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Thread #105437   Message #2172573
Posted By: The Sandman
16-Oct-07 - 05:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Those handy UK expressions...
Subject: RE: BS: Those handy UK expressions...
as Fly as a Fifer.reference to those people from Fife in Scotland,who have a reputation for being extremely cute/tricky/ clever.
also you need a long spoon to sup with a Fifer.
If you wereto walk up the apple and pears, to clean your hampsteads,and you put your bobby sands in your sky rocket,when you got a call on the dog and bone,just as you were about to have a jimmy riddle,which caused your trouble and strife,to give you a bunch of fives and two black mutton pies.TRANSLATION,youwere going up the stairs,to clean yourteeth,you put your hands in your pocket,when you got a call on the phone,just as you were about to have a piddle,which caused your wife to hit you hard with her fist,and give you two black eyes.