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Whistlin' wimmin

rowan

rowan

Born a Brummie
My Nan used to tell me off if I was whistleing
" Whistleli' wimmin an' crowin' hen is neither good for God nor men"!!!
 
DRIVES ME CRAZY

I can't stand working with anyone who whistles, I mean, why do they do it.

I'd rather go home and have no wages or change my job.
Just fancy if you had to go home with this person and listen to them whistle all night, I'd end up in a lunatic asylum.
 
My mum used to enjoy whistling and was often quoted with the 'whistling woman, crowing hen' but then she was told the perfect reply

"a whistling woman and a hen that crows makes her way wherever she goes" So she continued to whistle :)

Liz
 
I think the origin of whistling women thing is from Shakespeare but this is a more modern version :-[. ." Whistling Women. A Study of the Lives of Older Lesbians. Cheryl Claassen, PhD. E.
 
I hadn't heard this expression before this posting, but last night on Have I Got News for You, it was one of the questions, how's that for coincidence.
 
WOW! ;)

The expression maybe down to the fact that hens can turn into cocks!!!
And therefore wimmin COULD turn into MEN!!!!

There has been an article in the paper about "FREAKY" the hen that has turned into a crowing cock!! :o
 
Beware............be everso ware Langy :knuppel2:

This is a true story and....................it COULD work the other way you know!!!!!!!!!!! :2funny:






























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He must need the rest or is he off to meet that HP man from somewhere afar ;) ^-^
 
Quick Alf, start whistling, Langigoggle has just logged on  :-[ I fear we may be rumbled any time now :o
 
I used to work with an old Pitcairn Island woman whose version of it went:

"Girls that whistle and hens that crow ought to have their heads AMPUTATED OFF."

Obviously the old sayings changed a bit after a few score years of isolation on the island.

By the way, in the Pitcairn accent "off" comes out "or-wif".

Daleaway
 
My mum could whistle so well and in tune. Me - had no tune at all. In my first job I used to whistle to myself and my boss used to say "Woman - if you must whistle - whistle in tune!" I still don't have much tune but sometimes find myself trying to whistle. :angel:
 
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