Mister Slang

BREAKING: Jakarta has banned the commercial trade, slaughter and sale of dogs and cats for meat after years of advocacy.

This is a major step toward ending Indonesia’s dog and cat meat trade—and we’re so grateful to all of our supporters who stood by our side!

He Knew, You Know Charles Mackay and Victorian Catchphrases

Slightly, very slightly, tweaked y'day's post (mainly in the pic. captions). Nothing major, but if you haven't read it...
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She was on of the radio stars with whom one grew up in Fifties. BBC progs like ’ Workers’ Playtime’.

@bcdreyer.social substack is fighting off permiting my response, but did La Baker ever impinge your side of the Ditch? My assumption is no. Pre-TV, I doubt that she'd have made it down to london.

He Knew, You Know Charles Mackay and Victorian Catchphrases

Before ‘6-7’ leaves the theatre, a quick substack on catchphrases. As ever, there';s nothing new beneath the sun: open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...

And ‘’as yer muvver lorst ‘er mangle’ c. 1840.

I was. Feb-Mar. '73. And all were real, insofar as they came through the letterbox and were penned by readers. Whether the tales: 'I want to tell you about my landlady, her 14 y.o. daughter and their Alsatian dog' (13 sheets foolscap, typed single-space both sides) were as well...who knew?

If it's _that_ Fiesta, I was ed. of the 'readers' letters' for a while.

Lady Dog ‘A long time ago, in another country, and besides the bitch is dead’

Seemed like time for another post, albeit another of those ‘bitched up’ (sense 5) variations.
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Yes, the name of the game is ‘bitch’.

Peter Corris repeats his father's (ruled unfit to fight in WW2) line: he was a member of ‘B Company – that is, be there when they leave and be there when they come back.’Has anyone else met this. If so, is it Aus. only?

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Never mind the pronunciation, enjoy the usage... (cont. here: greensdictofslang.com/entry/nfgb7ei)

If twAt was good enough for Robert Browning…

And nor should it. Farage is a dangerous racist and yet is being fast tracked into No.10 on a ruinous populist agenda, funded by shady right wing money and malign foreign interests.
People must know who and what they are voting for. That’s the very lowest bar in a democracy.

Of Swans and Cygnets Bordeaux 2023

November Wines - Bordeaux open.substack.com/pub/gilesmac...

Giles MacDonogh (@gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social) British-Austrian Historian, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, author, occasional artist, linguist, food, wine and cooking.

gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social Pav de Luze: My M'prix has no 2023 but 2019 at €25.50 (and website 2018 €23.90 with 50% off second bott). Should I be finding my free tram bus pass and dragging my ancient body thence before le tout Marseille reads your substack?

this story isn’t going away

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These are all the dogs we sponsored in November ❤️‍🩹

Keep meaning to say: I left London (no regrets, did 60+ years) in spring 2024. Your tube pix evoke the spirit of the place for me more than anything else.

Nigel Farage’s schooldays We've all been there, haven't we? Well, haven't we?

A short free post on you-know-who having been a bit you-know-what open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

Nigel will not be happy. Anderson is more the einsatzkommando level.

I, for obvious reasons, would not be slightly surprised. They fuck up, you tell them. You can pretend to good humour, possibly the best path. But not if the same source persists. Hey-ho. As in so much else, I blame my mother. But I revel in it. Like the job I do, it keeps me on the margins.

Have seen a few people passing around this story by Tom Stoppard from just last year, talking about how he learned he was Jewish and also much about his family history, and it's quite a read. He really knew how to write. www.huntingtontheatre.org/2024/09/11/t...

‘Career’ not a word in my dictionary. Well done all. 2015: before the world decided to go even madder.

🗓️ 🎄Calendrier de l’Avent (en) marseillais

Chaque jour jusqu'à Noël, je vous explique un mot du français de Marseille : étymologie, sens, usages spécifiques, évolution, aspects sociolinguistiques…
Le marseillais, c’est du français… de Marseille.
Allez zou, ça part de là 👇🏼🧵

A reminder of my new blog post on Brexit reminders

Intrigued by your post, I researched and found the attached. There are other refs, but they are modern and like yours historically focused. There is also beef, as in horns and hooves, from the Folkestone area.

If you mean the links, these are to my dictionary. Each citation has a small flag which indicates the country of origin. As you suggest 'jack tar' (like 'tarpaulin' its almost wholly UK root) is primarily UK, but I do find US uses from mid-19C.

Add a little eau de vie de framboise to your Campari-soda and enhance them both. Would theoretically be pinker too, but for the eau de vie resisting its raspberry base and remaining steadfastly crystalline.

YouTube video by Eleanor Morton Pitching new versions of a Christmas Carol in 2025

Pitching new versions of A Christmas Carol in 2025
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