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Can be self-constructed, or that of someone else. Mine is compliments of Mark Twain.

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt"


 
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"Bollocks".


 
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Dodgy as a bottle of chips.


 
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Never drink in a pub with a flat roof.


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 7:13 pm
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If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no need for tinkers.

I try to use it as often as possible.....


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 7:14 pm
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never rub another man's rhubarb 🙂


 
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Fits like stocking on a chickens lip


 
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Flowers are for the living.


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 7:20 pm
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Two if I may

You're not half as clever as you think I am...

and

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think I am

Cheers

Danny B
Da


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 7:21 pm
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'I don't buy butter for dogs'


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 7:22 pm
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'He had a face like a haunted cave'


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 7:23 pm
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How do you know what you know

Used when some bright spark(kids) start getting too big for their boots ❗


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 7:26 pm
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as rare as rocking horse shit

or

that's like horse shit from China; far fetched


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 7:28 pm
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An idle mind is the devils workshop.


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 7:34 pm
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Mine is compliments of Mark Twain.

Who himself was misquoting someone else: Voltaire (although some say Socrates).


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 7:35 pm
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Slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through treacle.


 
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Mine is compliments of Mark Twain.

Who himself was misquoting someone else: Voltaire (although some say Socrates).

Mine (for those ghouls glorifying Lady Thatcher's death): “It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” Epictetus


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 7:37 pm
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Buy Big Bike Bash tickets (www.bigbikebash.co.uk)

Not that funny but I seem to say it a lot 😉


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 7:38 pm
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He's so tight he only cries out of one eye.


 
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He's got a heid like a 10 bob bit.


 
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You only get what you pay for.


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 7:40 pm
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I have loads, couldn't pick a favourite
"There's no I in team but there is a U in cYOUnt"
"Never get in an argument with a moron, they'll only drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"
"Assume, makes an ASS of U and ME"


 
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Mine (for those ghouls glorifying Lady Thatcher's death): “It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” Epictetus

Like she had a stroke and reacted by dying? That's just disrespectful. Expected better of you, Tucker


 
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“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

Couldn't agree more - we recognise her for the horrendous ghoul that she was and celebrate her death accordingly!


 
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"Ahh it'll be reet"


 
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You cannot polish a turd.


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 7:58 pm
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You cannot polish a turd

But you can roll it in glitter


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 7:59 pm
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S+!t on a stick


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 8:00 pm
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"Assume, makes an ASS of U and ME"

I hate that expression above all other expressions. Gah.


 
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I prefer 'assumptions make an ass out of you and umptions' personally.


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 8:10 pm
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I rather like this little pithy bon mot for when something is not quite right....

If that's true, my cock's a kipper.


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 8:12 pm
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Not a saying but a definition I enjoy nonetheless:

A gentleman is a man who knows how to play the banjo but doesn't.


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 8:13 pm
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Won't work with bike stuff but,
"Buy cheap, buy twice"


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 8:15 pm
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Stop acting the goat.

Next year we'll be millionaires 😉


 
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this is a genuine old sicilian saying that my FiL uses 'only donkeys have places'

and one of mine but I can't remember where I heard it 'so tight he could peel an orange in his pocket'


 
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She's got the personality of a rattlesnake,without the attractive markings.


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 8:18 pm
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When aligning things to microns- "Nowt what a blind man on a galloping horse wouldn't see"


 
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Pain is only temporary, glory lasts for several seconds.


 
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(she's got) "a face like a slapped arse" . Or when referring to elements of boat construction, such as forming a radius/beading on the lower edge of a thwart rising "to cheer it up a bit". And harking back to my black country roots - "if it ay bost, dow fix it".

Edit - oh, and on seeing someone with buck teeth "well (s)he could eat an apple through a tennis racket.."

And a well-endowed lass - "it's like a dead-heat in a zeppellin race".


 
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The grave yard is full of heroes.


 
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Like she had a stroke and reacted by dying? That's just disrespectful. Expected better of you, Tucker

Pretty good! 😆


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 8:59 pm
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I refuse to be drawn into a battle of wits with you; I was brought up never to attack a man who was incapable of defending himself.


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 9:00 pm
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for those with windswept and interesting locks

"looks like they brushed their hair with a toffee apple!"


 
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Don't kick a fresh turd on a hot day


 
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