General Chat

Good morning all, Have just gotten up and read all these funny replies (love the wooden leg ones). Another one my dad used to say before going down the pub was ' I'm just going to see a man about a dog'. Deb:)

Nan always said im going to water the flowers. my sister even asked her if she would like a hand doing it, nan was laughing so much

A favourite of mine is 'what do you expect from a pig only a grunt' when someone who is known for a particular behaviour does something daft. I don't know where it comes from, though.... Ails x

Lovely thread Deb, thanks, Caz xxx

When I was young and stood in front of the telly My Mum would say 'You would make a good door but not a window' Ann :-)

LOL :o) My friend's dad always used to say the longer version: 'I see' said the blind man to his deaf daughter!! and also whenever we started a sentence with 'But I thought that...' he would interrupt us and say 'Well, you know what Thought did? He thought his foot was sticking out the bottom of the bed, so he got out to tuck it back in again'!! He was Scottish, so maybe it came from there?

My dad had another version of the wooden leg one. he would say' Aha she cried as she waved her wooden leg and died'

...'scratches head and wonders if madness is genetic!?..' Nanna-Moo ;-))

PMSL thats funny a wooden leg at the widow!!!

lol Susan, so many things they used to say, never make head nor tail of 'em, but then the penny finally dropped, felt such a fool, going to the foot of our stairs meant-pointless exercise.....!! Kem reminds me, my Dad would say'....aha she cried as she waved her wooden leg out the window!!!'...What he heck was that all about!!? lol Nanna-Moo ;-))

My grandad use to say Now Let me see said the blind man, Poor old grandad had awful sight Then theres smack me rapidley !!

I knew someone who's Mum used to say 'Well, I'll go to the foot of my stairs'. Which radio programme did that come from?

'...well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs!' and '....where d'ya fink it is, under me arm!?' lol Nanna-Moo ;-))

my mum had a lot of Sarf east Lundern!!! sayings, One in particular she would say, if you were standing around looking a bit gormless, was 'dont stand there like a tit in a trance' another one was if you asked where something was she would say 'up in nannies room behind the clock' there were loads more too. Shirley

I know that 'were you born in a field/barn?' is normally said to people who enter/leave a room without closing the door.

My Dads fav was 'Twist, bust and a bottle of pop....' No, I don't know what it means either but he always said it when he was in a good mood!!! lol Nanna-moo ;-)))

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Mind your P's and Q's comes from (I have not idea what era), but apparently it orginates from when men used to drink in pubs and the bar-maid's would have a little nose in their conversations. When the barmaid would but her little bit in, the men would say 'never you mind that, you just mind your P's and Q's' (referring to the Pints and Quarters she was serving!) My brother told me that a couple of weeks ago (he's full of useless information!!) Jodi x

my dad used to say a weasel is weaselly easy to recognized because a stoat is stoatally different

My grandparents used to have some funny sayings and I have no idea where they originated. They used to say things like.... heavens to bettsy...... s**t on a brick...... mind your P'sand Q's....... were you born in a field?....... They're all so daft they make me laugh. Anyone got any good ones to add?