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My dad used to say itsas t much use as a half penny book with no pages. What's for tea Bread and pull it or a kick at the pantry door Val

'Where are you going Dad'? 'Back Barrow treacle mines where they run around on red hot girders with bacon fat slippers'. My children always thought that 'Back Barrow' was a mythical place until the day we arrived there and I pointed to what looked like a mine entrance. The look of amazement I can still see to this day, thirty years later. Brian (i)

When I asked my dad where mum was he would reply 'Ran away with the coalman.' Funny thing was that weve never had a coal fire. Also 'This'll hurt me more than you.' Yeah right. Spud

At Christmas my dad would always say, You kids don't know you're born, We were lucky to get an orange and some nuts in our stockings. Every year!!

with Daddy it was looks and gestures as his speech wasn't that great!! He couldn't whistle so he'd make a weird popping sound with his tongue and have his thumb up - which meant BED NOW!! Always went too!! :O) I love you Daddy!! xx

i remember asking my dad 'were did i come from' he said ' we found you under a cabbage leaf at the bottom of the garden' also when the Beatles started he would say, ' they don't sing they shout' and ' they need a haircut' and he would say [this is in the 60s don't forget ] ' the only way to tell a man from a woman these days is to rub there chin' my nan gave me the end of her lipstick once, 'bright red' and i put it on when dad saw me he said: 'what have you got on? you look like a jam butty' i asked if i could have my ears pierced once,he said,'no you already look like a gypsy' chris

''what is THAT on your face''

My Dad used to say if you sit on that cold step for long you'll end up with chin cough. Never really found out what it was if anything! Kath

mydad was fond of saying, 'when I was in the army' and the one that drove me mad was,' yes, well you're a girl'.

wheyyyyy there it is, thought just white page i remember dad saying things like ill tell you later, hmmmmmmm he must of forgotton cos he never use to tell me

Thanks All, Brilliant!! Really worth the wait.. and to use Lemsip's words.. I did pluddy try.lol beginning to think I had finally lost it.. Keep them coming, brilliant.. Grayxx

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When pulling faces i was always told, if the wind changes you stay that way! And when i asked where's Mum gone to join the circus! Or do you think i came up the Clyde on a bike! Ann

Angela.............the banana saying, if memory serves me right, I think came from an advert on T.V. The lyric for the ad was 'Unzip a banana' lol. Lin

My Dad didn't say a lot but one thing I do remember was. 'don't worry something always turns up ' and you know he was right. Oh and 'I'll see' that meant yes. Germaine x

The only thing I can remember my dad telling me was. Dont get mad Get even.

My Gran's sayings...Children should be seen and not heard. Walls have ears. I looked everywhere on the walls and never found them! If I asked where my mum was Grans reply was... gone ashore to buy a loaf. If I asked where are you going the reply was There and back to see how far. No wonder I grew up confused. Beryl x

My dad used to say 'do not panic, flight mechanic' at times of crisis and sing 'unzip a banana' for no apparent reason just when he felt like it. I think that might have been from an old advert for bananas but I'm not sure. Angela

'If you don't behave I will put you in the Workhouse' I was at least 10 before I realised there were no Workhouses!

I was the only one in my family that never needed glasses and my dad used to say to me, Opticians and undertakers get use all eventually lad, At the age of 47 i had to have my first pair of glasses Just not sure when the undertakers going to turn up? Roy