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# according to my mother
when she was growing up, a poke was an icecream
(I helped save b3ta! Roxy_Hart is so so old, Sat 8 Nov 2003, 18:58, archived)
# I'M GOING TO FLY TO THE FUCKING MOON
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Sat 8 Nov 2003, 18:58, archived)
# good luck
(I helped save b3ta! Roxy_Hart is so so old, Sat 8 Nov 2003, 19:00, archived)
# I'm THE FUCKING MOON LORD!
(I helped save b3ta! ChaosTime The Fucking Moon Lord, Sat 8 Nov 2003, 19:00, archived)
# Was your mother
from Ireland? They call them pokes over there
(I helped save b3ta! Dogtanian, Sat 8 Nov 2003, 18:59, archived)
# she still is from
Northern Ireland.
(I helped save b3ta! Roxy_Hart is so so old, Sat 8 Nov 2003, 19:00, archived)
# Up until about
ten years ago you could ask for "two pokey hats and a black man please" at the ice cream van, and get two cones and a double chocolate nougat waver
(thediscokingpin, Sat 8 Nov 2003, 19:03, archived)
# That's marvelous!
(I helped save b3ta! Roxy_Hart is so so old, Sat 8 Nov 2003, 19:05, archived)
# Round here
though old folks think nothing of asking for 'that marmalade with the wee black man on it. You know, the gollywog'
Its meant in the nicest possible way, but it makes you cringe.
(thediscokingpin, Sat 8 Nov 2003, 19:10, archived)
# sadly round here
the art of asking for 'monkeys blood' on yer cornet has long since passed away. Shame.
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Sat 8 Nov 2003, 19:14, archived)
# Pidgeons blood
it was up here. But i think it actually was.
(thediscokingpin, Sat 8 Nov 2003, 19:15, archived)
# I s'pose the kids
had to get some iron in 'em somehow* :)

*assuming pigeon's blood contains iron of course
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Sat 8 Nov 2003, 19:17, archived)
# They got their
iron from licking lamposts and (in a short lived, but very true story) licking clothesline poles so their fillings would tingle (?????)
(thediscokingpin, Sat 8 Nov 2003, 19:25, archived)
# we still ask for
monkey's blood on our ice creams
(I helped save b3ta! Roxy_Hart is so so old, Sat 8 Nov 2003, 19:17, archived)
# Last time I tried
it the bloke just looked at me like I was nuts, but then I s'pose this *is* Heaton, Newcassel's very own Jesmond wannabe village. *shudder*
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Sat 8 Nov 2003, 19:20, archived)
# aye there`s
nothing like a 99 poke :-)
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Sat 8 Nov 2003, 19:04, archived)
# That would explain it
My mum's from over there too, I lived there for a while and it took quite a while to get used to the lingo. (i.e. "What's the crack?")
(I helped save b3ta! Dogtanian, Sat 8 Nov 2003, 19:05, archived)
# aye
they like their crack in Ireland
(I helped save b3ta! Roxy_Hart is so so old, Sat 8 Nov 2003, 19:06, archived)
# aye the crack
(craic) is mighty!
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Sat 8 Nov 2003, 19:20, archived)