What's in a name? Part Deux
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It's called a spoonerism, Harry, and not uncommon after a couple of drinks.Harry Genshaw wrote:Like Cowdrill I was another 'Jonny cum lately' so went for the first Bolton player to score a goal in the 4th division, and for some reason lost on me now, swapped the lead letters around.
If i'd gone for the scorer of the last ever goal in the 4th division I could now be called Sobbie Ravage.
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And there was me thinking/hoping that you were the real deal, cunnngly hiding behind a spoonerism so as to avoid questions and allegations regarding post footie career impropriety! Blast!!Harry Genshaw wrote:Like Cowdrill I was another 'Jonny cum lately' so went for the first Bolton player to score a goal in the 4th division, and for some reason lost on me now, swapped the lead letters around.
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Not sure why I chose this one and its a little obscure but it came from watching the series black box a few years ago. Captain Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten was an impatient pilot for KLM who ignored air traffic control at Tenerife airport in 1974 resulting in the death of hundreds of people.
I'm quite impatient and thought it would be a unique username, later I discovered I had spelt it completely wrong!
I'm quite impatient and thought it would be a unique username, later I discovered I had spelt it completely wrong!
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Funny you should mention impropriety. There is/was a bit of goss re Mr Henshaw after his career ended. Not sure TWs lawyers would let me repeat it though!Bruce Rioja wrote:And there was me thinking/hoping that you were the real deal, cunnngly hiding behind a spoonerism so as to avoid questions and allegations regarding post footie career impropriety! Blast!!
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Possibly the 1890s after he (spooner) took holy orders and was teaching at Oxford University. He was the one who called Britain's farmers 'noble tons of soil' and, when toasting the monarch, raised a glass to "our queer old dean". I suppose he might have said, if giving a eulogy for Jussi, May sod rest his goal.Harry Genshaw wrote:He played for us in the 90s didnt he?Montreal Wanderer wrote:It's called a spoonerism, Harry, and not uncommon after a couple of drinks.
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hope the bedrooms aren't on the top floor. Imagine needing to get to the door if the postie rings the bell.Winter Hill White wrote:See reply above.
But replace Winter Hill for Enfield.
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It wasn't the 'Green Cross Code man's book of road safety' was it?Little Green Man wrote:Don't forget choughs. You can't beat a good old chough.Raven wrote:I got mine as I was reading a Charles De Lint book and there were Crows in it and the big boss man was Raven. Also Crows, Ravens, Jackdaws are cool
Little Green Man was taken from a book I'd just finished reading.
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More likely Puck of Pook Hill by Rudyard Kipling if you were to ask a librarian. But it could be a comic book character (I don't know LGM that well).Soldier_Of_The_White_Army wrote:It wasn't the 'Green Cross Code man's book of road safety' was it?Little Green Man wrote:Don't forget choughs. You can't beat a good old chough.Raven wrote:I got mine as I was reading a Charles De Lint book and there were Crows in it and the big boss man was Raven. Also Crows, Ravens, Jackdaws are cool
Little Green Man was taken from a book I'd just finished reading.
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That would make me Darth Vader.Soldier_Of_The_White_Army wrote:It wasn't the 'Green Cross Code man's book of road safety' was it?Little Green Man wrote:Don't forget choughs. You can't beat a good old chough.Raven wrote:I got mine as I was reading a Charles De Lint book and there were Crows in it and the big boss man was Raven. Also Crows, Ravens, Jackdaws are cool
Little Green Man was taken from a book I'd just finished reading.
Little Green Man is the title of the book. It's about four school friends who get back together in their late twenties and devise a series of dares (that become progressively more grotesque) in order to win a jade figurine.
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