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I was looking at the picture of the demolished taxi office posted by BOBHAMO, my late mum ( Ann Brennan nee Porter) worked there for a few years in the late 70's, it got me and my dad talking off the thing's she always used to say.
Whenever she was asked where she came from she always replied 'Bootle where the bugs wear clogs' !! with pride!!!! , if us kids ever asked her what colour something was she would always reply 'sky blue pink with a finny adder border', and she always called the cupboard under the stairs the cooey not the cubby, whenever I call it this people not from Bootle don't know what I'm talking about!!
Vic
Whenever she was asked where she came from she always replied 'Bootle where the bugs wear clogs' !! with pride!!!! , if us kids ever asked her what colour something was she would always reply 'sky blue pink with a finny adder border', and she always called the cupboard under the stairs the cooey not the cubby, whenever I call it this people not from Bootle don't know what I'm talking about!!
Vic
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Vic, you could have started something there "Bootle where the bugs wear clogs and the kids play tick with hatchets" The one I used to hate was when you asked "What's for afters" it was always " Kippers and custard" The Uncles would come visiting on a Sunday and ask "Give us a kiss and lends a shilling"There must be a million of them.
Cheers
Marie
Cheers
Marie
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If we asked my mother 'what's for dinner?' she'd often say 'sh*t with sugar on'. Well, she was from Coleridge Street ...Marie777 wrote:Vic, you could have started something there "Bootle where the bugs wear clogs and the kids play tick with hatchets" The one I used to hate was when you asked "What's for afters" it was always " Kippers and custard" The Uncles would come visiting on a Sunday and ask "Give us a kiss and lends a shilling"There must be a million of them.
Cheers
Marie
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your all my arse and a bag of banana,s.
the langton dock goods yard
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Ha! Ha! I never once heard my late mum swear. She told me that she was asked a question by the teacher once and the answer was 'frigate', she wouldn't reply though as she thought it was a swear word!!! My dad on the other hand was a Bootle docker who swore like a trooper.
Vic
Vic
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Oh that did make me laugh - it reminds me of my Dad, who used to say 'my arse' to anything he didn't agree with. His mother had a colourful turn of phrase, apparently, and wasn't averse to referring to someone who'd displeased her as a 'gobsh*te'. Our little family used to cut quite a dash on the south coast when the relations came to stay!the top of audely street wrote:your all my arse and a bag of banana,s.
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You have a good memory! You are most exact and correct I can remember my Grandmother Mary Nolan Walker using the same exact expressions when she didn't know what to say in reply to my question or that she didn't think it was appropriate for a young child to be asking shuch things.Joevicbee wrote:I was looking at the picture of the demolished taxi office posted by BOBHAMO, my late mum ( Ann Brennan nee Porter) worked there for a few years in the late 70's, it got me and my dad talking off the thing's she always used to say.
Whenever she was asked where she came from she always replied 'Bootle where the bugs wear clogs' !! with pride!!!! , if us kids ever asked her what colour something was she would always reply 'sky blue pink with a finny adder border', and she always called the cupboard under the stairs the cooey not the cubby, whenever I call it this people not from Bootle don't know what I'm talking about!!
Vic
It takes all types to make the world go on its merry way!
By the way I feel sure God made it just like the way he likes it!
By the way I feel sure God made it just like the way he likes it!
Some great old expressions recalled so far.
One that I never heard outside of Bootle or Liverpool was a 'Wigwam for a goose's bridle' I believe that it was often used when a parent couldn't answer an inquisitive child's question.
It wasn't an expression, but our Dad used to say, 'Go and see if I'm upstairs.'
One that I never heard outside of Bootle or Liverpool was a 'Wigwam for a goose's bridle' I believe that it was often used when a parent couldn't answer an inquisitive child's question.
It wasn't an expression, but our Dad used to say, 'Go and see if I'm upstairs.'
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the bootle beetle, i wonder if this had anything to do with it,,,vicbee wrote:I was looking at the picture of the demolished taxi office posted by BOBHAMO, my late mum ( Ann Brennan nee Porter) worked there for a few years in the late 70's, it got me and my dad talking off the thing's she always used to say.
Whenever she was asked where she came from she always replied 'Bootle where the bugs wear clogs' !! with pride!!!! , if us kids ever asked her what colour something was she would always reply 'sky blue pink with a finny adder border', and she always called the cupboard under the stairs the cooey not the cubby, whenever I call it this people not from Bootle don't know what I'm talking about!!
Vic
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One of my Dad's favourites, that one!PETER CRAIG wrote:Hi all,
He could not stop a pig in a jigger.
Also, when someone had died and we asked what they died of, he'd say 'shortage of breath'
Lily,
A google search reveals the following answers to someone who posed a question about the origin of Cow's Melt:
First reply
I vaguely remember the term from my youth in the Midwest US during WWII when rural people slaughtered there own animals. It has been so long and I was so young that I do not remember what "melt" was. I believe it was discarded to the dogs.
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: : Webster's Second Intl. shows "melt" as a "now dialectal" variant of "milt," and one of its definitions for "milt" is "the spleen." In the Oxford English Dict., "milt" meaning the spleen of mammals goes back to the year 700, appro
Sorry, it's a bit grusome, but you did ask
Bill
A google search reveals the following answers to someone who posed a question about the origin of Cow's Melt:
First reply
I vaguely remember the term from my youth in the Midwest US during WWII when rural people slaughtered there own animals. It has been so long and I was so young that I do not remember what "melt" was. I believe it was discarded to the dogs.
Second Reply
: : Webster's Second Intl. shows "melt" as a "now dialectal" variant of "milt," and one of its definitions for "milt" is "the spleen." In the Oxford English Dict., "milt" meaning the spleen of mammals goes back to the year 700, appro
Sorry, it's a bit grusome, but you did ask
Bill
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When ever me Grandad was looking for anything, no matter what it was, he would say
" Wheres the DOINGS " Never really understood that.
" Wheres the DOINGS " Never really understood that.
Born in Kirk St, Lived in Derby Road,
Now in Roby, Liverpool
Now in Roby, Liverpool
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Me neither, but both parents used it all the time. And if there was something wrong, they'd say 'what's the do?'Allan Stoddern wrote:When ever me Grandad was looking for anything, no matter what it was, he would say
" Wheres the DOINGS " Never really understood that.
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... or when Good Friday falls on a Saturdaydee hogan wrote:Question when are we going somewhere nice mam Answer some Sunday when theres no mass
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These were favourites at work.
Regarding a person who was always available to work overtime,
'He would work the two minutes silence if it was available'
Regarding those lacking abilities
'As much use as a one-legged man at an a..e kicking party'
'As useless as a cast-iron t.t'
'Has less ideas than a concrete parrot'
daveowe
Regarding a person who was always available to work overtime,
'He would work the two minutes silence if it was available'
Regarding those lacking abilities
'As much use as a one-legged man at an a..e kicking party'
'As useless as a cast-iron t.t'
'Has less ideas than a concrete parrot'
daveowe
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Here are a few I like:-
Are you readin that Echo yer sittin on?
If yer fall off that wall an break yer legs, don't come runnin ter me!
He/she's got a face like a smacked ar**
I'm not saying our Tommy's got a big head, but I sent him to get 5lb spuds in is cap.
Another great one is when you were naughty and your mum smacked you, she would smack and tell you off in rhyme don't (smack) you (smack) ever (smack) do (smack) that(smack) again.
Anyone with a long face, me mam would say look at the gob on that one, or he/she's got lips like rolls of lino.
Jan
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Billy Connolly did a very funny skit on that - he said no wonder he has such a good sense of rhythm!Jan wrote:
Another great one is when you were naughty and your mum smacked you, she would smack and tell you off in rhyme don't (smack) you (smack) ever (smack) do (smack) that(smack) again.
Jan
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Oh Jan ,
Youre smack, smack ,and smack again had me in stitches.
You described it to a T !!
Mam what,s for breakfast - reply - fried spit on toast!!
Teresa
Youre smack, smack ,and smack again had me in stitches.
You described it to a T !!
Mam what,s for breakfast - reply - fried spit on toast!!
Teresa
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My old father in law, Jimmy Cummins, had some unusual sayings:
Of someone who talked a load of rubbish-
God blessed him with the perfect arsehole but then filled it full of teeth
Definition of overeaction
There is a difference between scratchng your arse and and tearing it to shreds
One other saying makes no sense but somehow invokes a feeling that you know precisely what is meant----he's got a head like a robber's dog!
Of someone who talked a load of rubbish-
God blessed him with the perfect arsehole but then filled it full of teeth
Definition of overeaction
There is a difference between scratchng your arse and and tearing it to shreds
One other saying makes no sense but somehow invokes a feeling that you know precisely what is meant----he's got a head like a robber's dog!
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a few i remember!
he's got a head like birkenhead.
face like a boxer licking p*** of a nettle.
as to when something was going to happen??
when donnely docks,and he hasn't got a ship yet!
you'll waste away to a warehouse.
face like a welders bench,ar*e like a bag of spanners.banging like a back door.
only wears her knickers to keep her ankles warm
you can wish in one hand,sh** in the other,but i know which one will fill up first.
black as the hobs of hell
back on you like a front
your hand'll wither
cheap at half the price
i'll slap you good looking
peal an orange in his pocket with a boxing glove on
he's got deep pocket,and short arms.
a smile like a row of bombed houses
more front than blackpool
i think i'll stop now
he's got a head like birkenhead.
face like a boxer licking p*** of a nettle.
as to when something was going to happen??
when donnely docks,and he hasn't got a ship yet!
you'll waste away to a warehouse.
face like a welders bench,ar*e like a bag of spanners.banging like a back door.
only wears her knickers to keep her ankles warm
you can wish in one hand,sh** in the other,but i know which one will fill up first.
black as the hobs of hell
back on you like a front
your hand'll wither
cheap at half the price
i'll slap you good looking
peal an orange in his pocket with a boxing glove on
he's got deep pocket,and short arms.
a smile like a row of bombed houses
more front than blackpool
i think i'll stop now
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prick from liggets
more meat on a strag from the grainy
smile like a tate n lyle rat
jangler, a blurt
more meat on a strag from the grainy
smile like a tate n lyle rat
jangler, a blurt
too old to die young
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Some answers I got when I was 'blimpin the crumpet'.
"AY GERL. DO YER WANNA FELLER"
"SOD OFF TITCH. I WANNA FELLER . NORRA SHERT BUTTON".
"CAN I 'AVE THIS DANCE".
"NO --- I'M SWEATIN' ---ASK ME MATE. "
"AY GERL. DO YER WANNA FELLER"
"SOD OFF TITCH. I WANNA FELLER . NORRA SHERT BUTTON".
"CAN I 'AVE THIS DANCE".
"NO --- I'M SWEATIN' ---ASK ME MATE. "
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If you had rubber for brains you wouldn't have enough rubber to make a french letter for a canary.
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Dont do that yer mother will ave a canary fit.
As thick as 2 short planks of wood.
Run for this message I need it yesterday and if you fall over dont stop to pick yourself up.
Butter wouldent melt in his/her mouth.
As thick as 2 short planks of wood.
Run for this message I need it yesterday and if you fall over dont stop to pick yourself up.
Butter wouldent melt in his/her mouth.
We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.