Overheard on a train

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Date: 29 July 2007 02:27:28

As part of my project to document unusual idioms, this is recorded mainly for the interesting use of the word "privy". Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Names are changed to protect the innocent (i.e. me)

Genuinely overheard on a train from Dartford to London:

"I still think the youngest was X's"

"How could you possibly prove that?"

"Do a DNA test."

"But he's dead."

"That doesn't matter. They can use anything these days. Bits of hair or fingernails. Dig up the body"

"But we burned him"

"There must be bits left. On the carpet or in the toilet."

"Why do you reckon he bottled that nutter?"

"Messing with his bird."

"One of them"

"But what he did to that geezer from Gravesend was still out of order."

"He didn't expect that when he knocked on the door."

"Maybe it was because he was such a little guy. No-one expected it"

"Built like a brick privy though."

"Only just over five foot tall and almost as wide as he was high"

"Still seems weird he's dead. He was younger than us"