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  1. #21
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    'Here's tae us. Wha's like us? Gey few, and they're all deid.'

    'All the world's queer, bar thee and me, and I'm none too sure about thee.'

    'Couldn't knock the skin off a rice pudding'

    'Couldn't punch a hole in a wet Echo'.

    'We'll be waiting here till Donnelly docks'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe View Post
    'Here's tae us. Wha's like us? Gey few, and they're all deid.'
    Yes, that was another popular one up in Scotland

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Or the Scottish version: 'He widnae gie ye the steam aff his pish'.

    Marco.
    Or this one, popular in Wales when I was a kid - he could peel an orange in his pocket (mun, optional)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Len Co View Post
    We have many wonderful and amusing expressions in the English language - I'm sure all other languages have their own as well - a couple of my favourites are
    - from building/engineering sites in Sussex, I assume it was local due to it's country-ish feel, shoddy tradesmen and engineers were often described by one (fussy) old boy as 'rough as a badger's @rse'
    - a graphic image but used in the pub and drawing room alike 'you can't polish a turd'.
    When trying to make something rough look acceptable I often say (not to the customer) "You can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter".

    Said of someone with less than film star looks: "He looks like someone set this head on fire, then put it out with a cricket bat".

    A couple of Asian builders in Preston drive a van with the slogan "You've had the Cowboys, now try the Indians".
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    Quote Originally Posted by Len Co View Post
    Or this one, popular in Wales when I was a kid - he could peel an orange in his pocket (mun, optional)
    Lol.... How about the infamous [but highly successful] Glasgow chat-up line, uttered in not so hushed tones, whilst at a dance hall with one's lady friend, and elegantly gliding her gently across the floor: "Aye hen, ye don't sweat much fur a fat burd!"

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    Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.

    Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.

    CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.

    Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.

    Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.

    Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.

    Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.

    Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    someone with less than film star looks: "He looks like someone set this head on fire, then put it out with a cricket bat".

    ".
    Or ‘fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down’

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Lol.... How about the infamous [but highly successful] Glasgow chat-up line, uttered in not so hushed tones, whilst at a dance hall with one's lady friend, and elegantly gliding her gently across the floor: "Aye hen, ye don't sweat much fur a fat burd!"

    Marco
    lol, it is 'your light on yir feet for a fat burd' around here
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    "Don't turn the light on and ruin a good job" and "It looks great from my house".
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    A/V:
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    'keep taking the ugly pills, they're obviously working'

  10. #30
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    Some of my mother's (many) sayings:

    'You don't know where you are, till there you are'.

    'You may as well kill a man as frighten him to death'

    'Close the door, good people are scarce'

    'Sit down, you're making the room look untidy'

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