Forgotten/rare phrases

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Berk from Berkhamsted

 

[TheBigUnit]

I haven't heard anyone exclaim "Gordon Bennett!!" for a good few years.

Really...!? Hear that quite a lot!

 

[Badger]

Dork is a word that is underused.

 

[Whitley Bayster]

You Joey or even worse for someone you really hated....you Ernie! Not very PC at my school in the 80s!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

There are many, many words that were used by most of us in our schooldays that are (perhaps understandably) frowned upon now.

Spazzer, spastic, for example. And does anybody ever use the word fatso now to describe a more rotund type? It's all "chozzer", "lardarse", "pie muncher" etc. Not like in Ro-Land Browning's day (look it up, kids).

 

[Camicus]

Piss or get off the pot
Havnt got a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out
Sand ratting

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Not pc but have you been spasticated?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

And of course, the scourge of many a bullied schoolboy:


Gaylord.

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

One I never understood....

Get off your horse and drink your milk.



Huh?

 

[half time scores]

Benny was a description I remember back in the sixties for a chap that 'navigated the windward passage' .
I do not know the origin.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

I must confess to using the term 'doofer' for many an object still, although people rarely have a clue what I'm going on about. I know exactly how they feel tbh.

 

[tinycowboy]

Mega, wally, super duper, cushty

 

[Titanic]

'on the other bus'

 

[Sussex Nomad]

One I never understood....

Get off your horse and drink your milk.



Huh?

Came from a Generation Game sketch in the 70's when old Brucey was still doing it.

 

[Bladders]

Benny was a description I remember back in the sixties for a chap that 'navigated the windward passage' .
I do not know the origin.

Short for bender would be my guess. Heard that one at junior school also.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Benny was a description I remember back in the sixties for a chap that 'navigated the windward passage' .
I do not know the origin.

Benny was a bender, think that alluded to the bending over?

 

[Meade's Ball]

Benny was a description I remember

Benny on the loose and benny tied to a tree were two popular phrases in certain schools in the 80s. Stringer and Varndean knew them certainly.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Benny on the loose and benny tied to a tree were two popular phrases in certain schools in the 80s. Stringer and Varndean knew them certainly.

Are YOU a benny tied to a tree Mr Ball??

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Dicksplash

Binner

 

[Munkfish]

Are YOU a benny tied to a tree Mr Ball??

I mentioned this to my friends a few months back, not one of them new what a benny was!