Guest Anne Posted June 23, 2007 Report Share Posted June 23, 2007 It's as clear as mud! I hate it when I hear a grown man cry..bless him. Sumbody gie im an anky quick!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted June 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2007 We used to joke as kids, about someone picking us up and kidnapping us when playing outside at night. Mam used to say, 'don't worry, when they get you under the lamplight, they'll drop you' 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Anne Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 I've just heard a bit of old Nottingham lingo I haven't heard in years. Did your Mam ever used to come into the room and say.. "It sounds just like Billy Ball's Taproom in ere" Mine did!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 25 Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Yep mine too! in fact I thinki 'm guilty of saying it myself Anne... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Anne Posted August 12, 2007 Report Share Posted August 12, 2007 Yep..me too Caz..or at least I used to. I wonder who Billy Ball was and where his taproom was. Anybody know?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted August 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2007 I don't know the answer to that, but how about 'she's gorra mouth like a parish oven' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 25 Posted August 12, 2007 Report Share Posted August 12, 2007 Yep heard that one too Katy! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted August 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2007 Got a few more for yer. If it was a hot day my mam would be 'sweating cobs' If someone didn't move quick enough they were 'too slow to carry 'ot dinners' If they were heavy handed they'd be 'too strong for light work' A change is as good as a rest You're like a man I'm maiden aunt to Who's heard of that lot? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted August 12, 2007 Report Share Posted August 12, 2007 Variations I know =your too slow to carry hats to a funeral, and if they where heavy handed they were 'About as much use as a chocolate tea pot' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted November 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 Who remembers, when your parents would pull a jumper over your head to take it off, they'd say 'skin a bunny' I said it to my kids too. My brother was here recently and as he tucked a label back in on the back of my top, he said 'your tongue's hanging out' Another one I'd forgotten. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted November 8, 2007 Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 You bought back a smell mememory there Katy What about when you used to remove a nylon jumper when you were also wearing a nylon shirt ,that static crackle the sparks and then the smell of electicity burning Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted November 8, 2007 Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 Didn't we say "Charlie's dead" or something similar if a girl's slip was showing below her skirt. We didn't call it a "slip" either, but I cannot remember the name we used! (Old age!) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted November 8, 2007 Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 I remember my mate telling this girl that her slip was showing and quick as a flash she said "So's your mams" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 Not my parents but my relatives who you haven't seen for a while when i was a kid . 'Haven't you grown!' Of course I f***ing have!!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted November 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 Limey, I think we called it an underskirt. If it was a full one, it was a peticoat. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Charlie 11 Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 We had five pinters and double baggers, usually down the Palaise on a Wednesday night.That is to say you needed 5 pints inside you before some of em started to look attractive and with the double baggers you put one on your own head in case the wind blew hers off Now, it's funny you should say that! Nottingham was the first place anyone ever talked to me about alsatian women - In fact I knew a girl called Alsatian Pat (but that was for a slightly different reason) (actually she thought she was just called Pat) (if you're on this site somewhere Pat - I always liked you anyway) The other thing I heard for the first time was 'Twitchel' which I thought was some kind of disease at first and then 'Jitty' which confused me 'cos we weren't anywhere near the river. I have heard this in other places since. I also think Nottingham is the only place where anyone says 'ey up me duck' although in the Potteries, where Igrew up, they do say 'Hiya duck' PS - we always used the second bag to be sick in afterwards !sickly! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 They use 'me duck' all along the Trent Valley . From Crewe, through Stoke, Rugely ,Burton etc .It's one of the only things I say to folk round here and they understand what I mean Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 In another thread, Den just reminded me of a couple my mum used to say: "You can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear" and "mutton dressed up as lamb" were a couple of her favorites! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 One of my dads favorites that one about silk purses Eric 'cos he had come from 'nowt' himsen and didn't expect us to 'over achieve' .Two of us went to university and one of us saw the world through work and pleasure,so I think he would be happy if he was still alive Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 Blackclocks for cockroaches is another Nottingham word. Stems from German colliers going back a century or more. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 Blackclocks for cockroaches is another Nottingham word.Stems from German colliers going back a century or more. Blackclocks...bastards! When we moved into our first house down here in the Kingdom of Redhill there was an extensive kid's sandpit in the back garden (i.e. a tin bath sunk into the ground full of sand). Mum decided we needed rid of the sandpit as it 'attracted blacklocks'. Stymied Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted December 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 I had forgotten about blackclocks, horrible things, I hated them. But then again I hated all insects and would scream bloody murder if I saw one. Thankfully I've matured and they don't bother me one bit. My mum also called wasps and bees - wobbies. Anyone else heard that one? She used to squash them in the window ledged with a knife, saying 'die you bogger' I can hear her now. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted December 11, 2007 Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 Yes, I used the word 'wobbies' (wabbies?) as a kid. My mum also would use that same expression, 'die you bogger'. She used to use that on my dad quite a lot too. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted December 11, 2007 Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 Yep - "wobbies" for us too! Then if we were "pesterin" mum about what was for pudding on Sunday she would always reply "s*it wi sugar on" - it was the only time I heard her swear! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted December 11, 2007 Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 Then if we were "pesterin" mum about what was for pudding on Sunday she would always reply "s*it wi sugar on" - it was the only time I heard her swear! Must be a Redhill thing Eric! :-) I think I heard that expression every Sunday until I left home. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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