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CLKD
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That's 1 of Billy Connolly's queries
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Yep and I'll take my hand off of your face
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February 07, 2025, 06:04:54 PM »
On of my Mum's favourites was
Don't come running to me if you break your legs.
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February 26, 2025, 05:47:35 PM »
Stop waving that about you’ll have someone’s eye out .. didn’t matter if it was a stick or a piece of toast
If you don’t stop that you’ll get a smack .. would you like that? … No thanks
Nose like a soap boilers bum .. if you had a heavy cold
One on the pot and one up the chimney… very non PC description of someone with a cast in their eye
Couple of these are very London
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tnx for sharing.
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Haha my mum used to say the chimney one 🤪😂
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If the wind changes it'll stick like that -- used if I was ever sulking
Well I'll go to t'foot of our stairs. Mum always said this when something surprised her.
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Watching QI the other night and apparently the phrase "the bees knees" was originally said as "The business " by Italian Americans
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The Bees Knees was one of the stops on a Friday or Saturday pub crawl
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Ha,brilliant!
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