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True or false

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UzziAndHerDogs

UzziAndHerDogs Report 8 Jun 2009 19:33

this is where you make a ( sensible ) statement and ask true or false

like the TV programme I think from years ago


Okay

Boxing day is called that because the 3 wise men didn't arrive until after the birth of christ ( how could they the star didn't get there until he was born ) so anyway they arrived the next day and gave all the pressies ........pressies now come in boxes and ......




that is why the 26th Dec is called boxing day

over to the next one

Silly Sausage

Silly Sausage Report 8 Jun 2009 19:35

false

boxing day is called that because in the 1800's that when the sevrants in service got their pressys..

Frosty

Frosty Report 8 Jun 2009 19:42

True.

Now is it when raining cats and dogs, raining cats and dogs out of trees or raining mice and rats out of thatched roofs?

UzziAndHerDogs

UzziAndHerDogs Report 8 Jun 2009 19:47

True

it rains mice and rats from tatch roofs ...true

The animals lived in the thatch and when it rained they fell down



its called rule of the thumb ..because men were not allowed to beat their wifes with anything wider then their thumb

Silly Sausage

Silly Sausage Report 8 Jun 2009 19:49

the star was there they followed it Uzzi ** thumbs through bible **

UzziAndHerDogs

UzziAndHerDogs Report 8 Jun 2009 20:02

Yes but Hayley the star didn't arrive until he was born and as they lived more than a day away !!

UzziAndHerDogs

UzziAndHerDogs Report 8 Jun 2009 20:13

True or false


Adolph Hitler only had 1 b*ll or testicle ....as the song said

Mauatthecoast

Mauatthecoast Report 8 Jun 2009 23:54

True.. Alan
a blue moon is the second full moon in a calendar month


A hamlet is a vilage without a church?

UzziAndHerDogs

UzziAndHerDogs Report 9 Jun 2009 00:00

Mau I would say that was true apart from the fact the were religious

Mauatthecoast

Mauatthecoast Report 9 Jun 2009 00:06

It is true lol
the folk probably went to Church in the town ;O)

Mauatthecoast

Mauatthecoast Report 9 Jun 2009 00:14

hahaha clever clogs ;O) good one. I'm off to bed....night All
Mau xx

UzziAndHerDogs

UzziAndHerDogs Report 9 Jun 2009 00:17

Allan giggle allyou want


you have just reminded me of dad and his hamlets,not a memory I wish to lose, not the sense of humur for him ..after all I did play his coffin out to the Hamlet tune !


edit to say true or false ,,,would I use that tune ?

Annina

Annina Report 9 Jun 2009 13:14

True.
Cows lay down when its going to rain.

Berona

Berona Report 11 Jun 2009 00:12

False. Pigs don't fly.

Cats see in the dark.

False - they can't see any better than we can - they travel under cover of darkness in the hope that others can't see them.

Annina

Annina Report 11 Jun 2009 01:00

If you soak your feet in your own pee, it cures athletes foot.

Stevie

Stevie Report 11 Jun 2009 01:23

It's true Allan

Back to Anninas question;
False..............I've been trying it for years..........

God my feet stink. lol

Maccasfield has to be True..........As all the guys there where syrups. lol

True or False
Pull a grey hair out & two grey ones will replace it?

RodGee

RodGee Report 12 Jun 2009 22:16

yes true Macclesfield known as treacle town from when a load of treacle was spilled down a road

true or false local people are known as Maxonion