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« Reply #414 on: Saturday 21 September 13 19:09 BST (UK) »
Dale Winton has joined in on Radio 2
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« Reply #415 on: Saturday 21 September 13 19:18 BST (UK) »
Why...has he has Kincough too  ;D
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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 8)
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« Reply #417 on: 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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« 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)

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« Reply #419 on: Saturday 21 September 13 21:22 BST (UK) »
Love is blind and marriage is an eye-opener

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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"... ;D ;D
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« Reply #421 on: Sunday 22 September 13 18:53 BST (UK) »
Love it Treetotal. Is Dale Winton trying to "steal our thunder " ?

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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"   ;D
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