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monkey Flag Sittingbourne,but made in Bromley 13 Aug 24 8.48am

Originally posted by YT

Classic!

Stuart Farquhar (Kenneth Williams): My name is Stuart Farquhar, the representative of Wundatours.
Pepe (Peter Butterworth): Stupid what?

Dinner menu, sausage beans and chippins, sausage and chippins, beans and chippins or sausage and beans

I won’t mention Barbara Windsor’s Chathams!!

 

YT Flag Oxford 13 Aug 24 9.52am

Originally posted by ex hibitionist

which reminds me it's a 'Sherman' all day long and never a 'Tommy'.

Not a 'Jodrell' ?

 


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ex hibitionist Flag Hastings 13 Aug 24 10.00am

[quote=Tim Gypsy Hill '64;3893004]

Well, mainly. But sometimes it absolutely must be a Tommy

one looks out of a Tommy but one has a Sherman or a indeed a Jodrell

 

becky Flag over the moon 13 Aug 24 10.25am

Catamarans!

Well, they have a nice pair of Hulls!

 


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YT Flag Oxford 13 Aug 24 11.01am

Originally posted by ex hibitionist

...which city would you choose. I refer of course to rhyming slang for mammaries, with apologies to female posters (and moderaters) for any perceived sexism. I was just wondering why Bristol was chosen, but there is a certain assonance and alliteration and the 'city' suffix is memorable because it differentiates with rovers. So reference to 'Cardiffs' or 'Oxfords' would not work. Chesters is too literal and they're not in the league atm, Manchesters is too much of a mouthful (no pun intended), Lincolns isn't bad although people might think of cars, personally if I couldn't use Bristols, for whatever reason, that's not important. I'd go for Bradfords. I'd be most interested in other people's choices. Don't worry chaps, only a week to go.

Talking of 'female posters' and 'Bristols'... the world's biggest-selling poster was the 1976 Farrah Fawcett 'red swimsuit' poster. It sold over 12 million copies, and is believed to have helped millions of teenage boys along their sherman-tanking (or tommy-tanking or jodrell-banking) journeys.

 


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monkey Flag Sittingbourne,but made in Bromley 13 Aug 24 11.36am

Originally posted by YT

Talking of 'female posters' and 'Bristols'... the world's biggest-selling poster was the 1976 Farrah Fawcett 'red swimsuit' poster. It sold over 12 million copies, and is believed to have helped millions of teenage boys along their sherman-tanking (or tommy-tanking or jodrell-banking) journeys.

I’m assuming 12 million and ONE YT?

Edited by monkey (13 Aug 2024 11.38am)

 

becky Flag over the moon 13 Aug 24 11.41am

Originally posted by YT

Talking of 'female posters' and 'Bristols'... the world's biggest-selling poster was the 1976 Farrah Fawcett 'red swimsuit' poster. It sold over 12 million copies, and is believed to have helped millions of teenage boys along their sherman-tanking (or tommy-tanking or jodrell-banking) journeys.

So, I believe, did the 'Tennis Girl' poster

 


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YT Flag Oxford 13 Aug 24 12.55pm

Originally posted by monkey

I’m assuming 12 million and ONE YT?

Edited by monkey (13 Aug 2024 11.38am)

 


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YT Flag Oxford 13 Aug 24 12.57pm

Originally posted by becky

So, I believe, did the 'Tennis Girl' poster

I believe so, but jerking off in the middle of Athena was a bit embarrassing.....errrr, so a friend told me!

 


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ex hibitionist Flag Hastings 14 Aug 24 11.52pm

Originally posted by becky

Catamarans!

Well, they have a nice pair of Hulls!

I knew a chap who thought that when Fred Trueman said "Ah'll si'thi'" (I'll see thee) at the end of Indoor League he was really saying 'Hull City'. And yes he was a bit of a tit.

 

YT Flag Oxford 15 Aug 24 6.23am

Many years ago I heard "Georgie Bests", as in "What a lovely pair of Georgie Bests!"

More recently, but still quite a while ago, I heard "Look at the punk rockers on that!"

 


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YT Flag Oxford 15 Aug 24 6.35am

There was another one, but I don't understand it..."a lovely set of George Clooneys". Maybe it's fair game to insert almost any three syllable name or phrase, as everyone will know what you mean.

I can't place it, but I've got a distant memory of a sketch show sketch where rhyming slang was done in reverse. For example a "dolly bird" would appear and someone would say "Cor, what a lovely pair of tits!". Then all his mates would stop and say "sorry?....what??...and he would explain..."You know...tits.. threepenny bits...gedditt??" and they would all give a muted "oh yeah...very good...right-o" kind of response. I think you had to be there. Could it have been Paul Whitehouse or someone of that ilk?

 


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