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That was so good Nanado I love anything like that I read them all..Thank!

cheelu What does your gran's favourite saying actually mean? What sort of everything? What sort of importance? This isn't look before you leap or every mickle makes a muckle is it? Quite clearly everything does not have importance so what is at the heart of this? Totally confused.

Sayings, as you know, absent, often don't bear close examination. Anyone got examples of incomprehensible 'received wisdom'?

Cheap at half the price. What's that all about?

On second thoughts, I can see that it could mean something would be cheap if it were half its price, but the phrase is usually used to indicate the opposite...

I've always wondered about that one, Ana - it would have to be 'cheap at double the price' for it to mean what it's supposed to mean .

Ee I'll go to the foot of our stairs.

What does 'queer as Dick's hatband' mean?

Nanado if we told you that we'd have to shoot you.

Actually I haven't the faintest idea

Found this.

dix

absent it means that ... taking out the trash is a horrible meanual job but it is just as important as anything else you do in your day as NOT taking it out every day would be nasty doyou get me though!!!!

I get what you mean, cheelu.

Perhaps your Nan was a student of Zen, cheelu

Trust me she wasnt, that was a nice saying that she had-- her others would give you nightmares....

How was it nice? Just a statement, I'd have thought.

Ariadne

Ariadne: red pens at dawn?

Ok Ariadne I have tried to ignore you but it has not worked So--

do you have the balls to tell me what your problem with me is???

you feel you have a bit of back up now and like a bully it has given you a bit of courage to say more.

So I am waiting

Careful now Ted. (as in Father)

Ariadne is not, never has been and never will be a bully.