'Too late she cried, as she waved her wooden leg!'
That's the way my Mum used to say it.
And 'No answer was the stern reply!'
Poor Marg wanted the answer in June 1997!
It was probably on the radio, in a pre-goon type recording. There were others....'You can't eat onions in an office! Up the river onions!' My late uncle (born 1925) had lots of little quotes like that and he'd pop them into the conversation at any opportunity.
Robyn