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jaysay

13-08-2011 08:27

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One of my favourits thas more mouth than Plymouth

jaysay

13-08-2011 08:29

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I kind of like the saying Jack Duckworth on corry used to say Vera, all reight mi aud swamp duck

garinda

13-08-2011 09:36

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Fancy piece/fella - illicit lover.

'Sat yon', as bold as brass, wi' 'er fancy fella.'

jaysay

13-08-2011 09:48

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Remember mi aud gran saying about a woman who lived in't next street, her yon has fur coat and no knickers

Margaret Pilkington

13-08-2011 10:25

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Picking your nose......my dad would say...'don't tek th pictures deawn, wer nod flittin'....another one was 'gi'oe'r movin th funitur'...or 'I'll swap you a green un fer a black un'.
My, didn't we have colourful (and cultured) lives?

Margaret Pilkington

13-08-2011 10:26

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Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 926098)

Remember mi aud gran saying about a woman who lived in't next street, her yon has fur coat and no knickers

Or of a tartily made up woman...'eeh, it's poor soil that needs a lot o' top dressing'.

jaysay

13-08-2011 11:39

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 926108)

Or of a tartily made up woman...'eeh, it's poor soil that needs a lot o' top dressing'.

Or Mutton dressed as Lamb:D

Eric	13-08-2011 12:42

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When I was serving my time one of the joiners had this very gerrish cardy on we used to call it his Gansey Shroud:D

Didn't know you'd done time, bud;)

Eric	13-08-2011 12:49

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Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 926098)

Remember mi aud gran saying about a woman who lived in't next street, her yon has fur coat and no knickers

I remember an early episode of Coronation St. in which Elsie Tanner was about to be evicted. Ena Sharples said something to the effect that Elsie would be allowed to keep her bed and the tools of her trade, which in her case would be the same thing. Funny what sticks in your head, eh.:D

I also remember the phrase "living over the brush" ...

mobertol

13-08-2011 13:49

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When I was little and skinny my grandad used to tell me he'd seen more meat on a butcher's pencil!

walkinman221

13-08-2011 16:20

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Thas shappin like a one legged man at a shin kickin contest.

Eric	14-08-2011 01:16

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Where there's muck, there's brass .... if owt's worth doin', it's worth doin' well.

The first one reminds me of Basil Brierly ... those who knew the Village Blacksmith, and the Bottom Club in Clayton will know who I mean.;)

steeljack

14-08-2011 01:21

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Originally Posted by Eric (Post 926223)

allways a lot of muck down the bottom end of Clayton, though not as much as at Rishton :D :D

jaysay

14-08-2011 10:14

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Originally Posted by Eric (Post 926132)

Didn't know you'd done time, bud;)

I haven't

jaysay

14-08-2011 10:15

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Originally Posted by walkinman221 (Post 926162)

Thas shappin like a one legged man at a shin kickin contest.

I use a more graphical term than that WM:D

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