Old sayings that have gone out of fashion.

My grandmother used to say "Don't pick your nose. Have a biscuit".

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Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

My grandmother used to say "Don't pick your nose. Have a biscuit".

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Biscuits are too dry.

Teach your granny to suck eggs
Number Please
He's got a bee in his bonnet

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Originally Posted by Rontomuk

Right Back, Left Back, Right Half, Centre Half, Left Half, Inside Right, Inside Left, Right Wing, Left Wing, Centre Forward, and now they Press instead of Attack.

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4-4-2

You can't make a silk purse out of a pig's ear
Can't fit a quart into a pint pot
Woolllies pick'n'mix
Ten bob note

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Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

My grandmother used to say "Don't pick your nose. Have a biscuit".

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Taunton Flu Greenie

dull as dishwater

Bring back fingering and tit over the top.

Old hat is old hat.

"He's not the full shilling".

What's that got to do with the price of fish?

Leo Fortune-West

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Originally Posted by insider

Bring back fingering and tit over the top.

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In Ely we were a bit more refined. It was known as outside top.

Cowabunga
Wassssssaaaaaaappppp
Carefree and gay
Floppy disc
Petticoat

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Originally Posted by fingers

Cowabunga
Wassssssaaaaaaappppp
Carefree and gay
Floppy disc
Petticoat

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Counterpane
Blanket
Outside toilet
Sideboard
Panier set
Paraffin heater
Tin barh
Dubbin
Brilliantine

I'll not mention albino canine excrement.

/bolster pillow
Pelmet
Gas poker
Coalman
Toasting fork

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Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

Counterpane
Blanket
Outside toilet
Sideboard
Panier set
Paraffin heater
Tin barh
Dubbin
Brilliantine

I'll not mention albino canine excrement.

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Tin bath, that is.

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Originally Posted by Tuerto

Itchy chin was what we said, while incorporating a stroking motion with fingers on chin. God knows where it came from, i don't think that Jimmy Hill was a liar.

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Could be that his pants were on fire

I smell an opportunity to get a lifelong question answered. My grandfather, who was born in 1906, used to say that if a so-and-so highly unlikely thing happened then "I'll stand topping."

Anyone ever heard this? Anyone have information about its origin? An internet search yielded nothing.

Footballer Aaron Ramsey

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Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

I'll not mention albino canine excrement.

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it's an endangered faeces..