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Hi Folks, Boy! that was close, I thought we were going to lose this thread

Yea! I just love the 60s music, In fact Ive made up a lot of CDs from the Net with my nero burning thingy

Im glad you all popped in and kept this gpoing, as I was away for a while having this PC upgraded, so I hope to hear more from you all soon, and get this thread up in posts
Smudger.

hi again....


sal.... i know wot you mean luv.... we keep passing by each other in one thread or another.... lol....
as long as we don't collide with the iceburg... lol....


smudger.... don't know much bout pc's but i hear those downloads are pretty nifty... lol...
at the mo. i'm listening to fleetwood mac.....

take care folks..... xxxx

I was so hoping sal could be back by way of the D-box by now

abbi...i have spoken to telewest this morning,i was quite pleased that they rang me,about the letter i sent them.I will mail you ,and tell you what they had to say,it was a long call!!!
hi sheryl.i got the memories are made of this CD for mothers day.it has love letters in the sand,i remember you(frank ifield)pink toothbrush(max bygraves)...that was one i'd forgotten many years ago...walking in the rain!!the list is endless,but it's very good!!!xxx

a quick thank you to everyone who has posted to this thread,i have really enjoyed it..it looks as though we have all run out of memory..a bit like my digibox,so i think it's time to close it.xxxx

hey sal.

you cant do that. where will we go when we do get round to thinking of our past?

we are all a bit stale with one thing and another and not being able to get in here as often as we would like.
but this is one thread that has kept us all amused as we reminise(spelling)

we have covered many subject in the 1000 postings on here and im sure with some thought we can get it up to the 2000th.



so come on freinds... get your thinking caps on.

blimey. thats an old saying. anyone remember any more??????

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I agree Don't close it sal!
Our memory test is tougher on us but surely not over!
* tries to remember how to work well under pressure*

Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin
Bob Hope movies
Doris Day

Remember those days when they used to fill your car for you at the filling stations??
and wot happened to that bucket and sponge they used to leave out so that you could wash your windscreen

Now to cap it all, I went to put air into my tyres last week, and its now a computerised system
which takes longer as you have to keep running back to the machine to re-set the pressure for each wheel!!
Smudger.

hi smudger.

i remember that my dad used to buy '2 and 2'.

2 gallons of petrol and 2 shots of redex. something to give the petrol a bit more ooomph, so im led to believe.

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yes, lets keep this thread open.... even if it means just nipping in to say hello till we can remember stuff.....


daft sayings...... it's always in the last place you look...... well of course it is, you're not going to look anywhere else once you've found it are you..... lol....
and... are you reading that paper you're sat on......... errr, nup..... lol....
wot about..... come here while i smack you..... yeah right.... but thing is we did..... lol....

Or, I will make you laugh on the other side of your face??
or, I will show the back of my hand

and then of course my favourite= "Dont come running to me if you fall and break your leg"
I mean really, and these folks were supposed to be our "betters"
Smudger.

i'd forgotten those smudger.....

and, wot time do you call this...... erm, fred...... lol...
don't look round, but look who's just come in...... eh, i've not got eyes in me ar** or i'd have been reading that paper....

Oh good direction for the thread!
Old sayings

My dad would always say;
" you would make a better door than a window"- when I was blocking his view of the TV or something else.

"Born in a barn?" - when leaving the door open

evening abbi...
those sayings are said over here too luv.... another one for blocking the view here is, "you weren't made/born in st. helens" ...... st. helens being the home of the pilkington glass factory here in the north of england.....

hope you are well my friend.....

hi again..everyone..what about we resurrect this thread then,'i'm trying to think of the numerous sayings i heard as a child......told yo you all my memory wasnt working too well..
it's raining cats and dogs....come to think of it we dont see as many umbrellas as we used to!!
sit up straight ,and look at ya back!!!...eh!!!
,now i wont sleep for thinkng of old sayings.xxxx

oops, sal....

maybe you would remember, "he couldn't stop a pig in a ginnel", refering to someone with bow legs.... (a ginnel being an narrow alleyway for you non northern folk.... lol.... but i think lancashire and yorkshire share a lot of old slang)

You would forget your head if it was not screwed on.

You got your head screwed on backwards?

If your brain was in a bird it would fly backwards

sheryl.

thanks for explaining what a ginnel is

i bet there are many words that are from different areas that we never hear.

being a brummie.

there are many, but i cant think of them right now.
the only one i can think of is that people often call a 'canal'... a 'cut'.

now that i live in telford, there are a few local sayings as well. those born and bred in the dawley area can often be heard
saying 'ow bist?' or 'ow bist thee?'
which is how are you?

hi helen....

we call a "canal" a "cut" here too....

it's hard to write dialect down.... i think a lot of the young ones are losing the old dialect these days, which is a shame... it should be taught in schools i think, to learn them about their roots....