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A saying I've only heard in Tamworth where I currently reside, and then only rarely by older folk 'lend us yer face to go ratting'.
 
One of my favourite 'sayings' which I heard regularly as a child was really quite a derogatory reference to whoever the speaker may have been talking about - it was :
"What he knows and fourpence, wouldn't get his hair cut! "

I think it meant that the person had limited general knowledge or something ! LOL
 
If you asked someone how much they had paid for something,and they didnt want to tell you,they would say "Money and fair words".

Mossg.
 
If you fell over or tripped my mother used to say "
up's a Daisy"

Also if there was any errands to do it was "go up the road" even if it was round the corner . Miriam.
 
"mom im hungry" ,well go upstairs and eat the monkey we would answer but there aint no monkey up there and she would say there will be when you get there! it took me ages to understand that one , duuuuuur
 
If WE asked what's for tea, our Mom would say, "sh** with egg on it" or, "run round the table and kick the cat".
If we asked our Mom where she was going, she would answer, "Up Sam's ar** in America".
 
my old lady would say
if you asked her where she was going
she would say , see a man about a dog
or i,m gonna see how far it is there and back
asked no questions -told no lies
best wishes astonian ;;;
 
I keep going back to this thread as it makes me laugh so much, if we were been a bit to lippy my Mum would say keep it up and i will knock you into to next week (lol) x Then it would be her saying for sending us up to bed (get up the dancers now and we will see how quick you can move .)
 
Trev my dad always said the same he once said when we was having a cricket do at the Boars Head he oh its at the Boars Napper

Mossy
 
Mosy, a lot of the phrases or sayings would not be understood by todays young but it all seemed normal at the time.
How about when you die you go 'ten toes up', or 'kick the bucket'.
 
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Another one was if I did something silly Dad would call me a Pie Can. Who remembers 'THE GUSUNDER'?
 
Stitcher who could forget it. How could we have lived without one in those days when the loo was outside and the winters were freezing. Jean.
 
My husband was telling me that when his dad was cooking and they would say "that smell's good he would reply "that's your whack now s-d off and play" these sayings are so funny and yet you hardly hear them any more unless some-one jolts your memory.
 
Stitcher said:
Another one was if I did something silly Dad would call me a Pie Can. Who remembers 'THE GUSUNDER'?
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Hee hee...I've just remembered a 'joke' played by a cousin of mine who added a dollop of 'Andrews Liver Salts to his Dad's chamber-pot! Unfortunately, I tried to play the same jape a couple of years later whilst staying in a small hotel in Paignton, Devon, involving a tub of bicarbonate of soda/baking soda.....well, I was just a lad and didn't think of the possible consequences.....two elderly ladies were NOT amused! What followed next still haunts me .....oh the shame!
 
Astoness said:
very funny john..you little monkey..

lyn
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I've just spent the best part of an hour writing about the 'consquences' only to have my 'post' disappear before my eyes....how does that happen?!?!?!? It is sooo frustrating!
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John - Write it in Notepad and then copy and paste your text into the message box, looking forward to reading your story.
oldmohawk
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oldMohawk said:
John - Write it in Notepad and then copy and paste your text into the message box, looking forward to reading your story.
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Cheers, but I don't know what that means...I shall ask my daughter, as I'm utterly useless with 'technology'
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Hi John,
If you are using Windows run 'Notepad' or 'Wordpad' and write your story at leisure, you don't even have to be on internet. Save it occasionally with a name if you want to. Then highlight your text with the cursor, left click 'Edit' and then 'Copy' - your text will go into a memory area of your 'puter.
Get the forum Message box up and then left click 'Edit', then 'Paste', and see your text appear. You can practice without posting - Preview Post - If you like what you see then Submit Reply - and we can all read that story....
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oldMohawk said:
Hi John,
If you are using Windows run 'Notepad' or 'Wordpad' and write your story at leisure, you don't even have to be on internet. Save it occasionally with a name if you want to. Then highlight your text with the cursor, left click 'Edit' and then 'Copy' - your text will go into a memory area of your 'puter.
Get the forum Message box up and then left click 'Edit', then 'Paste', and see your text appear. You can practice without posting - Preview Post - If you like what you see then Submit Reply - and we can all read that story....
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Thanks for that, I appreciate you taking the trouble. I shall have a wee bit practice. Cheers.
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