Then there were all the different ways you could tell someone to shut up. Life was talkative in those pre-TV days, families would gather around the radio after dinner to listen to their favourite serial.
Three I remember with mingled affection & alarm:
Oh, dry up!
Put a sock in it!
&
(my favourite):
Give it a bone!
... as if the voice were a barking dog, I guess.
& maybe it is.
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... who knows what other travellers might not have set out with a wild surmise for these shores? Looking perhaps for Luca Antara; perhaps just for the day after tomorrow.
- Martin Edmond
- Schizoid Antipodean
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2 comments:
It's not fair.
No, looking outside It's dark.
While doing the dishes, between five children, we had a standard joke that had to be embedded.
Why do you have a banana in your ear?
Sorry I can't hear you, you see I have a banana in my ear.
The joke was always lurking, it was dependent on waiting for the others to have forgotten for a nanosecond, then...
Sorry I can't hear you, you see...
"How much is that doggie?"
on the radio, and radio serials....
there were so many ... sayings. Another fave: If I never see you again, it'll be too soon.
or this one:
Hey, face-ache!
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