Matt Monro Forum

Well, Marian suggested I start a new game off, but most music related games seem to have been started - and I'm not always around much to keep updating clues and such like, so how about this - sayings that you don't know the origin of, but you say it anyway. For example, my late Grandma had a couple of odd ones:

1) If you were being nosey and asking about who she was talking about (when you shouldn't have been listening the 1st place!), she would always reply 'Icky Boo - the fire bobby' - and thats all you'd get

2) If you asked her 'Why' continually her reply was 'Because there ain't no currants in a bladder of lard!'

She also had very strong opinions on service in shops, Bob Monkhouse, Cilla Black and decimalisation - but I'll save those for later! So come on everyone - what family sayings do you have? Can anyone shed any light on the ones above!?

Hi Mike--well you were quick off the mark to think of a different game. Your 2 suggestions really made me laugh. I shall have to try and think of something from way back.

Marian

Her sister, my Great Aunt Vera, would always point out if you were wearing new clothes, and say 'ooh - swank, swank, money in the bank'!

I always remember my grandma saying that the sleep you get BEFORE midnight does you more good than the sleep AFTER midnight only thing is, I haven't taken her advice on that

Hi Mike--i have not been able to come up with anything yet--mainly I suppose because I never knew any of my grandparents--nor did I have any great Aunts!!

The only thing I can remember , which is not exactly what you asked for, but it is the only thing I can think of at the moment, is my brother always used to call me "Pelican-Head". Don't ask me why--I do not know--but I can not ever remember him calling me by my proper name. funnily enough he never had nicknames for my sisters--just me

Marian

Did you like to eat a lot of fish in those days Marian

Mike , like Marian neither of us knew our grandparents or what their sayings might have been, but I remember very well when we were kids the old and familiar saying from my Mother... Children should be seen and not heard.!!

I remember my granny saying "Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs"! and "Can you hear me mother?" I've got a feeling the last one was a famous comedian's saying - was it Al Read?

Marian.

Hi Marian, " Can You Hear Me Mother, that was comedian Sandy Powell.
Al Read was.... Ave yer done and, That's the wife from the kitchen.
By the way Marian was you at the Reading Mecca bingo hall last night.? Prince William had a taste of eyes down there, but apparently didn't win and get the chance to shout.. Palace.!!!

My father, who is now dead, used to use the expression, "Never cast a clout till May if out", or soemthing like that. I don't know what it means though. Another one was "Red sky at night, shepherd's delight", though I think that one is slightly better known.

Thank you again Lena and Harry, you are a fountain of information!
You'll probably know this one too. Who was the lady who used to say "Can I do you now sir? I think it was on the Ted Ray show ' Ray's a Laugh.
Jon, I remember
Red sky at night, shepherd's delight,
Red Sky in the morning - Shepherd's warning,
but we used to add, Red Sky in the middle of the night - someone's set your barn alight!

Marian.

Lena and Harry, Forgot about the Bingo, no it wasn't me. I've been there once, a long time ago. Had no idea Prince William was there though - shame he didn't win!

Marian.

Shame he didn't win Marian?? hes got more brass than the rest of us put together Marian, apart from Edgar that is "Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs"

jon, "Neve cast a clout till May is out" means don't discard your winter clothing until May is out, as the weather at that time of the year is very unpredictable mind you the weather is unpredictable all the time, anyway, isn't it??

Hi again everyone.....I can remember my Gran saying to me that

she had saved me an EGG this week ! ......

Marian "Can I Do You Now Sir " was from the radio show" It's That Man Again" with comedian Tommy Handley, the show more famously known as 1TMA. in the 1940s and 50s
Dorothy Summers played the part of Mrs Mopp the office cleaner, who would enter Tommy Handleys office and say that phrase that would never fail to get a laugh. Another phrase that was used was TTFN, Ta Ta for now.
These were the days before television that kept us glued to the radio.
Angela we know what you mean about youre gran saving you an egg.
All part of rationing, Ahhh we remember it well.