Sayings

If ever the weather was a bit sweaty but cloudy,Mum and Dad used to say " Oooh it's a bit close today..."

CLOSE TO WHAT?????

monty wrote: If ever the weather was a bit sweaty but cloudy,Mum and Dad used to say " Oooh it's a bit close today..."

CLOSE TO WHAT?????

That reminds me of one:

"It's a bit Pearl Harbour innit?"

there's a nip in the air

[black]Diamond[/black] wrote:

Geoff Hamilton wrote:

[black]Diamond[/black] wrote: Go on...

Well, it was the bad old days, so if you pulled up to the drive through and your skin was of the pale persuasion, you got a dollop of 'special sauce' as a free extra...

...what if your skin was dark? Two dollops?

In that McDonalds, just what you ordered...

Steve Campbell wrote: You've got a face like a lurgan spade.

I was going to say that one! BTW, what does a Lurgan spade look like? I can't say I've ever seen one. Anyway, a couple more:

1. "Your head's a marley (a.k.a. a marble - I think)" - usually means "You're kidding!"
2. "Yer ma" - said if someone's trying to insult you and they can't think of anything clever or original

I'll probably think of more later!

When I was a child, My mother when she was exasperated would say "Fuck a duck!!!"

any wonder why I have a profane mouth?

Miss Disco wrote:

Steve Campbell wrote: You've got a face like a lurgan spade.

I was going to say that one! BTW, what does a Lurgan spade look like? I can't say I've ever seen one. Anyway, a couple more:

1. "Your head's a marley (a.k.a. a marble - I think)" - usually means "You're kidding!"
2. "Yer ma" - said if someone's trying to insult you and they can't think of anything clever or original

I'll probably think of more later!

I Seem to recall my grandad telling me a Lurgan spade was a peat spade, very long and thin and flat, so I assume it literally means "you have a long face".

Here's one and all..... "yer head's full o' wee sweetie mice"

And I'm literally only up and "pearl harbour" nearly give me a seizure thanks BA :D

Where were you?

[magenta]shedmonite61[/magenta] wrote: Where were you?

BED, don;t be jealous i was alone :D

I'm not jealous.

And I thought your training was going so well :D

Anyway, back to the (sort of) topic.......

I was lookin at some thunderbirds torrents, and musing that Gerry used to create a lot of odd little sayings for his characters not just the obvious ones like... F.A.B. in thunderbirds, P.W.O.R. in Stingray, and S.I.G./S.I.R. in captain Scarlet. But lots of little ones too, I really only mention it cos it's a nice touch to give the culture being depicted a bit of depth, but also because a few of them have entered out minds whether we like it or not... I mean any rave goer would certainly have pricked up ears watching thunderbirds, hearing such classic samples as "keep this frequency clear".

To be RIGHT back on topic.....

"tis a soft day" for that kind of rain that's more like mist with ambition, that looks like nowt but will soak you through in seconds. And a coupla classic NI ones...."Quare", as in "that's a quare big tractor there hey" (hey/hi being a suffix to all statements once you head past where our Snoopy lives into deliverance country). I assume Quare is a corruption of Queer, in it's sense of unusual rather than anything involving poovery, and is used to mean "very" or "impressively". And "shut yer fuckin bake", bake being a corruption of beak, meaning mouth or face.

My mother-in-law always says, "There's no rest for the wicked and even less for the self righteous".

Hope that some of you gets some French as it is diffucult to translate them.

My favourite ever : "Quand la pierre tombe sur l'oeuf, gare à l'oeuf. Quand l'oeuf tombe sur la pierre, gare à l'oeuf."

My Grandda, forty years of service in the army : "Il n'y a pas besoin de tortiller du cul pour chier droit." At the moment to drink a glass together : "A nos femmes, à nos chevaux et à nos escaliers, à ceux qui les ont montés, à ceux qui les montent et à ceux qui les monteront".

Use to sing "voyage, voyage" to my brother when I fart next to him...

When my brother was a kid : Father : "J'ai la main qui me demange..." (warning of a possible spank attack) Brother : "Ben, gratte-la !"

My mother uses occitan (Olde French from the South)... so need to talk about it.

For a girl with a large bump : "Elle a de quoi s'asseoir".

Father : "Si les cons volaient, on ne verrait jamais le jour." The very same : "Fils de con" expecting me to reply "Oui papa".

'If i put my mind to it i could get a head ache'- an old women i used to work with said this all the time never really understood why.

what you leckin, (what are you playin)

[black]Diamond[/black] wrote:

And my Dad's advice was ‘Never be rude to anyone who has the opportunity to spit on your food before you see it’.

sound advice that!

My grandpa (RIP) used to say that because I had big feet I had a 'good grip on the earth".