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General Discussion & Feedback => Just Chat! => Topic started by: Make it Lady on 31/05/2008 23:26:57
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Do you have any weird family sayings that don't seem to make sense or any really wise sayings.
My Mum always says, "She'll come round without any water" if I fall out with a friend.
She also comments when a person is having trouble finding someone to love, "There is a lid for every dustbin."
Wise words indeed.
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Those are very nice things to remember. Nice thread!
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"If your grandad was alive today he'd turn in his grave"
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"Love creeps up your back and knocks your hat off."
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"Love creeps up your back and knocks your hat off."
No it doesn't. It jumps up & kicks you in the nuts!
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"you'll spoil your tea"
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she is such a bad cook she could burn water.
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If you ever come and see me I will prove you wrong.
*smell of garlic roast lamb wafting into computer.*
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My Mum was on the phone yesterday and described her friend who is always ill as 'a creaking gate.' She comes up with some real corkers!
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I heard a goodun on the radio the other day. It was on the news. They were interviewing people about the rising cost of petrol. One woman said "It's dreadful. You can't go anywhere near as far on a tank of petrol these days".
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LOL LOL!! Hee hee hee..
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From my neighbour, an old lady of 96:
"Its not surprising the seas are rising with all that rain we've had!"
Me mother on sleep:
"An hour before 12 is worth two after"
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My friend's daughter had a stomach bug last week for the first time ever. She ran into my friend's bedroom shouting "Mummy, come look, I've got flat poo."
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A famous rock group of the 60's and 70' name comes from an old East Texas saying about how cold a night is during winter. The colder it gets, the more dogs you need in bed to keep you warm, the colder the night. Thus, the rock group, "Three Dog Night." It is a rather cold night.
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Talking about the weather, "Its colder then a well diggers behind"
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A famous rock group of the 60's and 70' name comes from an old East Texas saying about how cold a night is during winter. The colder it gets, the more dogs you need in bed to keep you warm, the colder the night. Thus, the rock group, "Three Dog Night." It is a rather cold night.
I knew that; although I didn't realise it originated from Texas.
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It didn't, its and old Australian Aboriginal saying and they nicked it!
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If it were of Australian Aboriginal origin, would it not have been a "three dingo night"?
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I don't think so..
http://www.danspapers.com/issue31_2006/sup4.html
How the band got the name:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Dog_Night
I didn't realise though that the native Inuit people used the term.
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My maternal grandmother, who was born about 1890, used to tell me that in the Fens, at the beginning of the hard winter weather, people would smear their bodies in goose fat and wrap themselves in brown paper. They then would put their clothes on over this - they would be changed* but the grease and brown paper stayed on for the duration. I've done a lot of reading about the fens and spoken to many people and have no reason not to believe her.
*With the exception of underwear; this was reversed half-way through - perhaps as a Christmas treat. [:I]
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They could have suffered some nasty paper cuts! [:o]
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Mad Man - that's interesting. Thank you for the links. Isn't it strange that 2 peoples so far apart can have the same expression.
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I agree.
Its a bit like parallel ideas? Two people having almost the same ideas/designs/theories at almost the same time but separated by continents.
Science seems to be full of it.
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"What is the best vegetable to serve with spaghetti bolognaise?"
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"If you don't eat your carrots, then you won't be able to see in the dark"
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"Eat that up, it'll put hairs on your chest!"
This one would send me screaming from the dinning room.
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LOL... Thats funny one for sure... I heard it my whole life! LOL So far so good though.. no unruly hair on my chest! LOL! They never said anything about my chin though!!!
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I was also told that if I didn't eat the crusts from my bread that
I'd get curly hair. (it is straight).
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We don't seem to have had "Don't pull faces. If the wind changes, you'll stay like that."
My father often shouted at me: "Pull your socks up!" and when you're 4, this is what you do (shortly before receiving a cuff behind the ear for trying to be clever).
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"Cough up, it might be a gold watch". What's all that about? [???]
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"Cough up, it might be a gold watch". What's all that about? [???]
I heard something similar "Chuck up chicken, it might be a gold watch". As you say, what?
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Did people used to be in the habit of swallowing gold watches?
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My mother in law to her son: "What are you doing?"
Son: "Nothing."
MIL: "What are you doing it with?"
Son: "My finger."
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MIL: "What are you doing it with?"
What was MakeItLady doing there!? [:0]
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We have a deep and dark secret.....which has nothing to do with jammy scones, thankfully
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PHEW - that's a relief. Please don't mention baps [:P]
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or muffins
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Do you know, I pride myself on how quickly we can bugger up a thread.
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Anyway, there was a teacher at school who said of a boy "If you keep picking your nose, you'll go straight to the head."
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I thought his brain would fall out. That's what my nan said.
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An old Norfolk man once told me "If you ever catch a weasel asleep, piss in its ear".
I never did know what he meant.
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An old Norfolk man once told me "If you ever catch a weasel asleep, piss in its ear".
I never did know what he meant.
[???]
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I think that's just an east anglian perversion! In London we do it in tramps' ears.
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In Canada they do it to Beavers.
MIL: "What are you doing it with?"
What was MakeItLady doing there!? [:0]
When it comes to spotting boys doing naughty things, I'm the expert and will be around to all your houses.
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In Canada they do it to Beavers.MIL: "What are you doing it with?"
What was MakeItLady doing there!? [:0]
When it comes to spotting boys doing naughty things, I'm the expert and will be around to all your houses.
Can you swim?
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My husband drove his car into what he thought was a small flood. His car needs a new turbo engine and new carpets. He is a very glum boy.
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I did that a few years ago. Well, sort of.
At the time I was living in a small village in the wilds of Suffolk. I was driving home in the early hours of the morning. Just oustide our village is a hill. I crested the hill doing about 50mph, turned a bend and <<SPLASH>> - I went straight into a flood. It must have been 2ft deep and went along about 20 feet of the road. The water was flowing across the road in a torrent. It wasn't somewhere I would have expected a flood as it was still quite a way up the hill. The engine died but fortunately my momentum carried me almost through. It was certainly a lot shallower where the car stopped.
I wasn't the only one who had come unstuck. There were about half a dozen other cars in the same predicament and a couple of recovery trucks in attendance. It was only a mile or so to my house so I left the car & walked home.
The next morning I got a friend to take me back there with a fresh battery and plenty of paper towels. By then there were about 10 cars littered around the side of the road. I changed the battery & tried to dry the electrics but it didn't work & my friend had to tow me. That was quite amusing as he had a 1 litre metro and my car was a big, heavy Rover.
At home I got the trusty hairdryer on the electrics and eventually everything worked again. I was lucky that nothing got damaged or ruined by the water.
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Sadly turbo engines are not so forgiving. He is still in Salisbury trying to get a courtesy car. I hope he gets one or I'll have to get the chauffeurs uniform out.
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It must be difficult to operate the pedals in those 5" stilettos.
While we are on the subject, do the heels cost extra ? [:)]
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Shoes don't work. They're on JSA. [:D]
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"It's not the cough that carries you off, it's the coffin they carry you off in."
(My Grandad)
"Silence reigned and we all got wet."
(My ex father in law)
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Speaking of silense - "Silence is golden". Erm... no it's not. You can't see it (unless you have synaesthesia maybe?)
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"Time is money"
Quick tell a physicist they have been wasting their TIME trying to figure out what it is.
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Mrs blakestyger is synaethesic and she reckons that silence is white - but can't say why.
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"Silence is white" doesn't have the same ring to it
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Mrs blakestyger is synaethesic and she reckons that silence is white - but can't say why.
I have a little too - Tuesday is yellow, Thursday is greeny, and Friday is red. Most odd numbers are blue/green, whilst most evens are red or yellow. Weird, huh?
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What colour is Make it Lady?
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What colour is Make it Lady?
Green around the gills