We’re the mugs
Where did I get the term “we’re the mugs” from? I reckon it was Paul Merton’s 1996 faux-autobiography “My Struggle”. I listened to that audiobook approx 500 times.
Where did I get the term “we’re the mugs” from? I reckon it was Paul Merton’s 1996 faux-autobiography “My Struggle”. I listened to that audiobook approx 500 times.
I would not have thought that Shauna was a tree-scratcher! I guess at least she didn’t further curse it with a “4eva”. I’m guessing it wasn’t Jack, as he doesn’t seem like the type to assert someone else’s love for him….
Ah, dems wuz da days!
Could be “Shelley Winters”
But who would JF be?
Jolyon Finnegan
Jesmond Fishman?
This sounds quite convincing.
I’m honestly more curious about “crooked coconut shy”.
Twenty years of reading John Allison comics still seems to have left me no more adept at British colloquialisms!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_shy
It’s a fairground sideshow. Coconuts are placed in cups on the ends of poles and the punters pay to throw balls at them. If you knock a coconut off the pole, you keep it. Dishonest shy operators would save costs by gluing the coconuts in place.
I’ve been to a lot of fairgrounds and you’d think I would know this!
Most of the American fairs I’ve been to usually replace the coconuts with other things, such as garish plushies of unknown provenance.
All of the American “throw the thing at the other thing” fairground games are united by the goal of appearing to be as easy as possible, while actually being as close to impossible as the law will allow. I can only assume the British versions are the same.
Oh, it’s undoubtedly the same principle.
I just wonder how it is that the British fairs have coconuts, while we just have fuzzy merch and plastic dinguses. We have Hawaii! We have actual access to coconuts.
I can’t recall seeing a single coconut on an American fairgrounds, except for possibly some kind of fried-coconut concoction at a food stall that my brain is ardently trying not to actually remember.
As a matter of principle, Lottie never gets thrown out of anywhere without going back to get thrown out a second time. If you only get thrown out once, you’re not really trying.
Coconut Shy, a fairground stall where one hurls (“shies”) a projectile, usually a small wooden ball, at coconuts stood in cups at the far end of the tent. Generally you get three balls to play with for your coin. Dislodging one or more gets you a prize, like a large stuffed animal if you’re particularly adept. A Crooked Coconut Shy would likely have the coconuts glued to their perches.
Aha! Much obliged!!!
Or a magic pencil?
I love how Lottie just buy the tickets being upsaidovn after the big toss.
Goodness, it seems like Zambian phones come with 5 cameras! What couldn’t you photograph?
In Wicked Things #3, the latest Zambian phone is announced with fully eight cameras.
The impressive Zambian Arachnid
I don’t know about Merton’s “My Struggle” (hafta go look that up now), but “it’s a mug’s game” is a slightly dated but still extant Americanism for “it’s a foolish thing you’re playing at and you’re sure to lose.”