The Virtual Pub
Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Snoopy on September 20, 2008, 06:15:35 PM
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A thread for those sayings and mispronunciations that have become part of your family's folk lore.
For starters:
My Late mother once threatened to "Put my foot down with a firm hand". Now we say it all the time.
My eldest boy when about 5 was taken by his mother and I to London for the first time where he saw Big Ben, recognised it from the TV and blurted "Look ~ It's, It's It's ...... Little Tom" And Little Tom it has remained.
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I am told by my mother that during the war the family knitted a stair carpet out of string. rubschin:
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I am told by my mother that during the war the family knitted a stair carpet out of string. rubschin:
So, do you call all stair carpets 'string' now then...?
As an aside... do you remember when stair carpet only went up the middle of the stairs...?
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As a kid I can remember mum watching a comedian on TV and part of the joke revolved around the phrase, "Owt for nowt, take two". Mum laughed at it like I'd never seen her laugh before, and from that day on she used the phrase wherever and whenever she could. It obviously implanted itself because to this day I find myself saying it and employing it when in hotels etc ;D
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"A woman is only as good as her glands" (Auntie Nelly, c. 1958)
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As an aside... do you remember when stair carpet only went up the middle of the stairs...?
Errr... Is it not still supposed to?
Is it some EEC regulation? Did we miss out on a grant?
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I am told by my mother that during the war the family knitted a stair carpet out of string. rubschin:
So, do you call all stair carpets 'string' now then...?
As an aside... do you remember when stair carpet only went up the middle of the stairs...?
Ours still does whistle:
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I am told by my mother that during the war the family knitted a stair carpet out of string. rubschin:
So, do you call all stair carpets 'string' now then...?
As an aside... do you remember when stair carpet only went up the middle of the stairs...?
Ours still does whistle:
There can't have been a grant then if you've still got one ;)
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My thoughts exactly.
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my dads was always as we went past a graveyard (ironically the one on way to southport on liverpool road!) how many do you think are dead in there! and us stupid kids counting etc to be told "Everyone" it went on till we grown up, and we did it on our kids, but they too smart an cocky the kids today! so didn't fall for it all time!
Also does everyone remember the hammer house or horror films an tales of crypt? my dad used to sneak in with wafting a black umbrella to imitate the bats in film. but the best one was blown up black rubber glove to scare us death when we watched "the Hand" film! those where the innocent fun days! he was such a funny man was my old dad... point:
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I assume you have long term psychological damage
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"I aff a doove in my bedrooom!" © Scandinavian au pair c. 1962. Turns out there was a pigeon cooing on her window sill. Thence forward, pigeons = dooves!
Maiden Aunt #1, slightly woozy after Christmas turkey and hearing strains of Mahler from the radiogram:
"D'you have any Borodin?"
Maiden Aunt #2, in surprise, rummaging in handbag:
"I might have some Aspirin or Dispirin but no Borodin... "
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lol: lol:
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When young I asked my dad what the difference between a stoat and a weasel was, to which he replied;-
"A weasel is weasely idfentified and a stoat is stoatally different".
Wise words, indeed.
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My mother once said to my sister, "If you ever get pregnant it will kill your father."
Seemed a bit sweeping........
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Maiden Aunt #2, commenting on her driving across the end of an RAF runway (lights were on red and ignored) and having a jet take off a few feet from the roof of her car, causing near fatal heart attacks to her passengers.
"I've written to the Air Ministry. The pilot should have stopped, I had right of way and those lights have never worked."
Valley Airfield, Anglesey, c. 1963, I think
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And your ancestors. Are they related to you?
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Sadly and inevitably, yes redface:
<<<<< Which is why sometimes, I almost feel like letting go!
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Rear Window is a far better film IMHO
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Rear Window is a far better film IMHO
Starring Pony Dick as 'Snoopy'?
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Rear Window is a far better film IMHO
Agreed. However I didn't feel a pic of James Stewart, feet up, leg in plaster, gazing out of the window etc etc...
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Triggered by Snoopys "Dinner Tonight" latest:
A friend's mum (Spanish) often had problems with English. Corn on the Cob was delivered as Cob on the Knob eeek:
She also referred the chairman of ISIHAC as Little Humphreyton ;)
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lol: lol: lol:
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My Grandmother, after a large meal used to say she was full to the wax. noooo: eeek: sick2:
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Mine always used to say that she'd "Had an elegant sufficiency" ~ which my lil Bruv and I changed to "Elephant Sufficiency"
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Any Uncle used to say "Mad as a March hare, in March"
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Of whom?
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Of whom?
All of us (not simultaneously of course)
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Red hat no drawers, as my Gran was oft to say about someone who was 'no better than she should be'.
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lol: "All fur coat and no knickers" was another used in similar circs.
and "Whores Drawers" to describe Austrian Blinds
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"In and out like a dog at a fair" (Mummy Nick, c. 1958)
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Like a cat up a drainpipe
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Or is that rat?
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One side of the family (Father's) said Rat ~ t'other side (Mother's) said Cat. Matter of breeding I suspect.
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Well they are different species
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doh:
Why oh why do I keep forgetting I am writing here for dolts and pedants as well as those who grasp my meaning.
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Becuase Wenchy needs things spelling out.
As for ASDA!
Dear Mr Nick
Thanks for getting in touch.
I'm sorry you're unhappy with the signage at our Ellesmere Port store.
In-store signage is aimed at our customers, so it's extremely important we get it right. I'm sorry on this occasion you feel we haven't. I've passed your comments onto our marketing team who've told me they'll consider your feedback the next time they create in-store signage.
Thanks again for getting in touch and hopefully I've been able to reassure you we take all our customers concerns seriously.
If you need any extra help, please let us know.
Kind Regards
Tracey Shiel
ASDA Service Team
She had to be a Tracey!
Kid's is JUST WRONG!
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One could say that if one had breeding one wouldn't use either phrase.
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One could say that if one had breeding one wouldn't use either phrase.
Mummy got it from the servants. Amazing what children will pick up from the lower orders no matter how one tries to shield them.
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One could say that if one had breeding one wouldn't use either phrase.
The phrases are only used by those who have been brought up to believe that breeding is something one does, not something one has. noooo:
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One could say that if one had breeding one wouldn't use either phrase.
The phrases are only used by those who have been brought up to believe that breeding is something one does, not something one has. noooo:
Excellent, I must remember that phrase! Mother Wench will appreciate it!