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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2017 1:00:09 GMT
Picking dandelions makes you pee yourself Interesting one, possibly partly based in fact. The alkaloid things in the milky sap and root are diuretics, kind of a caffeine substitute and that. Pick enough and lick yer fingers and you may indeed piss yer pants. I believe you may be right there  |
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Jul 1, 2017 1:07:59 GMT
Interesting one, possibly partly based in fact. The alkaloid things in the milky sap and root are diuretics, kind of a caffeine substitute and that. Pick enough and lick yer fingers and you may indeed piss yer pants. I believe you may be right there Lion's Teeth. Underrated salad leaf. Trimmed off the sappy veins. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2017 1:09:58 GMT
I believe you may be right there Lion's Teeth. Underrated salad leaf. Trimmed off the sappy veins. I take your word on that mate ....are you a forrager ? |
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Jul 1, 2017 1:19:07 GMT
Lion's Teeth. Underrated salad leaf. Trimmed off the sappy veins. I take your word on that mate ....are you a forrager ? Yes mate. Supplementary. |
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Post by chuffedstokie on Jul 2, 2017 16:41:22 GMT
Happy as Larry.
Who's Larry and why was he so made up.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2017 17:40:26 GMT
Happy as Larry. Who's Larry and why was he so made up. This always baffled me as well but having just googled it I found the following explanation which may or may not be correct. OriginLarry - certainly the best known character in the world of similes. The expression he instigated is most likely to be of Australian or New Zealand origin. The earliest printed reference currently known is from the New Zealand writer G. L. Meredith, dating from around 1875: "We would be as happy as Larry if it were not for the rats". Almost all the other early citations are from Australia or New Zealand; for example, this from Tom Collins (the pen name of the popular Australian writer Joseph Furphy), in Barrier Truth, 1903: "Now that the adventure was drawing to an end, I found a peace of mind that all the old fogies on the river couldn't disturb. I was as happy as Larry." But who was Larry? There are two commonly espoused contenders. One is the Australian boxer Larry Foley (1847 - 1917). Foley was a successful pugilist who never lost a fight. He retired at 32 and collected a purse of £1,000 for his final fight. So, we can expect that he was known to be happy with his lot in the 1870s - just when the phrase is first cited. The alternative explanation is that it relates to the Cornish and later Australian/New Zealand slang term 'larrikin', meaning a rough type or hooligan, that is, one predisposed to larking about. 'Larrikin' would have been a term that Meredith would have known - the earliest printed reference is also from New Zealand and around the time of the first citation, in H. W. Harper's Letters from New Zealand, 1868: "We are beset with larrikins, who lurk about in the darkness and deliver every sort of attack on the walls and roof with stones and sticks." |
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Post by The Drunken Communist on Jul 2, 2017 17:49:14 GMT
Conna have nowt eat before you have a bath or you'll drown. I used to always get that one on a Sunday when I'd been playing nogga down the fields all day, come home starving but always get told I've got have a bath first 'cos I'll drown if I have me tea fost.
And I'd always get told my face would stick like that if the wind changed when I used to make bozz eyes.
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