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Re: Do you know where this quote from?
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Originally Posted by West Ender
My mother-in-law, a Yorkshire woman, had a variation on this one. She would say, if you were "lounging around" when you ought to be busy, "This won't buy the baby a new bonnet".
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I've heard another variation of this one, if you were lounging around when you should be doing something......'This won't buy the child a matinee coat.'
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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs, cackling and telling me
'You'll be next.' They stopped when I started doing the same to them at funerals. 
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