Bootle Saying's
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it may not be a bootle saying, but my old fella used to say it to us kids
I,ll put welts in yer arse like tracks in a tyre (he did sometimes as well)
ya who-ers melt
back entry diddler
I,ll put welts in yer arse like tracks in a tyre (he did sometimes as well)
ya who-ers melt
back entry diddler
too old to die young
I don,t know if its Irish or Bootle but my Mam would send us the butchers for a nice piece of shell bone (beef joint) and a pound of roded bacon (unsmoked) middle cut.
If anyone upset my Mam she would say "God stiffen them" I never realized till I was about forty what it really meant but its good isn,t it.....Sheelagh
If anyone upset my Mam she would say "God stiffen them" I never realized till I was about forty what it really meant but its good isn,t it.....Sheelagh
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i've got segs on my eyes from looking for you/it
it'll be like a pigs foot in the morning.
tight as a camels arse in a sand storm.
we used to get called(although i don't know why??)
Paddy McGinty and Isa Dora Duncan.also little itler,big licks
it'll be like a pigs foot in the morning.
tight as a camels arse in a sand storm.
we used to get called(although i don't know why??)
Paddy McGinty and Isa Dora Duncan.also little itler,big licks
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my dad used to say IN AGAIN, OUT AGAIN, BACK AGAIN, FINIGAN
I never knew where that originated or if he just made it up...anyone on here ever heard that before? I was hoping to put it on his headstone but so far I haven't ha ha
I never knew where that originated or if he just made it up...anyone on here ever heard that before? I was hoping to put it on his headstone but so far I haven't ha ha
PAM KEEGAN BENICH
Keegan, Carruthers, Rigg, Copland, Lobb, Hough, Mee
born in Bootle
Keegan, Carruthers, Rigg, Copland, Lobb, Hough, Mee
born in Bootle
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What about this one:
I had a hat when I came in.
And I hung it on the rack.
And I'll have a hat when I go out
Or I'll break somebody's back
I'm a decent man, I am I am.
And I don't want to shout.
But I had a hat when I came in.
And I'll have a hat when I go out.
Cheers
Marie
I had a hat when I came in.
And I hung it on the rack.
And I'll have a hat when I go out
Or I'll break somebody's back
I'm a decent man, I am I am.
And I don't want to shout.
But I had a hat when I came in.
And I'll have a hat when I go out.
Cheers
Marie
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I have mentioned before that I never once heard my mum swear. If she dropped anything she would always say ' shine a light!!'. When my daughter was very young we went to visit my mum, she went upstairs and was there for quite a while, my daughter shouted up the stairs ' nan, you've been a long time up there, are you having a shine a light'!!!!
Vic
Vic
researching Brennan, Porter, Carey,Kneen, Casaru, Barber, Hegarty.
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I once asked someone how they had developed a limp and he said
"I fell over a straw and a hen kicked me".
"I fell over a straw and a hen kicked me".
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Though not from bootle but liverpool, the sayings are the same and my dads was always when asked whats that? a whimwam for winding up the sun.We neverdid find out what it was.Can anyone help.
JEAN.X.
JEAN.X.
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Hahahaha,
I have had a great laugh reading all these.
I had a book some years ago called Lern Yerself Scouse, I don't know what happened to it, but I think it is still available.
I like the one my dad used to say when cats were fighting in the back entry, oooh listen them jigger rabbits scrappin.
Jan
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When we asked our mam what was for tea she'd say, 'Bread & ifit' When we asked what 'ifit' was she'd reply, 'If it goes round you'll get some'.
I remember some of the sayings mentioned here & one of my mam's rude ones for someone not very attractive was, 'As ugly as a basketful of ar*eholes' For someone with a big backside she'd say they had an ar*e like a Bombay Moneylender.
Best wishes,
Tracey.
I remember some of the sayings mentioned here & one of my mam's rude ones for someone not very attractive was, 'As ugly as a basketful of ar*eholes' For someone with a big backside she'd say they had an ar*e like a Bombay Moneylender.
Best wishes,
Tracey.
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I' often heard someone referred to as tatty lashes, and when asked where they were going, the answer was, There and back to see how far it is. When looking at a childs navel they always said, "Lets see your belly where the pig bit you" Barbara
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Hi Jan.
There is a book called 'Talk Like the Scousers' on www.merseyshop.com at £8.99 - Might that be the one you mean.???
There is a book called 'Talk Like the Scousers' on www.merseyshop.com at £8.99 - Might that be the one you mean.???
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Aunty Mary has passed away and they are all there to pay their last respects. It's 10.30pm and one by one they are beginning to go home. Paddy has been to the top of the street to phone for a taxi and comes back all flustered "I can't get a Taxi" says Paddy "Oh hell " says Coogy "If I'd of known that you needed a taxi I'd of had a couple more glasses of whites and you could have gone home on my Pink Elephant" That is a true story.
Marie
Marie
Hi Ernie,the book Jan is talking about is by Fritz Speigal and it was Jan that helped me get a copy of it a long time ago.It is published by scouse press and is very hard to find.Sheila found my copy in a small bookstore in West Kirby thanks to Jan's magic tool bar.
Matt
Matt
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I think the book might be available to order from news from nowhere bookshop in Bold Street.
or I found this,
http://www.scousepress.co.uk/book_shop_content.htm
Also available on Amazon hehehe.
Jan
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Hi All
Lern yerself Scouse is in 3 parts it is now widely available, as stated News from nowhere, The 08 Shop, Whitechapel, Radio Merseyside shop, Maritime Museum also the World Museum, William Brown St, there is now an extensive selection of Merseybeat books also on sale at the museum to coincide with 'The Beat goes on' exhibition, well worth a visit.
daveowe
Lern yerself Scouse is in 3 parts it is now widely available, as stated News from nowhere, The 08 Shop, Whitechapel, Radio Merseyside shop, Maritime Museum also the World Museum, William Brown St, there is now an extensive selection of Merseybeat books also on sale at the museum to coincide with 'The Beat goes on' exhibition, well worth a visit.
daveowe
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what's for dinner mom's answer would be "Pigs Belly and acid drops"
smile it makes people wonder what you have been up to!
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If wit was sh** you'd be constipated
In the schoolyard when someone had a ciggie it was "first drag and stump"
In the schoolyard when someone had a ciggie it was "first drag and stump"
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When talking about someone with a hearty appetite my dad used to say:
'he'd eat his way through a jigger of sh..' or, 'he'd eat a baby's arse through a cane bottom chair'.
Peter
'he'd eat his way through a jigger of sh..' or, 'he'd eat a baby's arse through a cane bottom chair'.
Peter
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Some more uncomplimentary ones
Has a face like a bag of spanners.
Face the colour of playing duckapple in the chip pan fat.
Cute as a bag of weasels.
After you shake his hand remember to count your fingers!
So bandy legged couldn't stop a pig in a jigger.
He has worked more Sundays than a parish priest.
daveowe
Has a face like a bag of spanners.
Face the colour of playing duckapple in the chip pan fat.
Cute as a bag of weasels.
After you shake his hand remember to count your fingers!
So bandy legged couldn't stop a pig in a jigger.
He has worked more Sundays than a parish priest.
daveowe
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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
I grew up in Aintree not a million miles from Bootle & we used these expressions too only we said finny addie--lots more that I don't hear now a days
Vic
I grew up in Aintree not a million miles from Bootle & we used these expressions too only we said finny addie--lots more that I don't hear now a days
VIC I will always remember the day you joined this freindly site , on my birthday , I know you will enjoy yourself on here , so WELCOME , tell me where in the Lake District do you live ??
Ron
Ron
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To the ? "where are you going?" my mother used to say "There & back to see how far it is"!
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Ron--I;m in the "Gateway to the Lakes"--kendal. Do you know the area?