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Arry Awk
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Lilysmum wrote: Trojan wrote: Lemon cheese tarts = sore lugs We called them sore eyes Friend of mine got Psoriasis lolnotSore eye about that! (Sinks into hole in the floor)

String o' beads
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'Arry 'Awk wrote: Lilysmum wrote: Trojan wrote: Lemon cheese tarts = sore lugs We called them sore eyes Friend of mine got Psoriasis lolnotSore eye about that! (Sinks into hole in the floor) *puts lid on hole and hammers it shut*

peterg
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Post by peterg »

I've done a search and found nothing here, so I don't think I'm repeating. One answer when asking what there was to eat was 'three jumps at the cupboard door'.

Arry Awk
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Geordie-exile wrote: 'Arry 'Awk wrote: Lilysmum wrote: Trojan wrote: Lemon cheese tarts = sore lugs We called them sore eyes Friend of mine got Psoriasis lolnotSore eye about that! (Sinks into hole in the floor) *puts lid on hole and hammers it shut*NOT FAIR! I'm gonna take my hole home, Them nails HURT!

Arry Awk
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Trojan wrote: I was brought up in a back to back. As was usual in these houses the stairs to the bedroom had a door this door was called the "chamber door" especially by older people. Presumably in reference to the bedchamber - where of course the "chamber pot" was kept. As in the old joke "where's the chamber maid? - Stoke on Trent" boom boom (I'll get me coat) Wartime joke (39/45!) Voice from bedroom, "Siren's going,Ma, Jerry's over!' Mum," Well mek sure tha' mops it up, or it'll come throught'kitchen ceilin'!"(A Chamber pot was also called a 'Jerry'(Don't ask!)

Arry Awk
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Cold as the fringeround a Polar bear's m--ge.!His cap looks like a pea on a drum!Face like a dog's bum with a hat on!

Brandy
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'Arry 'Awk wrote: Cold as the fringeround a Polar bear's m--ge.! ROFL Priceless!
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Si
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Post by Si »

Here's one I heard recently:"He's short o' nowt he's got."- meaning he's a man who has everything.

Arry Awk
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Si wrote: Here's one I heard recently:"He's short o' nowt he's got."- meaning he's a man who has everything. Eeeh!,Ah'm that famished, Ah cud eyt a scabby 'Oss between two Mattresses' !

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'Arry 'Awk wrote: Face like a dog's bum with a hat on! Reminds me of:If my dog had a face like that, I'd shave its bum and mek it walk back'ards!
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