J4CKO

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Click on the Link, begin reading and potentially spend a happy hour chuckling to yourself.

The Meaning of Liff

Bubba po

"two-shilling bits"

Is it really that old?

GC8

Ive not clicked the link: but if its the place-name book then its a good twenty years old, I think

Bubba po

Well a lot of it was used in the Not the Nine o'clock News 1982 calendar book, and the book came out before that. I'm guessing late 70's? Thirty-odd years!

boxst

1983 .... so 27 years ago. I remember reading it whilst at school. Funny at the time.

Bubba po

I've just looked it up - it seems that the offerings in the calendar pre-dated the book by a year, but that's because John Lloyd was editor and Douglas Adams was a contributor.

Interesting.

Bubba po

Sad, but me and the wife still use some of the words to this day. Such as "worples" - the little bits of milk floating in your tea when the milk isn't fresh; and "curspurnery" - the pitiful pretence of a dog owner that the animal sh1tting on the other end of the lead has nothing to do with them.

Dan Gleebits

Quant, Bubba.









Very.

Bubba po

Not in there.

Leslie

So you remember those,and Half Crowns too?

Les

Bubba po

'Fraid so, Les. I remember old pennies and ha'pennies, and thruppeny bits ( ) too, although farthings had gone out of circulation before I was born. (1962)

J4CKO

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Well I think its pretty good !

A lot has been made of the age of it, so what, most of the concepts are still relevant if you read it rather than worrying about when it was written.

NotoriousREV

I still can't see Wetwang without giggling and saying "a moist *****".

windyboy

how many people have just now looked up the place where they live ????

M444GY

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lol pmsl at some of them