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Rachelswipe says: My niece - after months of begging - was finally allowed to get a hamster, and her grandfather was utterly horrified to learn that it had been called "Nipples", a pretty good name for a pet if you ask us. Alas, it was only the more mundane "Nibbles" - what have you misheard or misunderstood, with truly hilarious consequences?

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Well actually
I believe the original meaning of glory hole was quite different. My gran always referred to the cupboard under the stairs as the glory hope, and it was always a mess. So it could have originally meant just a messy place. Unless my gran had a secret
(Smale is stuffed, Sat 30 Aug 2014, 22:19, 4 replies)
No your gran was right.
I didn't know there is a revised definition and frankly I don't want to see it.
(I helped save b3ta! edjogs Collared doves are shit., Sat 30 Aug 2014, 22:27, closed)
There are several definitions.
Glassblowers have a furnace with a small opening for heating the glass, which is called a glory hole. Also, the overflow opening in a dam is called that. Looks a bit startling though...


(Shimrod, Sun 31 Aug 2014, 3:23, closed)
There's a famous glory hole in Lincoln.
Well, famous for Lincoln, anyhow.
it's not as close to Scunthorpe as it ought to be though, in my opinion.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Sun 31 Aug 2014, 12:47, closed)
The idea of putting my willy through a hole in the wall disturbs me.
What if someone had set up a guillotine on the other side?
(immadme, Mon 1 Sep 2014, 14:15, closed)
I agree -- seems a setup for potential disaster.
The Glory Hole to which I refer, however, is of a different kind -- it was used for the passage of seamen...
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 1 Sep 2014, 17:37, closed)
Really?
My friend asked me to procure some more details.
(immadme, Tue 2 Sep 2014, 0:26, closed)
There was an urban legend went around when I was at uni
involving a gloryhole in a library toilet and a sharp pencil.

You can fill in the rest.
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Tue 2 Sep 2014, 21:50, closed)
There used to be a christian cafe/drop-in centre somewhere around Dalgety Bay called The Glory Hole.
Often wondered if they had any idea.
(zebideedoodah likes florence but prefers venice, Mon 1 Sep 2014, 1:25, closed)

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