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#1 2007-02-24 10:59:41

Peter Forster
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'rolling in the Isles' for 'rolling in the aisles'

‘rolling in the aisles’ 125,000 Googlehits
‘rolling in the Isles’ 22,000 Googlehits

Extremely humourous live entertainment could, perhaps, render an audience helpless with laughter and this notion gives rise to the idiomatic expression ‘rolling in the aisles’. It could well be that ‘isles’ is simply a misspelling of ‘aisles’, though 22,000 misspellings does seem rather high, or perhaps there may be an assumption that people living on faraway islands are more difficult to amuse than sophisticated city-dwellers and to have them ‘rolling in the Isles’ is a noteworthy feat.

He’ll have ya Rolling in the Isles, really? Well what’s a night out…? It’s to have Fun! Right? That’s what it’s all about…! ....And if you want to have …
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When the film is at it’s funniest- it had the audience, quite literally rolling in the isles! My personal favouite moments are the opening sequence- which …
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My friend Virginia almost sent off a business E-mail today reading, “It was nice to meet you toady ….” We were all rolling in the isles over that one. ...
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