Surely that was a 'chinny reckon' which is usually reserved as a response for when someone was telling a tall story, usually said in a Jimmy Hill voice.
Yes and after Spastic became such a common insult The Spastic Society changed it's name to SCOPE .
No it was the one below, we used to do to the teachers that were weak and other kids.
Sad but true.
Yep, i was
Looney once called me a 'gaylord'.
I wore it as a badge of honour.
After Benny from Crossroads I always assumed?
Both of which are described here - "belming" being the tongue in front of teeth one https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mb6music/A19367814
So, when a geeky boy messed up when playing football at break, circa1971, and was called a 'f***ing spaz', to what was this a reference?
Troops in the Falklands used to refer to the locals as Bennie's after the crossroads character. When they were ordered to stop they started referring to them as Stills, e.g. Still Bennies.
I had no idea spaz was an insult in 1971?! 80/81 was my reception year at school, so I put it down solely to Joey Deacon’s fame.
Wikepedia also claims that Valerie Singleton was responsible for an epidemic of Lesbianism
I heard that discussed on the radio a few months ago. Didn't it go on to yet another level? Bloody funny
