Familiar and funny sayings.

BobClay

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Pissed as a newt. .... :eek: ... (I mean, what exactly does that mean, I've never seen a newt drink let alone get pissed.)
 

rudie111

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When we wouldn’t eat our food my Nan would say ‘get it down your wazzin!’

I use it now with the kid
 

SketchyMagpie

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I'm reading a book from the QI team at the minute that collects interesting and funny quotes. Here are few favourites:

I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
PHYLLIS DILLER

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
BILL WATTERSON

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. MENCKEN

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
DEMOCRITUS OF ABDERA

Everyone has a book in them and that, in most cases, is where it should stay.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or fourteenth.
GEORGE BURNS
 

BobClay

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Never pee off the weather side of the ship.

If you walk one mile due south, then turn and walk one mile due east, and then turn and walk one mile due north and end up exactly where you started, you must have started on the North Pole ...... also, you haven't got a clue where you want to go.
 

Mudgie

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Mum: "Put some clean underpants on, you might get run over by a bus and shame the family."
Me: "If I get run over by a bus Mum, make no mistake, they're going to be dirty .... "
I've heard that a pair of underpants lasts eight days in the Navy !
 
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