funny sayings

[lindylou]

We were talking in another thread about funny sayings. Who knows any good ones ? :) (not rude ones thankyou !) :D

Has anyone heard of this one ; years ago when folk were 'skint' and had no money or food in, they would call it 'BallyAnne day'.
Does anyone know why it was called this? What's the origin of BallyAnne I wonder ??

[Kev]

My dad often says this:

'Many a mickle, makes a mockle'.

[FKoE]

We were talking in another thread about funny sayings. Who knows any good ones ? :) (not rude ones thankyou !) :D

Has anyone heard of this one ; years ago when folk were 'skint' and had no money or food in, they would call it 'BallyAnne day'.
Does anyone know why it was called this? What's the origin of BallyAnne I wonder ??

I remember Ballie Annie day as a kid, it was always thursday for some reason :unibrow: ..

I'd love to know its origins too.

[FKoE]

My ald fella always used to say when we were unruly kids .. "get up them dancers before I crown yer" :D

[john]

Shes got a face like a smacked kipper

A face that launched a thousand ships ?

[bobbymac]

There's Big 'ead no bread in the 'ouse.

[sweetpatooti]

Sweet Bally Ann day meant sweet Bugger All in the cupboard - it was "sweet Fanny Adams" in our house. It was on Thursday because that was the day men got paid so there was nothing left until Friday.

My Nan and my Nin used to have loads of them - here's a few

Soft Lad your mother had.

Icky the Firebobby

Anyone who was ugly was "Frighten the horses"

the priest was Father Bunloaf

Up the wooden dancers to Bedfordshire to sleep the sleep of the elephants (that was grand-dad's)

Yer think yer lovely with yer one eyelash!!

There are many ruder one's that I never understood until much later!!!

[lindylou]

This has jogged my memory .. I'd forgotten all about 'Fanny Adams!' ha,ha!
My mum used to say that too. :D My mum used to call me 'Tilly Mint' when I was little.

'Many a Mickle Makes a Mockle' (or mUckle we used to say) - I havn't heard that for years. :)

Havn't heard of 'Icky the firebobby' .. but I remember Father Bunloaf !

Here's one ... '' yer would start a row in an empty house !''

or;

''What did he die of ?'' - answer - ''shortness of breath'' (or, 'he died of a Tuesday !')

[sweetpatooti]

dya remember this Lindy:

whatya doin - picking a cewin
where dya live - down the grid
what street - pigs feet
what number - cucumber

or

when you hurt yourself - ooh that'll be a pig's foot in the morning.

[lindylou]

Ha, ha :celb (6): .... yeah, ''pickin' a cewin'' ... God I'd forgotten that one too ! I remember it well now you've mentioned it. This is really bringing back memories :D

Do you remember the skipping rope songs like 'Jelly On The Plate' ?
...... wiggle waggle, wiggle waggle, jelly on the plate!

:celb (23):

[Bunnyman]

The Americanism 'I could care less' amuses me. I could care less? That actually means you are bothered to some degree, doesn't it?

[sweetpatooti]

I recently taught my little girl to play two-balls - she was thrilled to bits.

Dya remember the rhymes to two-balls

a pennorth o'chips, a pennorth o'peas and don't forget the vinegar please...

or

plainsy walls ice cream, upsy walls ice cream...

don't know what it was all about, but it kept us entertained the whole of the day....till me Mam came out and shouted that she couldn't hear the telly for the noise.:Colorz_Grey_PDT_24:

[shytalk]

Something American that ticks me off( bear in mind I have lived in the USA 25 years) is the use of the word of after off. I notice on the Echo expats postings even expats have caught the stupid habit.

[Scousemouse]

My mum used to say to me- "You would argue with Our Lord", to which my reply would be- "Only if He was wrong!". Cue for a clip round the ear! :)

[FKoE]

:D

[Sloyne]

Something American that ticks me off( bear in mind I have lived in the USA 25 years) is the use of the word of after off. I notice on the Echo expats postings even expats have caught the stupid habit.Explain please?

[shytalk]

No, it looks self explanatory to me.:snf (41):

[bobbymac]

try, 'get off of my bus.' :Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:

[Sloyne]

try, 'get off of my bus.' :Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:Thanks.

[Sloyne]

My grandad, telling of his exploits in the ring at Pudsey Street, would describe what he did to his opponent thus; "I put a lip on him like a camel eating toast".

[Sloyne]

No, it looks self explanatory to me.:snf (41):Not really. It would have been better written so; "the use of the word of, after the word off." Just good grammar. It may irritate you and yes, it is bad grammar using the word OF following the preposition OFF. But thanks anyway.:snf (41): 2U2.:)

[Sloyne]

My uncle Con would hang his ARP overcoat over the end of the door and with time the coat developed a hump. My dad, Con's brother, would tell him that the overcoat made him look like "the hunchback of Knotty Ash".

[shytalk]

What can I say sloyne, everyone else seemed to understand me.:037:

Another annoying thing is Canadians saying "eh" after everything they say.

[Sloyne]

[B]Another annoying thing is Canadians saying "eh" after everything they say.Me too, like you I find it very annoying but, fortunately I haven't lived in North America long enough to acquire the accent or other idioms of the speech;) . It is as grating to my ear as was the expression, when I lived in Anniston, AL. of "Ya'll come back now", or "Yah'hear". Just like the present English expression of "yeah" imposed at the end of a sentence or, the Liverpool addendum of "yeh know wah'ra'mean like". However, the most annoying thing for me is emigrants mimicing American or Canadian accents. The long time mayor of Scarborough, Ontario, Gus Harris, arrived in Canada from Liverpool at the age of 13 and lived in Canada for 84 years, only visiting Liverpool once in that period and that was to pass through, as a Canadian soldier, on his way to fight the Nazi's. I attended a function in Gus's honour just a couple of months before he passed away. His accent was as strong as the day he left Dryden Street.

[Sloyne]

Another one; My dad, a Liverpool Supporter, when describing a player he wasn't to fond of, would say; "He couldn't kick a ball down Havelock Street". Havelock Street ran between Netherfield Road and Great Homer Street and was one of those very steep streets with bollards spaced across it at various intervals.

[shytalk]

My accent hasn't changed, I say to people who comment" Why lose something so good"
I agree about the added "yeah". it is agravating to someone who wasn't there when it started.
New words appear all the time, a few years ago my mates son described something as "naf", it wasn't in use in '82 when I left and I had to ask what it meant. Another recent common use word for being upset is "gutted", where the heck did that come from. Even "gobsmacked" wasn't used when I left, seems like I missed some good continuing education since I left.
Another thing that amuses me is the Americans on TV trying to talk with an Irish accent on St. Patricks day, I have never heard anything so phoney.
About Y'all :), The true southern plural of you is "All y'all", the New Yorkers got it right, youse just like in Scouseland.:037:

[Sloyne]

[B]the New Yorkers got it right, youse just like in Scouseland.:037:Considering it is from the same source, Irish imigrants. I also like the New England pronounciation of car, park, yard, Harvard, i.e. caar, paark, yaard, havaard are also like the Scouse pronounciation of those words.

PS: I agree, Gobsmacked is a terrible expression.

[lindylou]

''yer eyes are bigger than yer belly !'' (when kids ask for food then waste it.)

and 'here comes seven bellies' (someone who eats a lot)

[PhilipG]

Thanks for reviving this thread.
Don't think I've seen it before.

Why was it, that whatever you were carrying, you'd be told:
"You'll have somebody's eye out with that!" ?


Faces.

What about: "A mouth like a crack in a pie"

"A face only a mother could love."

"If you don't watch out, your face will stick like that."

"Look at the gob on him."

[lindylou]

ha,ha, that gave me a laugh Philip - 'specially the one - a crack in a pie !! ha,ha.


I had a browse through some of the old threads to see if there was anything to revive. :)

[drone_pilot]

My all time fav is "you'll be laughing on the other side of your face in a minute", :PDT_Xtremez_42: HOW

[Ged]

Ey up - or in other words - move.

[lindylou]

'' he's got a head like Birkenhead''


'My mouth is like the bottom of a bird cage' - this is usually when you have a hangover or a cold.

[Ged]

I agree entirely with my friend who reads a lot of readers letters pages in mags who wrote in to one of them to complain that she's sick of the repeated use of the phrase 'Luckily we saw the funny side'

Personally I also find the constant use of 'Imagine my surprise' equally irritating so Imagine my surprise when she herself ended her letter with luckily we saw the funny side as luckily I saw the funny side of this too.

[Gnomie]

Yer cant av a Skinead coz yerl look like an egg- My Dad to me:)

What`s up with you? lose a pound and find a penny.

My Nan always said- Im in two minds wether he is a half wit.

Priest at OLA when the school was at church-Sit down, Shut up and God will be happy.

[Gnomie]

Easter Egg on legs

Nose on a stick

[Gnomie]

go boil yer ead

[edwardo]

College Pudding

[carmaxsam]

what about give us a mogga i think you spelt it like that it means a lift on yer bkie

[lindac8941]

He`s got a face you`d never get tired of smacking.
You followed a dustcart and thought it was a wedding
Dont pick ya nose, or your brains will fall out.

[ItsaZappathing]

He's gotta face only a mother could love
He done the backs (meaning he legged it over the back gardens)

[lindac8941]

Well I`ll go to the foot of our stairs (What happens if you live in a bungalow?) lol.