Whatever happened to the real old gormless sayings of yesteryear?
My dad used to explode whenever he heard some loudmouthed barrack-room lawyer saying 'It's a diabolical liberty'! Dad would unpick the whole statement with various references to the devil, and what a liberty really was!
At least you don't hear some ignorant git saying it much nowadays - 'know warr oi mean'...
More please?
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Many years ago I worked with a chap who would often start his oration with "Let's face it". What we all knew was that, whenever he did, that what was coming next would be total bollox . . .
Ha ha ha! Marvellous The J!
The brilliant Craig Brown published a whole series of gormless sayings some years ago, and I must find them all for everyone to enjoy!
One of his favourites was 'toad lee' which apparently translated itself as 'completely'!
We still use it as a 'reverse' statement...
When all's said and done at the end of the day is it all worth it though? A nod's as good as a wink and it'll all come out in the wash anyway before we're very much older.
Just looked for the origin of the word "Gorm" which appears to have been a Gaelic word for blue (as in Cairngorm)and means being attentive or alert. In those days I wonder if painting their faces with woad went a bit astray. Apparently it was made from a member of the brassica family (also called the Asp of Jerusalem)and was used as a dye which the Egyptians used on the shrouds which they used on the shroud which they wrapped their mummies in before their entombment. We're all in Dickie's meadow now so whose going to toll the bells?
Not a lot of people know that, GG!
My shroud will probably be something from Cotton Traders, bought several years ago...
Buqqered if I know what colour it will then of course!
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