OLD SAYINGS.

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  1. catztail

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    we got in a close call in the car once with my Dad and he came out with "well, THAT'LL make your butt chew gum. "
    He also said "Yank my doodle it's a dandy."
    I get my warped sense of humor from him.
     
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      "You'll have had your tea then".
      When unwelcome visitors arrive just before tea time.

      "She's a face like a well skelpt (smacked) ars."
      She is a rather unattractive lady.

      "I could eat a scabby heided bairn"
      I am rather hungry and could eat a small child suffering from head lice.
       
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        Didn't know you'd met Chopper too.
         
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          Got me on a roll now, they're coming back.

          "Ba's up on the slates" also "Ba's burst"
          Our plans are scuppered.

          "She'd a face like a hen laying razors"
          She didn't look very happy.

          "Ah pit her gas at a peep"
          My reply left her nonplussed.

          "He's mair degrees than a thermometer"
          He's been to university and is very well qualified.

          "She awfy pan loaf"
          She's posh.
          (There are/were two main forms of bread "plain" and "pan". Plain bread had crust all around while Pan loaves were only baked with the crust on top.)
           
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            Hey, Zigs! This is a quote from your namesake - Zig Ziglar :)

            The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra!

            And something my father used to say:-
            If at first you do succeed - try something harder.
             
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              If wishes were horses beggers would ride.
               
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              "I would rather disembowel myself with a rusty six inch nail".

              "I would rather pick my own eyeballs out with a sharpened stick".

              Both of the above, as is probably obvious, means you really don't want to do whatever has been suggested.
               
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              My mate came out with a great one earlier as he ran past me and I tried to stop him to talk.

              " not now Rusty I've got a brown headed tortoise checking the weather'

              Bet you can't guess where he was off too in a hurry?????


              Rusty
               
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                One my mother used ,
                I've swapped a pig for a duck !
                Meaning your choice has made the situation worse.
                Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs !
                A north of England saying , I don't have a clue what it means !
                 
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                I think it means you are UNDERwhelmed
                 
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                Jiffy The Match is on Fire

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                Pigs mite fly

                To tell a porky
                 
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                I always thought it was an expression of surprise :scratch:
                 
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                Underwhelmed surprise?? :scratch: :noidea:
                 
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                Don't quite think so :scratch:. It's enough of a surprise to make you go to the foot of your stairs and yell the information up to the people upstairs!

                For the last fifty years or so I think it has mainly been used in radio and TV to show 'nothern humour'! :doh:
                 
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                Daisees is always saying that in the office, we don't have a clue what she's on about either, especially as the office is a bungalow.
                 
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