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Brian Perrier

Update recieved by email concerning Arthur Deamer

Hi Brian – Arthur arrived back in the UK last Friday, minus his gall
bladder. He is doing fine which is more than can be said for his bank balance. The treatment in America cost $134,000 and he didn’t have any insurance.

29 February 2012

John Horn 42-45

HI DAVE.
JUST TO LET YOU KNOW I HAVE BOOKED IN FOR FOUR NIGHTS AT THE WHITE HORSE HOTEL THURSDAY THE FOURTH TO MONDAY THE SEVENTH OF OCTOBER.
I know what your going to tell me you have all booked in for the following week.best wishes to you and Mal.
John.

27 February 2012 - Manchester

Jean Clark

Hi Dave and Alan I'm still in shock over my Birmingham losing to Nottingham Forest and how we lost it I was there. As least we are still in the play offs fingers crossed.
Any way Dave please can I follow you in my car when you go to Goldings on the Friday as I know I will get lost please. Bluenose.

27 February 2012 - Birmingham

Dave

“Dickie’s Boy” and the thoughts of Leslie Thomas, former Kingston Boy
Throughout the year’s, generations of boys slang had been evolved at Dickies, an insular language that left strangers mystified, and you had to learn from the start. Yet, strangely, the very word '"Dickies" had grown without anyone being able to recall or even guess its origin. It was just caned Dickies and nobody knew why. A boy was a kid or, more generally, a guy. Thus a boy from the home was a Dickie guy. Once a lad called Frank Knights, who went to a Grammar School, wrote a letter to the London Evening News and signed it Dickie Guy and it was published with that name under it.
My own thoughts on it were it continued to be also used at Goldings along with other strange “words” we used. Also mentioned by N.T.Powell (Print Tutor and Staff and editor of the Goldonian) and wrote in it “Soon most of you Dickies Boys will be going on leave”, so it appears that Staff used the same also.
Below is a reference to other use of slang words used at Goldings.
The date? 1942!
continued

26 February 2012

Dave

A Glossary of Non-technical Terms
A student entering the School finds himself confronted with a new language. It is very much to his advantage to master this as quickly as possible, for until he does he will be unable to converse with his fellow students, and their conversation to him will be Chinese.
I do not know how old or new this language may be, but after spending much time poring over well-known English and Foreign dictionaries with a wet towel around my head, I had at last to go to the boys for a definition.
Perhaps a dictionary containing the following words is in course of preparation, but I understand the Printers know nothing about it.
'' Bosky,'' cross-eyed; ' 'butt,'' cigarette end; ' 'Carps, carpenters; "Charlie up," reveille; "cheddars," feet; "chew-out," a swindle; "chip," to exchange; "cozzie," bathing costume; "crabby," rotten; "dogs it," to claim; "dragger," smoker; "deuce," twopence; "gas-cake," cake; "ginnas," bread; "gozzie," as bosky; "grog," tea; "hair grog," hair cream; "hard cheese," bad luck; "hard up," miser; "lardie," stale; "luggie," deaf; "miggie," ball; "money letter," a bit of luck; "mug on," to take; "nutrock," hair cut; "hombre," tough; "plonk," pudding; "pongie," as "luggie"; "pro.", good at his job; "rush out," as "chew-out"; "scivvy up," to clear up; "scrumps," apples; "smack-up," job badly done; "snob," bootmaker; "spare," boy on odd jobs; "stiver," one penny; "swig," a drink; ' 'swiz,'' a swindle; "tooty," as nutrock; "trashie,'' a penny dreadful.
I must apologise if any of the above words are wrongly spelled, for not having seen them before in print, I have had to spell them as I have heard them pronounced.
R. H. P.
The mystery now continues

26 February 2012

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