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15-10-2007, 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by jdurbo  Thats cheap!!! 
jen xxx | wife says if yu can stand the snoring its fair
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15-10-2007, 11:12 PM
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Fit as a butchers dog 
Well I can't speak - pronounced in a broad Lanky accent - as in 'conn't spek'
You'll catch pnumonia - one from my mam when I was little and went out without a hat on . . .
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16-10-2007, 05:37 AM
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Originally Posted by coasty wife says if yu can stand the snoring its fair | I will leave it then thanks as i already have a snoring Wild Boar here 
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16-10-2007, 12:36 PM
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"What do you want - the moon on a stick?" (used when someone wants more than the whole 9 yards  )
"'appen as mebbe". Good old norvern saying, and as it is generally said in an incomprehensible accent, can be used anytime for anything |
18-10-2007, 06:55 PM
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I made a "bit" of an error!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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18-10-2007, 06:57 PM
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Jez. ok was i dreaming you had left or what ???. if i wasnt & you were im glad ur back..  Gez |
18-10-2007, 07:20 PM
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Mighty oaks from little acorns grow!!
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18-10-2007, 07:22 PM
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Thankyou all for the most kind post i didn't realise that so many people cared. As i have previuosly said WAB is the best! This just confirms it. you are all too much! And for once i'm speechless! But theres a certain Coloured Pixi i must apologise too as she is probably wondering what on earth! Purplepixi I am so so sorry can you forgive my madness?
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18-10-2007, 07:26 PM
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Jezabel no worries!
Cold hands warm heart
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18-10-2007, 08:45 PM
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Originally Posted by paulchandler6 Anyone know the meaning of this one?
"The whole nine yards"
Paul | See this thread 04 10 2007 09:50
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19-10-2007, 12:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Jez But theres a certain Coloured Pixi i must apologise too as she is probably wondering what on earth! Purplepixi I am so so sorry can you forgive my madness? | It's all forgotten mate - in fact I have no idea what you're talking about
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19-10-2007, 01:21 PM
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Playing fast and loose.
Pressed for time.
Julie
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19-10-2007, 02:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Jez Thankyou all for the most kind post i didn't realise that so many people cared. As i have previuosly said WAB is the best! This just confirms it. you are all too much! And for once i'm speechless! But theres a certain Coloured Pixi i must apologise too as she is probably wondering what on earth! Purplepixi I am so so sorry can you forgive my madness? | Welcome back Jez from wherever you've been - so now you know its not so easy to slip away from here
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19-10-2007, 03:06 PM
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Mi old dad says " well cut of me legs and call me shorty"
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19-10-2007, 11:29 PM
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Lynx eyed.
Moth eaten.
Red Herring.
Sitting Duck.
Bats in the Belfry.
The bird has flown.
Creature comforts.
Paul
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19-10-2007, 11:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Cazzie I see said the blind man |
Cazzie, there's more! My ancient Nan used to say this: " I see, said the blind man as he winked his eye ;-)" And Solus:
"All mouth and trousers" (Never really got that one?) I think that is "All mouth and NO trousers" (Get it now? lol! ) Jen suggested:
Life begins at forty. (It doesn't! It's all downhill!)
Playing fast and loose. (This has it's roots in archery - fast = hold the arrow fast; Loose = release it!) I have heard that a great many of our sayings have origins in sailing...maybe 'cos sailors are/were(?) so superstitious.
Here's one of my personal favs by the great Oscar Wilde: "I'm not young enough to know everything"  Best! From Dutchess (this is my first post, it's great to have found this forum! |
20-10-2007, 03:58 PM
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He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword
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20-10-2007, 07:29 PM
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This seems to be a new one...You nailed it.
Or when your watching footy they say that was a nailed on penalty 
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20-10-2007, 08:31 PM
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What I've always liked about these adages is that there's always an opposite: in this case, 'Many hands make light work.' Quote:
Originally Posted by jdurbo Too many cooks spoil the broth.
jen xxx | Cf 'Look before you leap' and 'They who hesitate are lost' ....
I think the adages were just there for someone to make out that whatever you did, it was wrong!
More interesting are phrases where you can't even understand the meaning. Thus I knew someone from a family where someone acting strangely was said to have, 'Gone doolally'. Sounds like a made up word? In fact, it derives from the Raj - at Doolahli (near Calcutta) was a large 'lunatic asylum'.
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20-10-2007, 08:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Jez One i still use is Gordon Bennet | There's always someone who knows the answer. Gordon Bennet was the proprietor of a large USAmerican newspaper - famously he sent one of his reporters, Henry Stanley, to find David Livingstone in Africa. We are told that on meeting him, he said, "Dr Livingstone, I presume?"; popular legend has it that what he really said was, "Gordon Bennett .... fancy meeting you here!".
One trivial pursuit question/answer: in what context is Gordon Bennett mentioned by James Joyce (in Ulysses)? Kilmead - Gordon Bennett
But, yes, I can do even better trivia .... where is the main botanical garden in Paris? Mais, oui, sur le Rue Gordon Bennett ( numero 1).
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20-10-2007, 10:53 PM
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Wow paul i will remember if i ever want to know anything..your the daddy
People who live in glass houses should'nt throw stones.
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20-10-2007, 10:59 PM
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The one that bugs me most is & you hear it alot on tv- humans are at the top of the food chain. Exuse me
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20-10-2007, 11:01 PM
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Its no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted!
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22-10-2007, 09:42 AM
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Football has a language of its own, doesn't it.
I've no idea what a nutmeg is .... Quote:
Originally Posted by jdurbo This seems to be a new one...You nailed it.
Or when your watching footy they say that was a nailed on penalty
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22-10-2007, 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul mabbott Football has a language of its own, doesn't it.
I've no idea what a nutmeg is .... | Megs...when they pass the ball through the other players legs
I have no idea why they say it though!
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