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Old 17-08-2011, 09:30   #106
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As children, if we were rooting about in Grans cupboard... (you know the one, the it's the one built to the side of the chimey breast with provisions in, just in case a state of emergency or WW3 were to be declared, I swear we could've stocked asda!), and we found something we hadn't seen before, asking 'Whats this for Grandma'? would bring the reply, 'Put it back, it's a catcher for meddlers'!
Also, if Gran said hello to anyone whilst out & about and we asked who it was, she'd say ' its Icky,t' fire bobby'
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Old 17-08-2011, 13:10   #107
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As children, if we were rooting about in Grans cupboard... (you know the one, the it's the one built to the side of the chimey breast with provisions in, just in case a state of emergency or WW3 were to be declared, I swear we could've stocked asda!), and we found something we hadn't seen before, asking 'Whats this for Grandma'? would bring the reply, 'Put it back, it's a catcher for meddlers'!
Also, if Gran said hello to anyone whilst out & about and we asked who it was, she'd say ' its Icky,t' fire bobby'
Tha must be a fair age to have heard then sayings,
I was always told they were layors fur meddlers.
Icky t fire bobby, were any male who we met, and some times he could also be responible for events.
Such as "dad who did that", Icky t Fire Bobby.

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Old 17-08-2011, 17:56   #108
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A guy I worked with in the early seventies used the term WHAPINTHROSS, as in your a whapinthross whenever some one did anything wrong, where it came from I ain't got a clue
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Old 17-08-2011, 18:57   #109
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I was reading that, and expected to see...the'r tekin' a lickin'.

Which when you think about it, is a very odd way to say losing.

Even odder when the sports boxing, and he's...tekin' a reet lickin' in t' ring.



Just noticed this ... I'm slowing down in my old age.

I remember a quote attributed to John Arlott, though it's probably apocryphal: "And there's Ted Dexter at first slip, legs wide apart, just waiting for a tickle".
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Old 17-08-2011, 19:40   #110
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The other famous cricket commentary was when John Arlott said "The batsman's Holden the bowlers Willis" after that the whole commentary box was full of giggles.

The batsman was Michel Holden and the bowler was Bob Willis.

Not a local saying but still funny.
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Old 17-08-2011, 21:07   #111
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A good un I remember & I and still hear off him to this day "Where'd ya think you are, yer feythers yacht", put wood in't th'oyle, a reyt load a claptrap, Po fagged
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Old 17-08-2011, 22:36   #112
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Confused about something "cant mek moss ner sand o yon" another me grandad used to call me when i was a nipper he would say "eh up its our john tommy crabtree"
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Old 17-08-2011, 22:39   #113
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Another for someone who is a bit bog eyed "yons gettin football eyes one ome one away"
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Old 17-08-2011, 22:46   #114
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just reminded me--------- me grandad used to say, hes geet teeth like snooker balls, just needs a white fert set.
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Old 18-08-2011, 08:17   #115
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Confused about something "cant mek moss ner sand o yon" another me grandad used to call me when i was a nipper he would say "eh up its our john tommy crabtree"
Blimey, forgot about the 'moss ner sand' one until you mentioned it, for when something was confusing.

Where on earth does that come from?

Amother one I heard yesterday was mither, meaning worry or fuss over something.
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Old 18-08-2011, 08:22   #116
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Amother one I heard yesterday was mither, meaning worry or fuss over something.
Also pester.

'Stop thi mitherin' mi.'
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The other famous cricket commentary was when John Arlott said "The batsman's Holden the bowlers Willis" after that the whole commentary box was full of giggles.

The batsman was Michel Holden and the bowler was Bob Willis.

Not a local saying but still funny.
Sorry Gremlin the bowler was Peter Wiley, now a first class umpire
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Sorry Gremlin the bowler was Peter Wiley, now a first class umpire
OK John, it was a long time ago so forgive me if I got hold of the wrong Wiley.
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"ev a shufty", is another un they used fer having a look at summat.
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OK John, it was a long time ago so forgive me if I got hold of the wrong Wiley.
I remember it because it's not that long since I read Johnners auto biography
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