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7th September 2015, 08:06 AM
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Re: Put Downs
Mad Angus McAskill, the Bosun on the NZ Star, in 1953, always said between each smash of a Big Iron Fist,
"Don't uk about with ukall you know ukall about."
I was a quick learner.
Later he stood on the tracks and tried to stop a Big Canadian Pacific Locomotive with his Big Iron Fist, The Train did not stop.
Brian
Last edited by Captain Kong; 7th September 2015 at 08:12 AM.
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8th September 2015, 12:47 AM
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Re: Put Downs
Your as much use as a spare plick at a wedding. Although by todays matrimonial laws this may now be incorrect. JS
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8th September 2015, 10:14 AM
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Re: Put Downs

Originally Posted by
j.sabourn
Your as much use as a spare plick at a wedding. Although by todays matrimonial laws this may now be incorrect. JS
or
as much use as a pork pie at a jewish wedding
or
as much use as tits on a bull.
rgds
JA
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8th September 2015, 12:17 PM
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Re: Put Downs
As much use as a one armed paper hanger in a storm.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller

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8th September 2015, 03:40 PM
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Re: Put Downs

Originally Posted by
j.sabourn
Your as much use as a spare plick at a wedding. Although by todays matrimonial laws this may now be incorrect. JS
Use that one all the time.
Think it says it all!!
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8th September 2015, 10:20 PM
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Re: Put Downs
A Scottish one I like is "She has a face like a nippy [sour] sweetie" or her face is tripping her
Another, girl or woman of loose moral standing or Brazen attitude a "gallus besom"
Think the equivalent in England would refer to same type as "a cow" a humongous no no up here when I was growing up
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9th September 2015, 04:58 AM
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Re: Put Downs
Used by one of the instructors at sea school, "trying to teach you lot is like trying to plait sawdust" kt
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