Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 30th January 2022, 8:04 PMDicky bow I presumed.
Actually you have highlighted summat I never thought about before - I reckon the bow tie worn with a dicky, is where the name dicky bow came from originally. Perhaps even a bow tie that was specially made for a dicky.
Something and nothing, but I'm keen on etymology, so need to let that naughty Susie Dent know, next time we go out on a date.
This is more like it. This is what the troops have come to read.....................
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 31st January 2022, 11:16 PMActually you have highlighted summat I never thought about before - I reckon the bow tie worn with a dicky, is where the name dicky bow came from originally. Perhaps even a bow tie that was specially made for a dicky.
Something and nothing, but I'm keen on etymology, so need to let that naughty Susie Dent know, next time we go out on a date.
OR, similar to the dickie, a dickie bow is a fake pre-tied thing?
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 1st February 2022, 9:00 AMThis is more like it. This is what the troops have come to read.....................
I love this one.
Quote: Aaron @ 1st February 2022, 6:30 PMOR, similar to the dickie, a dickie bow is a fake pre-tied thing?
Good point
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 31st January 2022, 11:16 PMSomething and nothing, but I'm keen on etymology
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You like Butterflies?
? I do like that one!
I like this cartoonist's style, quite innocent jokes, too. Judging from her hairstyle they must have been stuck in the nineteen forties.
Yes,there's the H tv aerials though.Could be the fifties 
Daphne described a scene like that in Frasier so it's passed the test of time anyway.
Unusual for not being about sex
Unless he was ....no, that's too risqué to contemplate
Quote: beaky @ 4th February 2022, 11:30 AMUnusual for not being about sex
Wouldn't want you to miss out.................
Hardly think it was necessary to write Just Married on the bed - and who'd do that, anyway?