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cor blimey
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eRRolSheep | Report | 22 Feb 2007 20:19 |
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now there's a phrase you don't hear these days - what phrases do you remember from your childhood? |
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ann | Report | 22 Feb 2007 20:20 |
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Gordon Bennett lol Annie |
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Sally | Report | 22 Feb 2007 20:22 |
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I remember being told to (stop playing dumb to get a free hurl)..still doing it ..lol |
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Star | Report | 22 Feb 2007 20:23 |
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Grandad...he didn't swear at all, so he used to say the word...... PERISHING for a swear word LOL LOL!!!!! X |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 22 Feb 2007 20:26 |
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Still say Gordon Bennett, even tho I can guarantee o.h. will say 'I worked with him' cos he once did work with someone with that name! |
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McAnne's Gahan-Crazy | Report | 22 Feb 2007 20:27 |
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I still say cor blimey and gordon bennett ............ but then I am a Londoner ;O)P |
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Sally | Report | 22 Feb 2007 20:34 |
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Another one....behave or be sorry.....and as black as the earl of hells waistcoat...ok so that was 2..lol |
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Dee the Bibliomaniac | Report | 22 Feb 2007 20:35 |
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I can always remember my Mum saying ‘You’re big enough and ugly enough’ :-((( perhaps that's why I have a complex !! |
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McAnne's Gahan-Crazy | Report | 22 Feb 2007 20:37 |
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Flaming heck ................... another :O)) |
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Beryl | Report | 22 Feb 2007 20:37 |
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I've seen more meat on a butchers apron. The bees knees. Berylx |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 22 Feb 2007 20:39 |
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Dee, me too, dad used to say 'old enough and ugly enough' - how much good is that to anyone's self esteem lol Up in Nelly's room behind the clock, if I asked where something was! |
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Kay???? | Report | 22 Feb 2007 20:47 |
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My dad used to say=='hells bells'----------,instead of swearing,,,,, Mum says -''-Blast your eyes'',,,,,,dont know what it means but I still find it a funny expression,) |
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Dee the Bibliomaniac | Report | 22 Feb 2007 20:48 |
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Don't let the cat out of the bag or you will be up the creek without a paddle ;-)) |
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Janet in Yorkshire | Report | 22 Feb 2007 20:48 |
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About people driving fast: (according to my Dad) off like the clappers like a bat out of hell he'll meet himself coming back Jay |
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Dee the Bibliomaniac | Report | 22 Feb 2007 20:49 |
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Another one was 'I've got a bone in my leg' when someone was asked to do something and do you remember your Mum telling you that if the wind blew when you pulled a face you would get stuck like that?? or something like that ;-)) |
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Haribo | Report | 22 Feb 2007 20:51 |
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'For crying out loud' 'In the name of god' 'He couldn't organise a p...up in a brewery' |
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Dee the Bibliomaniac | Report | 22 Feb 2007 20:57 |
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more recently it was always ' don't get your knickers in a twist' ;-)) |
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Haribo | Report | 22 Feb 2007 20:58 |
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Dont cut of your nose to spite your face Dont throw the baby out with the bath water dont jump from the frying pan into the fire You dont look at the fireplace when your poking the fire |
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Tara | Report | 22 Feb 2007 20:58 |
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LOL Dee My dad still says that to me today.....'your big enough and ugly enough'.....hahaha |
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Tara | Report | 22 Feb 2007 20:59 |
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' Use your mince pies gal' |
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