Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 929885)

I was once in a Mall in Knox City(just outside Melbourne)........my niece was with me but in a different part of the shop we were looking in...she shouted 'Marg...where are you?'
I said 'I'm just rootin' round in this bin full of underwear'(cheap bra's knickers camisoles)...she came out of nowhwere and told me that I could't say that...and then whispered what it meant over there. I blushed!
As they say over there 'you can beat an egg, but you can't beat a root'.

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 930189)

That's one my dad used to say.....of course Butties are also only eaten in Lancs.
Favourites being a Chip Butty or a Jam Butty (what I used to get when i came in from school!)

Originally Posted by Michael1954 (Post 930648)

"I'll have a walk" meaning I will just go to the toilet.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 930659)

Another one in that vain I'm just off to point Percy at the porcelain:D

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 930795)

I rewatched Alan Bennett's 1975 play, Sunset Across the Bay , this week.

The main character said to his wife, before going into a toilet on the prom,
'I'm just going to shed a tear Mother.'

Amused me, though I'd never heard it before.

Must be a Yorkshire thing.

:D

Originally Posted by Michael1954 (Post 930798)

I like it!