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question for fellow Britons
Topic Started: Jun 7 2006, 10:32 AM (217 Views)
jazzyd
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Junior Carp
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...)

One has a stronger hand when there's more people playing your same cards.
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***musical princess***
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HOLY CARP!!!
Mmm... nope... don't think so.

I've heard of 'up the dooney' but i think that's Irish in origin...

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Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
Pretty strange phrases for broken. Why not just go with FUBAR?
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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John D'Oh
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Jun 7 2006, 03:46 PM
Mmm... nope... don't think so.

I've heard of 'up the dooney' but i think that's Irish in origin...

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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?
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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musicasacra
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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
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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!
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
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John D'Oh
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MAMIL
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Jun 7 2006, 05:26 PM
Remember the Squeeze?

[snip]

I'M REALLY UP THE JUNCTION!

That's funny, I thought of that song when I posted. Jools Holland - a fine pianist.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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LWpianistin
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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.
And how are you today?
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