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englishangel wrote:Got a Geography O' level did you John? Lyon is hardly a French Channel port. 'And it's the English Channel, the French call it La Manche, 'The Sleeve' what's that all about?
The shape is everything - as I sometimes think!! Just don't ask what kind of sleeve, don't think it resembles any sleeve patterns I have ever cut out!
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Ruthie-Baby wrote: Completely irrelevant but that's known as Spotty Chicken in my local. Some lager drinker went to buy a round and the term was coined...
Bit risky these days, wot wiv the bird-flu nearing the French channel ports !
Still - It's easy to spot the symptoms of bird-flu nowadays.
Got a Geography O' level did you John? Lyon is hardly a French Channel port. 'And it's the English Channel, the French call it La Manche, 'The Sleeve' what's that all about?
Nope !
Could never see the point of Geography. Once you've sailed across the sea, it's FOREIGN and they don't speak English so all a bit unnecessary. (Who said I was Xenophobic ???) Actually, bird-flu couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. They eat frogs legs and snails ! Just aboout says it all.

(I can feel letters to 'The Times' coming on !)
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well,the english eat jellied eels, and there's nothing nastier than than ... and snails are very good for you - they even make a cough linctus for children from them ... ( called Helix, if you're interested...)

You wait until the swans on the Thames start kicking the bucket...
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Euterpe13 wrote:well,the english eat jellied eels, and there's nothing nastier than than ... and snails are very good for you - they even make a cough linctus for children from them ... ( called Helix, if you're interested...)

You wait until the swans on the Thames start kicking the bucket...
I think this proves my point !

I don't eat jellied eels either. I think they're for itinerant East-Enders.
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Re: slang (haven't got time to read the previous zillion pages). During the mid to late 80s, "nimbus" was hurled at spods to remind them of their geekish status. I think it came from the wind-up computers we were forced to look at during a lesson. Look at, not use, because no one showed us how to turn them on. Never saw a computer previously at Hertford. Learning relevant life skills involved making nighties and dishing out dorm biscuits correctly. Is 'bilge' still used as a reference to biology lessons?
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Yup, Bilge is still used...
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'Squat'.
As in, "Can I squat you in Chapel?" (ie. baggsy a place to sit next to you). Could answer, "I'm squatted on one side" (therefore you can go the other side). Or, "S*d off, saddo!" It might have been a Hertfordism that came down for a few years after the merger. These things sound so odd outwith the context of a (Tudor) boarding school environment.
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J.R. wrote:Could never see the point of Geography. Once you've sailed across the sea, it's FOREIGN and they don't speak English so all a bit unnecessary. (Who said I was Xenophobic ???) Actually, bird-flu couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. They eat frogs legs and snails ! Just aboout says it all.
Don't forget that England exports fridges to eskimos, sand to Saudi Arabia and half of the snails eaten in France come from England. As for frogs legs - they leave those for the foreigners (except me)
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Anyone still use the verb 'to fagend'?
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Great Plum wrote:Anyone still use the verb 'to fagend'?
...I don't think so, but it sounds very painful and connected with burns clinics to me...
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I just remembered (randomly!) the term 'bog-mag' used for a gentleman's art pamphlet. I don't think I've ever heard that one outside of CH
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graham wrote:I just remembered (randomly!) the term 'bog-mag' used for a gentleman's art pamphlet. I don't think I've ever heard that one outside of CH
I remember that one... can't think why!
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Tim_MaA_MidB wrote:
graham wrote:I just remembered (randomly!) the term 'bog-mag' used for a gentleman's art pamphlet. I don't think I've ever heard that one outside of CH
I remember that one... can't think why!
That is the Sunday Paper (for the crossword) in our house.

Our bog books are more of the Mammoth Book of Jokes variety. (Said book is actually on the desk right now)

The ones you are referring to are under the mattresses in the boys bedrooms.
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englishangel wrote:
Tim_MaA_MidB wrote:
graham wrote:I just remembered (randomly!) the term 'bog-mag' used for a gentleman's art pamphlet. I don't think I've ever heard that one outside of CH
I remember that one... can't think why!
That is the Sunday Paper (for the crossword) in our house.

Our bog books are more of the Mammoth Book of Jokes variety. (Said book is actually on the desk right now)

The ones you are referring to are under the mattresses in the boys bedrooms.
Funny you should mention that, Mary.

Not an expression used at CH, but MATTRESS is used locally, especially in our watering-hole, to describe a woman of very easy virtue !!
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englishangel wrote:
Tim_MaA_MidB wrote:
graham wrote:I just remembered (randomly!) the term 'bog-mag' used for a gentleman's art pamphlet. I don't think I've ever heard that one outside of CH
I remember that one... can't think why!
That is the Sunday Paper (for the crossword) in our house.

Our bog books are more of the Mammoth Book of Jokes variety. (Said book is actually on the desk right now)

The ones you are referring to are under the mattresses in the boys bedrooms.
Funny you should mention that, Mary.

Not an expression used at CH, but MATTRESS is used locally, especially in our watering-hole, to describe a woman of very easy virtue !!

Hence the expressions used by some of the local lads......

'Mattress bouncing............' and 'Mattress testing' !
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