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Wrong, it was John Player who invented tobacco and his picture when he was a sailor was on the front of every pack.........................Didn't Raleigh invent the potato????? :crazy:

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Good job you weren't in LA or San Francisco, they'd have all come outside with you .

The other day, having coffee with some friends, I said, 'so, I went and got a Biro'......My friends went, whoa back up a minute, what's a Biro? So I explained, made a sideways fist and clicked my thum

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It's funny how many slang words we use from our parents that aren't necessarily in common use. I say 'Chocker' meaning choc a bloc ( nautical originally) and use terms like 'thou' for thousands of an inch. Both were used by my ex RAF father.

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Both of our parents used to refer to the time in that manner, and passed it down to us. So it doesn't seem to be a Regional expression! :blink:

An early example of speaking that way, is in the Rhyme, Sing a Song of Sixpence, with the line...4 and 20 Blackbirds baked in a Pie. :laugh:

And if we are referring to a house, we would say For example...... 4 Doors Down instead of 4 Houses! :unsure:

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Or "next door but one"! Americans don't understand that either!

My dad always referred to a bicycle as a "push bike" - which always seemed old fashioned to me. I suppose it was to differentiate it from a motorcycle!

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"Flashlight" is the normal term over here. Ask for a torch and most Americans will look at you "gone out"!

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Kath, I had a Biro as well, my Dad gave it to me. It was old but still worked.

I remember taking it to school and everybody wanted to see it, including the teachers.

I live in Canada and when my cousin came to stay..he got funny looks when he went into the corner store

for some fags!!!!

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If I was walking with my mother and dragging my feet (which I invariably was when with her) she would call me a sluther pudding.

She really knew how to get my back up !

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Re basfordred dragging his feet , whilst walking with his mum , my mum used to say " stop slormin' abaght" or sometimes "you are walkin' knock-kneed and pen-toed "

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