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Old 23-06-2007, 00:06   #136
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Re: Soft Mick.

Just a random guess.. I'd say a stick would have a higher IQ than a clog.
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Old 23-06-2007, 10:14   #137
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Re: Soft Mick.

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Just a random guess.. I'd say a stick would have a higher IQ than a clog.
..and my sod, beats both your stick and clogs.
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Old 27-02-2008, 11:13   #138
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Soft Mick was routine speak in Colne when I was a boy (early sixties), and still is. It's an interesting blog but we have not cracked it yet. more suggestions please.
About localising; do Barlickers (people from Barnoldswick) use Soft Mick? If so it probably means your roots are Lancastrian in spite of the coming and going.
By the way, Barmy Mick did the Nelson Markets as well.
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Old 27-02-2008, 13:45   #139
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Re: Soft Mick.

Another one I remember from childhood, which would certainly result in a race relations claim, was 'dirty Arab'.

As in, 'stop scratching down there, you dirty Arab!'
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Old 27-02-2008, 18:24   #140
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Another one I remember from childhood, which would certainly result in a race relations claim, was 'dirty Arab'.

As in, 'stop scratching down there, you dirty Arab!'
also not PC to say you have been "jewed" anymore
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Old 27-02-2008, 18:26   #141
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Soft Mick was routine speak in Colne when I was a boy (early sixties), and still is. It's an interesting blog but we have not cracked it yet. more suggestions please.
About localising; do Barlickers (people from Barnoldswick) use Soft Mick? If so it probably means your roots are Lancastrian in spite of the coming and going.
By the way, Barmy Mick did the Nelson Markets as well.

I'm from Colne too and was gunna say that we use it.... u got there first lol
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Old 27-02-2008, 20:55   #142
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Re: Soft Mick.

What about Bobby Dazzler, anyone remember him
Used when you put new clothes on, they'd say "ya look a reight Bobby dazzler I' them"
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Old 28-02-2008, 23:13   #143
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Anyone who was "a sandwich short of a picnic" in pre-decimal days was only tenpence/shilling - or even "pots for bluebells" - but I lived in Rishton !
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Old 28-02-2008, 23:35   #144
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What about Bobby Dazzler, anyone remember him
Used when you put new clothes on, they'd say "ya look a reight Bobby dazzler I' them"

hehehe my bros used to get that one off me mum when they put their best clothes on .
lol I always seemed to be the dirty arab cus i was such a tom boy .. (and no not for any rude reasons lol) purely cus i was always getting mucky .
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Old 28-02-2008, 23:43   #145
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yeh i got "dirty arab" frequently.
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Old 04-03-2008, 21:17   #146
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Re: Soft Mick.

Going back to the title of the thread, according to Mrs MTB, Soft Mick was very big in Bolton, apparently everyone talked about over here too!
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Old 05-03-2008, 21:24   #147
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Re: Soft Mick.

Other slang words.
Tha talks like Billy's weekly liar.
Aif eten syrup butty.
Powfagged, as in worn out.
Skorrick, as thas nod left a skorrick.

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Old 31-03-2008, 13:21   #148
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Re: Soft Mick.

I know the phrase "soft mick" well from when I was a kid, my mother and her siblings used it in context of "she's had more illness than soft mick" etc etc. but they're not from Accrington - they grew up in Fallowfield/Crumpsall areas both around central MCR. their parents were Welsh mother and Irish father. just thought I'd add my tuppence worth as this kind of thing I find fascinating!

BTW I'm not right festered is one phrase I remember from Lancashire youth that I haven't heard since , meaning I'm not really bothered!!
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Old 31-03-2008, 13:30   #149
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Trouble at mill, lancashire,dialect,recipes

There are quite a few on that link
some had me flummocksed
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Old 31-03-2008, 15:05   #150
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Re: Soft Mick.

There's some good ones on here as well.

Lanky talk

I particularly like this one.

Muck midden pride - a carriage weddin' an' a wheelbarrow flittin'.
(The price you pay for being "showy".)

I'd forgotten about a place being called a midden.
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