Guest Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 Banjo you got it!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 Who can remember what our Mams told us would happen if we did'nt wear something 'NEW' on Easter Sunday ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 benjamin, I think it means you will have bad luck. And also according to paragraph four, If you don't have new clothes...The moths will eat all of your old clothes, and evil crows will make nests round your home. So be warned http://ezinearticles.com/?Why-We-Wear-New-Clothes-on-Easter---A-History-of-the-Tradition-From-a-Fashion-School-Perspective&id=3982197 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Commo 1,292 Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 I was always told that the birds would deposit unwanted waste about your person but not in those words!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 Very politely put Commo. I couldn't have described it better! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 Spot on commo'.....me mams words were slightly different lol. Carnie, that article was interesting mi duck,...........we learn such alot on here don't we. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted May 2, 2015 Report Share Posted May 2, 2015 Some of me mams pearlers: "kids ,who'd have 'em". " the ten o'clock horses will get ya!" "she's gorra face you could chop sticks on". " do what the Russians do" Whats that Mam? "go wi' owt". "inky wi is eye cut. "mean?- he would'nt give you the heat off his piss!". " that lads got nits- ees gorra walkin' 'ead!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,090 Posted May 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2015 On the recent trip to the UK all kinds of sayings came back to me, if only I can remember them again! One though that I remember as we were in Liverpool (whack) was, she's got a mouth like the Mersey Tunnel. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted May 8, 2015 Report Share Posted May 8, 2015 Use ya Gumtion !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
annswabey 599 Posted May 8, 2015 Report Share Posted May 8, 2015 Can't see fer lookin! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted May 8, 2015 Report Share Posted May 8, 2015 Me Dad, i'll ge ya such a one'cer he never did bless him. Me mam, i'll knock you into middle of next week and she did bless her. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted May 9, 2015 Report Share Posted May 9, 2015 If I was being miserable and complaining about something or other, mam would say 'stop maunging'. Anoher time she would say 'What's the matter with you; seen your arse'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted May 9, 2015 Report Share Posted May 9, 2015 You know what you find under a pony’s tail? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTramp 139 Posted May 9, 2015 Report Share Posted May 9, 2015 I do like this thread, I know the phrases when reminded but cant remember any by myself, is that the turning point? remember but can't remember? anyway- the tennaclockosses---I suspect this goes far enough back to say something about the night collections by the pail emptiers, pre WC, the Pearl Divers. They wud ave Oss and Cart and came round in the night. My old man (the second one) felt lucky when the council took him on as a binman but part of the round meant emptying the chemo bogs down at Trent Lock, we should be so lucky. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted May 9, 2015 Report Share Posted May 9, 2015 Kick his "rops" --testicles to me and you. " ger in that bath- you've got tide marks" nitty nora thehead explorer. " well gu to the foot of our stairs" - "oi!! light fingered larry"- "taters to yu an all". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mercurydancer 1,104 Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 The Ten O'clock horses will get you! I recall that one well, my mother used to say it to me as could never go to sleep early. I still dont. I have no idea of its origin. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 The sewerage collectors i think- it was either spread on fields out of town- maybe tannerys as well? yuk!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTramp 139 Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 Well I guttu Trent. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted May 14, 2015 Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 Listen to your olders and betters.. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,090 Posted May 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2015 If something had gone wrong and you were bemoaning the fact, mam would say, worse things have happened at sea. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted May 17, 2015 Report Share Posted May 17, 2015 Like it Katy-so true!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted May 17, 2015 Report Share Posted May 17, 2015 Yes, a worse thing is that you get freezing cold in your bathers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,599 Posted May 17, 2015 Report Share Posted May 17, 2015 My mum wrote in my autograph book (still got it) "It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice" I like it, and try to live by it, even though we were told at school not to use the word "nice" as there were lots more descriptive words we could use! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted May 17, 2015 Report Share Posted May 17, 2015 I think 'nice' is a nice word. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted May 17, 2015 Report Share Posted May 17, 2015 It's also a biscuit 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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