Must go, got to polish the silver......
Please can we have some more 'funnies'?
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oldherbaceous
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I got an honest 67%, i must admit i thought it would be a little higher.
Must go, got to polish the silver......
Must go, got to polish the silver......
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
There's no fool like an old fool.
There's no fool like an old fool.
Just another useless piece of info. I wonder if you know how the word 'posh' came about?
I was told by a sea fairing lad that is was started in the old colonial days when the well to do people travelled to India by boat and booked their cabins 'port out starboard home' to avoid the heat of the day and travelled on the coolest side of the ship.
I wonder if anyone has any other theories.
Beryl.
I was told by a sea fairing lad that is was started in the old colonial days when the well to do people travelled to India by boat and booked their cabins 'port out starboard home' to avoid the heat of the day and travelled on the coolest side of the ship.
I wonder if anyone has any other theories.
Beryl.
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alan refail
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That's just a bit of folk etymology. Apparently the story didn't start doing the rounds till the 1930, when the word posh had been recorded twenty years earlier.
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012 ... n-of-posh/
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012 ... n-of-posh/
Cred air o bob deg a glywi, a thi a gei rywfaint bach o wir (hen ddihareb Gymraeg)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
Thank you Alan I did wonder.
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Fair Dinkum - really Geoff! 
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I scored (in the words of OH) an honest 63% which makes me far posher than I ever imagined.
Having a friend called Philippa with a double barreled last name did help enormously though, that and Rugby Polo Club being housed across the field less than half a mile from the house (and only 200 yards from the allotment)
Having a friend called Philippa with a double barreled last name did help enormously though, that and Rugby Polo Club being housed across the field less than half a mile from the house (and only 200 yards from the allotment)
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Eee lass, I were 60%.
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i got 40%, which is more than expected, but then I have a double-barrelled sister and I know 2 Ruperts which didn't help! I also have dongled (comedy regatta boat race, mix up of the word gondola) several times for the local pub.
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Beryl. That is the meaning of POSH. Think it started on the P&O line
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Cred air o bob deg a glywi, a thi a gei rywfaint bach o wir (hen ddihareb Gymraeg)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
After reading Alan's link Shallot man I am not so sure now but nice story though one I shall always associate with the word POSH.
Beryl.
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The character Murray Posh appears in the brilliant Diary of a Nobody published in the 1880s. In Victorian slang a posh was a swell, a dandy.
http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/grol/grossmith/diary15.htm
http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/grol/grossmith/diary15.htm
Cred air o bob deg a glywi, a thi a gei rywfaint bach o wir (hen ddihareb Gymraeg)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
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English Stiff upper lip.
On a train from London to Manchester to watch the cricket, an Australian was berating the Englishman sitting across from him in the compartment.
"You English are too stuffy. You set yourselves apart too much. You think your stiff upper lip makes you above the rest of us.
Look at me. I'm ME!
I have Italian blood, Greek blood, a little Irish blood, and even some Aboriginal blood.
What do you say to that?"
The Englishman replied, "Awfully sporting of your mother, old chap!"
On a train from London to Manchester to watch the cricket, an Australian was berating the Englishman sitting across from him in the compartment.
"You English are too stuffy. You set yourselves apart too much. You think your stiff upper lip makes you above the rest of us.
Look at me. I'm ME!
I have Italian blood, Greek blood, a little Irish blood, and even some Aboriginal blood.
What do you say to that?"
The Englishman replied, "Awfully sporting of your mother, old chap!"
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Bob walked into a sports bar around 9:58 PM.
He sat down next to a blonde at the bar
And stared up at the TV.
The 10 PM news was coming on.
The news crew was covering the story
Of a man on the ledge of a large building
Preparing to jump.
The blonde looked at Bob and said,
"Do you think he'll jump?"
Bob said,
"You know, I bet he'll jump."
The blonde replied,
"Well, I bet he won't."
Bob placed a $20 bill on the bar and said,
"You're on!"
Just as the blonde placed her money on the bar,
The guy on the ledge
Did a swan dive off the building,
Falling to his death.
The blonde was very upset,
But willingly handed her $20 to Bob.
"Fair's fair. Here's your money."
Bob replied,
"I can't take your money.
I saw this earlier on the 5 PM news,
So I knew he would jump."
The blonde replied,
"I did, too,
But I didn't think he'd do it again."
Bob took the money
He sat down next to a blonde at the bar
And stared up at the TV.
The 10 PM news was coming on.
The news crew was covering the story
Of a man on the ledge of a large building
Preparing to jump.
The blonde looked at Bob and said,
"Do you think he'll jump?"
Bob said,
"You know, I bet he'll jump."
The blonde replied,
"Well, I bet he won't."
Bob placed a $20 bill on the bar and said,
"You're on!"
Just as the blonde placed her money on the bar,
The guy on the ledge
Did a swan dive off the building,
Falling to his death.
The blonde was very upset,
But willingly handed her $20 to Bob.
"Fair's fair. Here's your money."
Bob replied,
"I can't take your money.
I saw this earlier on the 5 PM news,
So I knew he would jump."
The blonde replied,
"I did, too,
But I didn't think he'd do it again."
Bob took the money
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Irish Fire Insurance
A man and his wife moved back home to Cork , from London.
The wife had a wooden leg and to insure it in Britain was £2000.00 a year!
When they arrived in Cork , they went to an Insurance agency to see
how much it would cost to insure the wooden leg.
The agent looked it up on the computer and said to the couple, '€39.00.'
The husband was shocked and asked why it was so cheap here in Ireland
to insure, because it cost him £2000.00 in England!
The agent turned his computer screen to the couple and said, 'Well, here it is on
the screen,it says:
*Any wooden structure, with a sprinkler system over it, is €39.00.*'
I always did find the Irish Logic far superior to most others.
A man and his wife moved back home to Cork , from London.
The wife had a wooden leg and to insure it in Britain was £2000.00 a year!
When they arrived in Cork , they went to an Insurance agency to see
how much it would cost to insure the wooden leg.
The agent looked it up on the computer and said to the couple, '€39.00.'
The husband was shocked and asked why it was so cheap here in Ireland
to insure, because it cost him £2000.00 in England!
The agent turned his computer screen to the couple and said, 'Well, here it is on
the screen,it says:
*Any wooden structure, with a sprinkler system over it, is €39.00.*'
I always did find the Irish Logic far superior to most others.