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Re: old sayings
« Reply #621 on: Saturday 19 October 13 14:07 BST (UK) »
She wouldn't say this now ;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 #622 on: Sunday 20 October 13 09:43 BST (UK) »
I'm in tears laughing, such funny sayings! Would like to hear the rest of Graham's Dad's sayings!

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« Reply #623 on: Sunday 20 October 13 09:52 BST (UK) »
One I never understood but always amused by; You look like a Mary Ellen with no shoes on!

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« Reply #624 on: Sunday 20 October 13 10:50 BST (UK) »
My nan used to say "She's like a fairy on a gob o' lard" whatever that meant  ???
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« Reply #625 on: Sunday 20 October 13 11:14 BST (UK) »
Poor quality work - "As rough as a badgers ar*e"

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« Reply #626 on: Sunday 20 October 13 11:20 BST (UK) »
Lol jool and radstock jeff, the mind boggles.

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Re: old sayings
« Reply #627 on: Sunday 20 October 13 12:11 BST (UK) »
Keeping up with the Joneses. Who were they ?

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« Reply #628 on: Sunday 20 October 13 14:23 BST (UK) »
Your milking this for all its worth

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« Reply #629 on: Sunday 20 October 13 14:34 BST (UK) »
To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds  (trying to keep in with both sides who do not agree)
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