Cod Almighty | Postbag
Grimmo dictionary? Speak to our agent, darl'
15 February 2010
Cod Almighty is in the limelight not only has the Telegraph discovered the Grimmo dictionary, as As Joel points out below, but it seems the messageboards have rediscovered the Campaign for Red Socks. But don't worry, success hasn't gone to our heads, and we still have time for your letters about pork pie and pickle and Matt Tees T-shirts.
Join the bandwagon- write.
The Grimmo
Hi Guys,
It seems the Telewag has finally learnt how to use the internet and stumbled upon your glorious website. Some genius there has taken it upon themselves to launch their own "Grimmo Dictionary", only several years after it was established by your good selves on this very site. Contact the CA lawyers methinks!!!
Keep up the good work, it's all that is keeping me going in all things GTFC!
Right got to go back outside now and dig my car out of the snow....
from Joel in Brooklyn
More words
Snooks- articles meaning "mind your own business": "What's for tea?" "snooks."; "What's in that bag?" "snooks."
Snickersneeze- an extremely violent sounding form of threatened corporal punishment: "If you don't stop that I will snickersneeze you."
from Nige
More than words
Others used were "Grimmy" to refer to a person as in "He's Grimmy through and through"; "Frock" for dress; "Pikelets" which are now sold as crumpets; "Yon end" for something a distance away; "Oh ay yeh" which verifies understanding of something; the "romper room" for the side room of the Rose and Crown favoured by the younger set circa 1970s/80s; I'm off to the rec to signify Barret's recreation ground; "Chelly" for Chelmsford School; and "Swillbin men" for the council workers who collected household waste for composting in the 1950s.
from Diane Edmonds
Word search
Love it! Used to go to the "basin"(where Grimsby swimming pool is / was on scatha road. The ditch's and drain contents ran into it) with the gang fishing with an old stocking on a piece of wire and also make dens in dried ditches at "bottom fields", the bottom of Second Ave before Chelmsford schools were built. I believe there was also a bomb crater there too. My younger sister was the mib queen of Byron Grove.
from Jenny Bailey
Additions
Additions: Clod 'oppers (Clod Hoppers) - big boots or shoes. Stubble jumper - A person from the countryside. Sand scratchers and donkey wallopers - derogatory term for people from Cleethorpes. Galliborcate - ie. As in "Don't stand there galliborcate" - meaning dumbstruck, mouth open, incredulous. jold - ie, as in "If you do that I'll jold thee 'ead an' the wall t'gether." or "If you do that I will bang your head against the wall." "thereanbackttoseeowfarities" - Where's mum gone? Answer "thereanbackttoseeowfarities" meaning there and back to see how far it is - basically a meaningless answer. "Run up wi the washing" - Answer to a child asking "where's mum?" again a meaningless answer. Giv us a snek - Let me have a look. "Get yer neb out" - Keep your nose out! - none of your business. Clemmies - Marbles "A bunch of buggers" - This string is a bunch of buggers - This string is in a taffle or all knotted up.
from Martyn Bullock
Missing words
A friend and I thought of a word missing from your fantastic dictionary: Wangy (or wangie - not sure how to spell it) ....means washed out, look under the weather. "You look a bit wangy today"
from Jenny Bailey
New supporters for the C
I think we should not have a kit and just play in Santa outfits.
Purely to buy good players with the money saved.
from Fat boy Jack
Get the red socks on
Hi,
It is about the only thing that hasn't been tried to keep my football team from going down into the conference league. It just can't happen. Get those red stockings on.
from Lesley
Letters Ed responds: Looking back, we should have seen through Mike Newell's revolution when he insisted on white socks.
Grimsby food
Hi chef,
Just been reading today's letters (only just plural, what's going on? Correspondence proportional to goals scored?) and regarding Richard Huntley's and Ian Jackson's letters on the subject, can endorse the bread bun sentiments. We're right, the rest of the world is wrong. Baps just sounds wrong doesn't it?
Pork pie and pickle on Christmas day? Sometimes but not always but to be honest any excuse for a pork pie, especially with loads of jelly. That butchers up St Peter's Avenue (top end) always did good pies.
All this makes me think of my Uncle Barry - brought up in Clee but then emigrated to Norfolk and is now in South Africa. Every time he came to stay he would insist on the following delicacies - White bread buns from Smiths bakers in Oxford Street Sausages from Pettits (I've just googled them - what a great website) Fish and chips from the chippy in Oxford Street or maybe the one in St Peter's Ave Tea out at Steels in the market place
Rambling now, what was this about? Er... buns not baps!
Congratulations yet again on the site which brightens up my day (except of course Monday when you bring it down a notch by mentioning the weekend's game)
cheers,
from Rich Mills
Pork pie
Hi,
My Dad (who hales from Staffordshire) always has a Pork Pie with English Mustard on Christmas morning. We have taken it one further and have Pink Cava with the Pie. Try it, you'll love the contrast in the tastes.
from Jeremy Baily
Favourite shirts
Keep selling the Grimsby is not in Yorkshire T shirts, even the sky sports web site is reporting on a goalless draw in the "Yorkshire Derby" between Town and Bradford 13/02/10
from Jason Kirk
Nuzziland
Walking down Lambton Quay in Wellington, NZ, I often get quizzical looks at my Matt Tees T Shirt. No one YET has come up to me recognising the great man, and when will they? I hope they'll get the opportunity soon, as I've decided not to wear it again until we win. Perhaps I have been jinxing the team by brandishing one of our greatest goal scorers around town.
In fact I think as soon as we win, I'll order a new shirt.
from Paddy Atkinson
Letters Ed responds: Come on Woodsy, win a game. We need the T-shirt order to keep CA going.
The ancient Mariner
According to a letter in the Grauniad this week Town's keeper is always known as the Ancient Mariner because he stoppeth one in three (those were the days). I've heard the joke before but never from a Town supporter - has anyone?
Keep up the good work - your site is about the only thing that makes our inexorable slide into the Conference bearable.
from Russell Moseley
Letters Ed responds: Nope, now and again someone would use Coleridge to describe Harry Wainman, but essentially the letter is rubbish. Grimsby are occasionally misrepresented in the national media.
Haydn Taylor
Hi all, My name is Chris Taylor. I am looking for information on Haydn Taylor the swimmer mentioned in your pages (in the famous Grimsby people feature). I also want to locate descendants of Haydn for our family tree. Unfortunately my father passed away recently and his only surviving brother is lost to us too so we are trying to pick up loose ends, where ever they are. Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Regards
from Chris Taylor
Letters Ed responds: Please get in touch if you can help Chris, and we will put you in touch.
See you in a fortnight, unless we don't see you first.