General Chat

lol Teresa....... I say a version of that..... "enough to make a cat a pair of pyjamas" - no idea who I got that from

my Dad used to say

"he's so thin he has to stand twice in the same place to make a shadow"

Margot when we were kids we used to say blokes and fellas .I can recall being suprised first time I heard both sexes being called guys .Thats progress I guess

WE li ved close to what we called the pictures and used to say we're going to pictures or the flicks ..

It's nice to remember ,wonder if my grandkids will have such great memories ?
Ann we had a similiar saying cant remember exact words .
:-(

We used to say geezer and bird, for a man and woman.

If you liked the woman, it was always lady. If you didnt it was woman.

We used to go 'to the pictures or the flickers'.

A ten shilling note was half a sheet.

Five bob was a dollar, half crown, half a dollar.

If you have a five pound note, it was a bluey.

We have been americanised, also australianised. Most of the kids speak with the inflection at the end of a sentence. As if they are are asking a question. Too much Neighbours. lol


Tuts. Cor, I dunno. Would you Adam and Eve it?
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Locally. a hairy man is said to have an a*se like a rook's nest, all sh*t and sticks.

When Dad's sister came round, this alphabet would sometimes get mentioned...........

A for 'orses ....etc
B for mutton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney_alphabet

Gwyn

My dad used to say he was going to strain the greens!! We often wondered what he was doing as he went to the outside lavvy!!

Mum used to say when she got frustrated at being asked over and over where something was that it "was up in nanny;s room behind the clock."

When she got really annoyed with us she would say OH for Gods sake PO and when asked what was PO ?? she would say POST OFFICE. took many years for the penny to drop.!!

my dad says -put your leg in bed -he meant put your hand oin his coat pocket when it was cold
its like taking coals to newcastle if you ever took something to somebody who had already got it
another one was about teaching granny to suck eggs

If Nan liked you in something she would say "suits you being Ginger"
none of us were - and to this day never figured out where that came from or what it meant
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