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MissAdventure Thu 21-Apr-22 16:58:07

My neighbour has just been in, and told me so-and-so has had another heart attack.

Her verdict is that they need a stencil. smile

BBbevan Thu 21-Apr-22 20:46:10

We always have desecrated coconut in our house.

MissAdventure Fri 22-Apr-22 00:09:51

I've just remembered my aunt, who had a very dominant husband, and stayed mostly indoors for the whole of her marriage.

Her husband liked her hair long, but she yearned for a short, spiky style.

When he died, she plucked up all of her courage, caught the bus, (practising what to say all the way there) and went into the hairdressers.

She went up to the counter and blurted out "I want a cut and a blow job, please!"

Ro60 Fri 22-Apr-22 01:52:48

"The Hells Angel nearly hit me as he shot passed with his pavilion passenger" commented a friend.

Marmight Fri 22-Apr-22 02:11:02

A friend told me that her husband was decorating the dining room and was fitting a dildo blush

Many years ago at a tennis tournament a school friend (who later became a well known actress) announced in a very loud voice that she was ‘absolutely ravishing’ and could eat a horse.

Marmight Fri 22-Apr-22 02:26:44

I have a very good friend (aka Mrs Malaprop) who comes out with some crackers

“My brother went skinny dipping with no clothes on”

Pointing out the desalination plant near her house “that’s the salutation plant”

“Can you smell the chloroform in the pool?”

“He got his guns out”. ( it was a stick up!)

Nannee49 Fri 22-Apr-22 05:35:45

I once worked someone who was so crazy about her boyfriend she put him on a peder stool.

vegansrock Fri 22-Apr-22 05:38:34

In an exam I was marking one candidate had written that “some people have low self of steam”

MissChateline Fri 22-Apr-22 07:10:08

A friend of mine one described another friend as being a very articulated lady !

JackyB Fri 22-Apr-22 09:14:44

My sister and I used to smile when our DM admired her own finger nails (which had always been long and strong) but which were particularly long in her old age (probably due to prescribed Vitamin D and home help to do the washing up)

She would boast about how "virile" she was!

I must add that otherwise, right up almost until the end, she had a very wide and erudite vocabulary.

timetogo2016 Fri 22-Apr-22 09:28:46

Someone i worked with was buying cream cakes for everyone and told the shop assistant that she doesn`t want the ones with sympathetic cream.

grumppa Fri 22-Apr-22 10:33:01

DMIL lived in fear of contracting osteopsoriasis.

MawtheMerrier Fri 22-Apr-22 10:45:20

Just today, I read of somebody wanting to dissemble
- I don’t get pretending to be a greenhouse?

Gin Fri 22-Apr-22 10:46:29

A friend talking of her grandson’s tantrums ‘He’s just going through a phrase’!

Pepper59 Fri 22-Apr-22 10:50:00

A really funny thread,I cannot think of a contribution but enjoyed reading these.

Ro60 Sat 23-Apr-22 01:35:40

My friends Mum had invited her son's girlfriend for Sunday Lunch " .... but she's got that disease - she's a vegetarian "

Esmay Sat 23-Apr-22 04:01:28

I have a lovely friend who says things like, this room is big for the size .
I'm fact that's what we called her for years.

She admired the artwork that I did in the house and wanted me to paint one of "them Muriels" on her son's bedroom walls .
She was concerned about his night terrors when I pointed out that Tyrannosaurus Rex on the ceiling wasn't such a great idea.

Esmay Sat 23-Apr-22 04:08:27

I've just remembered another gem - on holiday in Africa she was thrilled to see a of them gazebos
.
I hope that she never changes .I love her true Cockney accent and the endless malapropisms .

Alioop Sun 24-Apr-22 11:14:30

When my mum told people my uncle had dementia she rolled her tongue so it sounded like dementhia, just like the Spanish pronounce Valencia.

Netty63 Sun 24-Apr-22 11:14:32

My Brother was in hospital, according to my mother he needed a sirloin drip.

inishowen Sun 24-Apr-22 11:23:58

Years ago in tesco I heard a woman say she was going to buy automatic duck. (Aromatic duck). Every since we've called it automatic duck!

NemosMum Sun 24-Apr-22 11:25:35

I was a Speech and Language Therapist. One mother told me that her three year old's delayed speech was due to his swollen androids (good job I'd practised the straight face). Lots of other drollery through the years that makes me smile now, but I'm sure we have all made errors from time to time.

HLP909 Sun 24-Apr-22 11:26:19

My MIL was very pleased with her new bisexual jeans....

WoodLane7 Sun 24-Apr-22 11:29:51

My friend's neighbour was told by the GP her triglycerades were high - reported back to my friend as her triangles being high

ginny Sun 24-Apr-22 11:32:01

A colleague once told me that he had been made an escaped goat.

Quaver22 Sun 24-Apr-22 11:35:29

A pupil one told me he had been using “ metal fluff “ in his technology lesson. He meant wire wool!