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Sometimes, just sometimes, old people say something worth listening to. Ok, so it's like picking the needle out of a whole haystack of mis-remembered war stories, but those gems should be celebrated.

Tell us something worthwhile an old-type person has told you.

Note, we're leaving the definition of old up to you, you smooth-skinned youngsters.

(, Thu 19 Jun 2008, 16:16)
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Cooking
If it's brown you're fine, if it's black you're buggered.

Compliments of my now deceased Great Gran

this culinary mantra has yet to fail me.
(, Sun 22 Jun 2008, 0:38, 5 replies)
Doesn't really work
For black pudding though.
(, Sun 22 Jun 2008, 17:53, closed)
nans
thats almost what my nan told me....

her advice was when its brown its done and when its black its fucked!
(, Sun 22 Jun 2008, 19:38, closed)
my gran once told me
apropos of making toast

"When it's black it's done, when it's burnt it's buggered."
(, Sun 22 Jun 2008, 19:41, closed)
nah
This rhymes! Got this from a chemical plant supervisor,

"If it's brown it's cooked, if it's black it's fooked" (he was from Yorkshire).
(, Mon 23 Jun 2008, 10:38, closed)
Reminds me of a poem from school
Be accurate when cooking toast,
Never try to guess.
Cook it till it smokes,
then twenty seconds less.
(, Mon 23 Jun 2008, 12:43, closed)

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