Housey Slang.....

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Bockers... A nickname for the catering staff... I can only unfortunately remember it being used in a defamatory manner though.
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Rick wrote:Bockers... A nickname for the catering staff... I can only unfortunately remember it being used in a defamatory manner though.
I think you get into trouble if you use the word at CH now...
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crab flab and muck. certainly wasn't there when i entered CH in 96
bockers - we got an en-masse bollocking from big pete for that word. ooooh.

lav-ends still around
dayrooms have been abolished (foools) though the word is probably still known to all.
mongy - mr torkington
gary/ gary barlow - mr marlow
graham - mr chandler. it is his real name though. "GNC - serving the community..."
sh1t - mr o'boil
smeggy - mr o'mera
miggins - mrs higgins
gripper - mr sutcliffe
big pete - dr southern
fugly - mrs ireland
conners - didn't even deserve a nickname.
howie - mr howard
scouty people had loads of nicknames for miss helyar (now mrs wilkes, congrats, and to guy and their baby girl, whose name i can't remember): Lah-lah, aunty lo etc
sprouts - scouts
sicker - hardly ever used anymore.
tucker - ""
YOB - young old blues. that's what we're called. didn't put much thought into that one, did they? at least it's not New Old Blues
'don't you want to rick-it, it's cricket!' - lamb b, what can i say :roll:
browns - cigarette
the geeks - ICT department, aka waste-o-space, spongers, useless. come to think of it, the common room hate them more than we did.
zob - to use a PC, to play computer games
'scrambles!' - cried just before throwing food into the air, u'd then sit back and watch people beat the crap out of eachother just for a penny sweet. priceless.
caveman - mr gladding
lamping/lamp-posting - lifting the foot-end of someone's bed so that they were trapped upsidedown between their bed and the wall.
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bockermobile-electric milk-float style vehicle used by bockers

and leave lamb b alone!
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Hendrik,

what about MSB - music school bush?

How can they call them Lav ends when they arne't even in the middle of the house?
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Anyone remember "setting boards" on the old beds?
Was either great fun, or blo*dy painfull when it backfired and the whole lot landed on your head just as you tried to set the last one......

Apple-pied beds anyone??

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setting the boards... what a memory! It was always fun to lampost someones bed too!

I may be going way out here, but does anyone remember or, dare I ask, have a copy of the housey rap? It seemed so funny at the time!
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The Housey Rap... brings back memories...

I am not at liberty to tell you if I have a copy...
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Bronwen wrote:SPRIM - Pungent ammonia based liquid kept in a saucer with a really dishevelled nailbrush, (usually outside Matrons so she could spot who had the muddy hems and therefore were the smokers) - used to wipe stains off uniform. Is this still used?
Oh god, yes. It was purple, wasn't it!? Good for de-crusting coat sleeves!
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I'm almost 27 yet to this day if I see a fat person I can't help myself from shouting "Maaaaaaaaaa" as loud as possible. It will probably be with me forever. I had to re-train myself after leaving CH in the art of spreading butter on toast....for 7 years I had not used a knife and simply wripped open the packet of butter and applied it directly to the toast. I can still picture lumps of butter covered in breadcrumbs at one end. Those were the days !!!
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I'm interested in this one: zob - to use a PC, to play computer games

That was used in my time (78-84), but in 2 different senses.

There was a teacher (a "master"?!) whose "insult" was Zob. Can't remember his real name though! Ha ha. But I don't think he was too popular. A housemaster of an unhappy house, as I recall. Or at least, so it seemed to this young boy! I was daring enough to submit a short story to the literary mag "Outlook" (anyone remember that publication?) with an evil alien called Zanizato Zob.

The other sense was for general vegetating, slobbing around etc. To "zob out".
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"Zob" was a noun in my time at CH, referring to a person.
e.g. "All the zobs in the zob room" meaning "all the geeks in the computer room"

Computing was certainly regarded as a very very geeky thing - little did people know how important computers would become and how essential to most careers a basic PC knowledge is these days.

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jtaylor wrote:Anyone remember "setting boards" on the old beds?
Was either great fun, or blo*dy painfull when it backfired and the whole lot landed on your head just as you tried to set the last one......

Apple-pied beds anyone??

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:lol: I did that to my own bed and blamed he guy in the next cubicle.

He was stupid, I was smirking. :D
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Zobbing was a great word - I still use it to mean being a computer geek or the art of computing!!
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the "master" to whom you refer was EJ Wolstenholme, affectionately know as "monty". He was the main butt of jokes in Lousey ! as he was never particularly popular with the "zobs". That's quite worrying considering they usually needed all the friends they could get.....
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