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Descriptive or amusing phrases#737733

ByRob S-Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:52 pm

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Anyone got an good ones? Two that spring to mind are:

'Sweating like a scouser in Dixon's'

And when trying to make the best of a bad situation 'are we just rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic?'

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Re: Descriptive or amusing phrases#737746

ByIrv Lee-Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:09 pm

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or 'good' chat up lines....

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Re: Descriptive or amusing phrases#737748

ByJim Jones-Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:11 pm

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Rob Swrote:'Sweating like a scouser in Dixon's'

Eh lar! Youse is ony allowed to say dat if youse is a scouser too. Show us yer crreddentials or shut it!

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Re: Descriptive or amusing phrases#737765

ByRob S-Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:30 pm

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Two scousers in the Army, one is writing home:

'Hey mate how d'you spell 'darrell'?'

'Wot you mean 'darrell'?'

'As in 'Dear Mum please send me some socks darrell' fit me'

'You thicko, it 'worrell' not 'darrell' '

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Re: Descriptive or amusing phrases#737780

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Sweating like a paedophile on a school bus?

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Re: Descriptive or amusing phrases#737786

ByJosh-Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:14 pm

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Sweating like a blind lesbian in a fish shop

Sweating like a marine on mastermind

Sweating like a squaddie in a maths test

There are tons of them - any good Sergeant Major type person can reel them off for hours. Blackadder's a good source of silly phrases too:

'We're in the stickiest situation since sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun' - try saying that after a few sherberts.

On the chat up line front, how do you get a girl to ask you what you do (allowing the obvious "I'm a pilot" type stuff). Is this something that's covered during the ATPLs or on the CPL/IR/MCC courses?

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ByJim Jones-Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:17 pm

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Rob Swrote:Two scousers in the Army, one is writing home:

'Hey mate how d'you spell 'darrell'?'

'Wot you mean 'darrell'?'

'As in 'Dear Mum please send me some socks darrell' fit me'

'You thicko, it 'worrell' not 'darrell' '

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Re: Descriptive or amusing phrases#737805

Bywessex boy-Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:52 pm

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From my Rock Ape Weapons Instructor at Swinderby:

When I say go I want you shower over there:
(either)
at the speed of a thousand gazelles
(or)
Like Greased Weasel **** off a very shiny shovel

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Re: Descriptive or amusing phrases#737806

ByDave W-Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:56 pm

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More Blackadder - my favourites:

"More cunning than a fox who's just been elected Professor of Cunning at Oxfrod University"

"Madder than Mad Jock McMad, winner of the All-Scotland "Mr Mad" competition."

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Re: Descriptive or amusing phrases#737819

ByRob S-Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:25 pm

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Wetter than a haddock's bathing costume

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Re: Descriptive or amusing phrases#737822

Byharry remmington-Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:30 pm

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"Its a fair cop guv"

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Re: Descriptive or amusing phrases#737823

Bynoblelordflash-Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:31 pm

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as popular as the smoking class on the hindenburg...

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Re: Descriptive or amusing phrases#737825

ByDave W-Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:33 pm

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For the absolute top-quality stuff, wile away some hours with the Random Wodehouse Quote site. Magic. Descriptive or amusing phrases (19)

His whole attitude was like that of a policeman with nothing on his mind but his helmet.
Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing glove.
Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.
It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

And, in honour of another of today's threads:

Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of his salad.

Finally, although not that descriptive, but just because I enjoy it so:

It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.

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Re: Descriptive or amusing phrases#737834

ByVince C-Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:00 pm

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More from Blackadder:

Baldric, that is the worst plan since Abe Lincoln said to his wife,"I'm sick of sitting around the house, let's catch a show"

Bob: "I wanted to see a war run so badly."
EB: "Well you've come to the right place, then. There hasn't been a war run this badly since Olaf the hairy, King of all the vikings, ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside."

"The chances of you getting a girlfriend are lower than the ankle socks on a particularly short gnat. Who is standing in a ditch....... In a valley. ....... In the low-countries."

Sent from my Bardic lamp held out of the window of a Churnet Valley signal box.

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Re: Descriptive or amusing phrases#737847

ByIrv Lee-Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:36 pm

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Jwscudwrote:On the chat up line front, how do you get a girl to ask you what you do (allowing the obvious "I'm a pilot" type stuff). Is this something that's covered during the ATPLs or on the CPL/IR/MCC courses?

Getting a woman to ask what you do is not in ATPLs because if you are an ATPL, you'd have already told her as part of the sentence that starts with 'hello'.

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