
Freddy Woo writes, "as a child we used to have a 'whoever cuts doesn't choose the slice' rule with cake. It worked brilliantly, but it's left me completely anal about dividing up food - my wife just takes the piss as I ritually compare all the slice sizes."
What codes and rituals does your family have?
( , Thu 20 Nov 2008, 18:05)
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We had one particular word in my family which is best described by way of examples. If somebody did something extremely heinous, or ever so slightly naughty, or even just beat his top score on a computer game, my mother or father would declare that she or he was going to "spiflicate" them, with a varying tone of voice and volume according to the severity of the crime.
Please please please tell me this was a Cockbrush familyism and wasn't shamelessly pilfered from 1970s pop culture...
( , Fri 21 Nov 2008, 13:56, 4 replies)

www.fromoldbooks.org/Grose-VulgarTongue/t/to-spiflicate.html
... if you feel inclined to trust random webpages
( , Fri 21 Nov 2008, 14:05, closed)

Not the same meaning though - in my family it was used where others might say "I'll kill him!" or "she's going to get what for"...
( , Fri 21 Nov 2008, 14:34, closed)

... that it comes from Ken Dodd and the Diddymen (if that counts as 1970s pop culture??).
( , Fri 21 Nov 2008, 15:14, closed)
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