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Re: old sayings
« Reply #54 on: Wednesday 04 September 13 20:45 BST (UK) »
Wolverhampton !
Robbins - Wolverhampton.
Spooner - Monmouthshire & Wolverhampton.
Warner & Loundes - Dudley/West Bromwich.
Dod(g)son - Heysham/Liverpool/Wolverhampton

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Re: old sayings
« Reply #55 on: Wednesday 04 September 13 20:46 BST (UK) »
Lol yep we have our own language!
Plimmer,Lees,Ward,Ellis,Childs,Lowbridge,Newbury,Bird,Miles,Collins,Hees,Jones,Dodd-Wolverhampton. Marsh-Dudley. Miles,Harris,Stroud -Drinkwater-Gloucester. Prosser,Carter,Kirby,Dundon-Abergavenny. Hees,Muller-Germany. Goodman - London. Primmer - Ashby de la zouch.

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Re: old sayings
« Reply #56 on: Wednesday 04 September 13 20:47 BST (UK) »
When you wanted something and you were told you could have it when Nelson gets his eye back!

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Re: old sayings
« Reply #57 on: Wednesday 04 September 13 20:53 BST (UK) »
My OH's dad says "I've eaten my frog" when he has finally got around to doing a job he didn't want to do. Strange man lol.
Robbins - Wolverhampton.
Spooner - Monmouthshire & Wolverhampton.
Warner & Loundes - Dudley/West Bromwich.
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Re: old sayings
« Reply #58 on: Wednesday 04 September 13 20:59 BST (UK) »
I remember being warned to stay away from boys because they had lead in their pencils lol.

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« Reply #59 on: Wednesday 04 September 13 21:11 BST (UK) »
I remember being told "if you can't be good be careful" and "watch what you're doing and who you're doing it with"
Robbins - Wolverhampton.
Spooner - Monmouthshire & Wolverhampton.
Warner & Loundes - Dudley/West Bromwich.
Dod(g)son - Heysham/Liverpool/Wolverhampton

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Re: old sayings
« Reply #60 on: Wednesday 04 September 13 21:22 BST (UK) »
Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire. A face like a ducks a---, rather than saying  bottom. If you can't be good be careful . Jesus wept I remember as well and a few other variations . You'll meet yourself coming back. Yampy . Not enough room to swing a cat. Knee high to a grasshopper. All these heard in the midlands

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« Reply #61 on: Wednesday 04 September 13 21:22 BST (UK) »
Whenever I was going out Mum would say mind your ps and qs and Grandma would add and keep your hand on your ha'penny! lol                                                  We musn't forget all those people who were as old as their tongue and a little bit older than their teeth.

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« Reply #62 on: Wednesday 04 September 13 21:24 BST (UK) »
I had forgotten meet yourself coming back. Thanks weste.