Beachbum 68 Posted June 2, 2013 Report Share Posted June 2, 2013 You're not sorry, you're just sorry you were caught. When I say 8 o' clock, I mean 8 o'clock....... not half past ten!!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,674 Posted June 2, 2013 Report Share Posted June 2, 2013 Just reminded me today , as we went to say goodbye to a girl who we worked with , who's moving back to Leicester , after living here for over 30 years . When I would look at my watch and say something like , "Crikey its 4 o'clock ! " She would always reply "mmm 4 o'clock and no po's emptied ! " Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted June 2, 2013 Report Share Posted June 2, 2013 ...ha yes - the other name for guzunda. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted June 2, 2013 Report Share Posted June 2, 2013 How many times were you told 'pick your feet up' Countless thousands of times! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted June 2, 2013 Report Share Posted June 2, 2013 What shall I pack you for your snap? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted June 2, 2013 Report Share Posted June 2, 2013 Yer daft miduck yer folla balloons Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fch782c 144 Posted June 2, 2013 Report Share Posted June 2, 2013 You are Two Sheets to The Wind if you was a bit dopey3 sheets to the wind and you were pi$$ed Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted June 3, 2013 Report Share Posted June 3, 2013 That one dates back to the old Navy days of sailing ships, when, (if a sailor had had a bit too much of his daily grog allowance for example), he was unable to tie up the ropes (Navy term = Sheets) and they were left in the wind to blow about, he got flogged for being drunk on duty. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Braddy 160 Posted June 4, 2013 Report Share Posted June 4, 2013 Was you called as thick as two planks or daft as a brush Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted June 4, 2013 Report Share Posted June 4, 2013 Surely it was two 'short' planks ? And no I wasn't 'cause I was always a smart arse ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted June 4, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2013 Speaking of planks, I wish he'd take a long walk off a short plank, was one of my mam's favourites. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,424 Posted June 5, 2013 Report Share Posted June 5, 2013 I seem to remember "Daft as brush," originating with a comedian by the name of Ken Platt. Used to hear him on Workers Playtime when I came home from school for lunch. Still use the expression. Usually to my dog, and he doesn't care. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted June 5, 2013 Report Share Posted June 5, 2013 I remember hearing I'v got the Colly Wobbles ,i still say it if i'm nervous. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted June 5, 2013 Report Share Posted June 5, 2013 To indicate VERY thick, me and me mates used to say: As thick as two short planks and a one thou feeler gauge. Later abbreviated to "Two shorts and a one thou". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted June 5, 2013 Report Share Posted June 5, 2013 Just Remembered,Yer talking A Load of Cods Wallop if we were not being sensible (most of the time) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted June 5, 2013 Report Share Posted June 5, 2013 Gawping = nosey gazing at something that is none of your business, as in "Wot you gawping at?" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted June 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2013 if something sticks to the roof of your mouth, it's clarty. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted June 5, 2013 Report Share Posted June 5, 2013 Of up the wooden hill, go to bed. Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs, amazed. Colin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted June 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2013 My mother-in-law used to call her nose, her oliver, as in, my oliver's running, or I need to wipe my oliver. I have no idea where she got this from. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beachbum 68 Posted June 6, 2013 Report Share Posted June 6, 2013 A favourite of my Mums....... "I'll remind you of that when you have children" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted June 6, 2013 Report Share Posted June 6, 2013 "Cods Wallop" ie relating to something that is rubbish was actually an American saying, coming from the 'Pioneering era" when all the shysters werre going round selling these bottles of 'cure alls', one such being made by a man named Cod and named "Wallop" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted June 6, 2013 Report Share Posted June 6, 2013 No, you're wrong!This saying came into everyday use in the late 17th Century. Wrestling was becoming popular on TV and the Masked Infidel was wiping the canvas with all and sundry.The producers of the show, sensing loss of ratings to the Guillotine and public hangings, found an up and coming wrestler who they named King Dick who had a speciality whereby he belted the nether regions of his opponents with a right uppercut, more commonly known as a wallop in the cods.Come the title match, King Dick floored the Masked Infidel with his speciality punch.End result: the Masked Infidel retired from trying to beat the world and sang soprano for the rest of his life.King Dick became Champion of England and his speciality punch was known from that moment on as pure Codswallop.Honest!.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted June 6, 2013 Report Share Posted June 6, 2013 What a load of codswallop..!!!.lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted June 7, 2013 Report Share Posted June 7, 2013 Quote<Codswallop - Possible origins: Anglo-SaxonThe first etymology claims that the word derives from cods, an Anglo-Saxon term for testicles, combined with another word of Anglo-Saxon origin, wallop, meaning to scold or chastise (note that this wallop is not the same as the word wallop, meaning "hit"). It could be observed that if cod is the same as "testicles" and wallop is the same as "hit," codswallop could be very similar to the American colloquial ball-busting, which means "to make fun of" or "take the piss" in British colloquial.Critics have argued that it is the "punch" meaning of the term wallop that applies, not the older "scold" variant.>Unquote Courtesy Yahoo Answers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted June 7, 2013 Report Share Posted June 7, 2013 Reference to cookery: "When it's brown, it's done; when it's black, it's buggered." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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