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EddieByword
...Oh, and of course Some Girls........"because we forgot their $%(^£"^%$ names".......
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I still think the Stones' 2012 greatest hits album Grrr! was named what it was because by now, it's our natural (vocal) reaction to their compilations.
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tomcasagranda
The Sex Pistols album Never Mind etc was so named as John Lydon was of Irish extraction, and the B word is a term for a contemptible person in Irish slang.
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New Boots and Panties was named after an adult premises in London, which dispensed marital aids and skimpy underwear.
The Sex Pistols album Never Mind etc was so named as John Lydon was of Irish extraction, and the B word is a term for a contemptible person in Irish slang.
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tomcasagranda
The Sex Pistols album Never Mind etc was so named as John Lydon was of Irish extraction, and the B word is a term for a contemptible person in Irish slang.
...is a word of Middle English origin, meaning "testicles".
Mid 18th century: plural of bollock, variant of earlier ballock, of Germanic origin; related to ball.
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tomcasagranda
The Sex Pistols album Never Mind etc was so named as John Lydon was of Irish extraction, and the B word is a term for a contemptible person in Irish slang.
...is a word of Middle English origin, meaning "testicles".
Mid 18th century: plural of bollock, variant of earlier ballock, of Germanic origin; related to ball.
That may be, but in Richard Bransom's autobiography he tells about how they were taken to court for (I think) Obscenity for the album title and the case was going badly, and he was rung up by a distninguished language scholar who happened to be a church minister who offered to give evidence on Bransom's behalf.
(From memory) his account was that the word was the same word as a sort of medieval preacher. Apparently their sermons were considered to be total rubbish and nonsense - so they were talking a load of bollocks. Not testicular related, but preacher related.
Anyway, that's my version of Bransom's story.
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tomcasagranda
The Sex Pistols album Never Mind etc was so named as John Lydon was of Irish extraction, and the B word is a term for a contemptible person in Irish slang.
...is a word of Middle English origin, meaning "testicles".
Mid 18th century: plural of bollock, variant of earlier ballock, of Germanic origin; related to ball.
That may be, but in Richard Bransom's autobiography he tells about how they were taken to court for (I think) Obscenity for the album title and the case was going badly, and he was rung up by a distninguished language scholar who happened to be a church minister who offered to give evidence on Bransom's behalf.
(From memory) his account was that the word was the same word as a sort of medieval preacher. Apparently their sermons were considered to be total rubbish and nonsense - so they were talking a load of bollocks. Not testicular related, but preacher related.
Anyway, that's my version of Bransom's story.
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tomcasagranda
The Sex Pistols album Never Mind etc was so named as John Lydon was of Irish extraction, and the B word is a term for a contemptible person in Irish slang.
...is a word of Middle English origin, meaning "testicles".
Mid 18th century: plural of bollock, variant of earlier ballock, of Germanic origin; related to ball.
That may be, but in Richard Bransom's autobiography he tells about how they were taken to court for (I think) Obscenity for the album title and the case was going badly, and he was rung up by a distninguished language scholar who happened to be a church minister who offered to give evidence on Bransom's behalf.
(From memory) his account was that the word was the same word as a sort of medieval preacher. Apparently their sermons were considered to be total rubbish and nonsense - so they were talking a load of bollocks. Not testicular related, but preacher related.
Anyway, that's my version of Bransom's story.
Seems to have been a bit of both. Branson's barrister was John Mortimer of "Rumpole Of The Bailey" fame:
"Mortimer continued by bringing in a Professor Kingsley, head of English Studies at local Nottingham University. Kingsley told the court that the term had been used from the year 1,000 to describe a small ball (or things of a similar shape) and that it has appeared in Medieval Bibles, veterinary books and literature through the ages. He also revealed (not surprisingly) that it also served as part of place names throughout the UK. Eyebrows were raised when Kingsley said that the term had been used to describe the clergy of the previous century."
[dangerousminds.net]
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EddieByword
I heard more or less the same story except that in 'my' version the medieval origin was idiot.....so, never mind the idiots......
Funny old language English.......
"That's a load of bollocks" = that's a load of rubbish/nonsense.....
while "that's the dog's bollocks" = something brilliant.....
Though why English people think 'the dog's bollocks' are something great I've got no idea......
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EddieByword
I heard more or less the same story except that in 'my' version the medieval origin was idiot.....so, never mind the idiots......
Funny old language English.......
"That's a load of bollocks" = that's a load of rubbish/nonsense.....
while "that's the dog's bollocks" = something brilliant.....
Though why English people think 'the dog's bollocks' are something great I've got no idea......
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EddieByword
I heard more or less the same story except that in 'my' version the medieval origin was idiot.....so, never mind the idiots......
Funny old language English.......
"That's a load of bollocks" = that's a load of rubbish/nonsense.....
while "that's the dog's bollocks" = something brilliant.....
Though why English people think 'the dog's bollocks' are something great I've got no idea......
:- [www.bbcamerica.com]
Cheers Deltics.................yes, very versatile underated word........
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EddieByword
Though why English people think 'the dog's bollocks' are something great I've got no idea......
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Though why English people think 'the dog's bollocks' are something great I've got no idea......
They must be great, at least for the dog - he licks them some forty times a day... (Forty Licks - another album title)