From Bailey to Viking
Bill Bailey, of Viking descent from Utsire, was a Malin-gering Dogger known to Thames Valley police, fond of Fair Isle sweaters, and a ‘Fastnet Fisher’ for Dover Sole off South East Iceland, German Bight, Hebrides and Irish Sea, partnered with a Humber-driving woman in her Forties, Fitzroy-Forth from Plymouth – or possibly Portland – with a lisp (pronouncing ‘right’ as ‘Wight’ and Trafalgar as Twafalgar), who loved Fog on the Tyne, did a Rockall impression of Del Shannon, vacationed on Lundy Island riding a bay horse sired by Biscay out of Cromarty and thought Faeroes were Egyptian.
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Frenchie about 1 year ago
Aha, I know there is a play somewhere here but I cannot find what it is, for the life of me.
I shall claim my foreigneness (is there such a word?) and wait for smarter than me to come along and explain 🤣 -
Chris about 1 year ago
Sorry, Frenchie, it's a play on names attached to areas round the UK for the shipping (weather) forecast, following on from Neville's challenge.
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Neville Hunt about 1 year ago
Hahaha! Brilliant Chris! Thanks for the laugh! And... I have been learning all about the sea areas ever since I read it. The names are so embedded in my early memories, and now I know what happened to the magical-sounding Heligoland... now a much duller German Bight - but actually the place where Deutschland Über Alles was composed. And where the Utsires came from (sea-grabs from Forties and Viking). And how a silly old admiral usurped the delightful-sounding Finisterre.... etc.
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Frenchie about 1 year ago
Thanks Chris! It is cleverly done but too clever for me 😁 nevertheless, I enjoyed reading it. Especially ''Faeroes were Egyptian''.
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Neville Hunt about 1 year ago
...and if you’ve not heard it, another laugh can be raised if you go on YouTube and search ‘The Shipping Forecast.’ Read by Brian Perkins. I first heard it playing in the toilets in a brilliant fish and chip restaurant in Dartmouth. It cracked me up and all the adult family members who each visited their respective toilets. I just played it again and almost p***ed myself laughing!
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Neville Hunt about 1 year ago
Frenchie, the reason it has such meaning for me and my generation is that the Shipping Forecast on the radio was incredibly familiar listening to anyone who stayed up too late in the evening! The saddest thing was when the lovely French-sounding Finisterre was renamed Fitzroy. Bad show!
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Neville Hunt about 1 year ago
After the Utsires had siphoned off so much water, I guess that Forties and Viking ought to have been renamed Thirty-fives and Viprins! Thanks very much Chris for a morning’s laugh! And the challenge was mightily won!
