Trick or Treat
Nov 1st 2011, 11:37 pm
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Re: Trick or Treat
As I remember they used to wear turbans and had painted faces, they all wore a striped pinny (apron) and had dusters.
They would come in the house and start dusting while all the time going mmmmmm mmmmmm mmmmm, they would be given some small change but the only thing they would say was mmmmmm.
(that's the nearest I can get to the sound they made)
Nov 1st 2011, 11:41 pm
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Re: Trick or Treat
In north east Lancashire we had the Mummers, it's a very long time ago so I've only a vague memory of it......
As I remember they used to wear turbans and had painted faces, they all wore a striped pinny (apron) and had dusters.
They would come in the house and start dusting while all the time going mmmmmm mmmmmm mmmmm, they would be given some small change but the only thing they would say was mmmmmm.
(that's the nearest I can get to the sound they made)
As I remember they used to wear turbans and had painted faces, they all wore a striped pinny (apron) and had dusters.
They would come in the house and start dusting while all the time going mmmmmm mmmmmm mmmmm, they would be given some small change but the only thing they would say was mmmmmm.
(that's the nearest I can get to the sound they made)
Nov 1st 2011, 11:50 pm
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Nov 2nd 2011, 6:46 am
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Nov 2nd 2011, 9:02 am
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Re: Trick or Treat
....and here's me thinking that all the posh baggers live ap at Gorsforth.
In any event that probably explains it, either that or you're not so long in the tooth as me.
Guising was certainly a common thing around all the pit villages in my neck of the woods, but there again maybe it was all different for all you posh city types.
In any event that probably explains it, either that or you're not so long in the tooth as me.
Guising was certainly a common thing around all the pit villages in my neck of the woods, but there again maybe it was all different for all you posh city types.
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Nov 2nd 2011, 9:48 am
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Nov 2nd 2011, 12:18 pm
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Nov 2nd 2011, 6:24 pm
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Re: Trick or Treat
She had an ancient possibly siver cross pram and lined up in the queue of big trucks, some transporting big bulk loads of coal to power stations, others delivering locally.
First she took her turn on the massive weighbridge and got weighed-in empty, before filling up her pram with a shovel and then joining the big truck queue to weigh-in loaded, and pay on the way back out.
I recall she had quite a walk along a busy trunk road after that to push her pram-load all the way back to her house.
Nov 2nd 2011, 6:25 pm
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Nov 8th 2011, 12:24 pm
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Re: Trick or Treat
"Penny for the guy" when I was a lad back in ye oldie days this 'Trick or Treat' is another American idea. When the first lot knock just give them one wine gum each and the word on the street is your a tight old git and the others don't come a knocking.
Nov 8th 2011, 12:55 pm
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The yanks would just incarcerate him on an island and pretend it's not part of the USA so human rights don't exist
Nov 8th 2011, 5:37 pm
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Re: Trick or Treat
I always thought we were celebrating the death of a terrorist and the detection and prevention of his evil plot, rather than celebrating the guy,(scuse the pun), himself.
Nov 8th 2011, 5:46 pm
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