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loulou · « **Reply #15 on:** January 05, 2006, 01:03:46 pm »

All those mince pies he eats.

smurfboy · « **Reply #16 on:** January 05, 2006, 01:21:28 pm »

I couldn't decide whether to say a pic of Santa or a big Santa, so I said a bit of both.

loulou · « **Reply #17 on:** January 05, 2006, 01:36:13 pm »

I knew that really

chocolate chick · « **Reply #18 on:** January 05, 2006, 02:44:37 pm »

Think of all the chocolate you could buy in Woolies for £6.40, never mind £8.00.

The selection boxes are £5 on the Man Utd website.

kermie · « **Reply #19 on:** January 05, 2006, 05:15:59 pm »

wouldn't touch anything with a man u theme with a barge pole!!

would rather have a block of dairy milk crunchie

loulou · « **Reply #20 on:** January 06, 2006, 12:30:49 pm »

Do you own a barge pole then?

goldencup · « **Reply #21 on:** January 06, 2006, 07:10:30 pm »

Doesn't everybody? I have one in pink.

oldspice · « **Reply #22 on:** January 07, 2006, 09:43:56 am »

Isn't it funny what we say? i mean people use that phrase as if they habitually carry a barge pole around with them. Another phrase that makes me giggle is "he wouldn't say boo to a goose". Well neither would 1! What would be the point? Why would anybody bother?

(Anyway, geese can be quite agressive so if you did try to startle one they might turn nasty!)

goldencup · « **Reply #23 on:** January 07, 2006, 02:53:44 pm »

There are all sorts like that when you start thinking about them. I always used to be amused at my father-in-law forever telling my kids they'd "have somebody's eye out in a minute" if they were carrying something remotely awkward. The one I definitely don't say anymore is "killing two birds with one stone." It's mind-boggling that presumably that was once seen as a good thing.

oldspice · « **Reply #24 on:** January 07, 2006, 06:21:00 pm »

And what about "he could talk the hind leg off a donkey". Why is the hind leg more challenging than the front leg and why a donkey? isn't it just as difficult to talk the hind leg off a cow, pig, sheep or any other four-legged animal?

goldencup · « **Reply #25 on:** January 07, 2006, 07:02:06 pm »

Somehow, "He could talk the limb off an animal" doesn't have the same ring to it though.

loulou · « **Reply #26 on:** January 07, 2006, 07:32:50 pm »

He could talk the trotter off a pig.

goldencup · « **Reply #27 on:** January 07, 2006, 08:30:23 pm »

Or the trunk off an elephant.

oldspice · « **Reply #28 on:** January 08, 2006, 10:30:41 am »

I adore donkeys.

chocoboo · « **Reply #29 on:** January 08, 2006, 10:34:19 am »

Yes, they are sort of cute

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