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lol Tricia...

I remember that and also when my mum went out one day.....my brother saying she had " gone to find a soldier"
lol...I remember bursting into tears at that!

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Hiya Rose
When my Dad went out it was always
to see a man about a horse/dog
I waited blinkin years for my horse and my dog!!!!
Tricia

Hello, can't stop long, but my mum used to say don't care was made to care.....I am in Lancashire x

lol...yes would be interesting to know...

my mum was from Chester, (parents moved there)...but she may have picked it up from her cousins who still lived in London ..

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pmsl Rose that's it - I'd forgotten the rest of it. You've made me smile again:)) My mum was from Berkshire so I must ask her where she knows it from:)

was it the "Don't care was made to care..."? I used to hear that one...just googled it and

1959 gives the version of the traditional children's rhyme found at Hackney, London.

To ‘don't-cares’ the traditional saying is: Don't care was made to care, Don't care was hung, Don't care was put in a pot And boiled till he was done.
[1959 I. & P. Opie Lore and Language of Schoolchildren iii. 50]

lol

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Rose, I'm beaming:))))

lol Uggers :))

btw...I think earrings look really sexy on a good looking man ...such as yourself...whatever the age ;))

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Brilliant thread, Rose:)

Frankie, where are you from - my mum says that and I've never heard of it elsewhere

Jill,

I remember 'fur coat and no knickers' another one of the same ilk being 'shes all kipper and curtains'...

..bearing in mind we are from all over the place its amazing how these little gems have travelled

lol two final ones....

"Pull the other one..it's got bells on"

" "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned." (William Congreve)

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Hey Colin on p.2 - What's for tea?

"Air pie and wind pudding"

When she didn't like someone:

"All hot air and no trousers" or "All fur coat and no knickers"

Then some Scottish phrase that I can't quite remember (she wasn't Scottish but one of her friends / my aunty was):

"Many a mickle make's a muckle"

Then a rhyme (she had lots of poetry quotes):

"In days of old when knights were bold
And paper had not been invented.
They wiped their arses on blades of grasses
And walked away contented."

Still makes me smile.

Jill

nite
...rosexx............

Night US....sleep well

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i,m a weary boy now, going up night rose night all usxx

never hang your dirty washing out in public

(hang out dirty washing )

In response to my question, ''whats for tea?''

Mum's reply was either "Bread and if it" or "Buttered bricks!"

we,ll chilled or p****d ca,nt decide at the moment

My Mum used to say that there was only one way to skin a rabbit! And there is only one way!! lol

Lindy xx

and probably my favourite....

"behave like a lady and you'll be treated like a lady"

US...hope it goes ok...it is stressful...!

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