A kipper tie, isn’t that what they have a milk and two sugars somewhere in the midlands?
excellent, I was about to Google Midland slang when my working synapse made the connection.
Thanks for the giggle.
Mick
following on on this sartorial thread I wonder what is the oldest article of clothing you have hung on to over the years - or the oldest you have in the wardrobe.
I have a never worn pair of cufflinks and have a bolster (pillow) cover given to me on my 21st birthday by Great Aunt Lily.
I suspect it was something given to her which she had never used - (she was a single lady.) She could be nasty at times - recall her coming to our house and the conversation got round to good looking film stars - during a lull in the talking she leaned over to me - put her hand on my leg and said - “Well M****, we can’t all be good-looking can we…” Think I was 12.
Took me along time to get over that!
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My wife had a waspish great aunt who was blunt and tactless to the point of deep unpleasantness who would follow up with “if the truth hurts…” Not nice at all.
As for old wardrobe fodder, I still have a denim jacket which a friends girlfriend had embroidered with one of the symbols from Led Zep IV - here is a Google image of the symbol
I also kept my wedding suit ! Last time I tried I could not get my arm up the trouser leg let alone the jacket sleeve!!
M
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Michael
Quote: ‘a friends girlfriend had embroidered…’ I am wondering why said friends girlfriend embroidered a jacket of yours. Was this girlfriend actually also a girlfriend of yours? And did your friend know? Or was the embroidery placed on your friends denim jacket which you then purloined? Or are you now going to commit further calumny by claiming that the girlfriend in question was actually your sister? (Not possible surely, she’d surely have been described as such!) or that she was paid for the embroidery?
My brother proudly embroidered his own denim jacket with all his favourite rock band logos!mHe didn’t have any girlfriends, nor did he have friends with girlfriends - they were a motley crew. And his sister wouldn’t have embroidered her own jacket, let alone his!
Sue
Interesting you should ask this, I have just replaced my oldest dress (just goes to show there is nothing new in fashion!), however different pattern and colour oh yes and size! (I am no longer a U.S size 2) Needless to say I love it. That sounds exactly like my grandmother apart from the good looking bit, she would never accept that anyone was attractive! I used to think my name was the ‘naughty one’ because that is what she woud announce anywhere and everewhere! Even when I got married it was still 'oh,she was such a naughty girl, which obviously caused much hilarity at a wedding.
… when I am called Michael I am usually in trouble.
I am happy to share some more info, just don’t tell anyone. The boyfriend of the girl in question was an 'orrible oaf and no friend of mine. I fancied this girl like crazy, but there was no way on Gods earth I could do anything about it. I swear that my motorcycle went a lot faster with her on the pillion. (I will NOT tell you how I nearly killed us both by showing off at very high speed. Or the time I accidently kicked a plastic ball containing her startled hamster [NOT A EUPHEMISM] across her parents kitchen floor)
She did actually embroider the symbol rather than stitch on a patch.
She is still lovely, married with a gorgeous teenage daughter and now lives in the US of A and we still Skype and witter on about the good old days! I hope that as the Covid situation changes, she and her family might come to UK to see her dad, in which case we will try to meet for some beers.
Thanks for making me trawl these great memories.
M
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Mick/Michael.
Love the bit about the hamster ball, not a euphemism.
you should be a writer!
C x
I still have my wedding dress which is not an actual wedding dress just a dress from Wallis which was ideal for a register office.
It is quite nice and I’d be proud to still wear it if only what goes inside it was in a similarly pristine condition.
oh well all those "if only"s.
ear worm alert re “oh Well”
I can’t help about the shape I’m in, I can’t sing I ain’t pretty and my legs are thin…
If I can kick hamster balls (NAE) and thrash my motorcycle (NAE) in my head then you can sing like an angel and dance like Pans People whilst wearing your wedding gear : in your head.
I did this mornings exercise to the tunes of the Van Halen debut album, still uncertain if my neighbours were chuffed or having a fit, I could not hear them!
mick
thank you Mick
Sing like an angel? Nope had too many fags for that, Sing like an imp of satan crossed with a gruffalo nowadays.
Dance like the tin man too.
I’m going to buy a bottle of whisky because I found a (ancient) bottle of ginger wine that i can make whisky macs with.
cheers hic x
At least Michael is allowed (or should be) in Welsh, it doesn’t contain any illegal K’s. Better be a Michael than a Mic!
It’s lovely to remember way back when…
Sue x
Pat me on the back, Mick! I understood Cheetah’s joke!
I am impressed, I’m still amazed that I got it before I made a fool of myself. I was genuinely about to Google “Midlands slang”
I am enjoying the giggles.
Mick
In1970 I had an orange dress with a wide, flowered kipper tie. I had orange shoes and bag to match…OMG where’s me sunglasses?
Boudsx
love you too Carole.
Boudsxx
Pans People were so pretty…and then there were Hot Legs …raunch!(is that their correct name?)
Boudsx
Yes I think the choreographer changed.
Arlene Phillips worked with Hot Legs (I think).
Everything I say or type ends with I think!
Pigging annoying not being able to trust your memory!
anyway we still make each other laugh xx
It may have been Hot Gossip but sometimes my imagination trumps actual memory
M
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!