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26th March 2021, 12:21 PM
#31
Re: Sea farers' language
Originally Posted by
Brenda Shackleton
From my childhood...
Tab nabs
Teddy oggies ?
C.P.R. cake . Battenburg
One hand to the ship - hold the banister
'Catch my hand' . Dad's version of ,' hold my hand'
Time to go up aloft (time for bed)
Brenda
Said all of these to our children and now g/children
Tattie oggies (unless its my accent) ha ha
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26th March 2021, 03:43 PM
#32
Re: Sea farers' language
Few there I had forgotten brings to my
memory Saloon bobby,Stairhead man and
to start the day bar carry.
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26th March 2021, 07:27 PM
#33
Re: Sea farers' language
Originally Posted by
Tony Taylor
ropo ffs
Ropo ffs =what?
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27th March 2021, 12:45 AM
#34
Re: Sea farers' language
Thank you Ivan, a momentary slip of the nearly 89 year old memory, full of millions of tons of rubbish. A Fitch by any other name paints just the same, memory returning slowly.
Des
R510868
Lest We Forget
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27th March 2021, 08:07 AM
#35
Re: Sea farers' language
Originally Posted by
Des Taff Jenkins
memory returning slowly.
Des
Nothing wrong with your memory Des, it is just a fact of life, that our brains are so full of usefull information that the processor takes longer to find it, where as in the young the brain is nearly empty thus enabling the processor to find it immediately
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27th March 2021, 07:08 PM
#36
Re: Sea farers' language
Originally Posted by
Ivan Cloherty
Yer memory slipping a bit there Des, unless you've mistyped
A dogsleg is an angled brush either round or flat
a Fitch is a small flat brush with sloping bristles, normally used for decorative work, plus plimsolls and draught mark edges if you had a pernickety mate.
silver dip frog racing ,deck golf bridge box
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27th March 2021, 08:01 PM
#37
Re: Sea farers' language
Originally Posted by
Roger Millard
Ropo ffs =what?
Roll on pay off seen on every e/r blackboard
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28th March 2021, 09:36 AM
#38
Re: Sea farers' language
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28th March 2021, 05:41 PM
#39
Re: Sea farers' language
That was wonderful printing it off
very clever, thank you.
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31st March 2021, 07:01 AM
#40
Re: Sea farers' language
inthought a rosie was your cabin garbage bin?
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