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Doorstop wrote:Seeing the picture of the Clippies reminds me of a story a mate told me last week.
A photo was posted elsewhere of a couple of 1970's Glasgow kids standing in a back court, both dressed in identical astronaut outfits. Classic 70's stuff - silver lamé suits with NASA badges and big, goldfish bowl plastic helmets etc and my mate had commented that he remembered those well. All his mates had spaceman outfits or cowboy or soldier get ups, but for some odd reason a family member had bought him a bus conductor outfit, complete with change bag and clippie machine etc.
When all his mates were running around shooting each other with machine guns or laser beams, he was busy giving anyone that killed him a ticket.
the researcher wrote:according to my dads birth certificate his father(my grandfather) was a turner which is someone who turns metal or wood on a lathe which was most likely metal which is engineering related as my dad was good at car repair and did all his own on his cars ive also got this skill as i like repairing bicycles and am self taught having done bicycles since i was 14 and have also worked as a bicycle mechanic in a bicycle shop, ive also stripped down motorbike engines and rebuilt them
you never hear the word turner being used nowadays but most likely where the surname turner originates from
dazza wrote:Anyone heard of a hauder and dauder? I hadn't until the Central Station tour.
Bridie wrote:dazza wrote:Anyone heard of a hauder and dauder? I hadn't until the Central Station tour.
Is it something to do with "holding" and "daud" meaning either a chunk or to strike?
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictio ... glish/daud
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