General Chat

My dad had a lot of his own saying that I have never heard anywhere else.

My mother made hot water bottle covers for us all and he would call the covers a "Jackie Howe" - my daughter still uses this phrase. It was not till a few years ago we found that Jackie Howe was a sheep shearer in Oz and it was the name given there to navy singlet tops.

Amongst others was he would say to me when I was being unhelpful "you wouldn't even show your poor old granny a shortcut to the sh** house"

Others were "onky parokey" - which meant it was wobbly. If something broke he would always say "ruination has set in" - I thought ruination was a made up word until I found it in the dictionary.

He used to swap words around and when something was lost he would say "Missappeared Disteriously" and my OH put hose two words in my dad's obituary notice .... dad would've loved it.

Persey

Gwynne got there before me ......................Please and Thank You.

Deb

'For crying out loud' and 'stop acting the goat'

Do people still get "sent to Coventry" or go "up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire"? I wonder how these started?

As a kid I remember a lady who is long gone now to her all kids were either a "blinkin' nuisance" or a "bloomin' nuisance". I heard her swear in my grandad's kitchen once and he kicked her out the house and never admitted her again. To Grandad blinkin' and bloomin' were swear words, glad he can't hear kids today. I don't hear ditherin' or blitherin' much either.

I too was wondering what happened to shall and shan't. They seem to have become synonymous with will and won't. I know that there is a difference - can somebody throw some light on it ?

Leslie Phillips, yes thats the one and i think he said it when he saw a pretty girl, although it was on the radio and yes i am that old LOL LOL.

Hmmmmm, Amanda, wasn't Lummy started in the navy lark by some posh speaking bloke, can't remember his name now?

Today I thought " Lummy " and then I thought now thats a word you never hear these days .......lol

We had an old teacher at school (she was probably about 30 lol ) who often used to say "what an obstreperous class i have today"... needless to say first time she said it we had to look it up in a dictionary lol

Clip beside the ear.

Stone the crows.

Well i'll go to the foot of our stairs.

Silly apeth - haven't heard that for years, it came to me earlier today :-)

One of my mam's sayings "This house/your bedroom/whatever looks like a midden"

Sue x

oops late again , but I havnt heard the words

"heebee jeebies "said for a long while

LOL Amanda, my Mum used to say Dress is what you do, a frock is what you wear.

I was amazed, when reading my grandparents letters, written in 1924, to see they used the expression 'Nuff said'

Piffle,Balderdash, Poppycock,Hogwash,Bunkham & Drivel !!!!

Crimpolene...nooooooooooooooooooooooooo! lol

I don't hear 'nuisance' very often.

Mandy, I always say 'frock' lol. I also use 'blither' a lot when I can't swear.

I loved Margaret Rutherford but Joan Hickson was the perfect Miss Marple. Angela Langford was awful and I didn't fancy Geraldine McEwan in it much but she was ok when I eventually saw one. Julia McKenzie's lovely but I don't think anyone will be as good as Hickson.

LOL....Gwen ..... I remember the horror of the crimpline (sp ) two piece my Nanna bought for me when I was about 7 years old .......the only thing that impressed me about it was the coat hanger ......lol

Ah Amanda...
That might be around the time that my smart cousin wore a costume, ...ie.- skirt and jacket that matched as a suit.

Gwyn