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Schooners here Mag.

Pam,Mag I have been a shearers cook;)The air was as blue as this smilie some days:wah:

I have also been in the sheds for over 30 years ,but like you say I don't think I need put some of that lingo in this thread.Straight up banned I would imagine:lips::-6
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Q

Quid, make a : earn a living - "are you making a quid?"

Quid, not the full : of low IQ. [Historical note: 'quid' is slang for a pound. £1 became $2 when Australia converted to decimal currency]

R

Rack off : push off! get lost! get out of here! also "rack off hairy legs!".

Rage : party

Rage on : to continue partying - "we raged on until 3am"

Rapt : pleased, delighted

Ratbag : mild insult

Raw prawn, to come the : to bullshit, to be generally disagreeable

Reckon! : you bet! Absolutely!

Reffo : refugee

Rego : vehicle registration

Rellie or relo : family relative

Ridgy-didge : original, genuine

Right, she : it'll be all right

Right, that'd be : Accepting bad news as inevitable. ("I went fishing but caught nothing." "Yeah, that'd be right.")

Rip snorter : great, fantastic - "it was a rip snorter of a party"

Ripper : great, fantastic - "it was a ripper party"

Ripper, you little! : Exclamation of delight or as a reaction to good news

Road train : big truck with many trailers

Rock up : to turn up, to arrive - "we rocked up at their house at 8pm"

Rollie : a cigarette that you roll yourself

Roo : kangaroo

Roo bar : stout bar fixed to the front of a vehicle to protect it against hitting kangaroos (also bull bar)

Root (verb and noun) : synonym for ***** in nearly all its senses: "I feel rooted"; "this washing machine is rooted"; "(s)he's a good root". A very useful word in fairly polite company.

Root rat : somebody who is constantly looking for sex.

Ropeable : very angry

Rort (verb or noun) : Cheating, fiddling, defrauding (expenses, the system etc.). Usually used of politicians

Rotten : drunk - "I went out last night and got rotten"

Rubbish (verb) : to criticize
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Bush week - a fictitious week when country people come to town; a time of year when stupid things happen.:-6

That's every week here.

The back is fine :wah:I spent time in the yards & in the kitchen:rolleyes: cooking .

My husband & I did our crutching when the sheep numbers where low.Then our backs knew it.

Fly would be bad because of all the rain.

Can't win can we ,no rain no sheep,rain & we get fly.

"Bloody whinging cockies" that's what we used to get called all the time.

But unless you live or work on the land,you don't know what that life is like:-6:-6
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Salute, Aussie : brushing flies away

Salvos, the : Salvation Army, bless them

Sandgroper : a person from Western Australia

Sanger : a sandwich

Sav : saveloy (see also "fair suck of the sav!")

Schooner : large beer glass in Queensland; medium beer glass in South Australia

Scratchy : instant lottery ticket

Screamer : party lover; "two pot screamer" - somebody who gets drunk on very little alcohol

Seppo : an American

Servo : petrol station

Shag on a rock, stands out like a : very obvious

Shark biscuit : somebody new to surfing

She'll be right : it'll turn out okay

Sheila : a woman

**** house (adj.) : of poor quality, unenjoyable ("this car is **** house", "the movie was **** house")

**** house (noun) : toilet, lavatory

Shonky : dubious, underhanded. E.g. a shonky practice, shonky business etc.

Shoot through : to leave

Shout : turn to buy - a round of drinks usually ("it's your shout")

Show pony : someone who tries hard, by his dress or behaviour, to impress those around him.

Sickie : day off sick from work (chuck a sickie = take the day off sick from work when you're perfectly healthy!)

Skite : boast, brag

Skull/Skol (a beer) : to drink a beer in a single draught without taking a breath

Slab : a carton of 24 bottles or cans of beer

Sleepout : house verandah converted to a bedroom

Smoko : smoke or coffee break

Snag : a sausage

Sook : person or animal who is soft, tame, inoffensive. Hence sooky (adj.)

Spag bol : spaghetti bolognese

Spewin' : very angry

Spiffy, pretty spiffy : great, excellent

Spit the dummy : get very upset at something

Spruiker : man who stands outside a nightclub or restaurant trying to persuade people to enter

Sprung : caught doing something wrong

Spunk : a good looking person (of either sex)

Squizz (noun) : look - "take a squizz at this"

Standover man : a large man, usually gang-related, who threatens people with physical violence in order to have his wishes carried out.

Station : a big farm/grazing property

Stickybeak : nosy person

Stoked : very pleased

Stonkered : drunk

Strewth : exclamation, mild oath ("Strewth, that Chris is a bonzer bloke")

Strides : trousers

Strine : Australian slang and pronunciation

Stubby : a 375ml. beer bottle

Stubby holder : polystyrene insulated holder for a stubby

Stuffed, I feel : I'm tired

Stuffed, I'll be : expression of surprise

Sunbake : sunbathe

Sunnies : sunglasses

Surfies : people who go surfing - usually more often than they go to work!

Swag : rolled up bedding etc. carried by a swagman

Swaggie : swagman

Swagman : tramp, hobo
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Tall poppies : successful people

Tall poppy syndrome : the tendency to criticize successful people

Tallie : 750ml bottle of beer

Taswegian : derogatory term for a person from Tasmania

Technicolor yawn : vomit

Tee-up : to set up (an appointment)

Thingo : Wadjamacallit, thingummy, whatsit

Thongs : cheap rubber backless sandals

Throw-down : small bottle of beer which you can throw down quickly.

Tickets, to have on oneself : to have a high opinion of oneself

Tinny : can of beer

Tinny : small aluminium boat

Tinny, tin-arsed : lucky

Togs : swim suit

Too right! : definitely!

Top End : far north of Australia

Trackie daks/dacks : tracksuit pants

Trackies : track suit

Troppo, gone : to have escaped to a state of tropical madness; to have lost the veneer of civilisation after spending too long in the tropics.

Trough lolly : the solid piece of perfumed disinfectant in a men's urinal

Truckie : truck driver

True blue : patriotic

Tucker : food

Tucker-bag : food bag

Turps : turpentine, alcoholic drink

Turps, hit the : go on a drinking binge

Two up : gambling game played by spinning two coins simultaneously
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mrsK;750572 wrote: Bush week - a fictitious week when country people come to town; a time of year when stupid things happen.:-6

That's every week here.

The back is fine :wah:I spent time in the yards & in the kitchen:rolleyes: cooking .

My husband & I did our crutching when the sheep numbers where low.Then our backs knew it.

Fly would be bad because of all the rain.

Can't win can we ,no rain no sheep,rain & we get fly.

"Bloody whinging cockies" that's what we used to get called all the time.

But unless you live or work on the land,you don't know what that life is like:-6:-6


As the song says :-

City folks these days despise the cocky

Saying, with subsidies and all we've had it easy

There's no drought or starving stock on a sewered suburban block

But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy
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Bryn Mawr;752108 wrote: As the song says :-

City folks these days despise the cocky

Saying, with subsidies and all we've had it easy

There's no drought or starving stock on a sewered suburban block

But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy


I have never heard that before Bryn.

Or maybe I have & just don't remember,it's an age thing:sneaky:

What is the name of the song?:-6
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mrsK;754641 wrote: I have never heard that before Bryn.

Or maybe I have & just don't remember,it's an age thing:sneaky:

What is the name of the song?:-6


It's Now I'm Easy by Eric Bogle - that well known Australian soldier who died in the First World War :wah:



Now I'm Easy For nearly sixty years I've been a cockie*

Of droughts and fires and floods I've lived through plenty

This country's dust and mud have seen my tears and blood

But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy

I married a fine girl when I was twenty

She died in giving birth when she was thirty

No flying doctor then just a gentle old black gen*

But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy

She left me with two sons and a daughter

And a bone dry farm whose soil cried out for water

Though me care was rough and ready, they grew up fine and steady

But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy

Me daughter married young and went her own way

Me sons lie buried by the Burma railway*

So on this land I've made me home, I've carried on alone

But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy

Oh, city folks these days despise the cockie

Saying with subsidies and dole we've had it easy

But there's no drought or starving stock on the sewered suburban block

But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy

For nearly sixty years I've been a cockie

Of droughts and fires and floods I've lived through plenty

This country's dust and mud have seen my tears and blood

But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy

But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy

-- Eric Bogle
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Thanks Bryn .Yes I have heard it.

Silly me,that's what getting old does to one:wah::-6
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Uni : university

Unit : flat, apartment

Up oneself : have a high opinion of oneself - "he's really up himself"

Up somebody, get : to rebuke somebody - "the boss got up me for being late"

Useful as an ashtray on a motorbike / tits on a bull : unhelpful or incompetent person or thing - "he, she or it is about as useful as tits on a bull" etc. etc.

Ute : utility vehicle, pickup truck

V

Vedgies : vegetables

Vee dub : Volkswagen

Veg out : relax in front of the TV (like a vegetable)

Vejjo : vegetarian

Vinnie's : St. Vincent De Paul's (charity thrift stores and hostels)

W

WACA (pron. whacker) : Western Australian Cricket Association and the Perth cricket ground

Waggin' school : playing truant

Walkabout : a walk in the Outback by Aborigines that lasts for an indefinite amount of time

Walkabout, it's gone : it's lost, can't be found

Weekend warrior : army reservist

Whacker, whacka : Idiot; somebody who talks drivel; somebody with whom you have little patience; a ********

Whinge : complain

White pointers : topless (female) sunbathers

Whiteant (verb) : to criticise something to deter somebody from buying it. A car dealer might whiteant another dealer's cars or a real estate salesman might whiteant another agent's property

Wobbly : excitable behaviour ("I complained about the food and the waiter threw a wobbly")

Wobbly boot on, he's got the : drunk

Wog : flu or trivial illness

Wog : person of Mediterranean origin. A milder insult than the same word in the UK and perhaps elsewhere.

Wombat : somebody who eats, roots and leaves (see also root)

Woop Woop : invented name for any small unimportant town - "he lives in Woop Woop"

Wowser : straight-laced person, prude, puritan, spoilsport

Wuss : coward; nervous person or animal

X

XXXX : pronounced Four X, brand of beer made in Queensland

Y

Yabber : talk (a lot)

Yabby : inland freshwater crayfish found in Australia (Cherax destructor)

Yakka : work (noun)

Yewy : u-turn in traffic ("chuck a yewy at the next traffic lights")

Yobbo : an uncouth person

Z

Zack : sixpence (5 cents) - "it isn't worth a zack", "he hasn't got a zack"
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Australian Facts & Figures

Geography & Climate

Australia's land mass is approximately 7,692,030 km², 32 times larger than the United Kingdom. The most easterly point in Australia is Cape Byron, New South Wales at 153° 39´ east; the most southerly point is South East Cape in Tasmania at 43° 39´ south; the most westerly point is Steep Point in Western Australia at 113° 09´ east; and the most northerly point is Cape York in Queensland at 10° 41´ south.

Due to the large area and the latitudinal range from north to south of the Australian island continent, the climate varies enormously. The seasonal temperature fluctuations can also be considerable. Average annual air temperatures range from 28´C along the Kimberley coast in Western Australia to 4´C in the alpine areas of south eastern Australia. Winter temperatures are at their lowest in July across the country and the warmest month is January or February in the south and December in the north except in the extreme north and north-west where it is warmest in November.
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as a cockney myself i am chuffed to see my ancestors may have influenced the ausiey language in someway lol.i recall as a kid in londons east end the governments gave us the oppertunity to emigrate to oz .all we needed was ten quid for the 6 weeks boat trip and a clean police record ..the tenner was a doddle but the rest was a non starter,i was gutted i desperatly hated east london with its bombed out buildings and rat infested streets.mind you i wouldnt have had much of a change ,just speaking rhymin slang still but in the sun!!!lol
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hoxtonchris;755941 wrote: as a cockney myself i am chuffed to see my ancestors may have influenced the ausiey language in someway lol.i recall as a kid in londons east end the governments gave us the oppertunity to emigrate to oz .all we needed was ten quid for the 6 weeks boat trip and a clean police record ..the tenner was a doddle but the rest was a non starter,i was gutted i desperatly hated east london with its bombed out buildings and rat infested streets.mind you i wouldnt have had much of a change ,just speaking rhymin slang still but in the sun!!!lol


Very good I like it.:)

There is plenty of bloody sun here atm too :-6
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fuzzy butt;755923 wrote: Packing shi't : scared afraid

Packing death : really really scared.

In a sentence.

' I packed **** when they car swerved.'


I was packin Sh it when I saw the king brown in the back yard,can't get out the shotty & get rid of them in town;):-6
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fuzzy butt;755967 wrote: OOhhh we had a black pink belly in the dogs shed the other day my pup was standing there barking at it while it was cornered . NOT good. I think its living under the water tank so we're going to have to be careful. shotty at the ready lol

yes you're right HOX there are many .............when I was in london I found out where the term "clink" came from. Mrs K you'll find this amusing . there's a little street just near the bridge on the Thames. Clink street or place or something . There used to be a jail there.

I'm sure most of you have heard the term " he's in the clink" lol Meaning he's in Jail.


Right next to Southwark Cathedral and between Southwark Bridge and London Bridge.
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fuzzy butt there are loads of "orogins "similar to the clink example.for instance if something has failed we call it "gone west"this is from when a prisoner in the court at the old bailey was sentenced to death he went to the prison that was to the west of the old bailey.anyway sorry to hijack this thread about os,ive put my own one about london back on.
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hoxtonchris;755987 wrote: fuzzy butt there are loads of "orogins "similar to the clink example.for instance if something has failed we call it "gone west"this is from when a prisoner in the court at the old bailey was sentenced to death he went to the prison that was to the west of the old bailey.anyway sorry to hijack this thread about os,ive put my own one about london back on.




Please keep adding more to this thread Chris.

I find it interesting.:-6
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I have ran out of slang.............................:-2
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My grandson told his friends that I was MAD.

I asked if that was a good thing or not,he replied it means good.:-6
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It was really ace watching theaerial pingpong.

There was plenty of the amber fluid,ankle biters running around.

It was on late in the arvo so we didn't have to do the aussie salute to often.

The ambo's were kept busy though.

Everything was apples no one was seriously hurt.

The drive home felt like we were going to the back of Bourke.
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thanks mrsk for tho ok to post london slang and orogins on your thread.most folk are probably aware that cockney and probably all "slang was meant to be a secret language(in fact the word slang is actualy short for secret language=s,lang}i recall some years ago i was promoted from union representive to foreman,but my true loyalties were still with the shop floor.one guy was being asked by management to accept a new deal which i new was a fiddle.he looked at me for some sort of advice,it would have been career restrictive to warn him off,but i remembered this guy was old school cockney,during conversation i "mistakingly called the boss "nobby"this guy sussed it ,i was calling him nobby clark ,rhyming slang for shark!the guy winked discretly and turned the offer down!!
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i dont know if its exlusive to london but we call a prison warden a screw,i always supposed it was to do with the turning of the key but no!years ago in jail a prisoner given hard labour was given a crank box ,it was a box with a handle that he had to turn 10000 times a day,as time went by it became easier to turn so a warden would come along and turn a screw that made it harder to turn the handle ,hence screw!incedently there was no purpose to the box at all other than to keep the prisoner occupied,plus he would have to wear a leather flap over his face so as he had no identity(food for thought?)
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hoxtonchris;757275 wrote: i dont know if its exlusive to london but we call a prison warden a screw,i always supposed it was to do with the turning of the key but no!years ago in jail a prisoner given hard labour was given a crank box ,it was a box with a handle that he had to turn 10000 times a day,as time went by it became easier to turn so a warden would come along and turn a screw that made it harder to turn the handle ,hence screw!incedently there was no purpose to the box at all other than to keep the prisoner occupied,plus he would have to wear a leather flap over his face so as he had no identity(food for thought?)


They are called screws here as well.

So the warden got to play games as well.I guess he got some kind of entertainment out of that.

Thanks Chris it is very interesting.

I am learning something new.

That has to be good:-6
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hi fuzzt butt,i call the police many things ,also son,my son is in the metropolitan police so i have to be carefull what i say lol.getting back to "orogins"i suppose the main one that may be of interest especialy to english and australians would be the orogin of how cockneys became known as such.in the days of dickens,east end londoners(within the sound of bow bells)went hop picking in surry for the summer to earn a crust,the locals noticed that due to malnutrician the kids had "cocker knees"(later known as rickets)hence cockneys.as already mentioned by a previous poster the rhming slang was to prevent the "peelers"(sir robert peels first police men)from knowing what they were saying.but also the irish would evesdrop in pubs and grass them up for money.
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one more b4 i go out.anyone ever wondered where the expression "rip off"comes from?when a dealer was arranging a sale of cannabis he would often steam the block of resin till it increased in weight by drawing in moisture,they would then "rip off"the extra weight by cutting some resin off till the weight was as it should be,when the buyer got it home and realised how wet it was he knew he had been "ripped off"
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I am finding your posts very interesting Chris.

Thank You:-6
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thank you mrsk,i enjoy the cockney topics ive beeen talkin of such for many years,most old rhyming slang is quite well known now,but occasionaly one turns up from the long distant past,recently on telly the comedy starring david jason as dell boy showed him needing a new "kettle"non of us had a clue what it meant,so using my cockney knowledge i tried to break it down untill it came out as a,,,watch!how does kettle morph into watch???simple=kettle and hob=fob,as we all know fob is the first part of fobwatch,,ok
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just thought youd like to see me with a pearly king,hes the pearly king of stepney
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hoxtonchris;758131 wrote:
just thought youd like to see me with a pearly king,hes the pearly king of stepney
Good to see you Chris.

He is very pearly isn't he?:-6
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mrsK;758608 wrote: Good to see you Chris.

He is very pearly isn't he?:-6
Hi darlin.Just to let you know that Chris has gone down with a heavy cold so please dont think his ignoring you ok.He enjoys your thread by the way alot;):)
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Carolly;758670 wrote: Hi darlin.Just to let you know that Chris has gone down with a heavy cold so please dont think his ignoring you ok.He enjoys your thread by the way alot;):)




Hope he gets well soon:-4:-6
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much better now thanks mrsk,but still a bit iffy.earlier on this thread i mentioned a day at the tower of london(the bit about the gun salute for the queen mum)well there were some os visitors too,the beefeater was telling us that the last prisoners to be held in the tower were in fact the Kray twins,an os accent said"WHO?"I proceeeded to try to explain that they were later day robin hoods(seen as suctch anyway)but still no recognotion as suggested he thinks NED KELLEY TIMES 2."ohhh right "he said,any way for those of you who dont know threm ill try to put a pic here.
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Ronnie and Reggie Kray were the head of the underworld in the 1960s,they came from where carolly and i lived .in fact as the east ends first ladey mini cab driver she has driven a few "faces" around in her time. the twins were often acredited with keeping dodgey tearaways away from good london folk and "policing "the east end to keep "nonces"away nonces are called such becouse they get up to "nonsence with kids.in the twins day they kept well away from their "manor"manor is simpley the word given to anyones area.they were eventualy locked up for murder,but as surving members of their gang will testify they only done violence to their own kind.such was the fear the krays installed,that 2 years ago their grave was "interfeared with,the guilty partys its rumered spent a few days tidey the grave up and some of the neighbouring ones!
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hoxtonchris;759757 wrote: Ronnie and Reggie Kray were the head of the underworld in the 1960s,they came from where carolly and i lived .in fact as the east ends first ladey mini cab driver she has driven a few "faces" around in her time. the twins were often acredited with keeping dodgey tearaways away from good london folk and "policing "the east end to keep "nonces"away nonces are called such becouse they get up to "nonsence with kids.in the twins day they kept well away from their "manor"manor is simpley the word given to anyones area.they were eventualy locked up for murder,but as surving members of their gang will testify they only done violence to their own kind.such was the fear the krays installed,that 2 years ago their grave was "interfeared with,the guilty partys its rumered spent a few days tidey the grave up and some of the neighbouring ones!


So they still have power from the grave.

Did they used to help out their own kind if they were down on their luck?

I will google them & have a read.Once again interesting reading Chris.

I have heard the word "nonce" before & now I know what it means.

Pleased you are feeling a bit better.:-6:-6
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hi mrsk,yes they would help folk out who were down on their luck,wifes whos husbands were in nick and any "decent"old lags who could no longer "work"but then again east enders(and probably others elsewhetre)in those days would do the same for their neighbours unlike today when "look after number one seems to be the order of the day.i say folk in the east end in particular lived by those codes becouse i feel its true.example,when i moved from east london to essex i got in with the local crowd,after a few weeks one of the crowd didnt show,when i asked where he was the others said he was short of cash,i said "shall we go round to him now?"why?they replied,to have a wip round for him till hes on his feet.(this is what we would have done in london)they said "sod off let him sort himself out"needless to say i went back to my london mates where i knew i had real friends.
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Sounds like you were better off with your London mates.

Nothing wrong with giving people a helping hand when they are down & out.

Never know when it could be our turn.

I found this site it was an interesting read

http://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/ ... e_Kray.htm

Thanks Chris:-6
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thanks mrsk,ime always interested in all things to do with londons east end,but not all the gangsters were heroes,in keeping with another thread about orogins of sayings ill add one here.you probably havnt heard of this oldie"if you cant fight wear a big hat"it comes from an old east end villain called spinksie,he werent much of a pugalist himself so he took to wearing a camel overcoat and huge homberg as did al capone,of course he felt the garb gave him the same charisma as capone hence the saying. another was called "flat iron"this came from when he came home drunk again one night and beat his wife up again ,he then fell asleep,she waited for this moment and smashed him in the face with her flat iron!and shed been using it!and it left a loverly iron shaped scar for all to see!
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in the near future ,if its ok to on this thread ill share 2 encounters i had years ago with the kray twins enforcers.
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hoxtonchris;762637 wrote: in the near future ,if its ok to on this thread ill share 2 encounters i had years ago with the kray twins enforcers.




Please do. I am really enjoying your posts.:-6
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as promised a little memory of times gone by in east london.first a short preamble,up to the early 70s ,a certain amount of "codes"and customs were in force in those parts,as well as good manners and loving thy neighbour was the dress code!a bloke HAD to go out just so,a wistle(wistle and flute=suit)black shoes,white shirt(NEVER COLOURED!)and cufflinks,and trimmings.ok.its early 1966,the Kray twins firm are meeting in my local pub to discuss the way forward since the twins were arrested earlier .when the "firm"met in a pub all other costomers had to leave,i was there to look after my grandad who had only one leg.i went for a "jimmy"(jimmy ridddle=piddle)when i returned the henchmen were on the door barring the entrance.i was a precosious young teen so had no trouble asking if i could go in and get my grandad.i had the dress code ,wine red 3 ply tonic mohair suit,white shirt,gold links etc i looked the dogs danglers!as i walked in i saw all the known "faces(soory got to keep em nameless)one in particular looked me up and down and winked!oh gawd not another iron(iron hoof =poof)never understood that bit of rhyming slang!anyway behind him was a mirror,i looked at myself then at him ,the likeness (save for the age difference was astonishing)then i realised,he was winking at himself as he was many years before.hes dead now but turned to christianity after his release from prison.not hard for even a "bent"cockney
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Thanks for that Chris.

Dog's danglers +town halls.

Were these men OK with your grandad,did they treat him OK ?

Sometimes you find the "meanest" people are often the kindest to people who have a disability.

Did your grandad know who they were & was he scared to be left in there with them?

Were you scared asking them if you could get back in there to get him,I think I would have been or like you said maybe because you were young you didn't really scare that much?

Interesting story ,keep them coming.

Sorry for not replying sooner,I was told by the "head honcho" I needed to reply:wah:

I was getting there to do it,I promise.:-6
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