Simple Match Fishing Forum

You'll never notice we're there Dave, quiet, shy, retiring types the two of us.
The only clue will be the large buckets of pellets and paste on our side tables.

You probably will have to retire after the 'stick' you pair will get

Now you just need to pray that you dont get drawn between Mugger and I.

Wont be a problem for us Bill as we have both been fishing the Jinx matches for a number of years and are well used to getting loads of stick.

Now you just need to pray that you dont get drawn between Mugger and I.

A bit black over Bill's mothers  Likely to rain soon (now widespread). Commonly attributed to Black Country dialect: "Bill's mothers" features in a variety of forms - such as the reference to any obscure location being "the back of Bill's mothers"
Babby  Variation of "baby" Bawlin, Bawl  To cry, as in "She started to bawl'"
Cob  A bread roll (comes from the fact bread rolls look like street cobbles)
Donnies Hands, "Go and wash your donnies" Go and play up your own end  Said to children from a different street making a nuisance. It has been used as the title of the autobiographical book and musical play about the Birmingham childhood of radio presenter and entertainer Malcolm Stent
Gunter  To fix, work on or repair, mainly used a verb (example usage "I'm gonna gunter the car" equates to "I'm going to repair the car"), other forms include 'guntered' (example usage "the car's guntered" equates to "the car is fixed", alternate usage "I guntered the tele, but it still doesn't work" equates to "I worked on the television, but it is still broken")
Keep away from the 'oss road / Mind the 'orse road / Kip aert th'oss road  An admonition to travel safely, originally a warning to children in the days of horse-drawn traffic. "Th'oss road" may also have referred to the towpath alongside the canals found throughout the region, which presented the additional hazard to the unwary of falling into the canal. These expressions too, are commonly attributed to Black Country dialect rather than that from Birmingham
Our Wench  Affectionate term, meaning 'sister' or sometimes used by a husband referring to his wife
Pop  Another word for a glass of fizzy drinks, do you want a glass of pop
Rock  A children's hard sweet (as in "give us a rock") (In the Black Country it would be "gie us a suck" Suck being a hard sweet)
Snap  Food, a meal, allegedly derived from the act of eating itself (example usage "I'm off to get my snap" equates to "I'm leaving to get my dinner"). May also refer to the tin containing lunch, a "snap tin", as taken down the pit by miners
Scrage A scratched cut, where skin is sliced off. For example 'I fell over an badly scraged my knee'
Suff  Another word for drain, as in "put it down the suff"
Throw a paddy  To become sulky or have a tantrum (paddy being a stereotyped 'stroppy' Irishman; presumably relating to the Irish resistance to British rule)
Trap  To leave suddenly, or flee
Up the cut  Up the canal (not unique to Birmingham)
Yampy  (often "dead yampy") Mad, daft, barmy (also used is the word "Saft", as in "Yow big saft babbie"). Many Black Country folk[specify] believe "yampy" is a Black Country word, originating from the Dudley/Tipton area, which has been appropriated and claimed as their own by both Birmingham and Coventry dialects

Me any idea were we can get some cockney phrase books from
Dont like fishing next to foreign people i dont understand

Doesnt Paul Roberts come from that area

Adam and Eve             Believe
Alan Whickers             Knickers
Apples and Pears         Stairs
Aristotle                     Bottle
Artful Dodger              Lodger
Ascot Races                Braces
Baked Bean                Queen
Baker's Dozen             Cousin
Barnet Fair                  Hair
Barney Rubble             Trouble
Battlecruiser                Boozer
Berkshire Hunt             lady thingy
Boat Race                    Face
Brassic Lint                  Skint 
Brahms and List           yellow streamed 
Brass Tacks                 Facts
Bread and Cheese        Sneeze
Bread and Honey         Money
Bricks and Mortar         Daughter
Bristol City's                lady lumps
Brown Bread                Dead
Bubble Bath                 Laugh
Bubble and Squeak       Greek
Butcher's Hook             Look
Chalfont St. Giles          Piles
Chalk Farm                   Arm
China Plate                   Mate
Cobbler's                     man balls
Cock and Hen               Ten
Currant Bun                 Sun
Daisy Roots                 Boots
Darby and Joan            Moan
Dicky Dirt                    Shirt
Dog and Bone              Phone
Duck and Dive             Skive
Duke of Kent               Rent
Dustbin Lid                  Kid
Elephant's Trunk          Drunk
Flowery Dell                Cell
Frog and Toad             Road
Gold Watch                 Scotch 
Gregory Peck              Cheque
George Raft                Draught
Hampton Wick            Prick
Jam Jar                      Car
Jimmy Riddle              yellow stream
Khyber Pass               wobbly cheeks
Lady Godiva               Five pound note
Lionel Blairs               Flares 
Loaf of Bread             Head
Mince Pies                 Eyes
Mutt and Jeff             Deaf
North and South        Mouth
Pen and Ink              stink 
Plates of Meat           Feet
Pony and Trap           crap
Porky Pies                 Lies
Rosie Lee                  Tea
Rub-a-Dub                Pub 
Ruby Murray             Curry
Sherbert Dab            Cab
Skin and Blister         Sister
Sky Rocket               Pocket
Sweeney Todd          Flying Squad
Syrup of Figs            Wig
Tea Leaf                  Thief
Thrupney Bits           lady lumps       
Tit for Tat (Titfer)      Hat
Todd Sloane              Alone
Tom and Dick            Sick
Tom Foolery              Jewellery
Trouble and Strife      Wife
Whistle and Flute       Suit

Thats fine Malc, Cant see anyone having a problem with that.

Trumpet man added and the 2 cockneys 

so why not get a sun tan as i never catch anyfish from that canal

And where does Richard III come in all this

Well because we got taffys and cockneys to try and communicate with ive rented the box set of gavin and stacy to try and learn the lingo so i dont feel like im talking to some poles.

"I guntered the tele, but it still doesn't work"