Memory Lane Obscure old sayings/shouts/insults

[Ron Manager]

'Joey' - sums up kids completely that Blue Peter used Joey Deacon as an example of how disabled people could live meaningful lives and intergrate with the rest of society only for schoolchildren up and down the country to laugh their heads off and call each other 'Joey' as an insult.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

When you're getting the worst of it at any sport or game, some bloke would shout ''OI, YOU COULDN'T BEAT AN EGG''.


''You need to go the whole nine yards''.


''It's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey''.


''It's the real McCoy''.


''I got off scot free''.


''Beam me up Scotty''.


''If life deals you Lemons, make Lemonade''.


''Bob's your uncle''.


''Yer big girl's blouse''.


''Your eyes are bigger that your belly''.


''Gordon Bennett''.


''As queer as a nine bob note''.


''Age before beauty''.


''The whole caboodle''.


''Nudge, nudge, say no more''.


''Between you, me and the gatepost''.


''Love is blind, marriage is an eye-opener''.


''Mondays are the bunkers, in the golf course of life''.


''Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick''.


''Love is like war, easy to begin, hard to end''.


''I've seen more meat on a butcher's apron''.


''When i was a boy, the Dead Sea was only ill''.


''Why do psychics have to ask your name?''


''At my age, flowers scare me''.


''Growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional''.


''Always pee down wind''.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Not forgetting 'talent is permanent, form is temporary.'

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

You pratt.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Also from back in the day ... 'magic.'

 

[NZamba Legend]

Lots of kids used to call each other a pranny.

 

[They Call It Madness!!!]

'Beard' - a statement that you dont believe someone. From the early/mid 90's. Christ knows how that evolved.

Chin a Chin Chin!!!! In true Jimmy Hill style! ha ha

 

[Sandbach Shrimper]

I like this thread, people don't use these sort of silly English phrases as much these days. My oldest brother always used to say 'beard' when he thought I was lying, I think it related to Jimmy Hill.

 

[* ORM *]

Yes indeed. Beard is clearly a shortening of "scratch my beard" (accompanied by fingers 'scratching' chin) which I clearly remember as far back as the mid-70s at school. It was definitely related to Jimmy Hill as the alternative to "scratch my beard" was simply "Jimmy" or to be more precise "Jimmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeee" for as long as you could be bothered to scratch your beard).

Suss was also suss-pie, though I've no idea where the pie comes into it.

Someone else has already covered Joey which was usually delivered with the best **** impression you could manage. Couple that with spaz, spastic, spasmo, spasmoid or spasmodic and add flid into the equation and I'm sure there will be people ready to jump on it and try to judge the reality of 70s life with 2010 values. I'm also sure the kids of today will have equivalents.

Personally I'd take the 70s non-PC, traditional family oriented, keep the minorities under wraps out of the accepted mainstream, keep the utter filth that portrays as entertainment out of the media over the society that we have evolved into today but that's another thread diversion for which I suspect I'm in the secret majority but vocal minority. There was also no such thing as the Hello/OK/media fascination with 'celebrity' life which is now fed into our lives 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

And for a second thread diversion even football was on the box twice a week or if you were lucky three times with Sportsnight and David Coleman. My mind may be playing tricks but I don't remember ITV having midweek football at all and that possibly only changed when BBC lost the rights to Saturday night football to ITV all those years back. I'd take that over the wall to wall obsession with Premier League and Champions League football on radio, TV, newspapers and the net.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Yes indeed. Beard is clearly a shortening of "scratch my beard" (accompanied by fingers 'scratching' chin) which I clearly remember as far back as the mid-70s at school. It was definitely related to Jimmy Hill as the alternative to "scratch my beard" was simply "Jimmy" or to be more precise "Jimmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeee" for as long as you could be bothered to scratch your beard).

Suss was also suss-pie, though I've no idea where the pie comes into it.

Someone else has already covered Joey which was usually delivered with the best **** impression you could manage. Couple that with spaz, spastic, spasmo, spasmoid or spasmodic and add flid into the equation and I'm sure there will be people ready to jump on it and try to judge the reality of 70s life with 2010 values. I'm also sure the kids of today will have equivalents.

Personally I'd take the 70s non-PC, traditional family oriented, keep the minorities under wraps out of the accepted mainstream, keep the utter filth that portrays as entertainment out of the media over the society that we have evolved into today but that's another thread diversion for which I suspect I'm in the secret majority but vocal minority. There was also no such thing as the Hello/OK/media fascination with 'celebrity' life which is now fed into our lives 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

And for a second thread diversion even football was on the box twice a week or if you were lucky three times with Sportsnight and David Coleman. My mind may be playing tricks but I don't remember ITV having midweek football at all and that possibly only changed when BBC lost the rights to Saturday night football to ITV all those years back. I'd take that over the wall to wall obsession with Premier League and Champions League football on radio, TV, newspapers and the net.

Great post, ORM - worthy of discussion elsewhere as you have suggested. In the meantime though, I seem to recall ITV having a 'Midweek Sports Special' on from time to time which was invariably football-focused.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Dead as a Dodo.
Pull the other One, it's got bells on.
Money for old rope.
Chick's.
Shake a leg.
Sick.
Up the duff.
Honkey.

 

[Rob Noxious]

A local fridge magnate used to say the word 'juicy' about anything violent or sexual back when we were lads. :cricko: