A funicular for rats and other vermin?

Vermicular is the abbreviation used by opposing fans for a foriegn football player cuurently playing for a foreigh club in a foriegn country

and in the continuing absence of any other word or words...


Arbroath Smokies

It's Scotland's Black Country, a northern version of Birmingham and its surrounding environs.


.....although they do get a mention in the Time and Tide museum at Great Yarmouth

A close relative of Glaswegian joints, but they do smell a bit fishy!

The Scottish name for those bus-stop-like smoking shelters that have sprung up outside pubs and businesses since the smoking ban.

History -
The Arbroath Smokie originated in the small fishing village of Auchmithie, three miles northeast of Arbroath. Local legend has it a store caught fire one night, destroying barrels of haddock preserved in salt. The following morning, the people found some of the barrels had caught fire, cooking the haddock inside. Inspection revealed the haddock to be quite tasty.
Towards the end of the 19th century, as Arbroath's fishing industry died, the Town Council offered the fisherfolk from Auchmithie land in an area of the town known as the fit o' the toon. It also offered them use of the modern harbour. Much of the Auchmithie population then relocated, bringing the Arbroath Smokie recipe with them. Today, some 15 local businesses produce Arbroath Smokies, selling them in major supermarkets in the UK and online.
In 2004, the European Commission registered the designation "Arbroath Smokies" as a Protected Geographical Indication under the EU's Protected Food Name Scheme, acknowledging its unique status.
Preparation -
First catch a haddock and make sure it's dead.
Then place in a barrel
Set barrel on fire at night, wait until the following day and consume
Say "Mmmmmm" in a scottish accent

...and I promise you I didnt make that up....


today's word -

Flay Otters

You keep with Basil Fawlty, don't you?

It's a sport practiced in the West Country by fishermen who get their catch nicked by passing furry creatures. They go out and hunt said furry creatures and skin them alive in order to make nice, warm hats to go fishing in.


When do we get 'Flowery Twats'?

now...


Flowery Twats


definitions still being accepted for Flay Otters as well tho'.....

A throw back to the Hippies when Free Love was all the rage at festivals like Woodstock and the Isle of Wight. Sadly now at Glastonbury it's more likely to be 'Muddy Twats'

Is that all there is?

In some countries it is a delicacy where a pregnat goldfish is covered in flour and deep fried. Apparently it tastes like chicken!

Enough of this rudeness!

Brown Candover

It's a term recently brought into use to descrtibe the reaction of a former British Prime Minister in his dealings with the EU

No...That was a Brown Handover!

Brown Candover is a close relative of a Chocolate Brownie, much favoured by the Gay community......Kev1n?

I take a couple of days off and this forum degenerates into gay-bashing

I've got nothing against gays, they can do whatever they like in their own homes, just so long as they don't try and ram it down my throat.

I've never had a Brown Candover.
Or a chocolate Brownie....

Obi...lololololololololol


edit -

another word then....

RAMJET

Brown Candover is a litle village just outside Basingstoke....

It's a development of Gromit's sidecar, designed for Shaun.

Brown Candover is a stick of rock that's slightly too sticky for comfort. A ramjet is an engine with computerised controls.

I see.....
since it's another day today;


AMRAAN

Its the ancient Egyptian slug-god. Called from the outer darkness by Ermmhotep XVIII the third to help build his own version of the Great Pyramid. However, with Amraan not being the smartest of the Egyptian deities (and a slight misprint in the hieroglyphic instructions given to him), the 'pyramid' was actuallly built as a small sand sculpture of a humpback whale on the beach at Skegness.

A dyslexic missile.

I like that one ^

Actually it's an indian name.....


austringer

tbh actually I quite like both the definations of Amraan

A person from a country east of Germany.

An antipodean doppleganger.

both wrong!
try again.........

In the absence of any better answers, here's a word for today:

Doozer

A machine for clearing up the, shall we say, squishier corners of a stable yard.

It's a public house for ventriloquists - where one can purchase a gottle of geer.

An austringer is a keeper of goshawks. It’s a rare word now, though some falconers keep it alive, out of historical sentiment as much as anything, I’d guess. It’s in part bound up with the technical distinction between a hawk and a falcon — the true hawks (the accipiters) are in general smaller than the true falcons (in the genus Falco) and have shorter and more rounded wings; hawks usually prefer to hunt by chasing their prey at low level, while falcons stoop or plummet down on it from above. In English tradition, the two birds that exemplify the types are the goshawk and the peregrine falcon.

A Droozer is a drunken member of a gang;

Something droogish is of the nature or attitudes of a member of a street gang.
This derives from a member of a large set of slang terms invented by Anthony Burgess in his book A Clockwork Orange of 1962. A droog is a young ruffian, or an accomplice or henchman of a gang-leader. The continuing impact of Burgess’s novel (and the notorious Stanley Kubrick film made from it) is clear from the way that droog continues to appear in English writing (and has reached a few dictionaries) and that droogish has been created as a derived term that wasn’t in the original vocabulary.
Droog, like much of the slang in the book, is Russian in origin, in this case coming from drug, friend. Burgess called his slang Nadsat, from the ending in Russian of the number words from 11 to 19 (so it’s a close equivalent of our teen). Other words from the set that are sometimes seen are malenky, small or little, and poogly, scared.

Today's word (think 'gorilla') is:

Flange

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6nottAilQw

Wild? I was absolutely livid!

It's a pie....y'know; "fancy a slice of flange pie?"

Today's word is trout a la creme, enjoy your meal sorry, I mean:

Osculation

It's something people from the far reaches of the southern hemisphere do upon reaching a climax of excitement

It's gone quiet again.....so in the absence of anybody or anything else -


FATTY OWLS

When sampling this fine fare, avoid biting into the pellets, the're not the same constituency as those found in pigeon or pheasant!

Think they're similar to Bombay Ducks, in appearance, but actually taste like chicken.

actually it's another sign outside a hotel in Torquay....

try this - (go on...give it a go....let's have some definitions for this word....)


SILIMAR

A word you should use when you don't mean dirrefent.

WAKE UP EVERYBODY!!!!!

Since Pigsty got it right, we'll move on....
(actually I saw it in an estate agents window; every single one of the little posters with a property for sale or rent said;
'Silimar properties wanted'....obviously somebody spilled pu......)

so, in the absence of everybody except me and pigsty....

WATERY FOWLS

How many of Basil's mis-spellings have you got left?

Think there were only about 12 shows so that may give a clue

It wasn't Basil, it was the paperboy winding him up by re-arranging the letters on the sign at the end of the drive. I have to say, nothing quite beats Flowery Twats.

Anyway, Watery Fowls: is the crew's description for the bit in The French Lieutenant's Woman where someone who is notoriously not Meryl Streep stands on the Cobb and gets a bit soggy.

Right then, I'll chuck one in for the day:

Gignog

there are a multitude of offerings.......

oh and the word above ....isnt he a footballer who used to play for Liverpool?

A famous Norse touring musician of yesteryear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jisqle37uWI

Not a bad attempt. Gignog is actually a special drink made from duck eggs that’s reserved for the dressing rooms at folk festivals.

Today's oddment is:
Wormelow Tump