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**grannymh** · #46 Sep 17, '11, 3:20 am

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Originally Posted by The Reginator

Two "checks"...
Two checks on what? One check on their service and one check on their building standards? What else may you have been checking for?
If you want to cover your mortgage payments you'd better start giving them proper cheques instead.

Instead of proper --what are cheques? Are they the people who stand in queues?

**Peggy in Burien** · #47 Sep 17, '11, 1:10 pm

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Instead of proper --what are cheques? Are they the people who stand in queues?

Must be the same folks. Those Brits, Aussies, and Canucks love to add all kinds of useless letters to their words. Makes them feel all special and fancy, you know. While we Yanks have cleaned up our spellings; made them more streamlined. Uses less ink.

You will note, though, that in their reknowned politeness, none of them (or you, either, Queen Mum Granny) have asked why on Titan I had to hand over two checks, cheques, Czechs, after standing in line in the queue.

**grannymh** · #48 Sep 17, '11, 1:46 pm

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Originally Posted by Peggy in Burien

Must be the same folks. Those Brits, Aussies, and Canucks love to add all kinds of useless letters to their words. Makes them feel all special and fancy, you know. While we Yanks have cleaned up our spellings; made them more streamlined. Uses less ink.

You will note, though, that in their reknowned politeness, none of them (or you, either, Queen Mum Granny) have asked why on Titan I had to hand over two checks, cheques, Czechs, after standing in line in the queue.

Queen Mum Granny -- I like that. I seem to remember that something was said about two accounts and that you were robbing Peter to pay Paul who was the person who insisted on the correct amount. But if that is so, then you were handing over three checkers.

**Peggy in Burien** · #49 Sep 17, '11, 1:52 pm

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Queen Mum Granny -- I like that. I seem to remember that something was said about two accounts and that you were robbing Peter to pay Paul who was the person who insisted on the correct amount. But if that is so, then you were handing over three checkers.

No, Queen Mum Granny, only two checks were handed over. I didn't rob Peter or Paul, as they are both as poor as church mice. The teller let me correct and initial the one check, to make up the dollar.

**grannymh** · #50 Sep 17, '11, 2:12 pm

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Originally Posted by Peggy in Burien

No, Queen Mum Granny, only two checks were handed over. I didn't rob Peter or Paul, as they are both as poor as church mice. The teller let me correct and initial the one check, to make up the dollar.

Make up the dollar.

Oh my poor heart. How many times have I told you that if you are going to counterfit money, do it in big amounts. Them dollars aren't worth the extra pennies that teller told you about. As my Irish Mum would say (and I am not making this up) one might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb.

**Peggy in Burien** · #51 Sep 17, '11, 2:15 pm

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Make up the dollar.

Oh my poor heart. How many times have I told you that if you are going to counterfit money, do it in big amounts. Them dollars aren't worth the extra pennies that teller told you about. As my Irish Mum would say (and I am not making this up) one might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb.

LOL! I wonder what the young teller would have done if I had handed him the change in my purse? I already felt like the kid in the early 1960s CrackerJack commercial.

John21652 · #52 Sep 17, '11, 11:53 pm

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Originally Posted by grannymh

Make up the dollar.

Oh my poor heart. How many times have I told you that if you are going to counterfit money, do it in big amounts. Them dollars aren't worth the extra pennies that teller told you about. As my Irish Mum would say (and I am not making this up) one might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb.

That's a great saying in our family as well. Being totally of Irish descent on both sides of the family and all...I think it's what our Royal forbears used to tell the peasants who got caught stealing our sheep.

**Peggy in Burien** · #53 Sep 18, '11, 12:09 am

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That's a great saying in our family as well. Being totally of Irish descent on both sides of the family and all...I think it's what our Royal forbears used to tell the peasants who got caught stealing our sheep.

My Irish Grammer had the same saying, too.

**grannymh** · #54 Sep 18, '11, 8:51 pm

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That's a great saying in our family as well. Being totally of Irish descent on both sides of the family and all...I think it's what our Royal forbears used to tell the peasants who got caught stealing our sheep.

Here's another saying of my Irish Mother. I didn't figure it out until I was on my own working.

She would say: Even the worst of us can serve as a good example.

**Peggy in Burien** · #55 Sep 19, '11, 12:30 am

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Here's another saying of my Irish Mother. I didn't figure it out until I was on my own working.

She would say: Even the worst of us can serve as a good example.

Love it!!

My Irish Grammer's favorite: (when we finally found something) If it'd been a snake, it would have bit you!

John21652 · #56 Sep 19, '11, 4:11 pm

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Here's another saying of my Irish Mother. I didn't figure it out until I was on my own working.

She would say: Even the worst of us can serve as a good example.

In contemporary society, she would probably say that a good example is set when the worst of us are culled!

John21652 · #57 Sep 19, '11, 4:13 pm

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Love it!!

My Irish Grammer's favorite: (when we finally found something) If it'd been a snake, it would have bit you!

My grandma of Irish descent used to say about another person, "He wouldn't say it even if he stood in it"!

**Peggy in Burien** · #58 Sep 19, '11, 4:17 pm

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My grandma of Irish descent used to say about another person, "He wouldn't say it even if he stood in it"!

Haven't heard that one, but makes sense, as all Irish grandmothers do!

The other favourite was:

Let sleeping dogs and children lie.

I always wondered why I got in trouble for lying!

John21652 · #59 Sep 19, '11, 5:09 pm

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Haven't heard that one, but makes sense, as all Irish grandmothers do!

The other favourite was:

Let sleeping dogs and children lie.

I always wondered why I got in trouble for lying!

Let me guess - you woke the dog and wouldn't own up!

**grannymh** · #60 Sep 19, '11, 5:13 pm

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My grandma of Irish descent used to say about another person, "He wouldn't say it even if he stood in it"!

To which my brother would stand on a chair.