Merely a warning a ...
 

MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
We will be in touch

[Closed] Merely a warning a noun is coming...

7 Posts
8 Users
0 Reactions
56 Views
Posts: 33532
Full Member
Topic starter
 

From a book about 1920’s Britain, profanity and poison pen letters, it mentions that soldiers used the f***-word so frequently that it was ‘Merely a warning a noun is coming...’, and has the transcript of a letter a woman sent to one of her neighbours, which has some spectacularly colourful profanity!
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n03/bee-wilson/merely-a-warning-that-a-noun-is-coming


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 9:43 pm
Posts: 357
Free Member
 

What a pile of *** ***!


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 9:50 pm
Posts: 25875
Full Member
 

splendid!


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 9:55 pm
Posts: 17303
Free Member
 

You foxy old count. 😉


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 10:02 pm
Posts: 2013
Full Member
 

I lived in Littlehampton once. It didn't drive me to write Poison Pen Letters though.


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 10:19 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

News of the World didn't change much eh? Only rag to comment on her appearance.

APF


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 10:37 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Judge was called Sir Clement Ballache!


 
Posted : 04/02/2018 10:58 pm
Posts: 3973
Full Member
 

Ah, Littlehampton. Or LA as it's known in these parts. It hasn't improved in the last 100 years


 
Posted : 05/02/2018 1:33 am