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Sue Dyer
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My favourite local pub name is one I made up when I couldn't think of it.

It is one of those faux Irish places called "The Stout Fiddler". Dave was on the phone and said he was just passing the Fiddlers, er and I jumped in with "The Fiddlers Foreskin?" :oops: Great pub name eh? Better than the Slug & Lettuce and other artificial names. :lol: Loads of us call it that now.
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Sue, :lol: :lol:
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Post by cromercrabholiday »

I told someone on the phone that Jane was fishing up chish and pips on the way home tonight. They knew what I meant - this is how language evolves!

One of my favourites and it may be apochryphal is butterfly that came from flutterby.

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Don't start me off on all the things I heard or were written during my teaching years - but my favourite is 'frog's born' instead of 'frog's spawn'.

A message from the home where wellingtons will always be wellibootons :D
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The hip bones will always be Neebles here. Anyone trying to get out of the clearing up after dinner is known as 'Lizzie Fell'. :roll:
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cromercrabholiday wrote:fishing up chish and pips on the way home
Envious, very envious, it's the one thing I miss.... <sigh>
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What, no good fish and chips on Long Island? :)
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Vrooje said
It's Paolo, not Paulo, not Paola, not...
good fish and chips on Long Island?
Sorry Brooke.. :lol: :lol: :lol: couldn't resist the off-line topic!
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Ah, yes, sorry, I should have said chish and fips!

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Enid - did the kids used to sing for Lord of the Dance:
"I am the Lord of the damp settee"?
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Good one Sue - that's a new one on me. I did have 'Our Father, witch's cart in heaven' :D

At one of my schools we compiled a booklet to raise money for school funds called 'Fings wot we ave sed and ritn' - it was a gas :D
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A friend of mine's daughter always referred to her favourite book as 'Lionel Richie in the Wardrobe'
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And my mother, as a toddler used to lisp 'Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet, eating her curtains and whey'....
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be
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Actually, that's more sensible than it sounds, coming from the mother of a - well, you know...
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Post by Big Sis.. »

Hi All,

My mother in law used to say that her hubbie was getting SeaLion.....
instead of senile, so it is always called that in our house,
bit sad as it happens ,as shes recently gone and he now has Alzheimers....

While we were in Spain my neices daughter said could we go to the lue'eng'ee bar, and none of us to figure where she meant, thinking it was a local Spanish Place, in the end she said shed spell it LOUNGE Bar [a local British Place]
which will always be known by its Spanish name from now on!!!!
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