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Re: old sayings
« Reply #315 on: Monday 16 September 13 16:40 BST (UK) »
maybe she did lol

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Re: old sayings
« Reply #316 on: Monday 16 September 13 17:36 BST (UK) »
What is an added benefit on "Old Sayings" is, that I recognise some of you during my tours in Rootschat. It makes me glad to see someone from this forum in "another light".

Birds of a feather and all that tweeting ;D
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Bowers: Marthall, Siddington, Cheshire
Owen: Cheshire
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Wallis: West Riding Yks/Des Moines, Iowa, 1892-
Heinzmann: Hull/Northwich
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Re: old sayings
« Reply #317 on: Monday 16 September 13 17:39 BST (UK) »
Children should be seen and not heard.

Don't plant your seeds in one pot.

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

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Re: old sayings
« Reply #318 on: Monday 16 September 13 17:47 BST (UK) »
We used to say "Little boys should be seen and not heard"
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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Re: old sayings
« Reply #319 on: Monday 16 September 13 18:24 BST (UK) »
Here's to the woman who cooks chicken and "peas" in the same pot ::)
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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Re: old sayings
« Reply #320 on: Tuesday 17 September 13 08:16 BST (UK) »

Dont put all your eggs in one basket.
Dont count your chickens until they re all hatched.

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Re: old sayings
« Reply #321 on: Tuesday 17 September 13 08:26 BST (UK) »

Dont put all your eggs in one basket.
Dont count your chickens until they re all hatched.

or

Ne vendez pas la peau de l’ours avant de l’avoir tué

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Re: old sayings
« Reply #322 on: Tuesday 17 September 13 08:34 BST (UK) »
When someone answered a question for someone else:
 "I'm talking to the organ grinder not the monkey"

and on the subject of monkeys...the three wise ones:

"Hear no Evil, See no Evil, Speak no Evil.

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Re: old sayings
« Reply #323 on: Tuesday 17 September 13 08:43 BST (UK) »
Nah yerv been and gorn and dunnit
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