What sort of crap nickname is...

[User removed 4]

Hoof and poof don't really rhyme though, unless you prounce one of them funny.

believe me , in this piece of rhyming slang, hoof is pronounced the same as poof.

 

[8ace]

believe me , in this piece of rhyming slang, hoof is pronounced the same as poof.

I know it's genuine just don't think it very good.

 

[NMH]

Hoof and poof don't really rhyme though, unless you prounce one of them funny.

Would you prefer they were called 'The Gingers' ?

 

[User removed 4]

I know it's genuine just don't think it very good.

gor blimey guvnor(puts thumbs behind imaginary braces and adopts a dick van dyke/tommy steele pose)whats your favourite piece of ryming slang ? the ones i find funniest are some of the recently made up ones , whilst having a meal recently i was asked if we were having a "get carter" !!

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

You really need to get out more !!

Probably. But if you followed football when you were young it give you a good idea of where places are and what they did in different parts of the country. When they had proper nicknames obviously.

I like the fact Warrington (rugby league) are called the Wire. My grandfather worked in the Wire foundries there.

 

[Danny-Boy]

.."the glaziers"?

What an absolutely shit effort. Probably the shittest nickname EVER. Worse than Reading's "the biscuitmen".

And following on from this, Crystal Palace changing their nickname from the Glaziers to the Eagles was sure the most plastic thing EVER done in football (apart from "AFC Bournemouth" and the whole MK Dons thing obviously). I mean, if you're going to change your admittedly gash nickname, at least change it to something RELEVANT. What relevance is an eagle to the shittest part of suburban Surrey? At least our two nicknames - the Dolphins and then the Seagulls - both reflected our coastal location.

Palace really are a plastic outfit and well worth reminding them of the fact some time next season I think. If they're not in division THREE.

I take it your great-great-great-grandad burnt the place down in 1936. Accidently whilst lighting a sock to keep himself warm.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Brighton and Hove Academicals - The Accies!!

 

[8ace]

gor blimey guvnor(puts thumbs behind imaginary braces and adopts a dick van dyke/tommy steele pose)whats your favourite piece of ryming slang ? the ones i find funniest are some of the recently made up ones , whilst having a meal recently i was asked if we were having a "get carter" !!

Not heard that one.
I enjoy the ones that people find harder to work out, like I'm a having a salmon.
Or the double one like "arris".

 

[cuthbert]

I have a book published in 1960 which gives the following: Colchester Utd, The Oystermen: Leeds Utd, The Peacocks; Leicester City, The Filberts; Watford, The Brewers; WBA The Throstles and indeed Brighton and Hove Albion, The Shrimps. A couple of the odder ones Gateshead, The Laides and Southport, The Sandgrounders.

 

[Biscuit]

Leicester City, The Filberts;

that is seriously shit!

 

[Danny-Boy]

gor blimey guvnor(puts thumbs behind imaginary braces and adopts a dick van dyke/tommy steele pose)whats your favourite piece of ryming slang ? the ones i find funniest are some of the recently made up ones , whilst having a meal recently i was asked if we were having a "get carter" !!

Heard one bit in my childhood, two coalmen came to deliver the stuff to our semi-d, one said to the other "Pass us the Lord Lovell". Who was his Lordship?

Can Lord B enlighten us?

 

[Simster]

Probably. But if you followed football when you were young it give you a good idea of where places are and what they did in different parts of the country. When they had proper nicknames obviously.

I like the fact Warrington (rugby league) are called the Wire. My grandfather worked in the Wire foundries there.

I think it's "wire" as opposed to "the wire" isn't it?

And that's another subject. It's not The Withdean, it's Withdean. And apparently, it's not "The San Siro", home of "Inter Milan" either. Obviously everyone knows it isn't really "Inter Milan" but the stadium is the Giuseppe Meazza stadium in the district of San Siro, and not The San Siro stadium.

 

[Danny-Boy]

I have a book published in 1960 which gives the following: Colchester Utd, The Oystermen: Leeds Utd, The Peacocks; Leicester City, The Filberts; Watford, The Brewers; WBA The Throstles and indeed Brighton and Hove Albion, The Shrimps. A couple of the odder ones Gateshead, The Laides and Southport, The Sandgrounders.

 

[Brovion]

Is the CORRECT answer.

Yeah, I wasn't REALLY suggesting that they were called the Irons because they were founded by London's gay community. 'Sake.

gor blimey guvnor(puts thumbs behind imaginary braces and adopts a dick van dyke/tommy steele pose)whats your favourite piece of ryming slang ? the ones i find funniest are some of the recently made up ones , whilst having a meal recently i was asked if we were having a "get carter" !!

Yeah, I do like the way that it re-invents itself and stays fresh. Some of the older ones have fallen into disuse and a lot of it WAS stupid: apples 'n' pears for stairs being an example of both.

 

[Soul Finger]

The ones I don't like are the new, manufactured ones i.e. no historical reference.

Sunderland's Black Cats and Ipswich's Tractor Boys have been conjured up by some spotty oik in a marketing department.

 

[bhaexpress]

The correct nick name for Palarse is the 'Panes' or rather, given the way they play, the 'Pains'.

 

[User removed 4]

The ones I don't like are the new, manufactured ones i.e. no historical reference.

Sunderland's Black Cats and Ipswich's Tractor Boys have been conjured up by some spotty oik in a marketing department.

tractor boys maybe, but i thought black cats was an old one ? maybe im wrong

 

[The Large One]

The ones I don't like are the new, manufactured ones i.e. no historical reference.

Sunderland's Black Cats and Ipswich's Tractor Boys have been conjured up by some spotty oik in a marketing department.

'Tractor Boys' for Ipswich has as much relevance as 'Seagulls' for Brighton. i.e. both done on the back of fans' chants.

Sunderland - named after the Black Cat gun battery which stood on the river Wear. Also references the lucky black cat which led to the team winning the FA Cup. (According to Wikipedia).

 

[Braders]

Fulhams = The Cottagers

nothing else needs to be said really..

 

[Joey Deacon's Disco Suit]

gor blimey guvnor(puts thumbs behind imaginary braces and adopts a dick van dyke/tommy steele pose)whats your favourite piece of ryming slang ? the ones i find funniest are some of the recently made up ones , whilst having a meal recently i was asked if we were having a "get carter" !!

On the train from Clapham to Watford for the cup game, these Patcham lads on the same carriage as me talked about racking up lines of Sarah Payne. That's so wrong on so many levels.