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Topic: old sayings (Read 113479 times)
fizzix
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Re: old sayings
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Reply #414 on:
Saturday 21 September 13 19:09 BST (UK) »
Dale Winton has joined in on Radio 2
Walls, James, Waterworth, Coram, Higman, Ecroyd, Battersby, Monk, Hine, Reid, Hancock, Glanville, Hudspith, McDonald, Podesta, Wyatt, Harrison, Scantlebury, Davey, Whiting, Edmonds, Glover, Donnithorne.
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Treetotal
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Re: old sayings
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Reply #415 on:
Saturday 21 September 13 19:18 BST (UK) »
Why...has he has Kincough too
Carol
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fizzix
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Re: old sayings
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Reply #416 on:
Saturday 21 September 13 19:22 BST (UK) »
listeners are sending in old sayings, he must be a roots chatter
Walls, James, Waterworth, Coram, Higman, Ecroyd, Battersby, Monk, Hine, Reid, Hancock, Glanville, Hudspith, McDonald, Podesta, Wyatt, Harrison, Scantlebury, Davey, Whiting, Edmonds, Glover, Donnithorne.
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Annui
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Re: old sayings
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Saturday 21 September 13 21:00 BST (UK) »
I remember "kincough" back in East Yorkshire long ago, more as "king cough", but it could just be flaky memory. I wonder, if it really was king cough, if it meant whooping cough -as in king of coughs?
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conahy calling
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Re: old sayings
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Reply #418 on:
Saturday 21 September 13 21:15 BST (UK) »
first up, best dressed
(apparently quite true esp when clothes had to be passed down and mended, person up first had best choice)
There was "ating (eating) and drinking in it" describing good soup/stew
Sh*t stirring (stirring up trouble)
Meezer
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Re: old sayings
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Saturday 21 September 13 21:22 BST (UK) »
Love is blind and marriage is an eye-opener
Treetotal
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Re: old sayings
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Reply #420 on:
Sunday 22 September 13 17:54 BST (UK) »
"Love is blind..that's why men feel their way around"...
Carol
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a-l
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Re: old sayings
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Sunday 22 September 13 18:53 BST (UK) »
Love it Treetotal. Is Dale Winton trying to "steal our thunder " ?
Treetotal
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Re: old sayings
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Reply #422 on:
Sunday 22 September 13 18:55 BST (UK) »
He could be....maybe we should "Rain on his Parade"
Carol
CAPES Hull. KIRK Leeds, Hull. JONES Wales, Lancashire. CARROLL Ireland, Lancashire, U.S.A. BROUGHTON Leicester, Goole, Hull BORRILL Lincolnshire, Durham, Hull. GROOM Wishbech, Hull. ANTHONY St. John's Nfld. BUCKNALL Lincolnshire, Hull. BUTT Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. PARSONS Western Bay, Newfoundland. MONAGHAN Ireland, U.S.A. PERRY Cheshire, Liverpool.
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