🙃chatting, eh?
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🙃Open to play!
From the Alan Lomax Archive,
Masters of War, most appropriate, eh?
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🙄Sir Les Patterson with the mandatory wet-patch!
🙄No Yellow Submarine!
No John Betjeman
No Ray Davies
No Vivian Stanshall
No Ian Dury
Although, there's Robin Goodfellow doing karaoke at The Horse and Trouser_
🙂..another figment of Cecil Sharp's over active imagination, eh?
🙂..an Island Records 12inch!
It's about somewhere in my Music Room..
🙄Opinions are like 'arseholes' everyone has one!
🙄a mutt of a vernacular!
If you were a bona palone or a bold omee out on the strada, being able to say you didn't have a yanepatine to your name: would you consider trade or have a vada at the option?
Pig Latin
Polari
Back Slang_
🙃..but have I mistaken you for a Marshfield Mummer, one of those flakey News Paper Boys?
🙃The point being, why bother with the Downend Folk House controlling the narrative: when one can walk down to the 'King Billy' in Staple Hill and do karaoke for nought, with no questions asked?
🙄Behave!
The Working Classes aren't here for the curiosity of the bourgeoise:
Where do you think we live, Edwardian Britain, eh?
🙂The alternative view from the Yellow Submarine being: one never sees the likes of Steve Roud at the Horse and Trouser on karaoke night, the folk who own the song are those who sing it, not those who catalogue it_
🙂The Verbals!
The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue” www.openculture.com/2026/02/the-...
🙂wasn't Cecil Sharp one of the original Gatekeepers by removing the smut from the songs of the working poor, and arranging the tunes for the pianoforte?
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
🙂Best Behaviour, eh?
🤓Carry On Mind the Potholes and the stuffed dogs! Let's not prate & shiver like an old pirate minus the cherry-brandy_
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🙃..and we sailed out to the Sun!
In our Yellow Submarine_
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🙂Excuse Me!
🙃Good lack-a-day!
🙂The Alhambra, like The Alsatia behind Whitefriars has never closed, as no one is ever going home!
🙂 the reason the Lizard King isn't beneath the topsoil of Devision 6, plot 30 at the Père Lachaise Boneyard, is a little know oversight regarding the French Napoleonic Code: which prohibites the nosey Blighter from finding out_
🙃loved it until you mentioned that old fraud, Jack Kerouac, then I'd sadly losted interest!
🙂..a pastiche of the first album from The Jeff Beck Group, Truth, eh?
🙃proper, paguy boosy, last night?
🙂Blue Afternoon, from Tim Buckley.
🙂Oi! Doc.
Had me nose stuck up the backside of Thomas Shadwell for most of this morning, some lovely insults from The Squire of Alsatia available for use, enjoy!
So, time for a new update of GDoS. I think #37 since the online launched in October 2016. Full, or so I like to believe, of the usual selection of louche goodies. Available on line now, and to accompany it, so too is my latest substack:
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It's worth a vada just for the term, Spooney!
Spot-on, sir_
🙃..the term 'jam-duff' in the prison population has many meanings: its used here as a reference to an inferior desert: lumpy custard with strawberry jam!