My grandfather used to come out with all that kind of nonsense...

"Aha he cried laughingly waving his wooden leg over the dustbin"

"Up again, off again, off like a deer. He fell down a coalmine and trod on his ear"

"Iv'e never seen anything like it since the monkey fought the cat in the dustbin and came out without a scratch"

I can't get access to any appropriate websites because I am at work but Billy Bennett seems to ring a bell as a source of this kind of stuff......