colingr
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Don\'t think I\'ll go out in the Solent for a while
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Don't think I'll go out in the Solent for a while
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B175Chris
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Re: Don\'t think I\'ll go out in the Solent for a while
Pansy.
Pansy.
paultallett
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Ace, the mother in laws gonna really enjoy our trip to cowes!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Ace, the mother in laws gonna really enjoy our trip to cowes!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
colingr
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Re: Don\'t think I\'ll go out in the Solent for a while
Dont want to spill the G&T my lad.
Dont want to spill the G&T my lad.
Moonshiners
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Shhh Keep the groks off for a while... ;-) /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Shhh Keep the groks off for a while... ;-) /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Mr Googler
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I wonder how many formites know what "grocks" are?
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I wonder how many formites know what "grocks" are?
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neale
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Re: Don\'t think I\'ll go out in the Solent for a while
Don't the cornish call the rest of us 'Grockles' or something similar. I would have though it was a term of endearment for outsiders /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Don't the cornish call the rest of us 'Grockles' or something similar. I would have though it was a term of endearment for outsiders /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Mr Googler
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Re: Don\'t think I\'ll go out in the Solent for a while
According to ask Oxford:
"This slightly dismissive term for a 'tourist' was, as several of our readers have noted, first popularized because of its use by the characters in the film The System (1962), which is set in the Devon resort of Torquay during the tourist season. Some older dictionaries suggested that this might be a West Country dialect word. Other scholars have suggested that it might originate in a comparison of red-faced tourists (in baggy clothing with handkerchiefs on their heads) to 'Grock', the famous clown. The word grockle was indeed picked up by the script-writer from the locals during filming in Torquay. However, it was apparently not an 'old local dialect word'. According to research by a local journalist in the mid-1990s, the word in fact originated from a strip cartoon in the children's comic Dandy entitled 'Danny and his Grockle'. (The grockle was a magical dragon-like creature.) A local man, who had had a summer job at a swimming pool as a youngster, said that he had used the term as a nickname for a small elderly lady who was a regular customer one season. During banter in the pub among the summer workers, the term then became generalized as a term for summer visitors. This seems to have occurred in, or only shortly before, the summer in which The System was filmed: we know of no instances of the word dating from before the release of The System (though one or two people from the south-west remain convinced that they knew it before then)."
Apologies for kinda highjacking the post!! I will go away now /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
According to ask Oxford:
"This slightly dismissive term for a 'tourist' was, as several of our readers have noted, first popularized because of its use by the characters in the film The System (1962), which is set in the Devon resort of Torquay during the tourist season. Some older dictionaries suggested that this might be a West Country dialect word. Other scholars have suggested that it might originate in a comparison of red-faced tourists (in baggy clothing with handkerchiefs on their heads) to 'Grock', the famous clown. The word grockle was indeed picked up by the script-writer from the locals during filming in Torquay. However, it was apparently not an 'old local dialect word'. According to research by a local journalist in the mid-1990s, the word in fact originated from a strip cartoon in the children's comic Dandy entitled 'Danny and his Grockle'. (The grockle was a magical dragon-like creature.) A local man, who had had a summer job at a swimming pool as a youngster, said that he had used the term as a nickname for a small elderly lady who was a regular customer one season. During banter in the pub among the summer workers, the term then became generalized as a term for summer visitors. This seems to have occurred in, or only shortly before, the summer in which The System was filmed: we know of no instances of the word dating from before the release of The System (though one or two people from the south-west remain convinced that they knew it before then)."
Apologies for kinda highjacking the post!! I will go away now /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
epervier
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Re: Don\'t think I\'ll go out in the Solent for a while
The cornish get "emmits", us in the new forest get "grockles"defined by;- they're the ones who treat ponies and livestock like a rta, stop, put their hazard lights on, and look at locals as if we have committed the most heinous of crimes by driving round said pony or cow, and even give them a light nudge with the car to get them moving, they are the ones that feed the bloody ponies and donkeys, when the sign says do not feed the animals.
The cornish get "emmits", us in the new forest get "grockles"defined by;- they're the ones who treat ponies and livestock like a rta, stop, put their hazard lights on, and look at locals as if we have committed the most heinous of crimes by driving round said pony or cow, and even give them a light nudge with the car to get them moving, they are the ones that feed the bloody ponies and donkeys, when the sign says do not feed the animals.
andy59
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You would think that they had never seen a horse or donkey /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif And as for the ones that picnic at the roadside !!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
You would think that they had never seen a horse or donkey /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif And as for the ones that picnic at the roadside !!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
AHoy2
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I be one, I know some half reasonable ones and I don't limit it to noon /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
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I be one, I know some half reasonable ones and I don't limit it to noon /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
l'escargot
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Re: Don\'t think I\'ll go out in the Solent for a while
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..Bonus points for explaining Caulkheads, Overners and Nammit! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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I wish it had capsized they there overners, cornen across: what do they want over here, tryen to take the bread out o’ vokes’ mouths? If ar one on ‘em zays ar a word out o’ square to me you, I’ll zwarrn into’n pretty sharp, I can tell’ee. Oi, you, that’s the right way to sar ‘em. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
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..Bonus points for explaining Caulkheads, Overners and Nammit! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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I wish it had capsized they there overners, cornen across: what do they want over here, tryen to take the bread out o’ vokes’ mouths? If ar one on ‘em zays ar a word out o’ square to me you, I’ll zwarrn into’n pretty sharp, I can tell’ee. Oi, you, that’s the right way to sar ‘em. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif