BS: Tightwads All

Subject: BS: Tightwads All
From: jimlad9
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 07:46 AM

A man I worked with was so tight he could peel an Orange in his pocket.

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 11:28 AM

My dad was so tight, when he took a note out of his wallet, the queen would say 'what's that bright light?'

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: Cluin
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 11:30 AM

My uncle used to say of another uncle, "He's so tight, he sqeaks."

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: Slag
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 01:55 PM

Save ions, eliminate the "u" s after the "q"s. That's tite!

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: Megan L
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 02:01 PM

our landlord was closer tae a five pound note than the duke of wellington (Scots notes)

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: fat B****rd
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 02:51 PM

Disgusting one "That b****rd wouldn't give you the cheese off his
foreskin"

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 02:53 PM

My stepson recently applied for a job with Yorkshire Bank. He has been told to expect a letter from Glasgow.
I was wondering, are we Tykes so careful with money that we've got to employ Scotsmen to be tight for us?
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: Alec
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 02:57 PM

"If you asked him the time,he'd bill you for the information."

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: Don Firth
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 03:01 PM

Hand him a nickel and he'd grab it so tight he'd make the buffalo fart.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 03:04 PM

I knew someone who held onto money so tightly that George Washington's picture on a dollar bill turned blue.

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: gnomad
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 04:56 PM

Tight as a duck's arse, and that's watertight.

So tight he'd nip a currant in two.

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 05:07 PM

Old scots agricultural ........ "As tight as a bulls arse, goin' up a brae"

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: bubblyrat
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 05:27 PM

"As tight as a gnat"s chuff !"----Steptoe & Son

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 07:24 PM

Ever git my han' on a dollar agin,
I'm gonna squeeze and squeeze it, 'til that eagle grins...."


Bessie Smith

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 05:56 AM

He's so tight he only breathes in.

Copper wire was invented by a Scotsman and a jew arguing over a farthing.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: bubblyrat
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 08:05 AM

" He"s got a grip like a Scotsman on a five pound note " as they say in Yorkshire.

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 08:33 AM

Isn't that a line out of Paddy McGinty's Goat?

Rhiannon

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: JennyO
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 10:01 AM

John always describes a Yorkshireman as a Scot with all the generosity squeezed out.

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: jimlad9
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 11:59 AM

He never buys wrapped sweets.

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 03:05 PM

"Tightwad" is a marvelous word! ;-) Here's another one. "Skinflint".

The greatest tightwads in cartoon history were and are Scrooge McDuck and his eternal rival, Flintheart Glomgold....both ducks, both auld and crabby, both frae Scotland.

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 04:34 PM

so many tightwads in the old thread Scottish humor

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: Bainbo
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 04:36 PM

Lovely to see you. Come in, come in.            You'll have had your tea?

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 04:58 PM

From W.O. Mitchell:
"Tighter`n a bull's ass in fly season"

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 05:04 PM

Here's some tea...one lump or none?

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 05:10 PM

Went to a wedding reception a few years ago that was catered by (I'm not kidding) KFC. The servers asked, "One piece of chicken or two?"

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: Becca72
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 05:11 PM

"he' so tight if you shoved a lump of coal up his arse in 2 weeks you'd have a diamond"

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: David C. Carter
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 07:33 PM

"He's as tight as a camel's arse in a sand storm"

Subject: RE: BS: Tightwads All
From: fat B****rd
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 02:06 PM

Scottish guest at friend's for tea observes the tiny jar of honey "I see you keep a bee"