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Nico said:
Can anyine tell were muggins come from. Was it a person's name.? Like Oh muggins (me,I ) will have to do it. The French have it too. Their Muggins is bibi.
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muggins
n. 1 A fool or idiot (context especially as an ironic way of referring to oneself English). 2 (context cribbage English) The act of stealing another player's points because they either mis-pegged or counted up incorrectly. 3 A game of dominoes in which the object is to make the sum of the two ends of the line some multiple of five. 4 A card game based on building in suits or matching exposed cards, the object being to get rid of one's cards.
 
Smudger said:
I volunteered for a Air Dispatch course in the army, got an extra 15 bob a week & loved every minute of it. Even learned how to pack a parachute & drop cargo out of a plane without a chute. Great fun.
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More details please, presumably you sat on top of whatever cargo you were dropping without a chute or was it that you did not trust the chutes you packed. The fact that you did not get hurt is amazing. I bet that red beret and those para wings pulled the 'birds' in. However it sounds like that this was a job you enjoyed.

Bob
 
Bob Davis said:
More details please, presumably you sat on top of whatever cargo you were dropping without a chute or was it that you did not trust the chutes you packed. The fact that you did not get hurt is amazing. I bet that red beret and those para wings pulled the 'birds' in. However it sounds like that this was a job you enjoyed.

Bob
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I wasn`t a Para Bob, not quite daft enough or brave enough for that mob ! The air dispatch course was just one of many the army sent you on. I did enjoy it while it lasted, especially the extra 15 bob a week. !
 
mw0njm. said:
The phrase 'No good deed goes unpunished' is a sardonic commentary on the frequency with which acts of kindness backfire on those who offer them. In other words, those who help others are doomed to suffer as a result of their being helpful.
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Yes! Last time I did something like that I was helping my wife’s quilting group take a display a part late on a Saturday afternoon. A display stand slid down my are because someone let it go. I take blood thinners and had 5 stitches in an emergency room!
 
Yow look like yow've lost a poond and found a penny.
Yow can tell em ter steek eet!
Where's that Nan,?
Where the monkey stuffs is nuts!
Where's that Nan? and she would tell me.
 
Nico said:
There was a local man who was a bit not quite all there, who would stand and stare with a big grin. Mum would say, look at him, like smiling Morn.
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That's been bugging me this morning - I was sure i remembered Smiling Morn as a name from a book (apparently it's an old song too)!
Finally found it :grinning: he was a character from a book I had as a child...
 
A Sparks said:
That's been bugging me this morning - I was sure i remembered Smiling Morn as a name from a book (apparently it's an old song too)!
Finally found it :grinning: he was a character from a book I had as a child...
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I will see if I can get it. Mum also said of people Apple Face and Egg'ead. Nan said look at ol' Gawpy Gob. I had the misfortune to have to serve Gawpy Gob when I started work as a trainee Rep, he did remember me but he didn't mention my Nan!
 
Nico said:
How hold is the original book?
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I posted a long time a go that Nan said if her dress was shapeless or too big, she would look like Nanny Goon in it. Has anyone heard of Nanny Goon? And Bob Tyler I posted on the Songs thread. I wonder if he was a character from a book or a real person.? Some of her Black Country characters who were real people, she bestowed their names on to other people, when she moved to Coventry, like Duffy Baldro and Chump Mummy and Dithery Dick. I remember watching Pebble Mill at One, with mum, where you could see the audience and she shouted out there's King Kong!
 
Nico said:
I posted a long time a go that Nan said if her dress was shapeless or too big, she would look like Nanny Goon in it. Has anyone heard of Nanny Goon? And Bob Tyler I posted on the Songs thread. I wonder if he was a character from a book or a real person.? Some of her Black Country characters who were real people, she bestowed their names on to other people, when she moved to Coventry, like Duffy Baldro and Chump Mummy and Dithery Dick. I remember watching Pebble Mill at One, with mum, where you could see the audience and she shouted out there's King Kong!
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My late mother in law, Audrey, b Newcastle under Lyme in 1920, used the epithet Nanny Goon to apply to someone who was a little bit behind the times in fashion, slightly less bright and more economically challenged when compared with the normal. (As you can see, I am having a bit of a struggle being adequately politically correct.)

I thought it was a Stokey thing.
 
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