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  1. originallambrettaman

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    Apparently, that one comes from the fact that newts look pissed when they walk...

     
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  2. Fez

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    Try this: I could care less? And shrug your shoulders; which is how it is delivered.
     
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  3. Carmine Galante.

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    My mother ,
    My mother the other day;

    Tower of eternity.

    She meant 'power of attorney '.

    I **** you not.
     
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  4. Bergerac28

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    My old mother used to say " Look at that ugly bugger, bet his mum stood on his face to wind the clock up"
    One of my all time favourites.
     
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  5. originallambrettaman

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    <laugh> Brilliant.

    A bit like my mum when she was doing jury service.

    There were two lads up on a charge of causing Grievous Bodily Harm With Intent.

    She thought it was Grievous Bodily Harm In A Tent.

    She thought they'd just fallen out during a camping holiday. <doh>
     
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  6. Jimmy Graham's bald head

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    Isn't that where He-Man lived?
     
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  7. Jimmy Graham's bald head

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    I don't understand "the proof's in the pudding" which you hear often enough. Maybe "the proof of the pudding is in the eating" makes sense, but the short version is bollocks.
     
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    Id think it is meant to be "the proof of the pudding is in the eating of it" or something like that, which does make sense.
     
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  10. tigerscanada

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    It's a rhetorical question. "I could care less ?" Which means "Do you think I could care less ?" Which implies "I don't give a ****".
     
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  11. bum_chinned_crab

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    Just putting a question mark on the end of it doesn't make it a rhetorical question?




    See.
     
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  12. Kempton

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  13. tigerscanada

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    In this case it does, coupled with the intonation in the voice, or a shrug of the shoulders as Fez described above. No response is expected.
     
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  14. bum_chinned_crab

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    Nope? If it's a question, maybe they should ask a question?
     
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  15. Chazz Rheinhold

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    I'll knock. You into next week.

    How?
     
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  16. Jimmy Graham's bald head

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    On the topic of people saying things the wrong way round how come some people say "Cheap at half the price" rather than "Cheap at twice the price"?
     
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  17. DMD

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    When bawling "it's not fair" a reply from granny used to be "a ni****s arse never was, but you don't hear them complaining".
     
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  18. tigerscanada

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    Bengals has the answer ?
     
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  19. bum_chinned_crab

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    Yeah I always make sure I sway twice the price.

    Another one people get wrong and it makes no sense but the majority say it... "he did it off his own back". What do they even think that means? It's "off his own bat".
     
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    Which also doesn't make any sense?
     
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