another game that no one has mentioned and you don't see today is french skipping ie elastic around the ankles health and safety would have a blue fit lol ps didn't think anyone went to the palais unless they were under or over age lol On 14 February 2012 18:14, <[email protected]> wrote: > Brilliant Graham. Some of these had me falling about. I'd completely > forgotten them. > > Could add EyergooinoopPally? (Are you going to the Palais?) > Gerofforullskinyeralive (Go away or I won't be best > pleased) > Wezzmewinders? (Where are my glasses?) > > Re playground games : there were crazes. For a couple of weeks it would be > skipping ; a sea of twirling ropes from one end to the other ("All in > together girls; all out together girls...") while the boys played snobs and > 'fag cards'. Then it was all change for 2-ball against the wall (onesies, > twosies, threesies, dropsies etc) or The Big Ship Sails through the Ally > Ally-Oo. And crates of little bottles with metal tops bulging over the > frozen milk that took all of playtime to thaw? > > Anyone old enough to remember ragged piles of Dandy & Beano and plasticene > (all colours in a muddy mix-up) pulled from the cupboard for wet playtime, > the shock as the cane met the back of your hand, the effort to hold back > tears of rage and pain, the churning in your stomach just before the > whistle to start a race on sports day, or the smell of meths and carbolic > in the church hall where they sent you - in those days on your own, mark > you - to see the school dentist ? > > Not exclusive to Leicestershire, but fun to recall, I reckon. > > Did anyone see the whale (what was its name?) that parked up on a lorry in > the city centre back in the 1950s or climb on the canon outside the Museum > in New Walk? > > Jill > > > > -----Original Message----- On Behalf Of Graham Jennings > > > .......Here’s a cracking site of Leicester sayings > > www.angelfire.com/fl2/slang/ > > Graham > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Remember the snappers made out of brown paper and cardboard that were given free with the Beezer or Dandy and getting soaked the day after pancake day because everyone had one of those plastic lemons full of water! -----Original Message----- From: Linda Chapman Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 7:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LEI] Dialect & nostalgia another game that no one has mentioned and you don't see today is french skipping ie elastic around the ankles health and safety would have a blue fit lol ps didn't think anyone went to the palais unless they were under or over age lol On 14 February 2012 18:14, <[email protected]> wrote: > Brilliant Graham. Some of these had me falling about. I'd completely > forgotten them. > > Could add EyergooinoopPally? (Are you going to the Palais?) > Gerofforullskinyeralive (Go away or I won't be best > pleased) > Wezzmewinders? (Where are my glasses?) > > Re playground games : there were crazes. For a couple of weeks it would be > skipping ; a sea of twirling ropes from one end to the other ("All in > together girls; all out together girls...") while the boys played snobs > and > 'fag cards'. Then it was all change for 2-ball against the wall (onesies, > twosies, threesies, dropsies etc) or The Big Ship Sails through the Ally > Ally-Oo. And crates of little bottles with metal tops bulging over the > frozen milk that took all of playtime to thaw? > > Anyone old enough to remember ragged piles of Dandy & Beano and plasticene > (all colours in a muddy mix-up) pulled from the cupboard for wet playtime, > the shock as the cane met the back of your hand, the effort to hold back > tears of rage and pain, the churning in your stomach just before the > whistle to start a race on sports day, or the smell of meths and carbolic > in the church hall where they sent you - in those days on your own, mark > you - to see the school dentist ? > > Not exclusive to Leicestershire, but fun to recall, I reckon. > > Did anyone see the whale (what was its name?) that parked up on a lorry in > the city centre back in the 1950s or climb on the canon outside the Museum > in New Walk? > > Jill > > > > -----Original Message----- On Behalf Of Graham Jennings > > > .......Here’s a cracking site of Leicester sayings > > www.angelfire.com/fl2/slang/ > > Graham > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message