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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #2010 on: December 23, 2008, 01:01:52 PM »
I knew a lady once who had no cash when her daughter lost a tooth so she slipped a cheque under the child's pillow.

Your son is not daft enough to fall for a letter from Santa written by you or typed on your laptop. He will of course, being sensible, play along with your games for a while, just to ensure the continued flow of gifts.  noooo:
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #2011 on: December 23, 2008, 01:08:08 PM »
I have had several years experience now in cruel and unusual punishments  eveilgrin:
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #2012 on: December 23, 2008, 01:09:12 PM »
Quote from: Nick on December 23, 2008, 01:08:08 PM
I have had several years experience now in cruel and unusual punishments  eveilgrin:

So who are you planning to marry him off to then?
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #2013 on: December 23, 2008, 01:09:56 PM »
Scarey Girl. She is 11, is nearly as tall as me and has enormous knockers
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #2014 on: December 23, 2008, 01:14:47 PM »
I though it might be someone short and fierce ~ like errrrrrrrr ............................ You know the woman.
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #2015 on: December 23, 2008, 01:15:39 PM »
Wot?
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #2016 on: December 23, 2008, 01:17:33 PM »
You now ~ the one wot doles out cruel and unusual punishments to you ~ ceaselessly
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #2017 on: December 23, 2008, 01:20:44 PM »
Anyhoo... Gammon, egg and chips.... oven chips like...  noooo:
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #2018 on: December 23, 2008, 01:21:43 PM »
You not taking LL for a slap up meal after then?
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #2019 on: December 23, 2008, 01:32:59 PM »
Quote from: Bar Wench on December 23, 2008, 01:21:43 PM
You not taking LL for a slap up meal after then?

Splendidly Bunteresque expression "Slap up meal" ~ We all know exactly what you mean by it but I wonder why we call a large and expensive meal a "Slap up"? rubschin:
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #2020 on: December 23, 2008, 01:36:27 PM »
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Slap up. To have a slap up meal means to eat well. The expression goes back to the time of Charles Dickens, when it was a "slap-bang" meal, derived from cheap eating houses, where one slapped one's money down as the food was banged on the table. Why "down" has turned to "up" is probably another example of language evolution, in much the same way as "to be sold a pig in a poke" has come to mean that one has been cheated, whereas, in reality, the reason for going to a medieval market was often to buy the pig and not to be "sold a pup"!
Quote: Dickens, Sketches by Boz, 3, 36. "They lived in the same street, walked to town every morning at the same hour, dined at the same slap-bang every day."


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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #2021 on: December 23, 2008, 01:38:46 PM »
Yes I found that too but I was looking deeper. There is a ref to "Brewers" providing an origin as well but I can't find it

http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/sayingss.htm
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #2022 on: December 23, 2008, 02:11:43 PM »
A slap up meal with lashings of beer!  cloud9:

Miss P will cook the joint this arvo and we'll cook the chips when we get back...  whistle:
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #2023 on: December 23, 2008, 02:15:28 PM »
Miss P already on maternity leave then?  whistle:
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #2024 on: December 23, 2008, 02:16:44 PM »
Quote from: Bar Wench on December 23, 2008, 02:15:28 PM
Miss P already on maternity leave then?  whistle:
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No...  noooo:
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