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big g wrote:I remember that Bert!

Thanks Big g,
so I'm not going doolally :)
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No you're not, but I sometimes wonder about me...... :roll: :(
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big g wrote:A jigger.......otherwise known as an entry .
Bit naughty this one, but "people" used to
"go up the jigger for a knee trembler" :oops: :oops:

Not me I'll have you know :D

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So glad to hear that Erika............................... :lol:
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erika wrote:
big g wrote:A jigger.......otherwise known as an entry .
Bit naughty this one, but "people" used to
"go up the jigger for a knee trembler" :oops: :oops:
:D
Did they really? So that's what herself and the Yank were doing when he threw a Hershey Bar and a pack of Camels at me and told me to 'get the h*ll outa here kid'! :shock: :oops:
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"dickiesam'Tough as Kitty's leg' was one of my Dad's sayings. I always thought it referred to a cat's leg which I believe are not at all meaty!
I didn't even think of a cat! makes sense though, I had imagined some woman with a wooden leg :lol:
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Tallyphone (instead of Telephone), my Grandfather use to call all telephones this (goes back to the times when nobody had their own [in House] telephone, and they had to use the nearest callbox.
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