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malcolmbebb

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Re: Another silly idea ( or maybe not)
« Reply #20 on: October 19, 2015, 01:01:11 PM »
I have very faint recollections of hearing of a separate dealership called Koch. It's a common name "Cook".
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Re: Another silly idea ( or maybe not)
« Reply #21 on: October 22, 2015, 04:29:22 PM »
Quote from: malcolmbebb on October 19, 2015, 01:01:11 PM
I have very faint recollections of hearing of a separate dealership called Koch. It's a common name "Cook".

Hence the origins of the phrase ' Koching up a tune ' ? ;D
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Re: Another silly idea ( or maybe not)
« Reply #22 on: October 22, 2015, 04:41:21 PM »
More like "cocking" up a tune, for some of us, I'm sad to say.
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Re: Another silly idea ( or maybe not)
« Reply #23 on: October 22, 2015, 05:11:47 PM »
Never heard Cock o the South though.
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Re: Another silly idea ( or maybe not)
« Reply #24 on: October 22, 2015, 08:57:39 PM »
I sink zis is vunn reason, vy I preferrr zis forum over ze german melodeon forum: here a bunch of elderly gentlemen gets carried away chattering amiable nonsense, whereas on ze german forum zere is order und any coze is stopped and closet by the mods at vunns or isolatet und sent into a schpecial sread.
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Re: Another silly idea ( or maybe not)
« Reply #25 on: October 22, 2015, 09:00:49 PM »
Wie sagt man "herding cats" auf deutsch?
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Re: Another silly idea ( or maybe not)
« Reply #26 on: October 22, 2015, 09:11:14 PM »
"einen Sack Flöhe hüten" ;D
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Re: Another silly idea ( or maybe not)
« Reply #27 on: October 22, 2015, 09:15:19 PM »
 ;D
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Re: Another silly idea ( or maybe not)
« Reply #28 on: October 23, 2015, 01:59:09 AM »
Ah that explains it, thought we had been experiencing a long series of earth tremors but it must have been Nick being given the bumps  ;)

Hope you've  had a good one and here's to many more, bottles bottles of insolvent and birthdays that is !
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