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Dingle McFarkle
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| Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:40 pm Post subject: Having a barney... |
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Is this right?
There's a "Timewatch" programme on tonight about "The Last Duel" in Scotland, which was fought between a Kirkaldy bloke and his bank manager.
The Guardian's preview gives it a good write-up but, along with some good-natured Scottish stereotype joking, states that the surname of the Barney who gave his name to barneys was McTavish.
Anyone know if that's true? And who was he, this Barney McTavish? |
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Anona.Mouse
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"Function" and "sparkle", you say?
You just have to be joking!
McFarkle, obviously, simply means "son of Farkle".
I believe the forename, Dingle, betrays his mixed origins. His beard comes from Emmerdale. |
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"DINGLE" a part of South West Ireland, son of Farkle....what a cocktail. |
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Anona.Mouse
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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I always thought "barney" for a row was modern-ish rhyming slang, from Barney Rubble. |
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dandy lion
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It would seem not. According to the OED, it's British and 19thC of unknown origin. 
And it lists farkleberry - a shrub with thick leathery leaves and inedible black berries, native to the south eastern US.  |
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sea-urchin
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Farkleberry: and there is a dingleberry. 
Dingleberry McFarkleberry, yah don't get much fruitier than that..  |
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Dingle McFarkle
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| Anona.Mouse wrote: |
| I always thought "barney" for a row was modern-ish rhyming slang, from Barney Rubble. |
Hmmm. Ah dinnae think so. People have been having barneys for years. Barney Rubble wisnae heard o' 'till they started the Flintstone cartoons. |
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Dingle McFarkle
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| dandy lion wrote: |
It would seem not. According to the OED, it's British and 19thC of unknown origin.
And it lists farkleberry - a shrub with thick leathery leaves and inedible black berries, native to the south eastern US. |
I've just been Googling farkleberries. (I'm sure there must be something more worthwhile that I should be doing....)
There's a Farkleberry Fesival in North Dakota..... A musical called the Farkleberry Follies.....
No, this is just wrong! There must me something else I should be doing with my time. |
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It appears that your world is your oxter old chiel. |
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Anona.Mouse
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| Thick . . . leathery . . . inedible . . . |
Hmmm . . . yes, that sounds about right. |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Thick . . . leathery . . . inedible . . . |
Hmmm . . . yes, that sounds about right. |
This true. Anona tell truth. Me try too. Dingle not tasty-yum-yum.
Decide to eat my foot instead. |
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Anona.Mouse
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Did you have beans on your toes, or just the usual not-so-sweet corn? |
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Dingle McFarkle
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Aw, c'mon!
Having met you, I know you walk a bit funny, but don't try to tell us it's because you've only got one foot! |
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Big Asbo
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| Dingle McFarkle wrote: |
| you walk a bit funny, but don't try to tell us it's because you've only got one foot! |
I only got no foots. |
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