did you ever have a little autograph book?

[crisgal]

I did, a small, leather bound one, with coloured pages. I was about ten, and all my old aunties and uncles spent boxing day writing things in.
My daughter brought me a little book today, and asked me to write something.
i could remember some of the little rhymes and wondered if anyone knew any more. Some samples to follow...

[crisgal]

If all the boys lived over the sea,
what a good swimmer our cris would be!

[TheWinner]

Yes.
One was:

"IF" you have a mother,
treasure her with care,
for you'll never know her value,
'till you see her empty chair.

This has never left me.

[crisgal]

My love is like a cabbage, this i cut in two.
The leaves i give to others, but the heart i give to you.

[crisgal]

AAh, that's a lovely one, thewinner!

[roslyn251254]

These are some from a VERY old autograph book!:
"May you remain unchanged in all except your name"
"By gum it's stuck" - next to it an old stamp of george Vl
"Hear all, see all, say nowt. Eat all, sup all, pay nowt. And if tha does owt for nowt, always do it for the sel!"
"The devil sent the wind to blow the ladies' clothes up high. But God was just and sent the dust to blind the bad man's eye!"
"If your face wants to smile, let it. if it doesn't , make it!"

[crisgal]

When grandma had her callers
they sat far apart like this.

Now when daughter's boyfriend visits
theysitclosetogetherlikethis!

[elliemay1]

Dublin on the Liffey
Cork on the Lee
???? on the sofa
With ???? on his knee.

[TheWinner]

Others were:

Don't make love at the garden gate,
Love is blind, but the neighbours ain't.

I love you,
I love you,
I love you almighty,
I wish your pajamas were next to my nightie,
Don't get mistaken,
Don't get mislead,
I meant on the clothes line,
and not on the bed.

[TheWinner]

I chose this page because it's pink,
but what to write, I cannot think,
so I will just sign my name................

(followed by their name)

[roslyn251254]

"This album is a garden plot where your friends may sow. I will plant forget-me-not and see if it will grow"

"When you are married and your husband is cross, just lift up the poker ans say I'm the boss!"

[Maydup]

By hook or by crook I'll be last in this book!

[crisgal]

I remember the gate one!
Some great ones here. I suppose they will just vanish with our generation :(

[plautus]

My mother had one. On the first page was written:

"By hook or by crook, I'll be first in your book."

[ELVIS68]

Funny you should mention this crisgal, my son went to his first football match last week and wanted a pad to get some autographs.

When I told him about the ones we had when we were kids and aunties and uncles used to sign he thought I was joking

And the one you said about if all the boys lived over the sea, I remember an aunt writing that in my sisters book.

lol, blast from the past

[roslyn251254]

"What , write in a book, where the girls all look, oh my, not I, so goodbye"

"Miss ... is your name, single is your station. Happy be the little man who makes the alteration"

[TheWinner]

On a brides wedding day:

Aisle
Alter
Hymn

[roslyn251254]

plautus ; someone squeezed one in earlier than yours "By egg or by bacon, you are mistaken!"

[roslyn251254]

"Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. it only doubles trouble and troubles others too"

[TheWinner]

Please note, these are sayings written in my autograph book by others, and were not written by me. If i remember any others, I will post them.

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if on this page you frown
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