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[QUOTE]"Tha can allus trust a man as tucks his shirt inside his underpants."
it's probably an olde worlde saying with hidden sexual reference. mine always hangs out

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I've never tucked my shirt inside my underpants, the very idea is anathema to me. Does this mean I am not to be trusted? This has always seemed a little arbitrary and unfair somehow.

What do we make of the assertion that "The best way to a mans heart is through his stomach", when Lily Savage claims, contrarily, that "The best way to a mans heart is through his back with a bloody big axe!"?

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"Go on have a good cry...you'll pee less"

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"there's nowt as queer as folk"

Well I think giraffes and aardvarks are very strange!

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But not as strange as the platypus. Is there any evidence that Giraffe's and Aardvarks indulge in unnatural sexual practices? And if there is, what would the possible outcome look like?

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Peter Britcliffe????

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A giravark?

There is a zeedonk at Colchester Zoo, so I guess anything is possible...

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I could never work out "I want never gets" and "Them as don't ask, don't want". Get out of that one!

Also Granny Morris had a wonderful expression for cross-eyes - "Skenning like a basket of whelps". God knows where that came from.

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These sayings just reinforce our belief in the south that northerners are weird!!! :p ;)

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Oh come on, Vorlon, I can honestly claim to have heard two ladies from Walworf' on the bus talking:

WL1: Did he lose his legs then?
WL2: Yes. Same two as Douglas Bader.

Weird or what?

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That is weird indeed.

Where was this?

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Dahn the Walworf Road, goin' dahn to Peckham .....

Will now collect all the odd sayings I have heard down here, and we Northerners can laugh at them.

Anyone who eats jellied eels and that horrible liquor stuff (green gravy) has to be weird!

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It is actually whelks, you know, marine mollusc, like a large snail, not puppies.

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I live further south than that (yes, you can go further south than London!!! ;) )

I never really fancied jellied eels, and I have never heard of the other thing you mentioned

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I'm wondering what that man was doing with Douglas Bader's legs.

How about "Never fly a kite in a thunderstorm" ? Oh yes grannie, it's chucking it down out there I think I'll go and fly my kite.