Saying hello, happy New Year, and introducing myself ..

Not at all and welcome honorary aunty member

Ooh, I think you might be our first aunty cordwrangler, welcome!

Welcome to the forum cordwrangler hope that you like it.?

Were you a round the Horne fan?

Welcome, hope you enjoy being here.

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THE BALLAD OF THE WOGGLER'S MOOLY
performed by
(Kenneth Williams as Rambling Syd Rumpo)

Announcer:
Before the days of newspapers, the events of the day were retailed by the street ballad singers. And here to sing one such eighteenth-century ditty, The Ballad of the Woggler's Mooly, is Rambling Sid Rumpo. Now, what exactly is a woggler's mooly?

Ramblin' Syd:
Well, a mooly is a sort of smoked cuttlefish of the whelk family, or a brother-in-law you might say.

Announcer:
Yes.

Ramblin' Syd:
And they were considered a great delicacy in those days. And of course they had to be woggled before you could eat 'em.

Announcer:
Yes, of course. Nowadays you can get them frozen and pre-woggled, but they don't taste the same, do they?

Ramblin' Syd:
No, no. Now this is a sad story that first appeared in 1738 on a broadsheet, and I've set it to a tune of that time which I found in my ganderbag covered in loom powder and fish paste.

Announcer:
Fish paste. Yes, what exactly is loom powder?

Ramblin' Syd:
If I started explaining that, we'd be here all night. Now, so to the song.
Joe, he was a young cordwangler,
Munging greebles he did go,
And he loved a bogler's daughter
By the name of Chiswick Flo.

Vain she was and like a grusset
Though her gander parts were fine,
But she sneered at his cordwangle
As it hung upon the line.

So he stole a woggler's mooly
For to make a wedding ring,
But the Bow Street Runners caught him
And the judge said "He will swing."

Oh, they hung him by the postern,
Nailed his mooly to the fence
For to warn all young cordwanglers
That it was a grave offence.

There's a moral to this story,
Though your cordwangle be poor,
Keep your hands off other's moolies,
For it is against the law

Ah Bliss! Galen, thank you for that! I have most of the Round the Horne series on tape and CD and they never fail to have me in stitches. DS loves them too, even though they were a bit before his time! I loved Dame Celia Molestrangler and Ageing Juvenile Binkie Huckaback (aka known as Hugh Paddick)!
Welcome,*Cordwrangler*, and Happy New Year!

Hello and welcome cordwrangler you don't have to be anything at all to be welcome here but do join in as much as you can.

Most definitely a Round the Horne fan, and of Kenneth Williams in particular

Then you'll fit in here, ducky!?

Welcome.
Look what you have started already!
Think your chats will be fun

Welcome from me too

And I confess typo .... I originally typed my username as 'cordwangler'. The lovely admin folk have corrected it for me, for it should be cordwangler

Thanks for the lovely welcomes.

This may be wrong, but.......

Ones the grang upon my splod that masketh my cordwangle!

Just change it to 'my friend Sandy'

Welcome cordwangler. Looks like you have fitted in all snug and comfy very quickly .