One of the attractions of the fabulous seaside Lancastrian town of Blackpool is its bingo. Friendly hotels offer relatively cheap games that are full of fun with the bonus of some big cash for the eventual winner. Bingo is, of course, a game all about luck. It doesn’t detract from the fun when the caller can, without fail, tickle you pink with the bingo number nicknames and phrases.
Cup of tea. Number 3. (note: no coffee references)
Key of the Door. Number 21.
Droopy drawers. Number 44.
Heinz varieties. Number 57.
Crutch with a flea. Number 73.
Nearly there. Number 89.
At last, after all the sevens (admittedly, not the best of the bingo shouts), seventy seven years without championship success, I have great pleasure (beach) in congratulating Lancashire county cricket club on finally shouting house by becoming county champions of 2011.All season I have followed their fortunes in newsprint hoping that the red rose county would triumph. My loyalty to Blackpool has extended county wide to make them my favourite English county cricket side. On a riveting cup of tea, three-sided final day race to the crown, Lancs prevailed against the odds yesterday with luck having nothing to do with it, only skill and determination.
Lancashire not only boasts the best cricket writer in the world, Michael Atherton’s magnificent cricket articles that appear in The Times, we (yes I said we) have the finest mascot: Lanky the giraffe. I’ll stick my neck out here and say, if you’ve got to have a mascot there can be no finer creature than a cuddly giraffe. He’s as big a crowd puller as a bingo caller.
31 comments:
'Crutch with a flea' JW?? Ah - the rhyme. As in 'Nearly there'...
George's mum is happily addicted to Bingo and if she had a way of getting all night online, she'd be a sorry tale of destitution.
I cannot thrill to the cricket score (oh OK - jolly well done them...), but Want the Giraffe please. or a marmotte
PS - As we have passed on to these greener pastures thankee greatly, JW, for Teachings of John comment in yr previous... (So many impressive layers to your knowledgehood)!
Ignore the cricket, Dolores, that's just me being self-indulgent, though I'm chuffed for Lanky.
While researching this blog I found out there's a phrase for all the bingo numbers. The offficial ones are good but I'm sure we can make better ones.
Revs per minute in an old vinyl single: Number 45.
"Points on the Licence, number 12!"
By the way DD (and JW, should you find your way Down South) I have suggested on JW's last screed that differences be settled by Tea Party. I think it could catch on.
JW - "clickety-clicks, sixty-six!"
Oh, Has it? Ok - shall keep at it...
Jon - Tea Party settling sounds splendid idea. Warn you both, though - I shall bring my rubber gloves...
I'd vote for a tea party as well.(Disclaimer: the JW10 website is apolitical) Jon, I rarely travel East never mind South.
Clickety-clicks has been done, DD. Try again.
The boiling point of methyl alcohol in degrees centigrade-
Number 66.
Oh HAS it, JW? Was a sort of joke attempt...
However, George suggests
They think it's all over - 66
But you've got 66 covered with methyl alcohol, I see.
According to George's mum, they don't do all this splendid kind of calling now - in these harsh competitively technical days there's no time to lose!
They just flatly say the numbers, and players pay serious heed because they can have six cards each to keep tabs on. No merry banter...
George recently accompanied his mum
and was gravely injured by her constant elbow pokings - George you've GOT that one!
I'm going for rhyming ones here.
5 times 5 - 25
Contiguous States - 48 (that's for any American players)
Winnie the Pooh - Number 2 (Perhaps I should stop there...)
You were on a roll there, Expat.
I expected non-contiguous States for your number two selection.
I'm going for sums next with a classical twist.
Three tenors- number 30.
Good one, JW. That took me a bit of time to work out.
Can we broaden the category to include classic rock n roll?
Nervous Breakdowns - #19
Steps to Heaven - #3
Will You Still Need me? - #64
Now you avid music fans can do better than this poor effort, I guarantee!!
Excellent all those - shall pass on to George's mum to see what the other bingoers think! (couldn't bring myself to say bingobabes)
She's a Perfect #10 (Beautiful South)
Hours from Tulsa #24
...Give Up now! George is battling for a Bruce Springsteen- Highway #31/#49 /something of that ilk...
CI - are you there? Wasn't it Wednesday 21st that you had another test on that pulsating chest of yours?
How Are You? xx
Dolores, the stress test is 21st of October. Hopefully, CI and Kathy are preoccupied with the new baby grandchild.
Expat - thank you!! I'm in a tizz cos we've just sold the house (bit of an excuse for once).
Will there be a house warming party at your new abode, Dolores?
Tea all round methinks.
I'm missing CI too. This was perfectly set up for him to have a field day with the 69 bingo ball.
Great news Dolores!!! Please blog all about the sale agonies and ecstacies...and your future plans.
Me, too, JW! 'The answer is always..."
But back to the game...
Get Your Kicks - 66 (it rhymes, too! Bingo!)
9..12,15,22,5..25,15,21..1,12,12..
24,24,24
:-)
And we all love you, too, CI XXX
Certainly, JW - please all come and warm our new house. Wherever it may be... Currently in 'Oh God what do we do now' phase. Isle of Wight is next for investigations - anyone got any inside knowledge?
Thank you greatly Expat, and shall certainly blog thereupon. It's such a joy to have a stable address here. And stable may become quite appealing in so many ways...
Hello CI - how splendid to see you again! I was going to reply with similarly encrypted comment but writing's so crotte that I couldn't decipher my Letter List.
so LOVE & KISSES TO EVERYONE
Inside knowledge of the IOW? YES. Our nephew has lived there for years. Still does. E-mail me what you're looking for in the way of property and all your questions, and I'll forward it to him.
I do know that the cost of getting back and fro to the mainland can be a bit of a drawback, and ferries don't run that late. But we've visited there and it's lovely.
Thanks Expat, that's encouraging. Though not for your nephew...
We ignore Ball 69 in the photo.
Balls 55, 43, 49, 7, 2, and 1 remain.
55-43+49+7+2-1 = 69.
The answer is always 69.
:-)
C'mon, CI. There is no ball #1 in the photograph.
Are you suggesting, CI, that Number 1 Ball is acting undercover?
Ladies,
If you look closely, ball #1 is at the bottom of the photo underneath ball #49. The number #1 is printed on the ball in very, very small writing, but that is because #1 is a very, very small number.
:-)
Oh no, you're not getting away with that! If you look closely you will see that the tiny marks at the top of the visible balls are letters, not numbers. And the lettter is immediately above a single number but centered above dual numbers. On the ball you are calling number 1, the letter I is to the left of the top of the hidden number, indicating a dual number.
You can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool a woman with 20-20 vision courtesy of cataract surgery!
Good try, though.
Good evening all,
Ladies your 20/20 (a form of cricket, incidentally) needs looked into. How you missed that ONE, I don't know.
that's one you owe me, CI
;-)
MEN!!!
That looks like a jolly piggy-bank, JW! Does it come with stabilising BluTack?
To my eyes it looks like a decapitated Tellytubby, Dolores.
As you know, no stone goes unturned in the research of this site. My sources tell me the purple-headed one is called, wait for it, Tinky Winky.
Good lord, you're right JW! (driven deep into my conscious from baby-sitting captivated toddlers).
And NOW, I'll be singing that flaming song All Day!
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