Little Minx

A friend who lives in Lanzarote often makes me smile when she says it`s very hot, or very windy, down her back passage!

I give up with some of this pc drivel. I remember the late Frankie Howard reducing a theatre audience to helpless laughter for some minutes with just nods and winks only, but no words. Brilliant! What would the pc police have made of that?

The late Frankie Howerd would likely have been picked up as part of Operation Yew Tree by now so lets not romanticise the past. Going by the age of the companion that I saw him with in Corfu, hand in hand, he would certainly be helping the police with their inquiries. Not brilliant.

Your son wants to get over himself and show you some respect. Send him a copy of
the Beano with Minnie the minx highlighted. He should apologise to you.

Back to Nigel - it is an anagram of ingle. Is this a rare piece of Yorkshire rhyming slang, i.e. ingle nook = f**k?

I agree with you Papaoscar about us going PC mad, in fact I started a new thread on that subject last night. I have included 3 Tommy Cooper jokes - Look under 'Am I being unreasonable' which might make you chuckle.

I never 'ad no 'alo anyway....

But going back to thistledoo - has you son or his family contacted you since? If not, I wonder what - or who - will break the deadlock. sigh

Sorry to have caused such puzzlement. If I say he would have been accused of racism. The point is his little childhood nickname has now become a sacking offence . I believe one of Prince Charles friends had the same nickname.

It's alright Hunt. It was pretty obvious!

I've just googled, and apparently Prince Edward had the same nickname when he was young! (Goodness knows why...)

Thanks for enlightening us, Hunt - I think we were all too focused on the 'rude' possibilities

(apart from you, jingl)

I didn't like to say anything in case I was wrong.

Can be a funny lot, the royals.

Funny lot at Gordonstoun, apparently!

Had thought the same as others but wasn`t sure so thanks Hunt for clarification - I too was concentrating on something of the rude all to no avail

Minnie the Minx is still on the go in the Beano so what's his problem?

www.beano.com/characters/minnie-the-minx

Good grief Elegran - that song sounds a bit raunchy for my dear old aunt! Then again, I have 'fond' memories of our Christmases at one aunts house (we all turned up) and out would come the gramophone and on would go the 78s and all my aunts and uncles would be singing along to barrack room ballads - the kids were banished to the front room (where the Christmas cake sat on the sideboard ) but we could hear them laughing and not understand why!

I have just seen that someone has put a yellow smiley face on the 'Though for the Day' thread. That is something I wouldn't use these days due to it's connection to the Acid House rave scene and taking of Ecstacy. Life is a minefield isn't it?

Holly I suspect that your aunt would be perfectly OK with the song - after all, it does just say "kissing"! Anything else is in the eye of the beholder ear of the listener.

That generation were less starchy than the image they liked to show the children, though. My grandfather used to like to sing the old Music Hall songs - "She is only a bird in a gilded cage" and so on. If he started on one that Granny thought unsuitable for our ears she she would stop him with a sharp "George!"

My father had a repertoire of rugby songs which had to be strictly censored and my mother and aunt were never as strait-laced as they would have liked us to believe!

I have just seen that someone has put a yellow smiley face on the 'Though for the Day' thread. That is something I wouldn't use these days due to it's connection to the Acid House rave scene and taking of Ecstacy. Life is a minefield isn't it?

Shysal, if I was clever enough to reproduce that smiley face I would put a whole row of them on here! They cannot be allowed to appropriate everything.

I'm really sorry thistledoo had such a bad experience. I'm really confused, though, over what her son thought 'minx' meant. Words change their meaning over time and this particular word hasn't been used in a serious way for over 100 years! Dictionaries often give every definition without saying when the word was used in that sense. Son should perhaps do some kind of course on language? And start being kinder to his mother!

Elegran - I probably had a smutty moment

I think their generation was a lovely generation. This is bringing back some lovely family memories from my childhood - every single one of my uncles could play several musical instruments and those would inevitably come out and be played (along with the piano) and, in my head, I can hear them singing 'The Quartermaster's Stores' - happy memories

Thank you Lilygran, what a lot of good fun this thread has been, its turned an upsetting situation into a huge discussion about the play on words. I am trying to get a copy of the Beano for my DS, so we can all have a really good laugh about it. I heard my DIL calling the DGC little sausages the other day!!!! I nearly bust a gut.
Thank you all for your amusing posts and wonderful support.