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Off Topic Sayings you don't understand

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  1. Jimmy Graham's bald head

    Jimmy Graham's bald head Well-Known Member

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    Dairy farmers?
     
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  2. Sir Cheshire Ben

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    Babies.
     
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  3. Kempton

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    Well I'll go to the top of our stairs.
     
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  4. GlassHalfHull

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    If I couldn't keep still as a little 'un my Mum said I had 'stickstows', which I think was broad Yorkshire for fleas. Not heard that in years.
     
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  5. Happy Tiger

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    omg Shut the door!
     
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  6. TreeHugger

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    Why do Americans say "I could care less" insteand of "I couldn't care less"? What they say is exactly the opposite of what they mean. If you could care less then you do care.
     
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  7. Kempton

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    What is a scotch mist?
     
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  8. DMD

    DMD Eh?
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    It's inbetween a miss and a mister. They tend to be the ones in kilts. <ok>

    It's also the low cloud/fine rain you get so often up there, but that's a boring answer.
     
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  9. bum_chinned_crab

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    Do they say that?
     
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  10. TreeHugger

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    Yes
     
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  11. Chazz Rheinhold

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    What's an aawah??
    That might not be the spelling but it's summat I remember.
    Come here you bloody little aawah
     
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  12. originallambrettaman

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    Dunno, but I always knew if I kept acting daft as a brush, I was going to get snickersneezed.
     
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  13. bum_chinned_crab

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    Well it's ludicrous.
     
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  14. augustatiger

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    He knows his onions.
     
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  15. TigerMarv

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    A a kid when I wasn't been honest or fair my dad used to say "come on play the white man"

    its only now when i look back I realise how bad that was. He wasnt racist, I think it was just a saying that he grew up with that he used without even thinking of its meaning
     
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  16. Barrington Womble

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    Oh my giddy aunt

    Tight as a newt

    He's not backwards at coming forwards
     
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  17. BillyBobBallbag

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    Our lass is queen of the mixed up saying

    Her best was "if you can't stand the truth get out the kitchen"
    She's never living that one down
     
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  18. tigerincanada

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    Yes, they do. As do Canadians and it drives me nuts!
     
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  19. Walter Sobchak

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    It has no proper origin either apart from that it should obviously be 'I couldn't care less'.

    Some people think it's just mishearing the original phrase or that it used to be 'as if I could care less' but its been shortened. Whatever the reason it's as daft as a brush.
     
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  20. Kempton

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    Pissed as a newt.
     
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