"I'm aye to get ma messages...." Where did the term messages come from?

When I used to stay at my grannies, I'd do the dishes.

Afterwards she'd always ask if I'd "signed they dishes". Meaning had I rinsed them off.

 

Auld da's from Coleraine. When I was in year 3 I had a teacher called Mr Quentil. I came home one day and I says to him ''Dad! Listen to my poem....Mr Quentil he is mental, Mr Quentil he is mental!''
He replied ''Naw you don't want to be saying that son, you should say, Mr Quentil, he's a lentil cuz he's always in the soup''. Only after all these years can I say I liked his one better.

 

My Dad used to terrorise me with poems and wee Irish riddles all the time.
My sir name is McGowan. "[my name] McGowan went down town with his knickers hanging down, Charlie Breen saw the scene, put it in the magazine''
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