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Re: old sayings
« Reply #153 on: Saturday 07 September 13 12:39 BST (UK) »
I remember that one quest lol

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« Reply #154 on: Saturday 07 September 13 13:17 BST (UK) »
This has to be my favourite:

Good things come in small parcels - my brother used to call me Titch or Half-Pint
Whitlow: Witton-cum-Twambrooks/Northwich
Bowers: Marthall, Siddington, Cheshire
Owen: Cheshire
Pfisterer (Fisher): West Riding Yks 1850-1875
Fisher (Pfisterer): Des Moines, Iowa 1886-
Wallis: West Riding Yks/Des Moines, Iowa, 1892-
Heinzmann: Hull/Northwich
Pfisterer, Heinzmann, Künzelsau, Baden-Württemberg
Brueck: Kocherstetten B-W
Volpp: Morsbach B-W
Schluchterer: Künzelsau, B-W

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« Reply #155 on: Saturday 07 September 13 13:22 BST (UK) »
I saw one this morning on my way home with the dog. It was on one of my neighbour's mailbox:

The Lord God sees everything but the neighbours see more
Whitlow: Witton-cum-Twambrooks/Northwich
Bowers: Marthall, Siddington, Cheshire
Owen: Cheshire
Pfisterer (Fisher): West Riding Yks 1850-1875
Fisher (Pfisterer): Des Moines, Iowa 1886-
Wallis: West Riding Yks/Des Moines, Iowa, 1892-
Heinzmann: Hull/Northwich
Pfisterer, Heinzmann, Künzelsau, Baden-Württemberg
Brueck: Kocherstetten B-W
Volpp: Morsbach B-W
Schluchterer: Künzelsau, B-W

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« Reply #156 on: Saturday 07 September 13 13:42 BST (UK) »
My OH came out with one in conversation last night "it's as rare as rocking horse sh*t"
Robbins - Wolverhampton.
Spooner - Monmouthshire & Wolverhampton.
Warner & Loundes - Dudley/West Bromwich.
Dod(g)son - Heysham/Liverpool/Wolverhampton

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« Reply #157 on: Saturday 07 September 13 13:42 BST (UK) »
sorry, double post  ::)
Robbins - Wolverhampton.
Spooner - Monmouthshire & Wolverhampton.
Warner & Loundes - Dudley/West Bromwich.
Dod(g)son - Heysham/Liverpool/Wolverhampton

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« Reply #158 on: Saturday 07 September 13 14:39 BST (UK) »
That's really sweet SwissGill, half pint. Lol at rocking horse jool.

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« Reply #159 on: Saturday 07 September 13 15:14 BST (UK) »
A couple more from Yorkshire rose to the surface of my memory bank last night (I don't think they've been mentioned already):

"Hear all see all say nowt
Eat all drink all pay nowt
If thou ever does out for nowt mi lad
alus do it for thi sen".

Charming eh? And the strange

Thieves' Litany

"From Hull, Hell and Halifax good Lord deliver us".






Scott, Bulpitt, Midgley, Bracegirdle. Suffolk, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, East Yorkshire.

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« Reply #160 on: Saturday 07 September 13 15:36 BST (UK) »
Eh by gum tha's hit the nail on the head lass ;D
Whitlow: Witton-cum-Twambrooks/Northwich
Bowers: Marthall, Siddington, Cheshire
Owen: Cheshire
Pfisterer (Fisher): West Riding Yks 1850-1875
Fisher (Pfisterer): Des Moines, Iowa 1886-
Wallis: West Riding Yks/Des Moines, Iowa, 1892-
Heinzmann: Hull/Northwich
Pfisterer, Heinzmann, Künzelsau, Baden-Württemberg
Brueck: Kocherstetten B-W
Volpp: Morsbach B-W
Schluchterer: Künzelsau, B-W

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« Reply #161 on: Saturday 07 September 13 16:11 BST (UK) »
Annui you are on a roll!   Never heard the thieves one . what's the other one about Yorkshire people being strong in the arm and thick in the head ?
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