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    As kids we grew up with insulting nicknames be they Skinny ,Fatso, Ginger . Whitey if you were unfortuanate enough to be an albino, and many more discrimatory names, and thought nothing of it. Today the parents of such would have their offspring in a trauma clinic .As we age and if fortuanate and still have spouses we find ourselves back in the same position getting the old names of fatso and skinny back , and the
    same spouses trying to change your shape. If you are going to insult people and have lack of words on how to do, a few can be found in the words of William Shakespeare and his poisoned quill and I quote just a few from his various manuscripts.
    From Twelfth Night....Go shake your ears !
    From Richard 111......poisonous hunch-backed Toad
    Drop into the rotten mouth of death
    Thou slander of thy heavy mothers womb
    Thou lump of foul deformity !
    Out of my sight ! Thou dost affect my eyes
    From King Lear ... .Thou art a boil, a plague sore,an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.
    Thou whoreson zed ! Thou unnecessary letter !
    From the Tempest..... His complexion is perfect gallows.
    What strange fish has made his meal on thee.
    O ho, monster
    Most wicked sir, whom to call brother would even infect my mouth Hang cur,
    Hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker.

    See what we missed out on with s council education .

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    In Bali some years ago there was to be a wedding and all at the hotel were invited by the bride.
    Most brides have a complexion often said to look like peaches and cream.

    This one was more like Rhubarb and Custard.
    Happy daze John in Oz.

    Life is too short to blend in.

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    well i suppose being called a bloody toerag ....in shields .....was as good as anything shakespeare rote........note the rote ....its old geordie

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    Quote Originally Posted by happy daze john in oz View Post
    Most brides have a complexion often said to look like peaches and cream.

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    I never found that attractive, white with big yellow blobs all over!

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    #4. sounds like something Dr Ross might treat.
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    When I was a kid, there were three people in my village called John Lowery; fat John, skinny John and limpy John. I wonder how that would go down these days?

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    #3. Cappy have tried 4 times to answer #3 in full ref, a Geordie living in this village but after about 12 lines in the msg. Disappears so will try piecemeal one excert from him describes the Geordie word for donkeys as “ Cuddys” and a poem during the Boer war from his fathers ditty box I would imagine of troops in a training camp on Whitley Bay links was ...Oh had ya bin to Whitley links to see the warriors campin,
    Tha aall as Weald as untamed goats and aall like lions ramping .
    One dark and stormy night when Tommy Trott was on sentry waulking , an outlandish beast he thort he saw amongst the tents was stalking . In the Queens name he cried “ wees there” and took no time to study; his rifle went off without a crack at Andrew Drummond’s Cuddy.
    John Taylor ex engineer from 1952 Port Line. Now in his 90s both he and wife alive and well . If print anymore will disappear as previously. Cheers JS
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    #7 should have started ARE THERE ANY GEORDIES IN MEADOW SPRINGS
    Geordies originated from Northumbria in the NE of England and principally from Newcastle
    on Tyne and surrounds
    The coal miners of the 19th century used the George Stephenson lamp ( before the Davy safety lamp). It is thought this was where the name was coined .
    My father was born in jarrow in 1886 and grew up with the songs like Blaydon races ringing in his ears . During the same period Britain was training troops to fight in the Boer war . The army camps were set up on Whitley Bay links ( golf course ) donkeys used to carry supplies for the infantry , their Geordie name was Cuddy.
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    well JS.....now as far as i new a cuddy was always a cow ...but that was in south shields .....could be a donkey elsewhere .....but the milkmaid would have not such an easy time milking a donk .....i shall ask a bloke who knows about donks....cappy

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    I used to ride Jos Lawson’s ponies and donkeys from his field to the beach for fare paying passengers , I just called them donkeys among other things .Just got back a couple of hours ago from my second funeral in 4 days . I refuse point blank to,go to no more for at least 6 months and that includes my own. Cheers JS
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