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- Date is exactly "1910-1940"
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"Now that you've examined my wife, what is your opinion, doctor?" "Crikey! I'm no doctor - I'm the piano tuner!"
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"Now, which of you is going to be Mother?"
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"Oh George, let's get married!" "Why, Lizzie, what harm have I ever done you?"
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"Oh, painter, I want you to touch up the place where my husband put his hand last night!
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"P'raps I can have my bath while you're having your lunch?" "That's O.K. with me, Mum, so long as you don't splash me dinner!"
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"Porter, will you put my bags up for me, please?"
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"She says her holiday cost her her reputation." "She had a pretty cheap holiday, then!"
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"So Miss Ethel is your eldest sister, is she, and who comes after her?" "Nobody ain't come yet, but father says the first fellow that does can have her."
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"So you've been to the dogs, have you? What kind of dogs have long golden hair?" "Pekinese!"
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"Talking of shocks, I got a terrible fright on my wedding day." "I know it, old chap - I've seen her!"
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"That was a splendid sermon of yours on the foolish virgin - I'm rather afraid I'm one myself!"
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"That's a funny thing to do, isn't it, old girl?" "What is?" "Well, he's biting her corns out, ain't he?"
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"That's not Daddy, duck, that's a gentleman."
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"That's right little hen! Rather death than dishonour!!"
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"The girls set their caps at boys when you were young, Auntie." "Yes, but not their kneecaps."
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"The Little Mother's Club meets every Friday at 4:30. Any young lady wishing to become a little mother should follow me to my study after the meeting."
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"There, my son - if it hadn't been for that old style, you wouldn't have been here!"
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"There's one of the gentlemen in, Ma'am -- I can see his bald head!" "Good heavens, woman! You haven't a bald-headed man staying here!"
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"Third single pleash." "What station?" "Well, what stationsh 'ave you got?"
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"Well, Bill, if that's the ideal woman they made a 'orrible mess o' my old bundle o' trouble!"
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"Well, it's your own fault - you shouldn't let him bite your shoulder!"
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"What are you going to do with that?" "Put it on the rhubarb!" "Oh! We have custard with ours!"
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"What are you thinking about, Jack?" "Same as you, dear!" "If you do, I'll slap your face!"
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"What are your intentions towards my daughter, young man?" "Well, Sir, I hardly like telling you."
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"What do you think of 'er, Bill?" "Not much! Too top-heavy for my liking!"
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"What have you stopped for?" "Why, I heard the lady say stop!" "Well, you stick to your job, she wasn't talking to you!"
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"What on earth do I pay you £10 a week for?" "I can't conceive!"
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"What's my stance like, caddie?" "Better ask the gents, lady, they've a better view than I have!"
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"What's the matter with this poor fellow?" "He went balmy because the girl he loved married another." "And what's the matter with the next man?" "He's raving mad. He's the one the girl married!"
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"When my husband signed the pledge, I was so pleased that I threw my arms round his neck and kissed him!" "An' serve him right, Mum!"
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"Where are your bowels, Johnny Smith?" "Don't know Sir, mother moves em every Wednesday!"
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"Where did you pick ''em up, old man?" "Cowes." "I know-but where did you pick 'em up?"
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"Why do you want sixpence for your manure this time? You only charged me threepence for the last!" "I know, Sir, but I've lost me shovel, and this is all hand-picked!"
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"Will you be very long Sir, 'cos missus is waitin' for your sheet to lay the brekfuss!"
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"Yes, I want a typist. Are you expert?" "Yes, Sir - and I'm very fast." "Nothing doing, my dear - I'm married!"
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"Yes, I'll take the flat it you'll put me in a bath!"
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"You advised me to give my husband plenty of rope; well, I did, and he skipped!"
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"You haven't walked through the streets with that in your hand?" "No, you fool, I came on the tram!"
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"You know all about stuffing birds, Mister?" "I certainly do, Son!" "Well then, you know where you can stuff this one!!"
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"You know, Miss Haybag, like all explorers it is my ambition to penetrate parts where no man has been before!"
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"You smell very nice, Vicar… do you have violet in your bath?" "I do not, Mrs. Nosegay… I don't know anyone by that name!"
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"You were going at 50 miles an hour." "How wonderful, officer! And I only learned to drive yesterday!"
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"You're getting fatter, George or it's my imagination!" "Well, it's your imagination, lass!"
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"You're looking better, old boy - how's the old complaint?" "She died a month ago, old man!"
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"Yus, the doctor says as'ow I wanted a 'opium' medicine as I'm a bit consecrated.'"
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A night at the movies in Aberdeen!
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Actions speak louder than words
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All sorts of things come out on the courts!
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Anyhow, it's better to be a good old "has been" than a "never was'er!"
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Auntie, does that policeman want to leave the room?
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