Joke on Liverpudlian speechways

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yeah, flapping !  And "Worral" is a surname in the Liverpool area !  I'm still laughing !

  BTW, are the Brits more (or less) sexist than we are because they so often apply the word "c*** " to pests and fools of either sex ?

  JL

Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OHIO.EDU> wrote:
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Ah, I finally got it! I assume we're talking about flapping here? Plus
the choice of relative pronoun--right?

At 03:10 PM 10/25/2006, you wrote:
>Well, the second bloke is correct, you know, though I'd use the
>spelling, "whuddle," for BE. ;-)
>
>-Wilson
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>On 10/25/06, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>>I found this elsewhere.
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>> It's a riot.
>>
>> The following joke was recounted recently on Greater Manchester Radio
>> (GMR)
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>>Two Liverpudlian young offenders are sharing a cell in Borstal. One is
>>laboriously writing a letter. He looks up and says "Ay ! Ay ! How do you
>>spell 'Daryl' ?"
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>>'What you wanna know for ?" says his cell mate. "We don't know any c***
>>in 'ere called Daryl."
>>
>>The first one says, "'Cause I want me mam to send us a pair of jeans
>>Daryl fit me."
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>>"You daft wassock!", says the second. "It's not, 'Daryl' fit me. It's
>>'Worral'."
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>> Ah, those Brits. What they do with our language !
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>> JL
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