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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.


 
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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 6:14 pm
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never rub another man's rhubarb 🙂


 
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Fits like stocking on a chickens lip


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 6:19 pm
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Flowers are for the living.


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 6:20 pm
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Two if I may

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

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

Cheers

Danny B
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Posted : 15/04/2013 6:21 pm
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'I don't buy butter for dogs'


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 6:22 pm
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'He had a face like a haunted cave'


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 6:23 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 6:26 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 6:28 pm
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An idle mind is the devils workshop.


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 6:34 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 6:35 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 6:37 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 😉


 
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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.


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 6:38 pm
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You only get what you pay for.


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 6:40 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!


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 6:55 pm
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"Ahh it'll be reet"


 
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You cannot polish a turd.


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 6:58 pm
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You cannot polish a turd

But you can roll it in glitter


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 6:59 pm
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S+!t on a stick


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 7:00 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 7:10 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 7:12 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 7:13 pm
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Won't work with bike stuff but,
"Buy cheap, buy twice"


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 7:15 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 7:18 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.


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 7:24 pm
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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! 😆


 
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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 8:00 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


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 8:12 pm
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Your favourite 'saying'.

'What cake do you want?'


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 8:18 pm
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I'll go to the foot of our stairs.


 
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It's a baw hair oot
It's a rattling guid fit
Tights tight


 
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"If you are looking for sympathy it comes between shit and syphilis in a dictionary"


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 8:25 pm
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Shit happens.


 
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"Do one legged ducks swim in circles?"
"Does mouse shit roll?"


 
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"It's no way to run a railroad" I like to drop it, calmly, onto the end of a furious rant.

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'He had a face like a haunted cave'

Is [i]brilliant.[/i]


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 8:30 pm
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Desperation makes fools of us all.

&

She's got a face like a bag of smashed crabs.


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 8:31 pm
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She's got a face like a smacked arse
She's got a face like a bulldog blowing up a football


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 8:34 pm
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Put your foot down with a heavy hand


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 8:43 pm
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a couple of mine

She's got a face like a bulldog licking p1ss off a nettle

or

She's got a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp

oh and I forgot one I'm constantly repeating at work

'this lot couldn't run a bath'


 
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Don't do today what you can put off till tomorrow


 
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I try and use "she's got a face like fire damaged Lego" as often as possible...


 
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Face like a blind cobbler's thumb.


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 9:11 pm
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Some people are walking a fine line between funny sayings and bulls**t bingo gold here...

Mines the one about arguing with morons

That and 'ringfence the unicorn', obviously


 
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I was born at night but not last night.

As much use as a hair net in a thunder storm.

If C***s could fly you'd be a squadron leader.

I'm so hungry I'd eat the beard of Moses.

She looked like a bulldog licking pissy nettles.

As much use as fanny fart.


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 9:19 pm
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Some people are walking a fine line between funny sayings and bulls**t bingo gold here...

either that or a load of profanisaurus entries. anyway:
'i can explain it to you, but i can't understand it for you'
'keep up the work'


 
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[url= http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/n/napoleon_bonaparte.html ]Old Boney has a few favourites[/url]


 
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"Thick as a whale omelette"

"how can I soar with the eagles when I'm surrounded by turkeys?"

"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, you're a mile away, and you have his shoes."


 
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Stop digging when you're in a hole.


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 9:30 pm
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You can out lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.

Seems to sum up a whole range of work and life issues!


 
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I like a few actually -

"Colder than a witches tit" - when refering to cold stuff.

"I've seen more meat on a butchers pencil" - when refering to skinny folk.

"life is not a rehearsal"

"The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse to the trap gets the cheese"

"one life, live it"

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the Stars" - Oscar Wilde

"There is always hope"
Originally from Lord of the rings, but also made famous by Banksy.


 
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"At night all cats are grey"
"Don't trust anything that bleeds for a week and doesn't die"
"Is that acausal syncronicity or coincidence?"


 
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Nipples like chapel hat pegs


 
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Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

'theres no I in team'
'no, but there is a me'


 
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What's the beef, chief?

Also, although I have tried to stop it:

You can't fight city hall.


 
Posted : 15/04/2013 9:42 pm
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Face like a haunted cave is ace, nicking that. 🙂

I quite like 'delusions of adequacy'.


 
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Is that supposed to happen?


 
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'theres no I in team'

Overheard- "There's no U in team either"


 
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Shaking like Jesus on a jelly cross.


 
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Shaking like Jesus on a jelly cross.

Marvellous


 
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I'm not bald, it's a solar panel for a sex machine.


 
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I'm not bald, it's a solar panel for a sex machine.

"But it's night!"

"I know :("


 
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old fave from my dear old departed mate Nobby

You might as well have a pi55 in your best hat 😀

And new addition

as blind as a welders dog

enjoyed "face like a haunted cave"
reminded me of a mate in Glasgow telling me about a girl he was seeing with dodgy teeth...

She had a mouth like a blown fuse box....


 
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Shaking like a shitting dog.

Upon leaving the bathroom...I should give it a minute if i were you.


 
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