The Nig Nog club

Alastair

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Feb 24, 2012, 5:56:52 PM2/24/12

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Really did exist

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Chris Holford

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Feb 25, 2012, 4:56:36 AM2/25/12

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In article <ji94jg$hjf$1...@speranza.aioe.org>, Alastair
<macd...@taltalk.net> writes
>Really did exist
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The Swindon Evening Advertiser ("the Adver'") Had a children's club
called just that; you got your name printed in the paper on your
birthday. Diana Fluck, better known as Diana Dors was a member when she
was a child.
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Chris Holford

Max Demian

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Feb 25, 2012, 6:28:07 AM2/25/12

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On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:56:52 +0000, Alastair <macd...@taltalk.net>
wrote:

>Really did exist
>
>http://www.badgecollectorscircle.co.uk/assets/badges/user/18_1327415240_3528_300_300.JPG

"The Northern Echo Newspaper, Darlington, Children's Ring Hullo!
Nig-Nog badge. The 'Echo' founded the Nig-Nog Children's Ring in 1929
and it ran until the 1960s."

'Nig-nog' didn't have any racial connotations until the 1970s.

nig-nog: n. a fool; a raw recruit to army or a civilian service.
[Origin uncertain]

(Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, 1972.)

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Max Demian

Ian

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Feb 25, 2012, 10:22:04 AM2/25/12

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"Max Demian" <max_d...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:56:52 +0000, Alastair <macd...@taltalk.net>
> wrote:
>
>>Really did exist
>>
>>http://www.badgecollectorscircle.co.uk/assets/badges/user/18_1327415240_3528_300_300.JPG
>
> "The Northern Echo Newspaper, Darlington, Children's Ring Hullo!
> Nig-Nog badge. The 'Echo' founded the Nig-Nog Children's Ring in 1929
> and it ran until the 1960s."
>
> 'Nig-nog' didn't have any racial connotations until the 1970s.
>

Oh, what gay times they were! We had blackboards at school, a cat called
"Nigger", grew pansies in the garden, and if we felt a little queer were
sent to bed with some cod liver oil....

Nathan Pinhead

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Feb 25, 2012, 1:22:56 PM2/25/12

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In article <r4-dnYQiKp7iYdXS...@brightview.com>,
i...@henden.co.uk says...

>
> >
> Oh, what gay times they were! We had blackboards at school, a cat called
> "Nigger", grew pansies in the garden, and if we felt a little queer were
> sent to bed with some cod liver oil....

You forgot sitting down on an evening and getting your laughing gear
around a nice meaty faggot..........

Seriously, when *EXACTLY* did the UK become officially fucked up - I
mean, there must have been a point when announcing, for example, that
you were gay stopped being a declaration of happiness and became a
statement of personal sexual deviation?

Chris Holford

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Feb 25, 2012, 7:01:49 PM2/25/12

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In article <my+gezAU...@brownswell2.demon.co.uk>, Chris Holford
<ch...@brownswell2.demon.co.uk> writes

There were also a couple of shops called "Farmhouse Faggots" in the 50s;
sort of prequel to Andy Warhol's "Lonesome Cowboys" ?
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Chris Holford

Graham.

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Feb 25, 2012, 8:17:49 PM2/25/12

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And Ernest Wiseman.

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Graham.
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Big Les Wade

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Feb 26, 2012, 10:42:53 AM2/26/12

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Max Demian <max_d...@bigfoot.com> posted

>On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:56:52 +0000, Alastair <macd...@taltalk.net>
>wrote:
>
>>Really did exist
>>
>>http://www.badgecollectorscircle.co.uk/assets/badges/user/18_1327415240
>>_3528_300_300.JPG
>
>"The Northern Echo Newspaper, Darlington, Children's Ring Hullo!
>Nig-Nog badge. The 'Echo' founded the Nig-Nog Children's Ring in 1929
>and it ran until the 1960s."
>
>'Nig-nog' didn't have any racial connotations until the 1970s.

Not quite true, it was widely used to mean "nigger" in Tyneside in the
1960s. And I am sure Alf Garnett used it in the early episodes of Till
Death Us Do Part, broadcast in the mid-sixties. .

>
>nig-nog: n. a fool; a raw recruit to army or a civilian service.
>[Origin uncertain]
>
>(Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, 1972.)
>

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Les