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...rag bone.. was the call and donkey stones were the gift

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If someone was talking rubbish, my auntie would say "It's all my eye and Betty Martin", and if someone was in trouble, he would be "In Dicky's meadow" - don't know why, but my auntie Lily was rather strange, she always wore a wrap-around apron which she called a brat and wore a hat all the time, in the house or when sand-stoning the steps. She thought the neighbours were common because they used white sandstone whereas she used cream.

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up dickeys meadow mine used to say.:)

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Just a variation to your posts
My misspent youth had been up Theelite in st james st and I never ever thought about it for many years until vauxhall brought out the model Elite at which time I pondered and realised that it had been the Eleet where my misspent youth had been, now can you believe that??
tony

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Just posted these on wrong list.

He talks like Billy's Weekly Liar. (don't trust him)
Aif eten syrup butty. (gormless ******)
Powfagged. (tired and worn out)
Skorrick. (tha's nod left a skorrick) (nowt left)
Slavering. (as kids do when their teething)
Fettled. (repaired)
Moaning Minnie.

Retlaw.

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re Billys Weekly Liar , heard the saying when growing up, did this comic/tabloid actually exist? anyone got a link to a copy ? or is it just a saying ?
probably the origin of the play/film Billy Liar

thanks :confused: :confused:

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yep was published in a joke shop in preston for a while, just type it into google john,i'm too numb to put a link up.:confused:

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There was one printed in Ossy in the nineties cashy, but it was called quarterly news, The Labour Party Ossy News Letter publihed by Bill Goldsmith:rolleyes::D:p

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always bought my copy of Billys weekly liar every time
i went to blackpool for the day great mag
dont know when or if it stopped being published :jimbo:

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when you google something cashy, just high light and copy the link add in the google bar, top of page, then paste it in your post ;)

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Dodd's paper chase : News 2003 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide like this is it?

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HEHE well done :D:D

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H.B.C., still does, I'm sure they've come through my letter box on more than one occasion.

Retlaw.

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Didnt know you were a paid up member of the labour party jaysay? :D

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Slopstone, yes! What about being hungry, or in dialect 'clemmed'. One watered the household plants with a 'degging can' to 'slather' the plants 'wi' watter'. My great-aunt always used to say that she 'were fain to see me'. My dad had an expression (possibly from Chorley where he was born) which referred to anyone doing something totally aimless as being 'up and down like cheese at fourpence'. There must be others which will come to mind, but I shall need to trawl through my memory for those!

Pashley