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I just didn't want to be the first one to get it right again, Alan

oldherbaceous wrote:I just didn't want to be the first one to get it right again, Alan

Morning Smartypants

So why's it the answer

50p = half of a £1.oo 10 shillings= half of a £1.00 12d to a shilling

12x10=120 but i could be wrong.

Da iawn OH

That'll set Elaine's mind at rest

Morning OH and Alan.
Well thank you for that...at last! I knew it had to be something like that but I couldn't "see" it at all.
It did get me remembering the rhyme we used to chant at school regarding money;
12 pence, one shilling
18 pence, 1/6
24 pence, 2/- etc etc all the way up to a pound!
Cheers!

Further to Mouse's Yorkshire expression, my Grandad used an expression regularly as a scathing put down.

"Tha thinks tha knows nothing and tha knows nowt"

Certainly shuts argumentative folk up..at least long enough to try to work out whether they've been insulted or not.
Cheers.

When I was an apprentice an inspecting Officer visited the classroom.
He asked, how many farthings in a pound and quick as a flash I said 960 and his reply was "laddy you are storing a load of crap in your brain get rid of it." I never ever put my hand up again. Once bitten twice shy!
Ooh another saying!
JB.

Elaine, I think there is a famous cricketing quote rather like that where a Pakistani cricketer is supposed to have said after a heated argument "you all think I know bugger nothing but in fact I know bugger all".

It's ossin ter slaaht = It's starting to rain

Have any of you (Northerners) ever heard of custard pie / custard tart being called 'Kaah (presumably 'cow') pie'?

The older I get, the more these regional expressions interest me, but I can't find any references anywhere to this one, which my mum assures me was used when she was a girl!

Hi Mouse
No, but when I was young one of the worst things we were fed (and there were plenty) was "beast custard" made with the milk of a newly calved cow.

alan refail wrote:Hi Mouse
No, but when I was young one of the worst things we were fed (and there were plenty) was "beast custard" made with the milk of a newly calved cow.

Yes, that doesn't sound too appetising!


Here's another old saying that I have heard my mum use many times when describing someone well known for being economical with the truth:

-That one would lie when the truth would do better!

Two more sayings that have come back to me - written in English this time!

-Shut your cake hole = shut up

-Put (the) wood in (the) hole = shut the door.

Actually, that last one only sounds right if you leave out 'the' and use the Yorkshire gutteral stop instead, NOT a 't', like many bad actors stick in when trying to imitate a Yorkshire accent!!!

Quite right Mouse - Michael Mackintyre's mickey take on the Yorkshire accent is rubbish. Far too many "t"s.

Another common Yorkshire-ism:

It's fair siling it down!