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YS slang, and Smash Hits

equinoxequinox
in Sinclair Miscellaneous
Not "Four Smash Hits" from Hewson, but the old pop music magazine "Smash Hits".

I just recently read a few articles about this magazine and quickly realised that Your Sinclair, rather than inventing all of their quirky catchphrases, actually borrowed a lot from Smash Hits. For example: "blee!", "jings!", "he's back (back! back!)", and (I only remember seeing this one once) "swingorilliant". You can easily find the Smash Hits association by googling.

So: were YS readers aware of this homage at the time, or not? I mentioned it to the Tipshop's Gerard Sweeney, who happened to e-mail me earlier, and he had no idea either.

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  • Antiriad2097Antiriad2097
    Jings was in use decades before YS and Smash Hits, it was routinely expressed by Oor Wullie and The Broons in The Sunday Post.
  • mik3d3nchmik3d3nch
    Yes I've actually heard it used by genuine Scots as an exclamation! That was about 1974 at Craigmillar Castle, not far from Edinburgh place looks like a warzone, wire mesh on ist floor windows of council houses and bricks lying around in the road and on the pavements. Shocked the hell out of me, never saw that sort of riot torn setting before.


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  • Antiriad2097Antiriad2097
    Sounds like one of the nicer suburbs of Glasgow ;)
  • redballoonredballoon
    mik3d3nch wrote: »
    Yes I've actually heard it used by genuine Scots as an exclamation! That was about 1974 at Craigmillar Castle, not far from Edinburgh place looks like a warzone, wire mesh on ist floor windows of council houses and bricks lying around in the road and on the pavements. Shocked the hell out of me, never saw that sort of riot torn setting before.
    It's nowhere near as bad as that now - there's been a lot of regeneration in that area over the past decade. Course, you'll still get the odd bit of trouble but you'll get that anywhere.
  • LunyLuny
    Jings!
    Sod it!

    @luny@mstdn.games
    https://www.luny.co.uk
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    I distinctly remember reading the phrase "Funky in a skillo type of way" in Smash Hits way back in 1969...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • F_ClowderF_Clowder
    Oh, karingal *chuckle*
    rich_chandler wrote: »
    I distinctly remember seeing the pictograph "Funky in a skillo type of way" on a cave wall way back in the stone age era...

    What now?
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    F_Clowder wrote: »
    Oh, karingal *chuckle*
    rich_chandler wrote: »
    I distinctly remember seeing the pictograph "Funky in a skillo type of way" on a cave wall way back in the stone age era...

    Don't force me to post something you don't want me to post...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • LunyLuny
    rich_chandler wrote: »
    F_Clowder wrote: »
    Oh, karingal *chuckle*
    rich_chandler wrote: »
    I distinctly remember seeing the pictograph "Funky in a skillo type of way" on a cave wall way back in the stone age era...

    Don't force me to post something you don't want me to post...

    A turd in an envelope?
    Sod it!

    @luny@mstdn.games
    https://www.luny.co.uk
  • F_ClowderF_Clowder
    That, yes. And that I'm just about his age too. BTW Make sure that it's fossilized, for the fun of it.
    Luny wrote: »
    rich_chandler wrote: »
    F_Clowder wrote: »
    Oh, karingal *chuckle*
    rich_chandler wrote: »
    I distinctly remember seeing the pictograph "Funky in a skillo type of way" on a cave wall way back in the stone age era...

    Don't force me to post something you don't want me to post...

    A turd in an envelope?

    What now?
  • The_BertThe_Bert
    F_Clowder wrote: »
    That, yes. And that I'm just about his age too. BTW Make sure that it's fossilized, for the fun of it.
    Luny wrote: »
    rich_chandler wrote: »
    F_Clowder wrote: »
    Oh, karingal *chuckle*
    rich_chandler wrote: »
    I distinctly remember seeing the pictograph "Funky in a skillo type of way" on a cave wall way back in the stone age era...

    Don't force me to post something you don't want me to post...

    A turd in an envelope?

    Just FYI: a fossilised turd is also known as a coprolite :D
    Author of BertoMenus, soon to become BertoBASIC +3 ;)
    Feel free to help yourself to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum +3 Manual.pdf
  • equinoxequinox
    The_Bert wrote: »
    Just FYI: a fossilised turd is also known as a coprolite :D

    ...and is one of the colours in the C64 palette.
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    The_Bert wrote: »
    F_Clowder wrote: »
    That, yes. And that I'm just about his age too. BTW Make sure that it's fossilized, for the fun of it.
    Luny wrote: »
    rich_chandler wrote: »
    F_Clowder wrote: »
    Oh, karingal *chuckle*
    rich_chandler wrote: »
    I distinctly remember seeing the pictograph "Funky in a skillo type of way" on a cave wall way back in the stone age era...

    Don't force me to post something you don't want me to post...

    A turd in an envelope?

    Just FYI: a fossilised turd is also known as a coprolite :D
    Only a REALLY old WoSser would know that.

    I didn't...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • LunyLuny
    equinox wrote: »
    The_Bert wrote: »
    Just FYI: a fossilised turd is also known as a coprolite :D

    ...and is one of the colours in the C64 palette.

    ... or this one too.
    Sod it!

    @luny@mstdn.games
    https://www.luny.co.uk
  • i love the z80si love the z80s
    equinox wrote: »
    The_Bert wrote: »
    Just FYI: a fossilised turd is also known as a coprolite :D

    ...and is ALL of the colours in the C64 palette.
    Fixed that for you!
  • The_BertThe_Bert
    rich_chandler wrote: »
    The_Bert wrote: »
    F_Clowder wrote: »
    That, yes. And that I'm just about his age too. BTW Make sure that it's fossilized, for the fun of it.
    Luny wrote: »
    rich_chandler wrote: »
    F_Clowder wrote: »
    Oh, karingal *chuckle*
    rich_chandler wrote: »
    I distinctly remember seeing the pictograph "Funky in a skillo type of way" on a cave wall way back in the stone age era...

    Don't force me to post something you don't want me to post...

    A turd in an envelope?

    Just FYI: a fossilised turd is also known as a coprolite :D
    Only a REALLY old WoSser would know that.

    I didn't...

    Guilty as charged 3dec51df04b9.gif
    Author of BertoMenus, soon to become BertoBASIC +3 ;)
    Feel free to help yourself to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum +3 Manual.pdf
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