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Welsh monikers

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Gary ' banana back ' -Always complaining that his back was as bent as a banana.'Satan' Develish figure in the heat of the pit.On the tannoy " Come in Satan. Satan is that you?"'Will Substantial' - An Englishman who worked the South Wales coalfields. " If you're going to give me a nick name make it something substantial" Hence.

Welsh monikers

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Can you think of any colloquial monikers? - and more to the point why the names were given.I'll start you off:Will Piano - he was always cadging fags ( cigarettes ) " I've left mine at home on the piano"Dai rob the dead - He put his name on on a pit dram that someone else had filled -after the guy had dropped dead.Dai the bread was a baker who became successful and bought a posh car. He then became known as Dai the Rolls. As his social status increased he was awarded a peerage and became known as Dai upper crust.Will 'eighteen months' was called so because he lost half an ear in a mining accident - he only had a year and a half leftDai 'quiet wedding' was called so because he turned up for his wedding in daps.Come on people you must know some:)
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British through and through

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As Maldwyn Pugh ( Sion Probert ) once said " I'm here. I'm there. I'm everywhere. So beware"

British through and through

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I know it's a cliche but a fellow guard went there with the Treorchy male voice choir and was told to be careful with his matches.

Brit image in the US

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Damn it all man! You sound like a script writer for The Three Kings. LOL.Wasn't Lee Harvey Oswald a marine? I think I saw that in Full Metal Jacket - filmed in 'Sarf Lundun' as i recawl".Gatch is right. You seem to be weapons happy.

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How peculiar. When I was living in Portsmouth Hants, the USS Saipan pulled in with an aircraft carrier - The Nimitz I think it was - anyway there was a 12ft diaplacement all around the harbour and the marines on board came ashore. We were shocked to find that most of them weren't much older than 18. Scrubbed rubes they were. I remember thinking " are these the defenders of Western democracy." Mind you! Three months at sea can make a man concentrate wonderfully.

Iconic Yanks from a Welshmans perspective

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Richard Price as one of the Jones's awarded a VC :" Ooh! He's a peeler 647. Come to arrest the Zulus"Schiess the Swiss corporal of the Natal Native Contigent has just explained why he's there.

Iconic Yanks from a Welshmans perspective

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I read To Hell and Back There was a line in it that stuck in my mind when Murphy had been given a field commission. He went to visit one of the few members of his platoon still alive after fighting their way through Italy - they both started as dog soldiers. Murphy, as a lieutenant, was greeted with " Well! If it aint the creeping crawling crap from Texas" The nurses didn't know where to look.

Iconic Yanks from a Welshmans perspective

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Isn't that interesting? During The American War of Independence the Brits beat ourselves. Washington was an Englishman from Boston - and I don't mean Massachusetts.'Stonewall' Jackson, if I remember correctly, went up and down the Shenandoah valley like a fiddlers elbow. Mad as a parrot by all accounts.If I have to give an American icon apart from John Wayne it has to be Jesse Owens. An unasuming man who shoved it to the Nazis right where it hurt.

BUNDLING. Are you for it or agin it.

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I think we ought to have a ' Bundling ' week in Wales. I quite like the idea of ' Bundling '. Come to think of it I've bundled for decades without knowing it. If Hay On Wye can have a literary festival then Treorchy can have a 'Bundling' festival. Ha ha! Only women need apply.