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Mr Kipper Sleepy Stein Kenny Napper

Jack Slipper Slide Hampton Jimmy Skidmore

And the word for a male who does the same? Bet there isn't one. ************************* And a word that is not new but seems to have changed its meaning in the UK over the last ten years. Guys. Used to mean blokes. Now is a collective term for people of any gender, usually used in order establish a mood of informality. I sat through an assembly this morning when the external provider (who was very good) must have used it ten + times. Mercifully she didn't describe the visit she was drumming up support for as 'awesome'! Usage well established by now. I first heard it on a visit to Canada in 1973, when a woman referred to her small daughters as "my guys".

Many happy returns of the day, MG!

Fyffes Ffion Fforde Grene

Jaws Sharkey Bonano Joe Bananas

Horace Doris Maurice

Harry Parry Harry Gold and His Pieces of Eight Captain Flint

Me too. Had 'em and sold 'em on.

Pooh Bobby Shew Chu Berry

The Chrysalids The Kraken The Triffids

Have fun, Peter! Some of those people turn up here at the Norwich Jazz Party. I shall have to try and make it one year.

Peanuts Angela Brazil Rio Ferdinand

Al Klink Colin Sell Lucy Locket

Happy Birthday and thanks for all those great reviews!

Shirley Temple Charlotte Church Abbey Lincoln

Killer Joe The Jazztet Colonel Tetley

Art Taylor Suits Zoot

The Constant Gardener The Dirty Digger The Croppies

Ottoman Emperors Couch Potatoes Chairman of the Board

So sorry to hear of his passing.

Winifred Atwell Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake

Michael Finnegan Flanagan and Allen Gilbert and George

The Five Pennies Elsie Tanner Akira Tana