Favourite saying, or quote.
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to paraphrase Del Boy...............''a friend in need, is a pest''
An old favorite of mine tho' ....''Well, slap my buttocks with a cuttlefish!'' said in a strong Yorkshire accent. (Mum was from Leeds btw) Showing dismay or disbelief .
a favorite saying of hers..
Q. ''what's for u's tea Mum''
A. ''owt you can cop!'' meaning ....anything you can get hold of, stems from the great depression and WW2 rationing.
An old favorite of mine tho' ....''Well, slap my buttocks with a cuttlefish!'' said in a strong Yorkshire accent. (Mum was from Leeds btw) Showing dismay or disbelief .
a favorite saying of hers..
Q. ''what's for u's tea Mum''
A. ''owt you can cop!'' meaning ....anything you can get hold of, stems from the great depression and WW2 rationing.
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My dad once, picking up a very thin slice of ham on his fork: "you could blow smoke through that".
Have we got time for another cuppa?
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This is one I heard from the old boy about puffed up people:
It's a fifty bob hat, on a five shilling head!
It's a fifty bob hat, on a five shilling head!
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Or of a similar puffed up, haughty woman:
All fur coat, and no knickers!
All fur coat, and no knickers!
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"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle"
Actually, I think every fish needs a bicycle; they just don't realise it.
Actually, I think every fish needs a bicycle; they just don't realise it.
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Or,net curtains up at' windows and no sheets on't bed.....Slowtwitch wrote: ↑12 Feb 2022, 7:48am Or of a similar puffed up, haughty woman:
All fur coat, and no knickers!
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"All we are not stares back at what we are"
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My mother-in-law would say:
"It's better than a flip in the belly with a wet fish"
I regularly use Douglas Adams':
"It's a pile of fetid dingo's kidneys"
Or one from a work colleague:
"No use to either man nor ferret"
"It's better than a flip in the belly with a wet fish"
I regularly use Douglas Adams':
"It's a pile of fetid dingo's kidneys"
Or one from a work colleague:
"No use to either man nor ferret"
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The Yank version...
" All hat, no cattle"
And...to a companion on a long walk... "Is your waggon draggin"
Al
" All hat, no cattle"
And...to a companion on a long walk... "Is your waggon draggin"
Al
Reuse, recycle, thus do your bit to save the planet.... Get stuff at auctions, Dump, Charity Shops, Facebook Marketplace, Ebay, Car Boots. Choose an Old House, and a Banger ..... And cycle as often as you can......
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This must hold the record for fitting so much moralising and so many social, class and sexual attitudes into six words.All fur coat, and no knickers!
It would take at least a page to explain it to an intelligent alien.
When you imagine it being spoken is it by a man or a woman?
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an appropriate one for yesterday (and may be for those down south today) enough wind to blow your top knot off,
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Of a somewhat tottery enterprise: "they've had more last gasps than a brothel".
Have we got time for another cuppa?
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"His/Her coat is on a shoogly peg"