That’s a rich seam.
“Spacker” was common currency alongside “Joey”. But who remembers “flid”?
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Joey Deacon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Deacon who was a spack (spastic, as people with cerebral palsy were known at the time).
Those terms all seem rather regrettable now, although 'spaz' seems to have somewhat broken free of it's negative origin.
Sinking feeling...
Will be a local thing, but to call someone a 'botley' was to suggest they weren't quite of a sound mind (there was an psychiatric hospital in Epsom called Botley Park).
Some of these really take me back :eagerness:
His appearance on Blue Peter clearly left an indelible impression on a whole generation.
Sadly, everyone resident in the delightful town of Bodmin in Cornwall were saddled with the accusation of all being incarcerated in the county psychiatric hospital of St. Lawrence situate in that town.
I don't watch Doc Martin as the cast insist on standing in the way of the stunning scenery, but I am told that someone "is a bit Bodmin" is a phrase sometimes used in that show.
“Botley” used around Walton & Weybridge area too in the 60s and 70s. After a Botleys Park psychiatric hospital in the grounds of St Peters Hospital Chertsey.Quote:
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"I'll take my hand off your face"
As Billy Connolly said ,it wasn't the taking off the face but putting it on at high speed which was the issue.
I’ll give you something to cry about
Ha, madness
Just sat down for Sunday Dinner and another one struck .
“Let your food settle “
"You'll have somebody's eye out with that"
and one that happened to me when I told my brother to 'F-Off' in company when I was 8....
"I'll wash you mouth out".......
Same here locally in Wiltshire there was a psychiatric hospital outside Devizes called Roundway - substitute Botley for Roundway and there you go.
When I was young my father used to refer to my unkempt hair as looking like the wreck of the Hesperus.
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If you unscrew your bellybutton, your bum will fall off!
I'll box your ears....
Very clear memories of my Nan threatening to give us all a piece of her mind.
Close the door where you born in a barn?
Who's 'she' the cats mother?
Back in my day.
If someone asked you to jump off a cliff would you do that?
I've told you a thousand times.
Even the OED has heard of that one:
Etymology: Probably < the name of James Gordon Bennett Jr. (1841–1918), U.S. publisher, editor, and sponsor of sporting events, perhaps as a euphemistic substitution for gorblimey
That's the same man that is indirectly responsible for British Racing Green...see Wiki...:smile-new:
Put the wood in the 'ole...as in "please close the door".
"You're not as green as you are cabbage looking"
I'd rather feed you for a week than a month boy.
Well IF so and so stuck his head in the fire you wouldn't do it too.
Curly Wurlys make your hair grow curly.
'Thank you Sir' what we were obliged to say after the Head administered the cane.
You say that...
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A Noddy Tap - punishment dished out in class by a teacher (or fellow student), using a clenched fist with protruding knuckle which was whacked down hard on the top of your head!
Blue Goldfish - a legendary punishment dished out by older kids (bullies), where your head was pushed into the wc pan & the toilet flushed!
Not sure why it was a blue goldfish - yellow or brown would probably have been more appropriate!
Yes, the blue goldfish, before starting Grammar I was advised by older cousins to definitely say no and to run, in the event the older boys should ask 'do you want to see the blue goldfish.'
I have a couple more playground punishments from my secondary school days :-
A Kootch (unsure on official spelling, as I've never had to write it down before!) - AKA a Wedgie, often administered intil underpants were heard to rip!
A Posting - victim was grabbed by several perpetrators as if they were going to administer the bumps. But no, victim was run at speed with their legs apart straight into the metal lamp post, causing untold pain & damage to their crown jewels!
Fond memories of my time at school - luckily I was never a victim!
"Can I get down Mum?
No. You're not leaving the table until you finish your dinner."
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Round my area it was "chinny chin chin" whilst pulling down on one's chin.
Deacon = joey = spaz
You wombat = idiot
Mallet = pre-pubescent boy
Scramble = the act of throwing spare conkers to the end of the playground full of witing eager kids and therefore an accurate description of what then occurred.
Youuu wazzock.
Parent to child as pointing to police officer:
“See that policeman over there. If you’re bad he’ll take you away!”
Parent to child as pointing to police officer:
“If ever you’re in trouble and need help, ask a policeman!”
WTF!!!
Jim
The greatest Friday nights ever were spent at the King George’s Hall disco in Esher and also the Walton Hop between 1978 & 1980! I apologise now if any of you had daughters aged 15-17 and lived in Thames Ditton at that time too!Quote:
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“It looks black over Bill’s mothers’”
Why was the dog shit white?
Bunnnnndle !!!!
Does anyone remember “ tunnel of boots” as part of someone double touching in one touch football?... it was bloody vicious and played daily at my school in Oxfordshire.
Anyone remember the card game where any royal card equaled a pinch, punch, knuckles etc to the persons hand who had turned that card over?
I also remover puncture wounds in my hands from the game of spreading ones fingers apart on a table and seeing how fast you could tap through them with a compass!!
As a southerner living up north I use this for a laugh.
Last week working with a kitchen fitter I said I was going to have a bit of Yul Bryner.
He said "what's that"
I said dinner, Yul Bryner.
"Eh"
He was in the Magnificent seven.
"What's that".
A film, name the magnificent seven an all that.
That was the end of the conversation.