showing between the clouds: "There's enough blue to patch a sailor's (or a Dutchman's) trousers" |
04-10-2007, 07:24 AM
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Ooh I could crush a Grape.
Drunk as a Skunk.
In for a penny in for a pound.
Tears before bedtime.
Julie
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