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Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

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.
You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

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Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 403 Send Message	jean,300171	Report	4 Dec 2007 19:29
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 403 Send Message	Ho!! Ho!! he aint wired up right!!!.......
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 1,990 Send Message	Kate	Report	4 Dec 2007 19:26
	Errol, it just came to me - are these in fact similes? (Are euphemisms when you say things like "he was killed by friendly fire" rather than "he was shot by someone on his own side", for instance?)
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 960 Send Message	Lancashire Witch	Report	4 Dec 2007 11:50
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 960 Send Message	She shops round the corner Sings from other hymn-sheet Dead but won't lie down LW
Member Since: September 2007 Posts: 152 Send Message	Darl from the land down under	Report	4 Dec 2007 11:32
	Hi every one here's some from aussie a few kangaroos jumping around the top paddock as bright as a dead glow worm straight through to the keeper lights on but no ones home a stubby short of a six pack
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 13,143 Send Message	eRRolSheep	Report	4 Dec 2007 00:56
	I don't think these are actually euphenisms!
	Researching: Happy
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 1,114 Send Message	Mistycat	Report	4 Dec 2007 00:41
	A slate short of a roof
Member Since: November 2004 Posts: 5,523 Send Message	~Summer Scribe~	Report	3 Dec 2007 23:45
	All mouth and no trousers. A tinny short of a six pack. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 1,380 Send Message	.•::•.ScouserNANNALyn.•::•.	Report	3 Dec 2007 22:43
	Not quite a euphamism but on the lines of Ann's: Old boss used to say - Everyone has the right to be ugly but he/she's abusing it! Lyn x
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 1,851 Send Message	cariad	Report	3 Dec 2007 22:40
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 1,851 Send Message	as thick as two short planks, or as thick as the outhouse (polite version) door
Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 5,684 Send Message	Winter Drawers Ever Near	Report	3 Dec 2007 22:39
	Hi Shelli, How's you and your's? All set for Xmas? Aileen xxx
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 2,254 Send Message	*Helen S	Report	3 Dec 2007 22:38
	We do say 'daft as a brush' round here but it's more to do with kids being silly rather than lack of intellegence.
Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 6,912 Send Message	Sue	Report	3 Dec 2007 22:37
	Cariad, It's like bara brith but with nuts....lol Sue xx
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 2,254 Send Message	*Helen S	Report	3 Dec 2007 22:37
	I've heard of 'mad as cheese' but I have no idea why cheese should be mad.
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 1,851 Send Message	cariad	Report	3 Dec 2007 22:36
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 1,851 Send Message	I used to say: as nutty as a fruit cake got no idea what it means!
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 1,114 Send Message	Mistycat	Report	3 Dec 2007 22:32
	Crazy as a bucket of frog's...me to a tee lol
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 4,325 Send Message	Shelli4	Report	3 Dec 2007 22:31
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 4,325 Send Message	not got any to add but wanted to say Hello to Aileen xxxxx
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 2,254 Send Message	*Helen S	Report	3 Dec 2007 22:31
	rough as a badgers 'bottom' (insert another similar word). Which can describe a lady who isn't up to some peoples standard of femininity or can also describe a hangover
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 2,254 Send Message	*Helen S	Report	3 Dec 2007 22:29
	not the brightest star in the sky
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 2,254 Send Message	*Helen S	Report	3 Dec 2007 22:28
	My dad refers to my mam as 'little better than an idiot' when he wants to wind her up, all in good fun though.
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 73,136 Send Message	AnnCardiff	Report	3 Dec 2007 22:26
	coffin dodgers - old people [me I expect] so ugly, fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down A boiling piece - a minger of a girl fur coat and no knickers bungalow brain - nothing upstairs
	Researching: Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me

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