Mister Slang
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Well, we have this 29/09/1934 which is not racist, other than it is a black club presumably attracting a white audience (I did a substack post on Gladys B: jonathongreen.substack.com/p/gladys-ben...)
October 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Well, we have this 29/09/1934 which is not racist, other than it is a black club presumably attracting a white audience (I did a substack post on Gladys B: jonathongreen.substack.com/p/gladys-ben...)
M. Raffles, vient d'arriver en Eurostar
October 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
M. Raffles, vient d'arriver en Eurostar
Then there's this much quoted memory from Gay News:
October 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Then there's this much quoted memory from Gay News:
No doubt they do. (Though I had forgotten TK). I just thought that maybe it was a little joke. Wonderful stuff. Been mailing the link to many addresses. PS, the parting plane in near-final shots is hommage to Performance (or is it a clip?)
October 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
No doubt they do. (Though I had forgotten TK). I just thought that maybe it was a little joke. Wonderful stuff. Been mailing the link to many addresses. PS, the parting plane in near-final shots is hommage to Performance (or is it a clip?)
If you wish to define "genocide" then read this.
September 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
If you wish to define "genocide" then read this.
Scribes: Don't miss
The Demon that Causes Typos - Titivillus, patron demon of scribes
by @rebekahking.bsky.social on substack
The Demon that Causes Typos - Titivillus, patron demon of scribes
by @rebekahking.bsky.social on substack
September 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Scribes: Don't miss
The Demon that Causes Typos - Titivillus, patron demon of scribes
by @rebekahking.bsky.social on substack
The Demon that Causes Typos - Titivillus, patron demon of scribes
by @rebekahking.bsky.social on substack
@fritinancy.bsky.social I like "chum" but then I would... btw "chummage" synon: "garnish" seemingly a development of the "embellishment" / "extras" sense and prob. roots in OHG warnên, warnôn, (reflexive) to guard oneself, provide oneself (OED)
September 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
@fritinancy.bsky.social I like "chum" but then I would... btw "chummage" synon: "garnish" seemingly a development of the "embellishment" / "extras" sense and prob. roots in OHG warnên, warnôn, (reflexive) to guard oneself, provide oneself (OED)
Brecht poem 1920.
Remind you of anywhere
Remind you of anywhere
September 15, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Brecht poem 1920.
Remind you of anywhere
Remind you of anywhere
For those who enjoyed the specimen of 1920s Lunnun crims’ lingo, here's a little more:
September 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
For those who enjoyed the specimen of 1920s Lunnun crims’ lingo, here's a little more:
No, you scum-sucking POS who defiled that slogan, these were:
September 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
No, you scum-sucking POS who defiled that slogan, these were:
The dog Badger. 12/84 today.
September 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The dog Badger. 12/84 today.
Just bought old school crim Jim Phelan's 'The Underworld' (1953). Def. of the 'put the bracelets on guv, it's a fair cop' genre. Also offers nifty bookplate. Anyone heard of him?
September 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Just bought old school crim Jim Phelan's 'The Underworld' (1953). Def. of the 'put the bracelets on guv, it's a fair cop' genre. Also offers nifty bookplate. Anyone heard of him?
High point of short period as food reviewer in 90s was a day with elder son eating balti (the dish and the 'bucket') on Brum's Curry Mile. Not forgetting this chonky chap: the 'table naan'.
September 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
High point of short period as food reviewer in 90s was a day with elder son eating balti (the dish and the 'bucket') on Brum's Curry Mile. Not forgetting this chonky chap: the 'table naan'.
last one: from Montreal Witness 14 June 1849, seems like 'flappers' on the job:
August 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
last one: from Montreal Witness 14 June 1849, seems like 'flappers' on the job:
fyi: The Life of Henry Labouchere (1913) p. 105:
August 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
fyi: The Life of Henry Labouchere (1913) p. 105:
GDoS has ‘shark’ (no ‘card’) as 1599 'his profession is skeldering' i.e. swindling and ‘sharp’ (no ‘card’) as as 1777. There may be a drift from 'shark' aside, but it is the anonym of 'flat', a sucker (1747).
August 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
GDoS has ‘shark’ (no ‘card’) as 1599 'his profession is skeldering' i.e. swindling and ‘sharp’ (no ‘card’) as as 1777. There may be a drift from 'shark' aside, but it is the anonym of 'flat', a sucker (1747).
The last lines of ‘The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui’, Brecht's 1941 satire on Hitler's theft of power. That was then. Brecht, in exile, chose optimism. Can we?
August 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The last lines of ‘The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui’, Brecht's 1941 satire on Hitler's theft of power. That was then. Brecht, in exile, chose optimism. Can we?
If I may tiptoe on the very edges of that world of weird/wonderful words as catalogued by the peerless @susiedent.com, might I offer this, found in the MS of the late Gary Simes’ Dict. Lang. Slang + Sexuality: flutterblast. Sadly I have no idea of the source.
August 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If I may tiptoe on the very edges of that world of weird/wonderful words as catalogued by the peerless @susiedent.com, might I offer this, found in the MS of the late Gary Simes’ Dict. Lang. Slang + Sexuality: flutterblast. Sadly I have no idea of the source.
Apropos of the whole arse (UK) / ass (US) duopoly, I note the attached seaside postcard. Created by Donald McGill (see G. Orwell for commentary) and if anyone was considered more English than he...
August 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Apropos of the whole arse (UK) / ass (US) duopoly, I note the attached seaside postcard. Created by Donald McGill (see G. Orwell for commentary) and if anyone was considered more English than he...
Your choice, mate (headline from Darkest Adelaide, 1907):
July 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Your choice, mate (headline from Darkest Adelaide, 1907):
Papi und Mammi (1922)
July 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Papi und Mammi (1922)
For those who appreciate T. Pratchett's 'seamstresses', a note from Darkest Adelaide (1907): nothing new 'neath the sun:
July 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
For those who appreciate T. Pratchett's 'seamstresses', a note from Darkest Adelaide (1907): nothing new 'neath the sun:
Thanks to the AND's Bruce Moore (a regular and generous donor to GDoS) I am now deep into to Darkest Adelaide. It goes, in part, like this... A very oasis in an increasingly vile world.
July 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Thanks to the AND's Bruce Moore (a regular and generous donor to GDoS) I am now deep into to Darkest Adelaide. It goes, in part, like this... A very oasis in an increasingly vile world.