Very Hip!

Luke Sleepwalker · Post by **Luke Sleepwalker** » Wed May 12, 2004 4:47 pm

Well shiver me timbers and ooh-arr-a-Jim Lad, I be just landing ye olde Millennium Falcon in Somerset. How be you, Digger, me hearty! Actually, to be serious for a moment, and to be nice for a change, I just want to say how much I have always loved the West Country accents, and how much I enjoyed The Worzels as a wee nipper. I've only ever drunk Woodpecker cider and Strongbow, which I liked as a teenager, but hate now. I'd love to try some of the real stuff! Give me a smock and a blade of straw and a big foin wench, and I'll happily move there and become a yokel

I've had enough of lving with Chubacca, far too hairy. Give me a fresh-faced, well-made West Country bird any day

loretta · Post by **loretta** » Wed May 12, 2004 5:20 pm

The last time i was down in the West Country i tried a cider called 'Crippled Cock'. It was potent

My husband used to live 3 doors away from the Rolling Stones in their early days when they lived in Hampstead, All he remembers is that when he came home from school there was always lots of young girls hanging around the street.

digger · Post by **digger** » Wed May 12, 2004 6:21 pm

“How be you, Digger, me hearty!”…….
………fair ta didlin, is I……you?….where you bin idin yersell?………………….
say……Chubaccas too hairy eh……..but don’t ask me about any west country birds……..but……whatever tickles ya fancy……..Scrump’s a bit of a problem these days……..they bulldozed the orchard for them new Barratt omes….……..and now we’re in the common market we aint sposed to sell it anyway…… can’t complain…..fancy a 'Crippled Cock':?

cowboy · Post by **cowboy** » Wed May 12, 2004 8:58 pm

And they say we talk funny in the South.

april · Post by **april** » Thu May 13, 2004 12:41 am

april · Post by **april** » Thu May 13, 2004 12:42 am

My sister rachel used to walk her white rabbit around the garden on a lead!!!!

cowboy · Post by **cowboy** » Thu May 13, 2004 3:08 am

Was it a hookah smoking rabbit?

Lesley Jean · Post by **Lesley Jean** » Thu May 13, 2004 9:16 am

Maybe Alice in Wonderland? or Dylan from the Magic Roundabout?

I love the West Country and wouldn't move if you paid me (except to cvo) but it is very annoying when the Somerset/Devon accent is always used in conjunction with comedy characters who are 'not all there'
We have a cider farm not far from us and boy do they make strong stuff, blow your head off that's for sure. Cider and Vimto used to be the drink of the day years ago with the youngsters, the older drinkers of cider would have cider and barley wine, now that would put you under the table quicker than anything!!

Ellie · Post by **Ellie** » Thu May 13, 2004 11:27 am

The caterpillar Lesley....in the 'alice' film?......smoking a hubble bubble...rings of smoke spelling out "Whoooo are yooooo

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Remember your first fag

looking green..coughing/spluttering..but to be 'with it'..on starting work..bought 10 'rothmans' was it??.....acting big..would draw then blow it straight out again..(didnt inhale)

sorry Coop ..meant cigarette..fag has another meaning in States

digger · Post by **digger** » Thu May 13, 2004 12:40 pm

…….to get back on topic….Hippies…..in the late 60’s, during the summer months at least …..the west country of England was the place to be….if you couldn’t get to California………(see: Stonehenge, Glastonbury)….I remember the free festivals and hippy communes…..now those were the days……didn’t last long…

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Lesley Jean · Post by **Lesley Jean** » Thu May 13, 2004 1:49 pm

oK digger, where bouts in the West Country be you from then????????
Tis God's earth. Glastonbury always been fun, muddy, but fun. Still some 'hippy communes' but now they are called 'travellers' and no one likes them!?! One of the best free festivals was and is Sidmouth in Devon.
Can't afford Glastonbury anymore tho' now over £200 for the weekend!!!
Yep good memories

Ellie, I was such a prude, never got into smoking, never tried, boring!!
And talk about things having different meanings in the States, well I truly made an ass of myself, lived in New Hampshire for 4 years when the girls were very young, we took them to a 'Chucky Cheese' restaurant, it was a themed place with singing charachters, I expect Coop knows about them, anyway, they also have games you play on and win tokens, tokens can then be exchanged for prizes ('good game, good game') hehe, well I went and asked for a notebook, pen and rubber for one of my girls, the poor lad behind the counter did not know where to put himself, then I realised what I had said and went bright red

A Dolphin · Post by **A Dolphin** » Thu May 13, 2004 1:53 pm

Come on Ellie. Who are you trying to kid "didn't inhale". Next you'll be telling us you didn't have sexual relations.

My first ciggie was probably a Senior Service non tipped. Full on extra tar and the works. Now those buggers did make you cough.

Why couldn't my dad have smoked something light with a filter?

Hey, and getting back to the hippy stuff, who remembers Sobrane Black Russians and Sibrane cocktail (all different colours). Now they must be due for a relaunch.

Still whatever the brand they all bit tricky to light underwater.

Ellie · Post by **Ellie** » Thu May 13, 2004 4:29 pm

Well I tried to Dolphin..I really did..but all it did was make me splutter!

and that goes for the 'sex' bit too I think...I was a very shy 16 yearold

d'you believe me?

Blimey..Im intrigued now

..what exactly do you do under water thats a bit Tricky.. shes not giving you instructions is she

digger · Post by **digger** » Thu May 13, 2004 9:27 pm

Lesley Jean wrote: oK digger, where bouts in the West Country be you from then????????

OK Lesley…..me darlin......Gloucestershire….the Cotswolds……maybe that’s not west country proper …..the farmers there don’t make cider… ..and I don’t normally say ooo.. arrr…… either……
xxx
looking forward to your 60’s themed party……

PeterJ · Post by **PeterJ** » Fri May 14, 2004 9:42 am

Digger, You coming down for the 31st May ___up???

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