Wise Sayings..?

[stanerlee]

on particularly apt for this time of year.
DON'T EAT YELLOW SNOW

[Acrylic-bob]

One of the things that my grandmother used to taunt me with when I was sulking - I sulked a lot as a child - was "Oooo, look at that lip. You could hang a jug on it!" The mental image of walking around with a blue and white striped jug hanging off my face always cheered me up and made me laugh. How do grandmothers always know the right thing to say?

[slinky]

Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

One of the things that my grandmother used to taunt me with when I was sulking - I sulked a lot as a child - was "Oooo, look at that lip. You could hang a jug on it!" The mental image of walking around with a blue and white striped jug hanging off my face always cheered me up and made me laugh. How do grandmothers always know the right thing to say?

THAT'S TRUE!!!lmao my mum used to always say ''look at the lip, if a bus comes it will park on that lip''
The other one is ''if the wind changes your face will stick like that'' that used to terrify the living daylights out of me.

[Tinkerbelle]

Another one of our Mum's sayings when we were sulking was "Put your bl**dy face straight"

She still has never told us how this is done ?

[stanerlee]

what about "if the wind changes direction you're face will stay like that"?
thanks mum, look at me now.

[Acrylic-bob]

Another one that always got me thinking was "do you want a bloody good hooker?"(Drop the aspirant and flatten the vowels)
My reply was always no, but I often wondered what the response would have been had I said "Yes please"

[stanerlee]

[QUOTE]Another one that always got me thinking was "do you want a bloody good hooker?"(Drop the aspirant and flatten the vowels)
My reply was always no, but I often wondered what the response would have been had I said "Yes please"
absolute quality i can't type for laughing. where would you get one from anyway? more to the point i'd be worried if my mum knew the answer.

[Tinkerbelle]

Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

My reply was always no, but I often wondered what the response would have been had I said "Yes please"

I agree with this lol! When the teachers used to say " do you want a detention?" Wonder if they would have still given me det if i'd have said "well yes please Sir i've nothing better to do on Wednesday afternoon"???

[stanerlee]

tinks, iam a bit concerned that you've missed bob's humour.
a hooker is another name for prostitue. that's why i laughed so much

[Tinkerbelle]

Originally Posted by stanerlee

tinks, iam a bit concerned that you've missed bob's humour.
a hooker is another name for prostitue. that's why i laughed so much

No i got it but i thought this time i might not reply anything with any sexual reference which is unusual for me !!

[Acrylic-bob]

Ahh, days of innocence long gone.

[stanerlee]

i don't think i ever had any innocence. keep em' coming bob.

[Acrylic-bob]

What about "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones". Do you know anyone who lives in a glass house? I don't. And why should such an injunction against aggressive anti-social behaviour only apply to them and not to the rest of us?

[stanerlee]

what about "too many cooks spoil the broth" then we have "many hands make light work"
it's all very confusing and conterdictory.

[Acrylic-bob]

Or there is my all time favourite. This one from my grandad "Tha can allus trust a man as tucks his shirt inside his underpants." I'm not even going to attempt to deconstruct that one!