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The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
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Profile	Posted by	Options	Post Date
Member Since: March 2007 Posts: 95,675 Send Message	Allan	Report	13 Mar 2017 08:39
	The correct expression is " 'Ey oop, luv!" :-P but speaking of earlier times, I remember my first bland date :-)
Member Since: September 2005 Posts: 9,114 Send Message	Caroline	Report	13 Mar 2017 00:28
	Sorry Allan but that is blandy boring :-D :-D :-D Oh sorry should I have said "Hey up Luv" first ?!!
Member Since: March 2007 Posts: 95,675 Send Message	Allan	Report	11 Mar 2017 00:11
	OH was born in Oldham and lived in Middleton, both in Lancashire :-D
Member Since: September 2005 Posts: 9,114 Send Message	Caroline	Report	10 Mar 2017 23:46
	LOL there are so many regions of England that I could suggest she may have lived in therefore could not speak English :-D
Member Since: March 2007 Posts: 95,675 Send Message	Allan	Report	10 Mar 2017 23:32
	English is a fascinating language, particularly the change of usage of some words over a period of time :-D I'm just glad that I was born English and didn't have to learn it as a second language. :-D :-D :-D It was different for my OH as even though she was born in England she didn't learn English until she was five :-0
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,659 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	10 Mar 2017 23:21
	....or the thread of a body? Not speaking personally, of course :-D ...or corpse.....
	Researching: Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842
Member Since: March 2007 Posts: 95,675 Send Message	Allan	Report	10 Mar 2017 22:29
	Ah! The good old corruption, and I do mean old: archaic (of organic or inorganic matter) in a state of decay; rotten or putrid. "a corrupt and rotting corpse Could this apply to the body of a Thread? :-0
Member Since: September 2005 Posts: 9,114 Send Message	Caroline	Report	10 Mar 2017 22:22
	"From Middle English blanden, blonden, from Old English blandan ?(“to blend, mix, mingle; trouble, disturb, corrupt”), " Allan are you trying to corrupt us all with your bland thread, trying to hide behind it's blandness but really......... :-)
Member Since: March 2007 Posts: 95,675 Send Message	Allan	Report	9 Mar 2017 23:15
	Could be, Bob, but I've bland forgotten
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 24,533 Send Message	Bobtanian	Report	9 Mar 2017 23:08
	wasn't he the Indian guy?
	Researching: me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960
Member Since: March 2007 Posts: 95,675 Send Message	Allan	Report	9 Mar 2017 22:10
	I remember many years ago seeing a Walt Disney film about a fawn and its forest friends I think that the film was titled Blandi :-S :-D :-D :-D
Member Since: September 2005 Posts: 9,114 Send Message	Caroline	Report	8 Mar 2017 23:39
	Wise very wise
Member Since: March 2007 Posts: 95,675 Send Message	Allan	Report	8 Mar 2017 23:17
	I'll turn a bland eye to that :-P :-D :-D :-D
Member Since: September 2005 Posts: 9,114 Send Message	Caroline	Report	8 Mar 2017 23:01
	Fair point....except as you admitted it's always woman day if you're a smart man :-D
Member Since: March 2007 Posts: 95,675 Send Message	Allan	Report	8 Mar 2017 22:24
	It's woman's day every day, but as us in Oz are several hours ahead the actual commemoration day is well past
Member Since: September 2005 Posts: 9,114 Send Message	Caroline	Report	8 Mar 2017 22:20
	No...it's in the land of the bland the woman with the one tastebud is queen it is woman day after all
Member Since: March 2007 Posts: 95,675 Send Message	Allan	Report	8 Mar 2017 22:06
	In the country of the bland the man with one tastebud is king
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 24,533 Send Message	Bobtanian	Report	8 Mar 2017 21:55
	#Bob-Bob-Blobbin along!# movin along.... Blandman and Blobbin
	Researching: me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960
Member Since: March 2007 Posts: 95,675 Send Message	Allan	Report	8 Mar 2017 21:12
	A thread for the sewing machines? :-D :-D :-D
Member Since: November 2008 Posts: 39,699 Send Message	PatinCyprus	Report	8 Mar 2017 14:57
	Do you need a blandage for your knee Ann? Island you could be accused of using a blandishment :-S by flattering Allan about his thread. :-D
	Researching: Lloyd,Paddock,Cooper,Morris,Rigby West Midlands Salop Worc

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