And other mis-quoted sayings!
I worked with someone who would say "Well, of course, it's catch 2" NO IT IS'NT, IT's CATCH 22!
Also "The proof is in the pudding" Actually, it's "the proof of the pudding is in the eating"
Then there was the chap who would refer to young "whippet snappers" (Perhaps I should have reported him to the RSPCA?) and another who once remarked that some such action resulted in "a human cry" (Took a minute or so to realise he meant "a hue and cry"
Please share yours, unless of course it's just me......
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I didn't know this absent. Our friend was obviously wiser than he knew as he has absolutely no knowledge of computers 
To be pacific I'm on tender hooks!
Oh, I'd almost forgotten the "tender hooks" ! And, of course the being "pacific" !
Then of course there is the husband of a friend who will say "when will they have the mouse to realise.........
feetlebaum i beg to contradict - I think 'hysterical rectummy' was one of Les Dawson's little plays on words when he played Ada - always accompanied by a hitching up of the vast bosooms! Hylda Baker was wonderful wasn't she - I often watch her stuff on Youtube.
My H has got prostrate trouble - he's always lying down.
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