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Re: old sayings
« Reply #630 on: Sunday 20 October 13 14:46 BST (UK) »
Lots of sayings of course are now hidden away from the PC gestapo but they were funny..... at the time!

One again my old Dad used (and I'll leave you attach the label) was "He seems a nice boy!" Like so many others much was couched in doublespeak but with a raised eyebrow or the proverbial tap on the side of the nose, we all knew what was meant. Remember Max Miller? He was a master of them of course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm61yavCp-o

Another Dad used often and one which I never understood until years later - maybe because I have always been as deaf as a post,  was "I'll tell you one thing that's not two"

 
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« Reply #631 on: Sunday 20 October 13 14:55 BST (UK) »
Not sure if its been posted, something that is no good, " it's as much use as a fishes tit"
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« Reply #632 on: Sunday 20 October 13 16:18 BST (UK) »
As my 94 yr old mum tucked into her apple at lunchtime, she suddenly said..........

An apple a day keeps the doctor away
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« Reply #633 on: Sunday 20 October 13 16:37 BST (UK) »
Don't mither me now

She's a right windbag

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« Reply #634 on: Sunday 20 October 13 16:40 BST (UK) »
"You'll have worse than that before you die" is another one I have just remembered. Used to cheer
 me up not end that one  :)

And as true as you like another one from Wales.

Red Sky at night the sheep are alight, red sky in the morning..... the farmhouse is!  ;D

Last but not least one I'm taking credit for  ;) "I know where I am, I've been lost here before!
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« Reply #635 on: Sunday 20 October 13 17:21 BST (UK) »
Another one I've just remembered (may be just a Northern one ?).

-  You look like you've fell off a flittin'     (you look a mess)

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« Reply #636 on: Sunday 20 October 13 21:23 BST (UK) »
My mother had two sayings (amongst others), one was when we wanted to know where something was. Mum would say it was up in Annie's room behind the clock. Now I have wondered if she was saying up in Nanny's room behind the clock. 
Did anyone else have this saying?

The other was that you have to eat a peck of dirt before you die. I thought it meant a speck but I later learned it was an old imperial measure and quite substantial.

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« Reply #637 on: Sunday 20 October 13 21:41 BST (UK) »
Up in Annie's room reply#460 28 Sept

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« Reply #638 on: Monday 21 October 13 06:37 BST (UK) »
Just got back on the air
Anyway, up and off like a bat out of hell
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