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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 7 2006, 10:32 AM (217 Views) | |
| jazzyd | Jun 7 2006, 10:32 AM Post #1 |
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Junior Carp
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Are any of you familiar with the phrase "up the maggot's", i.e. broken? I thought it a fairly common one and was curious about its origins, but surprisingly I couldn't find any mention of it on the internet. (Yes, I'm really exploring the depths of the human condition tonight...) |
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| ***musical princess*** | Jun 7 2006, 11:46 AM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Mmm... nope... don't think so. I've heard of 'up the dooney' but i think that's Irish in origin... x |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jun 7 2006, 11:47 AM Post #3 |
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Pretty strange phrases for broken. Why not just go with FUBAR? |
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| John D'Oh | Jun 7 2006, 11:48 AM Post #4 |
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MAMIL
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Nothing here, either. 'Up the junction' is the closest I can think of. What part of the UK do they have this? |
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| musicasacra | Jun 7 2006, 12:15 PM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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this reminds of that character in Little Dorrit who traveled abroad and constantly spoke in English expressions and phrases, and he then complained when the locals couldn't understand him. |
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| Nobody's Sock | Jun 7 2006, 01:26 PM Post #6 |
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Remember the Squeeze? I never thought it would happen With me and the girl from clapham Out on a windy common That night I aint forgotten When she dealt out the rations With some or other passions I said you are a lady Perhaps she said I may be We moved into a basement With thoughts of our engagement We stayed in by the telly Although the room was smelly We spent our time just kissing The railway arms were missing But love had got us hooked up And all our time it took up I got a job with stanley He said Id come in handy And started me on monday So I had a bath on sunday I worked eleven hours And bought the girl some flowers She said shed seen a doctor And nothing now could stop her I worked all through the winter The weather brass and bitter I put away a tenner Each week to make her better And when the time was ready We had to sell the telly Late evenings by the fire With little kicks inside her This morning at 4:50 I took her rather nifty Down to an incubator Where thirty minutes later She gave birth to a daughter Within a year a walker She looked just like her mother If there could be another And now shes two years older Her mothers with a soldier She left me when my drinking Became a proper stinging The devil came and took me From bar to street to bookie No more nights by the telly No more nights nappies smelling Alone here in the kitchen I feel theres something missing Id beg for some forgiveness But beggings not my business And she wont write a letter Although I always tell her And so its my assumption I'M REALLY UP THE JUNCTION! |
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| John D'Oh | Jun 7 2006, 01:49 PM Post #7 |
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MAMIL
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That's funny, I thought of that song when I posted. Jools Holland - a fine pianist. |
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| LWpianistin | Jun 7 2006, 02:14 PM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Never heard of it. My dad and I met Jools Holland in a pub we frequent. It is right across the street from his (my dad's) old house (alley is more appropriate as it is about 8 feet wide). He seems kind of nice, but was strange as well. |
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